Новости за 10.12.2018

By Michel Rose and John Irish President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced wage rises for the poorest workers and tax cuts for pensioners, offering concessions after weeks of often violent protests that have challenged his authority. In his first national address following two weekends of the worst unrest in France in years, Macron sought to restore calm […]

Main opposition Akel reportedly withdrew its member from the Cyprus problem negotiating team on Monday over disagreements with the way President Nicos Anastasiades was handling reunification talks. The party’s expert, Toumazos Tselepis, did not take part in a meeting of the negotiating team on Monday evening, with a report suggesting later it was due to […]

AEL moved back to the top of the table in the Cyprus championship on Monday night after a thrilling 3-2 win over Ermis in Limassol. Over the weekend, champions Apoel had gone top for the first time this season following their convincing 4-0 defeat of Nea Salamina. They are followed closely by Apollon who overcame […]

Just over 70 per cent of Cypriot companies had their own websites in 2018, slightly down over the previous year but under half of the 2,000 businesses surveyed, 44 per cent, have social media profiles, the statistical service Cystat said on Monday. The survey was conducted among companies with ten employees or more between January […]

Opposition parties said on Monday they intend to ‘cross’ the funds in the 2019 budget earmarked for the controversial Estia debt relief scheme when the budget goes to a vote later this month, despite warnings that doing so would stop the programme in its tracks. The matter came up at the House finance committee during […]

For the fourth consecutive year a three-day open day was organised for prospective students at the University of Cyprus at the end of November. During the three days, 1441 students from 22 schools, 16 lyceums, two private schools and four Gymnasiums, visited from all districts in Cyprus. The students had the opportunity to attend targeted […]

  By Guy Faulconbridge and Elizabeth Piper British Prime Minister Theresa May abruptly postponed a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal on Monday, throwing Britain’s plan to leave the European Union into chaos after admitting that she faced a rout. May’s move on the eve of the scheduled parliamentary vote opens up an array of […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday abruptly pulled a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal, throwing Britain’s plan to leave the European Union into chaos after admitting that she faced a rout. May’s move on the eve of a crucial parliamentary vote opens up an array of options for the United Kingdom, including a […]

A joint party proposal to cut fuel tax by five cents per litre will cost the state around €57m, the House finance committee heard on Monday. The proposal, tabled by the leaders of Disy and Diko, Averof Neophytou and Nicolas Papadopoulos, is opposed by the government, which wanted to cut the tax on income from […]

A child watchdog on Monday described the four-year jail sentence for a man found guilty of child abuse as insufficient and said it failed to take into account the aggravating factors of the case for which the law provides for a maximum sentence of life. The court jailed a 48-year-old man to four years after […]

A 48-year-old was sentenced to four years in jail by the Nicosia criminal court on Monday, after being found guilty of two charges of sexual assault of a girl, with mild mental disabilities, who was 14 at the time. The 48-year-old was found guilty of sexually assaulting the minor in his home, which the victim […]

  Russian ambassador Stanislav Osadchiy spoke out for the first time on Monday since Moscow issued threats that it would retaliate against any moves to militarise Cyprus in cooperation with the US. Russia last Wednesday warned that any such move would “inevitably lead to dangerous and destabilising consequences for Cyprus itself”.  The threat was repeated the […]

Amid the ongoing bus strike, CEO of Paphos bus company (Osypa) Constantinos Ioannides accused the transport ministry on Monday of hassling drivers of private bus companies into transporting students to and from school each day. Complaints regarding the ministry’s harassment of drivers of private bus companies come from the drivers themselves, Ioannides told the Cyprus […]

Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou on Monday praised the progress Cyprus has made in terms of human rights in recent years by pointing to what he described as “tangible results”. He was speaking at the event ‘Modern challenges in the protection and promotion of human rights in Cyprus’ which took place to commemorate this year’s Human […]

UN members on Monday adopted a deal aimed at improving the way world copes with rising migration, but almost 30 countries stayed away from the ceremony in Morocco. The pact, meant to foster cooperation on migration, was agreed in July by all 193 UN members except the United States, but only 164 formally signed it […]

  Turkey is to take delivery of a second drillship to expand its hydrocarbons operations in the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish Daily Sabah reported on Monday. In October, Ankara sent its first-ever drillship Fatih to explore off the coast of Turkey as a counter-measure to planned drilling by Cyprus, which it has threatened to disrupt foreign […]

Significant progress has been made in the past 10 years regarding human rights in Cyprus, even though much still needs to be done, special envoy for religion and peace-building from the Swedish ministry of foreign affairs Peter Weiderud said on Monday. He was speaking at a press conference of the religious track of the Cyprus […]

Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku has attributed his sluggish start to the season to a more muscled physique and said he had been staying out of the gym in a bid to improve his form. The 25-year-old was United’s top scorer with 27 goals in all competitions last term and helped Belgium reach the World […]

Theresa May is calling off the vote on her Brexit deal in the face of what had been expected to be a significant defeat at the hands of rebel MPs. A government source confirmed that the vote was being pulled, with the Prime Minister due to inform the House of Commons in an oral statement […]

The Champions League returns this week with the final fixtures of the group stage. Here, Press Association Sport looks at how the qualification for the last 16 is shaping up. Group A Both Atletico Madrid and Borussia Dortmund have already qualified for the knockout stage, with Club Brugge third and dropping into the Europa League. […]

Amidst the jazz and rock festivals, another music festival is being held although it differs substantially from the rest as it focuses on Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. The 2nd Early Music Festival celebrate these genres with authentic instruments and performance practices with artists from Cyprus and abroad. The festival, which has been live since […]

By Lizzy Ioannidou Despite the heavy rainfall and the increased inflow of water into the island’s reservoirs, water stocks are at lower levels compared with the corresponding period last year, but are expected to rise in the coming months. Around 550,000 cubic metres of water flowed into reservoirs during the weekend. Since December 1 this […]

In the most popular man on Cyprus television, THEO PANAYIDES meets a comedian who is chatty, gregarious and exactly the same as his onscreen persona There he is, the most popular man on Cyprus television, sitting in a coffee shop on a Monday morning, eating a ham-and-cheese toasted sandwich (he offers me half, and laughs […]

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It’s a good week for true stories, meaning it’s a good week for spoilers; this review will assume you’re already familiar with what happened to the Russian submarine ‘Kursk’ in 2000, and what happened to Democratic politician Gary Hart in 1987. The latter may be a stretch for non-American audiences – but the former is […]