Новости за 16.10.2019

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to condemn President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northeastern Syria, clearing the way for Turkey’s offensive against U.S.-allied Syrian Kurds. The vote was 354 to 60 for the resolution, as dozens of Trump’s fellow Republicans joined the majority Democrats...

Fitch Ratings has on Wednesday revised Bank of Cyprus Public Company Limited’s (BoC, B-/Positive/B) conditional pass-through (CPT) mortgage covered bonds’ outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the rating at ‘A’. The rating action follows the outlook revision to positive on Cyprus’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR)  dated October...

A woman appeared in court on Wednesday charged with terrorism offences including scoping out St Paul’s cathedral as a possible bomb target. Safiyya Amira Shaikh, 36, was remanded in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to appear again at the Old Bailey court on Nov. 1, police said. Shaikh, of Hayes,...

Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has been ruled out of Sunday’s Premier League clash with Liverpool while goalkeeper David De Gea faces a scan and is a major injury doubt. Pogba has been battling an ankle problem and United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confirmed that the 26-year-old has suffered a...

By Andy Sullivan and Raphael Satter Law enforcement officials said on Wednesday they had arrested hundreds of people worldwide after knocking out a South Korea-based dark web child pornography site that sold gruesome videos for digital cash. Officials from the United States, Britain and South Korea described the network as...

Justice Minister Giorgos Savvides appealed to parties on Wednesday to expedite discussion of several bills introducing crucial reforms in the island’s notoriously slow justice system, which he described as a serious national problem. “I hope we can proceed the soonest,” Savvides said after a meeting of the House legal affairs...

British and EU officials were on the verge of a last-minute Brexit deal on Wednesday but Prime Minister Boris Johnson still has work to do at home to ensure parliament approves the plan. “The basic foundations of this agreement are ready and theoretically we could accept a deal tomorrow,” said...

At first glance, Italy’s 5-0 win over a Liechtenstein side ranked 182nd in the world by FIFA wasn’t a noteworthy result. Tuesday’s victory in Vaduz, however, marked a historic moment for a team that has undergone a radical transformation in the 17 months since Roberto Mancini took over as manager....

Ireland supports international law over issues in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the country’s President Michael Higgins said on Wednesday, as he addressed parliament. He told MPs that he had discussed with President Nicos Anastasiades earlier this week, his concern in relation to the recent drilling by Turkey off Cyprus....

The revision of urban planning will contribute towards more liveable cities and tackle congestion problems, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Wednesday. Speaking after briefing the House ethics committee, the minister said the revision of the plans will start soon. “Our approach to local plans is that there needs to...

By Nathan Morley In a day of relentless questioning, local prosecutor Adam Demosthenous on Wednesday grilled a 19-year-old British woman on details of her police statement, which she insists was made under duress. In a highly publicised case, the teen claims she was gang-raped by 12 Israeli holidaymakers in Ayia...

The Trump administration dispatched its top officials to Turkey on Wednesday for emergency talks to try to persuade Ankara to halt an assault on northern Syria, while Russian troops swept into territory abandoned by Washington in a sudden retreat. Robert O’Brien, White House national security adviser since last month, arrived...

The ‘anti-war’ comments made by Mustafa Akinci about Syria have not only sparked the fury of Turkey’s president but have bitterly divided political parties in the north, causing an actual ruckus in the Turkish Cypriot ‘parliament’, and prompting violent death threats against the Turkish Cypriot leader. Turkish Cypriot media reports...

This is just absurd. Individual religious practices should not be done in a public institution. Our children are there to be educated in all subject. Religion might be one of them, but then it needs to be about all religion, not just the Greek Orthodox one. Its discriminating against all...

Russian forces have crossed the Euphrates River in northern Syria and reached the outskirts of the city of Kobani, pushing eastward with Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Syrian Observatory said on Wednesday. The troop movement comes days after the SDF cut a deal with the Syrian government for army...

European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday that it will be difficult for Cyprus to extend the so-called “EU-Turkey deal”, a migrant readmission agreement that Turkey agreed with the EU in 2016. Under the readmission agreement, Turkey has undertaken to readmit...

Tiger Woods will write a memoir billed by the publishers as a “candid and intimate narrative of an outsize American life”. A publication date was not given for “Back”, which is the first account from 15-times major winner Woods, 43, and is being written with the full cooperation of his...

Morphou residents were counting the cost on Wednesday of a brief but ferocious storm the previous day that caused extensive damage to roads and infrastructure. Despite only lasting ten minutes, the strong gushes of wind at about midday on Tuesday felled branches from tress, damaging several cars. The wind also...

Dutch police are questioning a man who paid the rent on a farmhouse where six members of a family were found locked away in a secret room after apparently living for years in isolation, authorities said on Wednesday. Five siblings, estimated to be aged between 18 and 25, and a...

Nicosia has already prepared the list of persons and companies subject to financial and legal measures by the EU over their involvement in Turkey’s illegal drillings in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone, Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. Speaking to state broadcaster CyBC radio Christodoulides said the list will be...

By Katie Wright When it comes to stocking up on new season essentials, a coat is one of – if not the most important item you’ll buy. It’s got to look good, keep you warm, and mesh well with the rest of your wardrobe, so this isn’t a purchase that...

Police on Wednesday were trying to track down six boys aged between 12 and 15 who appear nude in videos and photos found in the possession of a 42-year-old Limassol man, in what authorities said was an unprecedented case. The suspect, an accountant, managed to convince the boys to pose...

Spain’s top football division has asked that this month’s El Clasico match between Barcelona and Real Madrid be moved from Barcelona to the capital amid growing protests in Catalonia. Nine Catalan separatist leaders were jailed for between nine and 13 years on Monday for their roles in an illegal referendum...

Italy approved a new tax on digital companies, including U.S. tech giants, as part of its 2020 draft budget on Wednesday, a move that could draw threats of retaliation from Washington. The levy, due to be introduced from next year, will oblige companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon ,...

By Clare Baldwin and Andrew RC Marshall Cambodia’s long-ruling prime minister, Hun Sen, had gathered athletes at his imposing office for a televised pep talk. “I don’t want to mention politics,” he began quietly. But he couldn’t help himself. It was December 2017. The main opposition party had just been...