Новости за 21.05.2019

The committee for the cancer victims of the Astrosol factory which was, along with the government, found guilty in 2017 of creating a cancer cluster in the area said that the compensation amounts decided on Μοnday by the Nicosia district court for six of the 21 total plaintiffs are “exceptionally...

The government on Tuesday sought to re-direct the discussion away from the ‘zeros’ controversy of the past few days, saying its main disagreement with Akel is the latter’s euro-scepticism. “We have no intention of pursuing a confrontation that favours Akel’s nihilistic criticism,” government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou told reporters. “We leave...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is considering tapping more than $230 million from the Transportation Security Administration to fund operations on the U.S.-Mexico border if Congress fails to approve additional funding, a person briefed on the matter said. NBC News reported the plan earlier, citing documents of a contingency...

A legal challenge against a British police force’s use of facial-recognition technology on passers-by in public spaces began on Tuesday in a potential landmark case that could set limits on the increasingly common surveillance method. Ed Bridges and civil rights group Liberty will argue that South Wales Police is violating...

A film shot entirely in Cyprus is among those being screened in the Market (the so-called Marché du Film) taking place alongside the Cannes film festival. Marianna Rosset, the star of Portrait of God, has made no secret of the Cyprus connection, having walked the red carpet in a striking...

New planes belonging to the RAF arrived in Akrotiri on Tuesday afternoon to take part in the exercise Lightening Dawn, their first overseas deployment. The F-35B Lightning aircraft arrived in Cyprus from Royal Air Force Marham in Norfolk and will spend six weeks at RAF Akrotiri. According to RAF Marham...

Photographers from around the world are invited to submit photographs for an annual competition in Paphos that aims to exhibit large pictures in outdoor public spaces. Organised by the Paphos branch of The Cyprus Photographic Society, The Wall 2019 event will see 30 winning entries, taken anywhere in the world,...

Threats of conflict between the United States and Iran have highlighted the places and ways their forces, proxies or allies could clash. Iran backs militias in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, where U.S. troops are also based, and in Lebanon and Yemen, located next to Washington’s closest regional allies Israel and...

In case some people get excited, these exploratory (6 drills) and confirmatory (2 drills) moves mean very little in terms of future revenue. All Cyprus is doing is identifying on a map where possible gas deposits are located. The deposits contain gas which is quite expensive and very difficult to...

Two Cyprus MEPs have been branded dinosaurs in terms of their activity on the environment by the Climate Action Network (CAN). In view of the upcoming European elections, CAN Europe ranked the voting behaviour of current MEPs in relation to climate and energy issues into three categories: defenders, delayers and...

Victory for veteran British anti-EU campaigner Nigel Farage in this week’s European Parliament election will create a big headache for the European Union and the UK should exit the bloc as soon as possible, France’s finance minister said on Tuesday. Opinion polls put Farage’s newly created Brexit Party well ahead...

Workers at the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) will over the coming days take a series of votes to authorise – or not – their trade unions to take industrial action, including possible strikes, over three main grievances. The meetings and secret ballots will be taking place until May 30....

Cyprus has 106 people on probation per 100,000 inhabitants, which is under the European median value of 169 probationers per 100,000 inhabitants, a Council of Europe (CoE) survey revealed on Tuesday. The survey, which contains data on probationers serving different kinds of sentences such as electronic monitoring, community service, home...

Most of us lead a lifestyle that is spent sitting down with little movement throughout the day although a similar number have the intention of being more active, something an upcoming workshop focuses on. It’s all about movement for Italian choreographer, director and visual artist Riccardo Buscarini, who will present...

Cyprus plans to carry out eight offshore drills for hydrocarbons over the next 24 months, the government revealed on Tuesday. “Activities within the Exclusive Economic Zone are ongoing. For the next 24 months we are planning eight drills, six exploratory and two appraisal drills,” energy minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said presenting...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected talks with the United States on Tuesday, after President Donald Trump said Iran would call and ask for negotiations “if and when they are ever ready”. Tehran and Washington have escalated rhetoric against each other in recent weeks as the United States has tightened sanctions...

Olivier Giroud has signed a new one-year contract with Chelsea to extend his stay at Stamford Bridge until the end of next season, the Premier League club said on Tuesday. The 32-year-old French striker has scored 17 goals in 62 appearances for Chelsea since joining from Arsenal in January, 2018....

Prime Minister Theresa May will set out on Tuesday a “new deal” for Britain’s departure from the European Union, her fourth attempt to break an impasse in parliament over Brexit that has plunged her government into crisis. Three years since Britain voted to leave the EU and almost two months...

A 45-year-old Chinese man arrested in Cyprus last year on a European arrest warrant issued in Germany in connection with tax evasion has apparently fled after he was released on bail, reports said. Police last Friday issued an arrest warrant for businessman Xinhui Liao after he failed to meet the...

The Foss Research Centre for Sustainable Energy of the University of Cyprus has won the European Life Citizens’ Prize for its SmartPV project. The project was shortlisted for the above award together with another eight other projects and won the first place following public voting. Life+ SmartPV connected around 300...

Cyprus registered the highest increase in household electricity prices in the EU between the second half of 2017 and the second half of 2018, Eurostat figures published on Tuesday show. The increase in Cyprus was 19.6 per cent, with Spain a distant second at 13.8 per cent and the Netherlands...

Britain’s opposition Labour Party wants to nationalise energy and water infrastructure if it can oust Prime Minister Theresa May’s ruling Conservatives from power, reversing decades of pro-privatisation public policy. Despite a national election not being due until 2022, the prospect of nationalisation is worrying investors. Analysts have valued the regulated...

Paul Stewart is a lot of A’s. And a pair of P’s too. He’s an academic, an author and an actor, as well as a poet and a Professor of Literature, at the University of Nicosia. But it’s the N that concerns us today; N for novelist. Because, this coming...

British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s restaurant chain said it was entering administration on Tuesday, threatening jobs at the firm’s 25 sites in the United Kingdom. Oliver, 43, who became a well-known figure in Britain and beyond for his popular TV shows, founded his Jamie’s Italian brand of high street restaurants...

The health of former president Demetris Christofias continues to be stable but he remains in critical condition. A specialist on infectious diseases is expected to arrive from abroad later on Tuesday. According to the health ministry Christofias is still in the Nicosia general hospital’s intensive care unit due to significant...