Новости за 08.03.2024

Chinese-founded fast-fashion company Shein is set to face stricter EU online content rules after reporting a huge number of users, joining a group of companies that includes Meta Platforms META.O, Alphabet’s GOOGL.O Google, Elon Musk’s X and TikTok. The new rules, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), classify companies...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said his government has the highest percentage of women in the country’s history. Speaking at an event for International Women’s Day at the Presidential Palace, the president said that the government, but also individual public officials, are obligated to serve as examples for the cultivation,...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has delayed its decision on Eli Lilly’s LLY.N experimental treatment for early Alzheimer’s disease and will hold a meeting of outside experts to discuss its safety and efficacy, the company said. The FDA’s decision came as a surprise to company officials and many Alzheimer’s...

Microsoft MSFT.O said on Friday that hackers linked to Russia’s foreign intelligence were trying again to break into its systems, using data stolen from corporate emails in January to gain new access to the tech giant whose products are widely used across the U.S. national security establishment. The disclosure alarmed...

Two persons were arrested on Friday for stealing cigarettes from a store in the Paphos district. The theft concerns a kiosk in Paphos, from which a large number of cigarette boxes were allegedly stolen on January 29. For the case, Paphos CID officers arrested under court warrants, two men, aged...

Red Bull’s triple world champion Max Verstappen continued his perfect start to the Formula One season with pole position for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Friday and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc again alongside on the front row. Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, last year’s winner in Jeddah in one of only three races that Verstappen did not claim, qualified third for Saturday’s race which...

A 27-year-old man was arrested on Friday as a second suspect in connection with the theft of 100kgs of copper last month. The man is expected to be brought before the Famagusta District Court on Saturday to be remanded. Police said the offence was committed on February 28. However, the...

Limassol police found over 4.5 kilos of duty-free tobacco and boxes of cigarettes at a local mini market. The investigation was carried out following information that the owner of the store was supplying tobacco products from the north. During the search at the store, in the presence of the 32-year-old...

Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez was found guilty on Friday of drug trafficking conspiracy by a U.S. jury, cementing the onetime U.S. ally’s fall from grace. Jurors in Manhattan federal court needed about two days to reach a verdict, following a two week trial. Hernandez, 55, faces the possibility...

Peo and Pogo turned their attention on the plight of Palestinian women in war-torn Gaza during the event marking the International women’s day in Nicosia on Friday. The rebellion of New York’s female workers on March 8, 1967 was commemorated by the trade union Peo and the women’s organisation Pogo...

A pro-Palestinian activist slashed a painting of the early 20th-century British foreign minister Arthur Balfour at Cambridge University on Friday, saying his 1917 declaration was the reason the Palestinians had lost their homeland to Israel. A video posted on social media by the Palestine Action protest group showed a woman...

Nearly 3,000 pregnant women in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, risk being cut off from essential healthcare if the current gang war-driven paralysis of the city continues, the United Nations said on Friday. Haiti’s government extended a state of emergency on Thursday amid mass lootings and attacks on police stations. Armed gangs are calling for the...

Four people were arrested on Friday as part of the north’s ongoing investigation into a college which is believed to be linked to a large criminal network. The four were all related to the Cyprus Massachusetts Centre of Innovation, having acted as the college’s secretary, accountant, manager, and deputy manager....

One in ten women live in extreme poverty globally, the United Nations (UN) reported on Friday. “International Women’s Day is a day that encourages us to recognise the injustices women endure, as well as the commitment we have to create a society where gender equality is part of our reality,”...

The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) on Friday condemned the Houthi missile attack on the commercial vessel True Confidence, which resulted in the death of three crew members and the injury of at least four others. The chamber expressed its sincere condolences to the families of the seafarers who lost their...

The local theatre scene is having its moment with a handful of productions currently in theatres. This March and April, more performances will reach Nicosia as Strovolos Municipality organises the 8th edition of its Theatre Festival. Throughout the next two months, the municipality will present four Cypriot and three Greek...

In honour of International Women’s Day, OPAP Cyprus contributed to the upgrade of Larnaca’s Mackenzie Medical Centre with the donation of a modern digital mammograph – a milestone marked in the presence of Minister of Health Michalis Damianos, accompanied by the Ministry’s Director General. This is the fifth mammograph donated...

A U.N. expert on Friday criticised U.S. efforts to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza, such as plans for a temporary port and recent air drops, which he said were “absurd” and “cynical” methods so long as military aid to Israel continues. Amid warnings of looming famine five months into Israel’s...

Presidential candidate Donald Trump raised concerns about banning TikTok ahead of a vote next week by the U.S. House of Representatives that would give TikTok owner ByteDance about six months to divest the popular short video app. The former Republican president seeking a return to the White House wrote late...

The academic community of the Institute of Professional Studies (IPS) of UCLan Cyprus University has announced the launch of a bee conservation campaign, emphasising the insect’s key role in the environment and its contribution to humanity. As a loyal partner to IPS, the company “Melin Esti Ltd” is providing services...

Construction on twenty student apartments/dormitories will begin in March in Nicosia, worth €1.9 million, the Nicosia municipality announced on Friday. Nicosia mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis and the head of the company developing the apartments, C, Rushas Trading & Development signed contracts for the work to begin on Friday. The apartments will...

The trial of the 32-year-old man who attempted to kill a woman by dousing her with gasoline will start next month, police announced on Friday. The attempted murder took place in Xylotymbou on February 29. That day, according to Famagusta police spokesman, Steve Theodoulou, the suspect visited the house of...

–Women’s Day? At a tent in Rafah where Um Zaki said she was boiling porridge on an open flame to stave off the hunger of her six children, the holiday passed as a cruel joke. “Now, all our days look the same. The days of feasts, happy occasions, nice food,...

The actions of a senior British informer in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) codenamed “Stakeknife” probably cost more lives than they saved in Northern Ireland’s sectarian conflict, an independent inquiry found on Friday. The nationalist IRA, which opposed British rule in the province, was responsible for more than half the...

Are you a fan of Marilyn Monroe and would like to talk to a very realistic digital version of her? That could now be possible. More than 60 years after her death, Digital Marilyn – created with the help of artificial intelligence – will make her debut on Friday at the South by Southwest...