Новости за 09.04.2019

The House Labour Committee discussed a draft bill on Tuesday put forward by Green Party head Giorgos Perdikis to limit the public’s exposure to electromagnetic frequencies. After the meeting, committee chairman Andreas Fakontis said there are 1,300 radio and mobile phone towers and TV masts around Cyprus and that only half of those are licenced. […]

Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides will head to Beirut on Tuesday night to participate in the first trilateral meeting between Cyprus, Lebanon and Greece, the ministry said. Christodoulides will meet his Lebanese and Greek counterparts Gebran Bassil and Giorgos Katrougkalos respectively to discuss furthering cooperation in the sectors of tourism, education and trade. The ministry said […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on course to secure a right-wing governing coalition, according to Israeli TV exit polls broadcast after voting ended on Tuesday. Both he and his main rival Benny Gantz claimed victory after the polls showed that Gantz’s centrist Blue and White Party and Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud had won about the same […]

European Union leaders will grant Prime Minister Theresa May a second delay to Brexit but they could demand she accepts a much longer extension as France pushed for conditions to limit Britain’s ability to undermine the bloc. In a sign of just how far the three-year Brexit crisis has sapped British power, May dashed to […]

Political parties generally agree on the approach recommended by the government on how to tackle the problems created by a recent court decision that pay reductions imposed on civil servants as part of an austerity drive in 2012 are unconstitutional, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Tuesday. Speaking on state radio CyBC, a day after […]

The continuation of the Cyprus talks is a one-way street for the Greek Cypriot side, it said on Tuesday. Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou and Greek Cypriot Chief Negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis held a joint news conference to brief the media on Anastasiades’ meeting on Sunday with UN envoy Jane Holl Lute to whom he put forward […]

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was admitted to a New Delhi hospital on Tuesday with chest infection, an aide said, adding that the 83-year-old Buddhist monk was stable. The Dalai Lama, who fled to India in early 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, lives in exile in the northern Indian hill town […]

Migration and increased flows of asylum seekers were at the centre of a meeting on Tuesday between Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides and the European Commission’s Director General of the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs, Paraskevi Michou. In his statements after the meeting, Petrides said it was decided to work together to draw up an […]

  By Philip Blenkinsop, Tim Hepher and Susan Heavey U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to impose U.S. tariffs on $11 billion worth of European Union products, heightening tensions over a long-running transatlantic aircraft subsidy dispute and opening a new front in his global trade war. The United States and Europe have been locked […]

Cyprus’ trade with the UK is not expected to be adversely affected in any significant way, including in the event of a hard Brexit, Commerce Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis told lawmakers on Tuesday. In case of a hard Brexit, World Trade Organization regulations would apply, and it does not appear that tariffs would be imposed on […]

In a dusty school playground in southwest Nigeria, the rows of children lined up to return to their classrooms are dotted with the faces of identical twins. Sights like this can be seen everywhere in Igbo Ora, where a banner welcomes visitors to the “twins capital of the world”. Twins are common in the Yoruba […]

The Cyprus Hydrocarbons Company (CHC) is in “advanced talks” with Noble Energy and its partners over the renegotiation of the production-sharing contract for the Aphrodite gas reservoir, the organisation’s chairman said on Tuesday. Toula Onoufriou was speaking to reporters after a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades, where she handed over a report recapping the CHC’s […]

U.S. Attorney General William Barr told lawmakers on Tuesday that he intends to release within a week the long-awaited report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election from Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “Within a week I will be in position to release that report to the public and then I will engage with the chairmen of […]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday revised downward its 2019 growth forecast for Cyprus to 3.5 per cent from its October estimate of 4.2 per cent. For 2020, the IMF expects the economy to grow by 3.3 per cent. Inflation will reach around 0.5 per cent this year against 1.8 per cent forecast in […]

The amount of rainfall since October last year is the second-best to date for the first seven months of a hydrological year since 1901, the Met service said on Tuesday. The service said it expected the figures to improve significantly in favour of 2019 since the month was not yet over and a lot of […]

As spring takes root and the weather will eventually brighten Nicosia cafés and bars will open up their gardens again as people lounge in the now very green vegetation. One bar with a yard that has proved popular over the years is New Division. And although its cosy garden is still closed off for ‘winter’ […]

Uncertainty over Britain’s departure from the European Union is worse than the prospect of a “no deal” Brexit just days away, according to the head of the port of Zeebrugge. The Belgian port, half of whose cargo exports head to Britain, has hired more than 140 new customs officers and paved more than 500 new […]

The opening up of the energy market has once more been pushed back, this time to December 2021 – and that’s under the best-case scenario – MPs heard on Tuesday in a sometimes heated exchange. Speaking to the House energy committee, Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said that as things stand the system envisaged would be […]

Action Global Communications celebrates 30 years of successful operations in Greece, proud to have become one of the longest standing specialised Public Relations and Communications companies in the country.  The Athens office, which opened in 1989, has also acted as a key stepping stone for the international expansion of the Cyprus-headquartered company, now considered one […]

The rhetoric between the two Cypriot leaders worsened on Tuesday, two days after the visit of UN envoy Jane Holl Lute who was unable to budge either side into a four-party meeting. A written statement by President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday afternoon, which was billed as a response to an earlier statement by Turkish Cypriot […]

A third descendant of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is entering the political arena. Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini – Mussolini’s great-grandson, whose name is taken from one of ancient Rome’s most famous rulers – is running as a candidate in European elections for the far-right Brothers of Italy party. Party leader Giorgia Meloni announced Caio […]

 Debenhams‘ lenders took control of the ailing retailer on Tuesday after it went into administration, wiping out shareholders including billionaire Mike Ashley in the latest corporate failure on Britain’s high street. Once the biggest department store chain in the country, Debenhams had been hit by a sharp slowdown in sales, high rents and ballooning debt, plus an […]

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and EU institution leaders meet in Brussels on Tuesday for an annual EU-China summit set to be overshadowed by differences over trade and investment. After years of offering free access to its markets, the European Union has said it is losing patience with Beijing over the slowness of its market liberalisation. […]

Work is now underway at the two main car parks in the centre of Paphos old town to create a more modern and convenient space for drivers, according to Paphos municipality. The total cost of the project is €1.3 million and work is expected to be completed within 36 weeks. “The area, road, and its […]

Gonzalo Higuain has insisted he wants to stay at Chelsea next season. The Argentina striker joined Chelsea on loan from Juventus in January but has mustered just three goals in 11 appearances for the Blues. Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri feels Higuain must sharpen up to make a real fist of life in the Premier League […]