Новости за 25.08.2019

Simos Ioannou was elected on Sunday Mayor of the Turkish-occupied Municipality of Famagusta, securing 48.94% of the vote or 4,697 votes. Ioannou succeeds Alexis Galanos, who passed away last month. According to the final results announced by Returning Officer Georgios Chrysafinis, Nikos Karoullas secured 26.23% or 2,518 votes, Andreas Lordos 16.24% or...

Tottenham 0 Newcastle Utd 1 Tottenham Hotspur fell to a surprise 1-0 defeat at home to Newcastle United in the Premier League on Sunday with Brazilian Joelinton grabbing the winner. Joelinton, the club’s record 40 million pound ($49 million)signing, finished off a 27th minute counter-attack, keeping his composure to beat Hugo...

The largest group of Democratic presidential candidates in the modern U.S. political era has gotten a little bit smaller while the Republican field slowly grows. On Sunday, former congressman Joe Walsh became the second primary challenger to launch a campaign against Republican President Donald Trump. Twenty-one Democratic rivals are now...

Maybe we can get through the climate crisis without a global catastrophe, although that door is closing fast. And maybe we can cope with the huge loss of jobs caused by the revolution in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) without a social and political calamity. But can we do both...

Tactic risks becoming new currency of post-truth politics   By Peter Apps On Wednesday, as wildfires ripped across the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian president took to Facebook to accuse nongovernmental organisations of setting light to the trees. Speaking on a Facebook Live broadcast, Jair Bolsonaro presented no evidence for his...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday said he and President Donald Trump were “gung-ho” about a post-Brexit trade deal but cautioned the United States would be tough negotiators and that he would not rush talks. Trump promised a big trade deal for Britain after it leaves the European Union,...

By Elena Christodoulou The European Union has added further impetus to its objective of enhancing transparency against harmful tax practices with the amendment to Directive 2011/16/EU, commonly referred to as DAC6. This builds on the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), which allows for the automatic exchange of information on financial accounts held...

The past 10 days saw six road deaths, police said on Sunday, issuing an urgent call for a change in the behaviour of drivers. After two people – Bruk Mark Christodoulou, 24, and Savvas Charalambous, 75 – lost their lives on Cyprus roads on Saturday night, police issued a desperate...

Nikos Mouyiaris, a prominent member of the Cypriot-American community who died in the United States, was buried on Sunday in his home town, Athienou, in Larnaca District. Speaking at the burial service, in Panagia Chryseleousa Church, President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades said that the greatest honour for a man is...

TURKEY, as we all know, does not recognise the Cyprus Republic and has labelled it ‘defunct’. The message the Erdogan government has always tried to convey to the international community is that the Cyprus Republic is merely the ‘Greek Cypriot administration’. To promote this position Turkey has found an unexpected...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe showed their differences over the seriousness of North Korea’s series of short-range missile launches on Sunday, while maintaining that they would remain in synch on the issue. Trump, who prizes his relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said the...

Landlocked Kazakhstan is a crucial part of the Belt and Road Initiative and is making great strides towards becoming a major investment centre   By Nicholas Theodoulou Was I dreaming? I blinked and looked again, still drowsy from our red-eye flight into Kazakhstan. No, those really were huge Soviet-era spaceships...

Most of the year blood donations meet the demand but August is a blood-dry month When it comes to donating blood, we have every reason to feel proud of ourselves. In 2017, Cyprus was ranked first among EU countries for volunteer blood donations in proportion to its population. It is...

Pope Francis on Sunday called for a global commitment to put out the fires in the Amazon, saying the area was essential for the health of the planet. “We are all worried about the vast fires that have developed in the Amazon. Let us pray so that with the commitment...

By Gina Agapiou The community leader of Neo Chorio in Paphos said this week that this year will be the last that any illegal camping will take place in the Akamas. “Next year I will be relentless,” Andreas Christodoulou said, adding that unless an organised camping area gets a licence...

Hong Kong police fired tear gas to try to break up brick-throwing anti-government protesters who marched in pouring rain on Sunday, after violent clashes a day earlier prompted police to fire tear gas for the first time in more than a week. The Chinese-ruled city’s MTR rail operator suspended some...

Two Paphos animal rescue shelters and a volunteer foster home feature in a new documentary put together by the Battersea Academy, part of the well-known Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in London, to help raise awareness of animal welfare issues. The film which is around nine minutes long and available to...

Occasionally, we like to indulge in a bit of office downtime. And it was in one such moment that we all played ‘where-would-I-go-if-I-hadn’t-signed-up-for-the-August-holiday-shift’ and discovered, overwhelmingly, that the place that tops our list is the South Pacific island of Bora Bora… The name springs from a phrase in the local...

Years after a bike rental scheme in Nicosia failed a new company has brought the concept back to the capital’s streets. Annette Chrysostomou finds it a simple task to hire a bike Four years after a bicycle rental scheme was abandoned in Nicosia, the bikes are back. Nextbike, which runs...

A 24-year-old motorcyclist, Brook Mark Christodoulou, lost his life after his bike collided with a vehicle on a Nicosia road on Saturday night. Police said the crash occurred at around 11.30pm, when a vehicle driven by a 30-year-old Nicosia resident on Petrou Iliadi street in Latsia, crashed with the bike...

Two men aged 29 and 53 were arrested on Saturday in connection with an improvised explosive device found by police in Gialia, Paphos. According to the police, information was received regarding an explosive device in an open space in the Gialia village. The device was placed in a paper package,...

A collision of five cars in Limassol on Saturday night left 75-year-old Savvas Charalambous dead and five more people injured, two of which suffered serious injuries. Under conditions being investigated, five vehicles collided while moving along the Kantou-Souniou road in the Limassol district. Passengers of three of the cars became...

Lebanon’s prime minister said two Israeli drones which fell in the Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs of Beirut amounted to an open attack on the country’s sovereignty and an attempt to foment regional tensions. In the first such incident in more than a decade, one drone fell and second exploded near the...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to tell European Council head Donald Tusk that the UK will only pay 9 billion pounds ($11 billion) instead of the 39 billion pound liability agreed by former Prime Minister Theresa May under a no-deal Brexit, Sky News reported http://bit.ly/30wrm4P early on Sunday....

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino says Son Heung-min is in “perfect condition” to start his season. The South Korean is back in the fold after missing the first two games of the campaign due to suspension and he could start against Newcastle on Sunday. His absence over the first few weeks...