Новости за 08.01.2024

Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked several New York City bridges and a tunnel on Monday to demand an immediate ceasefire in the three-month-old Israel-Hamas conflict before police arrested hundreds of them and reopened the roadways. Dozens of chanting demonstrators sat at entrances to the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges across the East...

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne resigned on Monday, as President Emmanuel Macron seeks to give a new impetus to his second mandate ahead of European parliament elections and the Paris Olympics this summer. Macron did not immediately name a successor for Borne, who will stay on as a caretaker along with the...

EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ylva Johansson will visit Cyprus on Tuesday to discuss migration management as well as the implementation of the EU Action Plan for the Eastern Mediterranean route. The commissioner will visit the Pournara Reception centre and meet with ministers involved with the issue of migration. The visit builds on the ongoing work to implement...

Pressure grew on Israel on Monday from its staunch ally the United States and from Middle East powers to ease up on its assault on Gaza as its forces inflicted the highest daily Palestinian death toll so far this year in the war against Hamas. U.S. Secretary of State Antony...

The UN Secretary-General’s newly-appointed personal envoy for Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar, is expected to arrive this week in New York, where she is to hold a series of meetings with UN officials, it emerged on Monday. According to the information obtained by the Cyprus News Agency, Cuellar, whose appointment...

Police said on Monday they arrested 13 persons for illegal employment and illegal work during sweeps at several premises across the island over the weekend. The police checks took place in the Nicosia, Famagusta and Limassol districts. Twelve of the people arrested were working here without a permit. The thirteenth...

Political party CTP in the north on Monday finally weighed in on the arrest of Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat, whose wife is a CTP ‘MP’, following Kursat’s arrest in Italy based on an EU arrest warrant for selling Greek Cypriot properties in the north. Speaking during a ‘parliament’ session...

Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer, one of football’s greatest players who captained his country to World Cup glory in 1974 and won the tournament again as manager in 1990, has died at the age of 78, his family said in a statement on Monday. Beckenbauer bestrode the sport as player, coach, pundit...

Journalists should not be targeted in conflict flashpoints, the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Cyprus said on Monday, following the death of three more journalists in Gaza a day earlier. In a press release, the embassy said the media “are all we have left to record the destruction...

The Visit is a tragicomic 1956 play by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt now being presented in Cyprus by the Cyprus Theatre Organisation. Translated to Greek and directed by Neophytos Taliotis, the play has been welcoming audiences in Nicosia since November and before it concludes on January 27, it travels to...

A man appeared in court on Monday accused of stealing a lorry and driving it to the north but told the court he was “too drunk to be able to remember” what happened. A police representative told the court that the man had driven south out of the village of...

The roads being built in Akamas are not wider than originally planned, the outgoing head of the forestry department Charalambos Alexandrou said on Monday, in a swansong statement on the debate over the roadworks in this environmentally sensitive area. Alexandrou issued a lengthy statement about the controversial works in the...

Gaza health officials reported the highest daily death toll so far this year on Monday as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken toured Arab states before heading for Israel to try to prevent the conflict growing into a wider conflagration. Blinken, who has backed Israel while expressing growing concern over...

The short-term outlook for the economy is a positive one, but risks could loom in the longer term, the Fiscal Council said on Monday. Michalis Persianis, chair of the Fiscal Council, was speaking in parliament during a discussion of the entity’s budget for 2024. He highlighted four main concerns. First,...

A 44-year-old man suspected of manslaughter following a car accident that killed four people on New Year’s day will be sent to criminal court for trial, Limassol District Court ruled on Monday. The man appeared in court on Monday for a renewal of his remand, which was due to end,...

Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne used his time away from football during to a post-operation recovery period to reconnect with his family, the midfielder said after his first game back on Sunday. De Bruyne came on as a second-half substitute as City beat Huddersfield Town 5-0 in the FA Cup...

The United States and its allies in the Group of Seven are seeking a quick way out of the military phase of the Gaza conflict, Italy said on Monday, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his EU and German counterparts toured the region. Blinken was holding talks on...

EUREKA Massalias has always kept up with the latest fashion trends, tied to the brand’s care for clothes and preserving garments in their original beauty. Nevertheless, through fashion and everything that beautifies our lives, EUREKA Massalias also ensures it serves charitable initiatives. That’s why it saw out the year by...

The two men who killed 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city are still on the run, police inspector Huseyin Zaifer told a court in the north on Monday. Zaifer was speaking at a hearing of the two men who stand accused of aiding and abetting their escape following the...

Political party leaders expressed their satisfaction with the appointment of a United Nations envoy for the Cyprus problem following a National Council meeting on Monday. Colombian diplomat Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar was officially announced as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ personal envoy on Friday, and was the key point of discussion...

An Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters. The security sources identified him as Wissam al-Tawil, the deputy head of a unit within the Radwan force. They said he and another Hezbollah fighter were killed when...

Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right fanatic who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in Norway in 2011, appeared in a court set up in his prison on Monday to launch a legal bid to end his years in isolation. Wearing a black suit, white shirt and brown...

India’s top court on Monday quashed the release of 11 Hindu men who had been jailed for life for gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman and murdering her relatives during Hindu-Muslim riots in Gujarat state in 2002, a lawyer in the case said. The court directed the men to surrender to...

The Larnaca criminal court sentenced a man to 15 years in prison on Monday, for having attempted to import a total of 36 kilogrammes of cannabis into Cyprus. The man, a 47-year-old citizen of the United States, had travelled from his home country to Cyprus via a stopover in Germany...

High budget entertainment came at us from all directions in 2023, but it wasn’t a winner for everyone says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Who won? Who lost? Which service achieved its yearly goals and which one was weighed, measured and found wanting? 2023 has been a great year for streaming services overall;...