Новости за 09.12.2018

By Agnieszka Rakoczy With weather conditions worsening amid recent downpours, local NGOs are concerned about the increasingly dismal plight of asylum seekers. The growth in numbers plus delays in processing asylum applications have seriously eroded their living conditions, to the point where more are without a roof over their heads and forced to end up […]

Theresa May will push ahead with a crucial vote on her European Union exit deal, her Brexit minister said on Sunday, as senior lawmakers in her own party piled pressure on the British prime minister to go back to Brussels and seek a better offer. May’s deal, which would see Britain keep close economic ties […]

U.S. President Donald Trump would make a “terrible mistake” if he pardoned his former campaign Chairman Paul Manafort after charges brought as a result of the federal probe into Russian election interference, Republican Senator Marco Rubio said on Sunday. “I just think it would be the wrong thing to do and I think it would […]

Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots attended a joint church service at Ayios Giorgios Exorinos in Famagusta in the north on Sunday. It was the first time Greek Cypriot churchgoers were able to cross through the Dherynia crossing, to get to the church. The crossing opened around a month ago. Previously they had to travel an […]

The new leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) outlined plans on Sunday to change the party’s migrant policies before next year’s European election, signalling that she could break with her mentor Angela Merkel’s liberal approach. The conservative party elected Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to replace Merkel as their leader on Friday, making her frontrunner to become the […]

Iran has detained an Australian-based academic on charges of trying to “infiltrate” Iranian institutions, according to official media. Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi was detained as she was leaving Iran, the state news agency IRNA said. Hosseini-Chavoshi, a population expert, is affiliated with the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, according to the University of Melbourne’s website. […]

There is not enough time for laying down the terms of reference for new Cyprus talks by the end of December, Greece’s Alternate Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos has said. The UN chief has given two leaders until the end of the year to come up with the terms of reference for a new round of […]

Workers in Paris again cleared streets of broken glass and towed away burnt-out cars on Sunday after yet another violent protest and the government announced that President Emmanuel Macron was preparing to address the nation early in the coming week. On Saturday, anti-government protesters wrecked havoc in the city for the fourth Saturday in a […]

Britain’s Brexit minister insisted a crucial vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal would go ahead after a newspaper report on Sunday that she planned to delay it and make a last minute dash to Brussels to seek a better offer. May’s deal looks set to be rejected by parliament on Tuesday, a decision […]

At least seven local government officials were killed in a helicopter crash in Sudan’s eastern al-Qadarif state on Sunday, state news agency SUNA reported. The state’s governor and three security officials were among the dead. A number of people were also injured in the incident, SUNA said. The officials had been carrying out a security […]

Local authorities with a vision, church icons believed to inspire love, and Ottoman pashas whose ominous dreams made them spare important monuments are all stories that make up Nicosia’s past and are included in a new book on the island’s capital and its people, to be released next week. Archaeologist Anna Marangou’s book, ‘Perpatontas stis […]

Former British foreign minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday Theresa May could stay on as prime minister and go back to Brussels and renegotiate the divorce agreement if she loses a crucial parliamentary vote on Tuesday on her Brexit deal. Johnson, a leading Brexit campaigner who is seen as a possible successor to May, said […]

A Church of Cyprus clergyman who was pushed out of the running to become Bishop of Morphou in 1996 after being accused of being gay, despite being the choice of the people, has broken his silence after more than 20 years. Although Pancratios Meraklis, a former Archimandrite was so popular with the Greek Orthodox faithful […]

Ready to rock the stage and present his new album is Joakem. The performance to promote his progressive rock/metal album Mind Matter will uplift Nicosia’s music scene on December 22. Released on December 7, Mind Matter an 8-track album, follows the release of his second single released in November ‘Generation Z’. His first solo work, […]

More than 7,000 people dressed as Santa Claus ran through central Madrid on Sunday in a charity race to raise money for cancer care. Many children dressed as elves in green robes also took part in the 5km (3 mile) race along Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana avenue. Organisers say the Santa-themed race is the […]

Despite the Cyprus government ‘closing’ the issue of Russia’s threats over reported US military involvement on the island as claimed by Moscow, the saga continued on Sunday with a tweet from an Israeli journalist. Amichai Stein, who is a correspondent for Israel’s broadcasting authority, and has contributed to Russian news outlet Sputnik, tweeted: #Exclusive: “Advance […]

Volkswagen has denied allegations that Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch knew about the carmaker’s emissions test cheating almost three months before U.S. authorities made it public in September 2015. Citing internal documents from investigators, German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported that Poetsch, VW’s finance head at the time, learned about the carmaker’s violations of the rules […]

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to make a major announcement in the coming week after further violence from “yellow vest” protesters, the government said on Sunday. Anti-government protesters faced off with French riot police in Paris on Saturday, hurling projectiles, torching cars and vandalising shops and restaurants in a fourth weekend of unrest that […]

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to make a major announcement early in the coming week, his government’s spokesman said on Sunday, following a day of violent nationwide “yellow vest” protests against the high cost of living. “The President of the Republic will of course make important announcements,” government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said on LCI […]

Failure to find a solution to the Cyprus problem is solely due to the intransigence of Turkey, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday. At a memorial service in Nicosia to honour the 10th anniversary since the death of former president Tassos Papadopoulos, which was also attended by Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Anastasiades also referred to […]

Paphos bus drivers warned on Sunday that if there were no developments in resolving their wages issues, they would protest outside the presidential palace in their vehicles. The on-again-off-again strike by bus company Osypa’s drivers, continued on Sunday and no progress has been made in resolving the financial dispute between the state and the public […]

Three people, a woman, 26 and two men aged 31 and 39, have been arrested in connection with a case of assault and actual bodily harm, police said. The offences were committed at dawn on November 24 when, according to police, a 37-year-old man walking on a street in Limassol was attacked an injured by several […]

Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides, will travel to Brussels later Sunday to attend the Foreign Affairs and General Affairs Councils of the European Union to be held there on Monday and Tuesday respectively. The Foreign Affairs Council is expected to focus on the situations in the Western Balkans, Venezuela and Iran. The foreign ministers of the […]

Turkish Cypriot police have located the body of a woman they believe could be missing Gaye Soyutok, 18, who was with three friends when their car was swept into a ravine during flash floods in the north on Monday night, reports said. CNA reported that police were identifying whether the recovered body is that of the […]

Forty migrants, 38 men, a woman and a child, who arrived in Cyprus late Saturday have been taken to the Kokkinotrimithia centre in Nicosia. Police said the migrants had arrived in the Kato Pyrgos area. At around 9.20pm, 19 nautical miles off the Morphou Bay area, a boat was spotted heading for the government-controlled. Port […]