Новости за 28.10.2019

By Raya Jalabi When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took to the pulpit of Iraq’s historic al-Nuri mosque to declare his caliphate in 2014, residents of Mosul had no idea the extent to which their city would be devastated. “This strange man we had never seen before took the podium instead of...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday confirmed to the European Union his formal acceptance of a Brexit delay but asked the bloc to make clear that there could be no further extension to the divorce beyond January 31. “I have no discretion under the UK’s European Union (Withdrawal) (No....

By Michael Holden A court heard on Monday that a global ring had been involved in smuggling the 39 people whose bodies were found in a truck near London, as the driver faced charges of manslaughter and people-trafficking. The discovery of the bodies last week in a refrigerated truck on...

By Olga Cotaga Sterling edged higher against a broadly struggling dollar on Monday as traders awaited the outcome of a vote in British Parliament on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demand for a general election. A House of Commons vote is due around 1900 GMT, with lawmakers deciding on whether to...

A 22-year-old man and a 16-year old girl were remanded on Monday for seven days in connection with a robbery on Friday of a food-delivery man in the Germasoyia area. This brings the total number of persons arrested in connection with the same case to four, while five more persons...

By Stephanie Nebehay The U.N. Special Envoy for Syria appealed on Monday for the fragile ceasefire in northeastern Syria to be extended as he seeks to move ahead with a nascent political process to end the war. Geir Pedersen said he would meet foreign ministers from Turkey, Iran and Russia...

In the iconic work of Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House, the author’s social gaze seems more important than ever in our time, where a woman’s identity continues to be provoked in a variety of ways, including the commercialisation of sex. Apart from that, the subversive, pioneering era of Nora’s emancipation,...

French police said on Monday they had arrested a man suspected of firing shots at a mosque in Bayonne the south-west of France. Two people were injured in the shooting, which happened around 1400 GMT, French radio station France Bleu said. It added that the arrested man was in his...

The government was again caught on the back foot on Monday over its citizenship-by-investment scheme amid reports that a Saudi sheikh, whose company owns a Boeing jet permanently stationed at Larnaca airport, and whose late father had been alleged to have had ties to terrorist financing, was granted a Cypriot...

By Philip Pullella The Vatican Secret Archives, containing millions of documents spanning 12 centuries, are no longer officially “secret”. Pope Francis has renamed the priceless archives, which include letters about King Henry VIII’s requests to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn that led to the English Church’s 1534...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he may declassify and release part of the video taken on Saturday of the raid in Syria in which Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed. The video is believed to include aerial footage and possibly footage from cameras mounted on the soldiers...

By Jonathan Shkurko and Gina Agapiou The heavy rains that flooded streets and shops in Nicosia’s old town on Sunday afternoon have left many shop owners at a loss for the third year in a row. The municipality sent eight groups of workers on Monday to clean the drains from...

League leader Matteo Salvini led the opposition centre-right to a crushing victory in the Italian region of Umbria, results on Monday showed, raising questions about how long the national government in Rome can survive. Parties in the ruling coalition, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and centre-left Democratic Party (PD), stood together...

The problem our country has always had is that it’s a small island in the Mediterranean which, up until now, has always left it at the mercy of foreign powers much bigger than itself. Its strategic importance in the area has been coveted by many colonial empires that have risen...

However Ole Gunnar Solskjaer tried to dress it up, Manchester United’s record from the penalty spot this season looks like no laughing matter. Norwich goalkeeper Tim Krul denied both Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial from the spot at Carrow Road on Sunday, meaning United have missed more penalties than they...

A 35-year-old man was remanded on Monday for eight days after more than 17 kilos of cannabis was found in his luggage at Larnaca airport. The man arrived on Friday at the Larnaca airport from abroad. During a check, 15 nylon bags were discovered in his luggage with 17.7 kilos...

A newly-approved three-drug treatment for tuberculosis will be available in 150 countries including India and South Africa, priced at $1,040 for a complete regimen, more than twice the cost proposed in the past by advocacy groups for other treatments. The World Health Organization-backed Stop TB Partnership said on Monday that...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday representations should made to Turkey so that it stops setting conditions for participating in reunification talks, as he reiterated that the Greek Cypriot side’s aim was to continue talks on the same basis they had been held to date. Speaking after a church service...

On the occasion of Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Pharos Arts Foundation and the Embassy of Finland are organising a recital by the multi-awarded Finnish pianist Laura Mikkola, acknowledged as one of the finest and most expressive pianists in the world. For her recital in...

German conservative leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Monday faced a rebellion by party members angry at a humiliating election result in eastern Thuringia state where the Christian Democrats (CDU) lost voters to both the far-left and far-right. Discontent within the CDU grew louder after their fourth setback at the ballot box...

The Kremlin said on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump will have made a major contribution to the fight against international terrorism if a U.S. assertion that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead is true. Trump on Sunday announced that Baghdadi had killed himself during a daring overnight...

This is ‘a Cypriot mental survival guide’ – but with a twist. Unlike other self-help books, it’s written by a Cypriot, in Cypriot, for Cypriots – a quick guide to surviving the mental issues that might possibly stem from a local upbringing. Entitled Πνάσε. Ούλλα Εννά Παν Καλά (which loosely...

The Ministry of Agriculture Costas Kadis said on Monday the government will compensate the farmers who suffered damages to their crops due to the heavy rains that hit Cyprus on Saturday and Sunday. “It is the government’s duty to stand by them in this difficult moment and we will do...

Two men were arrested on Monday morning after allegedly stabbing another man at the Nicosia bus terminal following a scuffle. The man is in hospital. His condition is not considered to be serious, police said. The incident occurred at around 11.30am at the Solomou square bus station when the two...

By Lefteris Papadimas and Vassilis Triantafyllou NAOUSSA, Greece, Oct 28 (Reuters) – A tariff war between the European Union and the United States is threatening to buckle one of Greece’s most buoyant export sectors, which survived a decade of economic crises but possibly not President Donald Trump. The Trump’s administration...