Новости за 31.03.2019

LATEST: TURKEY’S RULING AK PARTY LEADING IN ISTANBUL LOCAL ELECTION WITH 49.24 PCT, MAIN OPPOSITION CANDIDATE AT 48.18 PCT WITH 93.3 PCT OF BALLOT BOXES OPENED -NTV By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Ece Toksabay ANKARA, March 31 (Reuters) – Turkey’s main opposition party appeared on course to seize control of Ankara in Sunday’s local elections and […]

Liverpool secured a last-gasp 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur thanks to an own goal by visiting defender Toby Alderweireld to maintain their lead at the top of the Premier League. Liverpool are on 79 points with Manchester City, who won at Fulham on Saturday, on 77 points but with a game in hand. Spurs keeper […]

Five-time world champion Lewis Hamilton took a lucky Bahrain Grand Prix win for Mercedes on Sunday after engine trouble in the dying stages denied Charles Leclerc a first Formula One victory. The 21-year-old Monegasque, who had started from pole position and finished third, had been set to become Ferrari’s youngest winner in just his second […]

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said that wound must heal before measure were taken, as crews in the north scrambled for a second day to tackle problems created by the heavy rainfall. “Today is not the day to search for scapegoats, but to heal wounds. But tomorrow we must take measures so that these wounds […]

When his mother fell seriously ill with kidney disease, her son knew just what to do   Just months after undergoing surgery to give his mother one of his kidneys, 31-year-old Nicolas Miltiadous is busy running marathons both to prove his quality of life has been unaffected and to raise funds for a kidney charity. […]

With Britain’s parliament deadlocked over the way forward on Brexit, speculation was growing on Sunday that Prime Minister Theresa May could call a snap election to try and break the impasse. Last week, after her Brexit deal was rejected by parliament for a third time, May’s comment that she feared “we are reaching the limits […]

A CLEARER picture about efforts to resume the Cyprus talks would emerge in the coming days, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said on Sunday. President Nicos Anastasiades was in contact with the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy Jane Holl Lute, Prodromou said, noting there could developments soon. Speaking after a memorial service for Eoka fighters of the Nikitari […]

By Panos Christou, Loukia Roumelioti, Kaiti Pittokopiti In 2015 alone, plastic consumption worldwide totalled a whopping 300 million metric tonnes, which translates into 40 kilos of plastic per human each year. Some 91 per cent of this ends up in landfills or the ocean, according to the University of California. Among that it is estimated […]

Britain’s exit from the European Union was in disarray after the implosion of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy left her under pressure from rival factions to leave without a deal, go for an election or forge a much softer divorce. After one of the most tumultuous weeks in British politics since the 2016 referendum, […]

Is growing a business harder than harnessing solar energy?   By Dimis Michaelides The hills are alive with the sound of souvla, powered by charcoal and car batteries or elbow grease. This is Cyprus, August 15, every year and on all special occasions. Meanwhile, women are carrying wood everywhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. Three billion people […]

The top three contenders in Ukraine’s presidential elections cast their vote on Sunday in a first round which a comedian – who happens to play a fictional president in a popular TV series – is tipped to win. Political newcomer Volodymyr Zelenskiy, 41, who is appealing to voters fed up with entrenched corruption, has consistently […]

A 40-year-old man was arrested by Paphos police on Sunday in connection with a case of rape and sexual assault. A complaint was filed to police on Saturday by a 54-year-old woman, who alleged that the 40-year-old had attacked and raped her. The woman said that she had met the suspect at a bar in […]

A plant explosion in China’s Jiangsu province has killed seven people, authorities said on Sunday, the second deadly blast in the province this month as Beijing begins a nationwide industrial safety inspection campaign. Sunday’s blast involved a container of scrap metal that exploded in the outdoor yard of a metal-molding plant in a bonded area […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May would have to look closely at pursuing a customs union with the European Union if parliament votes for it, justice minister David Gauke said on Sunday. Parliament is due to hold a second round of votes on alternative Brexit options on Monday. In a first round, the idea of seeking […]

The stimulus that has prompted the writing of this article was the headline in last Sunday’s daily newspaper Politis, which read: “Nicosia is not in favour of linking the Cyprus problem with energy issues”.  The text below the headline left no room for doubt that at least some members of the Cyprus government must have […]

A 15-year-old, driving in the Paphos district on Saturday was arrested after refusing to stop at a police check and attacking a police officer, when he was caught. According to the police, the minor was signalled to stop by traffic police who were patrolling the Polis Chrysochous area. He attempted to speed away, but was shortly […]

The central celebration to mark this year’s Earth Hour took place Saturday evening at the Presidential Palace where President Nicos Anastasiades announced the appointment of Professor Costas Papanikolas, President of the Cyprus Institute (CyI), as his special adviser for Climate Change. Celebrations took place in other cities as well. Speaking at the event at the […]

Turks voted on Sunday in local elections which President Tayyip Erdogan has described as a matter of survival for Turkey and which were marred by violence that left two party members dead in the country’s southeast. Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for more than 16 years thanks in part to strong economic growth, has […]

Tottenham Hotspur will be without Eric Dier and Serge Aurier for Sunday’s Premier League trip to Liverpool, manager Mauricio Pochettino has said. Dier suffered a groin injury in England’s 5-0 win over Czech Republic last week and was forced to withdraw from Gareth Southgate’s squad for their visit to Montenegro. “He (Dier) has been ruled out. […]

Volvo Cars has revealed a new step in its ambition to end fatalities in its cars by addressing the issues of intoxication and distraction. Apart from speeding, which the company aims to help combat with a top speed limit, intoxication and distraction are two other primary areas of concern for traffic safety. Together, these three […]

Windows on Interesting Times by Nicosia-based journalist Michael Jansen   By Hermes Solomon Windows on Interesting Times, a new book by a veteran Middle East journalist Michael Jansen, refers to the windows she opens with her eyewitness accounts of seminal or dramatic events, notably in the Middle East during the later second half of the […]

It is reported in the Greek language Cypriot press that the auditor-general wrote to the attorney-general on 22 March 2019 a letter in which the former de facto asserted that the whole cause of the destruction of homes in southwest Pissouri was attributable to errors in structural calculations made by every single one of the […]

THE LEECHES of the public sector, affectionately known as the public parasites, were handed another legal victory over the state by the administrative court which ruled this week that the right of these hideous creatures to suck the blood of the taxpayer cannot be curtailed under any circumstances – not even when the blood is […]

A CROWD of a couple of thousand people marched to the presidential palace on Wednesday evening to demand that the president and the government ensured the exemplary punishment of all those that were proven to have been linked to the collapse of the co-operative bank. This was the only rational demand included in the memorandum […]

Crisis what crisis? The queen is still head of state in Britain, parliament is in robust good health and HM judges are beyond reproach. All that happened on Friday, March 29, 2019 was that the government was unable to get its withdrawal agreement through parliament. Despite adverse consequences many Brits would not mind leaving the […]