Новости за 04.04.2019

CYPRUS and the UK on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance their defence and security cooperation. The MoU was signed in London by defence minister Savvas Angelides and his British counterpart Gavin Williamson. It agrees on “strengthening the existing deep defence links between the two nations” and is “designed to help address […]

Pro-Brexit lawmakers in Britain’s upper house of parliament tried on Thursday to thwart the approval of a new law that would force Prime Minister Theresa May to seek a delay to prevent a disorderly EU exit on April 12 without a deal. May has already committed to seek a short extension to Britain’s European Union […]

TURKISH Cypriot ‘Foreign Minister’ Kudret Ozersay called on UN envoy Jane Holl Lute to clearly say there was no common ground between the two sides, reports said on Thursday. Addressing a conference at the Near East University in the north during which alternative solution models for Cyprus were discussed, Ozersay, according to Turkish Cypriot media, […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday she hoped discussions between Prime Minister Theresa May’s government and the opposition Labour Party could break the Brexit impasse by an April 10 emergency European Union summit. Brexit is now mired in doubt, nearly three years since the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting 52 percent to […]

SCHOOL canteen inspections carried out until February have found price violations and substandard products, while pupils were also sold products that were not on the official lists, the consumer association said on Thursday. The association said it had participated in 78 canteen inspections carried out by local committees by the end of February this year. […]

Bus company Emel will be resuming normal business on Friday, ending a strike over a dispute over unpaid March wages. The announcement was made late on Thursday by labour minister Zeta Emilianidou after hours-long talks with bus company reps and trade union leaders in Nicosia. Bus drivers had called an ‘indefinite strike’ starting April 2 […]

French President Emmanuel Macron’s crackdown on anti-government protests with tougher police tactics hit a fresh snag on Thursday as France’s Constitutional Court canned one of the central elements of the new rules. The measures, ushered in to respond to “yellow vest” demonstrations that have descended off and on into violent riots over the past four […]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told China on Thursday to “lay off” an island occupied by Manila in the disputed South China Sea and said he would deploy his soldiers there if Beijing touches it. Duterte’s remarks, which he said was not a warning but rather a word of advice to a friend, follow a statement […]

Showers during the first three days of April have already amounted to half the average rainfall for the entire month, the Meteorological Office said on Thursday. According to preliminary data, the amount of rainfall recorded from April 1 up to 9am on April 4, came to 15.0mm, compared to 29.9mm which is the norm for […]

Politicians on Thursday took the opportunity to try and score points off one another during an often-heated debate at the House plenum on the report outlining the reasons for the demise of the co-op bank. Disy leader Averof Neophytou triggered a heated exchange with main opposition Akel, when in his remarks he alluded to the […]

On a side street near the Acropolis, a new museum is exhibiting items a little different from the elegant white marble statues of ancient Greek antiquity. Here, there are flashing lights, loud pinging and popping noises. The Athens Pinball Museum is home to more than 100 fully functional pinball machines dating from the 1950s, where […]

Eleven sculptors from various countries are currently working on 13 creations for the Ayia Napa sculpture symposium being orgnanised for the sixth consecutive year. The aim is to enrich the coastal resort’s 20,000 square-metre sculpture park with the works of artists from around the world. At the moment, phase two of the symposium is underway […]

Curbing corruption could generate about $1 trillion in tax revenues annually across the world, according to research from the International Monetary Fund. In addition to increasing government revenue, fighting corruption can also reduce waste and even help to lift test scores among public school students, the IMF said. It also improves overall public trust in […]

Tottenham Hotspur made a world-record profit of 113 million pounds after tax last year, the Premier League club reported on Thursday – the day after they officially opened their new 62,000-seater stadium. With income rising sharply as a result of player sales, hosting home matches at Wembley and a Champions League run, Tottenham’s profit surpassed […]

Revenue from tourism reached €39.6m in January 2019 compared with €38.4m in the same month of the previous year, recording an increase of 3.1 per cent, the statistical service said on Thursday. According to Cystat, expenditure per person per visit fell on average to €483.26 in January compared with €506.49 in the same month last […]

Saudi Arabia plans to issue a multi-billion-dollar tender in 2020 to construct its first two nuclear power reactors and is discussing the project with U.S. and other potential suppliers, three sources familiar with the plans said. The world’s top oil exporter wants to diversify its energy mix, adding nuclear power so it can free up […]

Tourists were filmed fleeing from the edge of a lagoon as a glacier calved in Iceland yesterday (March 31) creating large pulsating waves near the shore. Captured in on the edge of the Jökulsárlón lagoon, part of the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier can be seen falling into the water creating a series of waves that come towards […]

A 19-year-old woman was remanded by the Larnaca court for eight days on Thursday in connection with a robbery, and the theft of a mobile phone and a tablet, offences she allegedly committed on March 27 and April 3 in Larnaca. According to police, a 59-year-old owner of a Larnaca kiosk reported that shortly after […]

Name: Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria) Otherwise known as: Cocklebur, Church Steeples Habitat: An herbaceous perennial of the Rosaceae family growing to about one metre in dry ditches and hedges in Europe and Africa. An elegant plant with pinnate, hairy leaves on an unbranched stem terminating in racemes of bright yellow, star-shaped flowers that produce the burrs […]

Hundreds of cargo containers were left undelivered on Thursday after lorry drivers went on a 24-hour work stoppage over delays in servicing them at Limassol port, and they called for stricter measures if the companies running the port did not address the matter. From 6am when the work stoppage started, hundreds of containers that had […]

The student community of Neapolis University participated in the European Economic Ideas Forum 2019 (EIF) held in Nicosia by the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, one of Europe’s largest think tanks. Every year, the EIF brings together European Commission officials, members of the European Parliament, economic experts, business leaders and other influential stakeholders from […]

The British military bases (SBA) said Thursday they had shut down all illegal casinos within their jurisdiction and donated the computers seized to schools. In a statement, the SBA said police in the Western Sovereign Base Areas, in the Limassol district, had successfully closed all the illegal casinos. The SBA police have donated computers, that […]

Authorities in the north have arrested three men, a Turkish national and two Turkish Cypriots, suspected of smuggling Syrian refugees arriving from Turkey to the government-controlled areas through the north, reports said on Thursday. Phileleftheros, citing exclusive information, reported that the three men were arrested in the north a few days ago after Turkish Cypriot […]

Spain has claimed victory in an argument with Britain over the status of Gibraltar, after the European Parliament passed a law that referred to the peninsula as a “colony of the British Crown”. The row may be a foretaste of Britain’s diminished heft once it leaves the European Union, which is always likely to take […]

Manchester City have a one-point advantage over rivals Liverpool going into the final six games of the Premier League season but a tougher set of fixtures means Pep Guardiola’s side will have to be at their very best to defend their title. Liverpool’s home game with Chelsea on April 14 is their only meeting with […]