Новости за 21.12.2018

By Gergely Szakacs Thousands of Hungarians joined a march in Budapest on Friday led by spoof political party MKKP “to support government policies, Christmas and snowfall” – the latest in a string of demonstrations stoked by controversial reforms. Passage of two laws last week backed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party angered a variety […]

  ENDOCRINOLOGISTS announced on Friday that they would not be joining the National Health Scheme (Gesy) which is to be launched next summer, citing a deficient budget that would lead to low-quality health services, while cardiologists, despite not being fully on board, said each would decide for themselves. The announcements by the two medical societies […]

Cyprus Casinos has opened ‘C2 Larnaca at the airport, following the Nicosia opening this month and the Limasol casino earlier in the year. C2 Larnaca is located in two different spaces in the airport terminal, features 42 state-of-the-art slot machines in total. The first location in the departures area is accessible only to departing passengers, […]

The British bases on Friday advised the public to avoid the beach areas around the Akrotiri Peninsula and Lady’s Mile for the time being after “small items of medical equipment, including sharp objects”, were found there. “We are investigating the source of this material in conjunction with the Republic of Cyprus,” a bases statement said. […]

Turkey will postpone a military operation against Syrian Kurdish fighters in north-east Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday as he “cautiously” welcomed a US decision to withdraw its troops in the area. The surprise announcement from US President Donald Trump this week that Washington would withdraw its roughly 2,000 troops has felled a pillar of […]

It may not amount to a state visit but this bear on Friday had the president’s ear, or maybe that was the other way around, as it sat in the VIP chair at the presidential palace in Nicosia. It was difficult to determine the conversation but President Nicos Anastasiades likely briefed the bear on the […]

Arsenal manager Unai Emery says playmaker Mesut Ozil is needed at the club and would be part of their squad to face Burnley in the Premier League on Saturday. Ozil, who joined Arsenal from Real Madrid in 2013 for a then-record 42 million pounds ($53 million), has been left out of the side regularly in […]

  Private data commissioner Irini Loizidou Nicolaidou said Friday she was duty-bound to report the auditor-general’s failure to furnish her with information concerning a whistleblower, as she assured that sensitive data was safe with her. Nicolaidou and Odysseas Michaelides are at odds over his refusal to hand over the name of a whistleblower who provided […]

Workers in the capital were busy removing protective rails and decorating Eleftheria Square on Friday, opening newly-created spaces to the public in the run-up to Christmas. They are also asphalting Stassinou Avenue. Once this is completed the road can be used. The pavements of Constantinos Palaeologos Avenue, which are part of the project, have been […]

The English Football Association (FA) has appointed former Southampton vice-chairman Les Reed as its new technical director, it announced on Friday. Reed replaces Dan Ashworth, who said in September he was leaving his position to take up a similar role at Premier League side Brighton and Hove Albion in the New Year. Reed will be […]

US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a “very long” government shutdown just hours ahead of a midnight deadline, calling on the Senate to pass spending legislation that includes his $5bn demand for border wall funding and seeking to shift blame for a holiday showdown to Democrats. The Republican-led Senate had already approved funds for the government […]

One person was killed and another injured in a shooting outside a popular schnitzel restaurant in central Vienna on Friday but police said the incident was not terrorism-related. A manhunt was underway across the historic centre of the Austrian capital after the shooting in an alleyway that houses Figlmueller, a restaurant popular with tourists who flock to […]

Following the recent increase in traffic accidents caused due to donkeys roaming free in the roads of the Karpas peninsula in the north, an association for environmental protection and social activism said on Friday that measures should be taken to keep the animals confined. The association’s Firat Borak, said authorities in the north have been […]

A video purportedly showing the killings of two Scandinavian tourists in Morocco by suspected Islamist State militants is probably authentic, Norwegian police said on Friday. The bodies of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway, were found on Monday in the Atlas Mountains, on the way to Toubkal, North Africa’s highest peak […]

“Russia as a country has demonstrated through the centuries a rich range of visual artists, who have helped raise cultural standards around the world. This rich civilization is being transported to Cyprus today, since many Russian artists live and work in our country,” say the organisers of an upcoming exhibition at Polichoros Ekdoseon En Tipis. […]

A record audience of more than 3.5 billion people watched this year’s World Cup in Russia, with the final between France and Croatia attracting 1.12 billion viewers, world soccer’s governing body said on Friday. FIFA said 3.572 billion viewers – more than half of the global population aged four and over – watched some part […]

A former Canadian diplomat detained in China is being denied legal representation and is not allowed to turn the lights off at night, people familiar with the situation said, offering new details on the closely watched case. China last week detained two Canadians – Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat and an adviser with the International Crisis Group (ICG) […]

Health authorities have destroyed 720 kilos of tahini that was contaminated with salmonella, which had been found at the port of Limassol. It had been imported from a third country, health services director Alvertos Karis said. The tahini was destroyed immediately. Karis said the health services have so far located various substandard products, which they […]

An area exclusively devoted to burials was brought to light during archaeological excavations at Kissonerga-Skalia in the Paphos district, it was announced on Friday. Four graves were excavated in an area only used for burials. Before, only burials within settlements had been found. “This discovery is particularly important as it gives us new insights into […]

Pope Francis on Friday urged predator priests who have sexually abused minors to turn themselves in, in one of his strongest comments ever on the crisis sweeping the Roman Catholic Church. “To those who abuse minors I would say this: convert and hand yourself over to human justice, and prepare for divine justice,” Francis said in […]

Mayor of Famagusta Alexis Galanos expressed his disappointment on Friday with the way in which the issue of the resort is being handled by the government, and called on President Anastasiades to give more weight to the request of the town’s displaced population for a solution. In his address at the cultural centre of Dherynia, […]

Police dragged Catalan separatist protesters off highways on Friday as Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez began a cabinet meeting in the regional capital Barcelona in an attempt at reconciliation. Dozens of protesters, some wearing high-visibility vests, sat on the AP 7 highway, which runs down the Mediterranean coast, hands held in the air as police […]

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had no hesitation in answering Manchester United’s call and would love to earn the permanent manager’s job. Jose Mourinho was sacked by the Old Trafford giants on Tuesday, with off-field tensions compounding the club’s worst-ever start to a Premier League season. Solskjaer, whose Champions League final winner sealed the treble in 1999, […]

Afghan officials and America’s Western partners reacted with unease on Friday to reports that the United States planned to withdraw more than 5,000 of its 14,000 troops from Afghanistan, after tentative steps towards peace talks. Although there has been increasing acceptance in Kabul that US President Donald Trump was impatient for progress in ending the 17-year war, […]

As freezing temperatures grip the Swedish capital, dozens of downtown billboards have swapped commercial ad content for directions guiding the homeless to their nearest shelter. Stockholm opens emergency shelters when temperatures fall below 7 degrees Celsius (44.6°F), but information about their location and the backup services on offer often fails to reach the homeless in […]