Новости за 10.01.2024

Greece will publish a bill shortly that will legalise same-sex marriage in a bid to eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday. Greece has implemented a series of reforms over the past decade to improve LGBT+ rights in the country where the Orthodox Church...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday that an integrated strategy aimed at restructuring and improving higher education will be made public no later than May. Speaking during a ceremony at Tepak University, the President stressed the government’s strategic goal to provide substantial support to both public and private academic institutions....

Cyprus’ new biggest mosque is to be the subject of a court case, it emerged on Wednesday. It is due to be opened officially on Thursday. The mosque, named as the Dr Suat Gunsel mosque, is located on the northern outskirts of Nicosia, on the campus of the Near East...

People living in the village of Denia close to the buffer zone are facing fresh challenges, according to community leader Christakis Panayiotou, who on Wednesday said that Turkish Cypriot forces have initiated construction activities in the north, raising concerns among locals. Panayiotou added that the Turkish Cypriot forces appear to...

Former Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said he had started a hunger strike as a “political prisoner” on Wednesday, a day after he was detained by police at the presidential palace and sent to jail on abuse of power charges. The events mark a dramatic gear change in new Prime...

Donald Trump holds a wide lead over his rivals for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination just five days before the state-by-state selection contest begins, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday. The former president is the preferred candidate of 49% of self-identified Republicans, the poll found. Former South Carolina...

Opening its 2024 season, the Pharos Arts Foundation this month welcomes an exciting recital by violinist Irmina Trynkos and pianist Pavel Timofeyevsky. The intimate venue of The Shoe Factory in downtown Nicosia will host musicians and music lovers on January 26 to enjoy an evening of violin and piano sounds....

A mass departure of Russian companies from Cyprus is underway and is likely to continue, according to media reports on Wednesday. Several major companies which had been headquartered in Cyprus have transferred their operations either back to Russia’s special administrative region or to neighbouring countries such as Kazakhstan, according to...

Some outgoing ministers could not contain their dissatisfaction over the cabinet reshuffle during the handover ceremonies on Wednesday, ranging from pointedly not thanking the president, or by referencing the “sudden replacement” they were hit with. President Nikos Christodoulides must have been expecting this, as his own speech during the swearing-in...

Cyprus housing market prices continued on an upward path in the third quarter of 2023, with apartments recording the highest increase. The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) forecasted consistent growth on both annual and quarterly bases, reflecting increased demand from both local and foreign buyers. The Department of Lands and...

Greece rescued 30 migrants and recovered the bodies of two people, a woman and a man, close to a rocky shore on the island of Lesbos on Wednesday, the coastguard said. The migrants are believed to have reached the island on a boat amid high winds in the Aegean Sea,...

Two men, who had helped steer boats with irregular migrants last October, were sentenced to two and half years in prison for people smuggling, the Larnaca District Court ruled on Wednesday. The two, 22 and 23, helped migrant boats arrive in the Famagusta area in two separate boats on October...

A 20-year-old man has been arrested to aid investigations into a case involving child pornography, police said on Wednesday. The investigation started following a tip received by the authorities indicating the individual’s alleged involvement in distributing child pornography material. Upon evaluating the information, members of the cybercrime police unit secured...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci on Wednesday dropped the largest hint yet that he will run for the Turkish Cypriot leadership next year. In a televised interview with the north’s public broadcaster BRT, Harmanci referred to his landslide victory in the Nicosia Turkish municipality (LTB)’s most recent mayoral election...

Disy on Wednesday went on the defensive after a controversial but largely unsurprising report by the auditor general on spending during last year’s presidential election. The party denied it exceeded the legal limit and stressed “every effort was made to present the income and expenses fairly and objectively.” A day...

The sports ethics committee decided on Wednesday that it would stop issuing red and yellow alert notices, related to match-fixing and corruption. The committee decided that they would stop making the notices public to aid the work of the national betting authority. The committee also decided to appoint officials to...

Tens of millions of Americans were under the threat of menacing weather on Wednesday as a powerful winter storm loomed across the East Coast after leaving in its wake power outages, grounded flights and destruction. More than 90 million people from eastern Ohio and Kentucky and up through the Mid-Atlantic...

Police were investigating a racist rape comment against Volt MP Alexandra Attalides on Wednesday, as she called on the attorney general to take a stand on whether it was hate speech. The user posted on X: “I think one or two Muslims should rape you so you come to your...

The government on Wednesday were given 15 days to give its final position on a bill which would establish the act of falsely filing accusations against police officers as a criminal offence. The 15-day window was given to the justice ministry by the House legal committee as a new Justice...

Police on Wednesday could neither confirm or deny reports that a file was being prepared with complaints from Greek Cypriots over Israeli developments on their properties in Trikomo and Ayios Amvrosios in the north. Earlier reports had surfaced saying that investigations into the sale of property in the two areas...

By far the most painfully awkward ministry handover on Wednesday was that of the health portfolio, where the tension between outgoing minister Popi Kanari and permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki was palpable. The two avoided eye contact throughout, with Yiannaki looking pointedly the other way while Kanari delivered her farewell speech,...

The interior ministry on Wednesday urged would-be voters to “submit timely applications” to be registered on the electoral roll, with the application deadline set as April 2 for June’s elections. The April deadline concerns the local government and European Parliament elections, which are set to take place simultaneously on June...

Britain will seek to use new legislation to overturn the wrongful convictions of hundreds of Post Office managers, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday in the wake of renewed national outrage over the scandal. Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of self-employed sub-postmasters at branches of the state-owned Post Office...

Larnaca was hit by power cuts on Wednesday, with the Electricity Authority (EAC) spokeswoman Christina Papadopoulou saying they had been caused by inclement weather. Areas including Aradippou, Kamares, Ayios Nikolaos, Ormideia, and the Dromolaxia industrial area all went without power, though Papadopoulou moved to reassure residents and businesses that their...

Israeli strikes in southern and central Gaza intensified on Wednesday despite a pledge by Israel that it would pull out some troops and shift to a more targeted campaign, and pleading from its ally Washington to kill fewer civilians. Israel has said this week it is planning to begin drawing...