Новости за 17.01.2019

Britain’s last-minute scramble to shape an EU exit, its biggest policy upheaval in half a century, stalled on Thursday as Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn dug in their heels for competing visions. After May’s two-year attempt to forge an amicable divorce with an independent trade policy was crushed by parliament […]

The state has appealed the acquittal of two former bank executives in December last year over the handling of Greek government bonds that eventually caused the lender huge losses. The court acquitted former Bank of Cyprus executives Andreas Eliades and Yiannis Kypri of charges relating to alleged market manipulation by falsifying the lender’s 2010 annual […]

Queen Elizabeth’s husband, Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh, 97, was involved in a traffic accident on Thursday near the Sandringham estate in eastern England, Buckingham Palace said. He was not hurt. “The Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a road traffic accident with another vehicle this afternoon,” it said in a statement. “The Duke […]

Afghan-born Sakandar Khan, 30, was among the first nine new Danish citizens who shook hands with Denmark’s immigration minister under a new law that makes a handshake the final step in the naturalisation process. “This is a huge thing for me. I am thrilled,” the former practicing Muslim dressed in shirt and tie said with […]

An array of crises will keep several world leaders away from the annual World Economic Forum in Davos next week, which takes place against a backdrop of deepening gloom over the global economic and political outlook. Anxiety over trade disputes, fractious international relations, Brexit and a growth slowdown that some fear could tip the world […]

The Cyprus Post is seeking ways to utilise unmanned drones to deliver parcels of up to four kilos, Andreas Gregoriou, Director of the Department of Postal Services, told the Cyprus News Agency on Thursday. To that end, the department is in contact with the University of Cyprus Kios Research Centre, according to Gregoriou. “We are […]

The cabinet on Thursday announced the names of the new members of the boards of semi-governmental organisations (SGO), with the government spokesman stressing that an effort had been made to increase the representation of women and young people. “The average age of the appointees is 48 years, which reflects the combination of young and mature […]

The criminal court on Thursday allowed the submission of a potentially key piece of evidence in the trial of four suspects for the double murder of a couple that took place in Nicosia in April last year. The court rejected a defence motion to prevent two notebooks belonging to the main suspect, 33-year-old Loizos Tzionis, […]

Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides on Thursday said that in the event the UK leaves the EU without an agreement, an interim solution would be applied for the British bases (SBA) on the island. He said that the issue was one, among others, chosen by the EU for interim solutions to be applied in case of […]

Police on Thursday said they were investigating a report that a television station owner had been bribing two officials from the radio and television authority (CRA) in return for preferential treatment. The businessman reported to Auditor-general, Odysseas Michaelides last December that when he stopped giving the kickbacks, the CRA slapped his TV station with steep […]

The Cyprus Theatre Museum is putting forward two different kinds of events inspired by the tale of ‘Mary and the White Pea’ this month. The first, on January 25, is an interactive workshop for adults based on the children’s book of the same title – though, unlike the fairy tale, this workshop addresses some serious […]

Britons living in Portugal will keep their residency rights and tourists won’t need a visa even in the event of a no-deal Brexit, and Lisbon hopes Britain would offer the same benefits to Portuguese citizens, Economy Minister Pedro Siza Vieira said. Britain is due to leave the European Union on March 29 but Parliament’s rejection […]

Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for US President Donald Trump, said on Thursday he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data “at the direction of and for the sole benefit of” Trump. The Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen had paid the data firm Redfinch Solutions to manipulate two public opinion polls in favor […]

A historic high of just under four million tourists visited Cyprus in 2018, which was a 7.8 per cent increase compared with 2017, date from the statistical service (Cystat) showed on Thursday. Between January and December 2018, a total of 3,938,625 tourists chose Cyprus as their destination, compared to the 3,652,073 tourists who visited in […]

Eleven years after beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga for the 2008 Australian Open, top seed Novak Djokovic bested the Frenchman again at Melbourne Park to reach the third round early on Friday. The world number one Serb claimed a clinical 6-3 7-5 6-4 win over wildcard entry Tsonga in the late match at Rod Laver Arena. While […]

Cyprus had 92.3 general medical practitioners for every 100,000 inhabitants in 2016, a new Eurostat report revealed. In most countries the number of doctors increased from the year before, and Cyprus was no exception. The number per 100,000 residents was 86.71 in 2015. In the majority of the 21 EU member states for which data […]

Engineering and computer PhD scholarships at UCy The Kios Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence (KIOS CoE) has announced 15 full-time PhD student scholarships. The KIOS CoE operates within the University of Cyprus, in collaboration with Imperial College London. The selected students will be enrolled in either the electrical engineering or the computer engineering PhD […]

Vergan to play key role in Cyprus-based company’s expansion in 2019  Mann brings wealth of experience and expertise, both onshore and offshore Key appointment comes as Woodbrook Group prepares to enter US market Woodbrook Group, a Cyprus-based independent financial advisory and corporate services company with offices across Europe, Asia and the Middle-East, has signalled further expansion […]

Scientists have unveiled what they say is an ideal diet for the health of the planet and its populations – including a doubling of consumption of nuts, fruits, vegetables and legumes, and a halving of meat and sugar intake. If the world followed the “Planetary Health” diet, the researchers said, more than 11 million premature […]

An Israeli museum plans to withdraw a sculpture depicting the McDonald’s mascot as the crucified Jesus following protests which briefly united the country’s Christian minority, its populist culture minister and the pro-Palestinian artist. The life-sized sculpture showing the Ronald McDonald clown on a cross has been at the centre of an exhibition about consumerism and […]

The SPEL building renovations, in the heart of old Nicosia, have been completed, providing the infrastructure for a significant cultural project: the new State Gallery of Contemporary Art – SPEL. This new site opens its doors to the public for the first time on January 31, presenting a large-scale show by Christoforos Savva (1924–1968), curated […]

Top seed Simona Halep staved off a spirited challenge from American youngster Sofia Kenin to prevail 6-3 6-7(5) 6-4 in the third round of the Australian Open on Thursday and set up a showdown with former world number one Venus Williams next. The Romanian has struggled for form and fitness since her first-round defeat at […]

Inflation in Cyprus dropped to 1.0 per cent in December, down from 1.6 per cent in November, while a year earlier the same rate was -0.4 per cent, Eurostat said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the euro area annual inflation rate was 1.6 per cent in December 2018, down from 1.9 per cent in November. A year […]

Early on a mid-week night with temperatures uncomfortably low for my cold-intolerant Cypriotness, I made my way to Il Bacaro on Prodromou street for a glass of wine, finding it already packed inside. The staff must have had plenty of experience with drop-ins without a reservation like me, as the waitress told me with sorry […]

In the presence of a strong police force, the state on Thursday took control of a disputed property in the Mackenzie area of Larnaca, which had been leased to a private citizen who constructed an event and conference venue in 2010. Officers arrived at Ktima Makenzy at 6am on the instruction of the interior ministry […]