Новости за 10.01.2020

By Dave Graham An 11-year-old boy armed with two guns entered a school in northern Mexico, shot dead a teacher and wounded at least six others before killing himself, possibly under the influence of a violent video game, local officials said on Friday. Jorge Zermeno, mayor of the northern city of...

The US State Department on Friday announced that Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Carl Risch will travel to Nicosia and Athens later this week to discuss easing entry requirements for travelling to the United States. Risch will be in the two countries between January 12 and 16. “The...

By Alexander Cornwell and Parisa Hafezi Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard, amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile, probably by mistake. The crash has heightened international pressure...

By Medha Singh European shares fell modestly on Friday on weaker than expected U.S. jobs growth, but travel and leisure stocks gained after Ryanair raised its profit forecast and Evolution Gaming Group announced an online U.S. casino deal. The better than expected Christmas and New Year numbers from Europe’s largest...

The woman who was the victim of racist abuse in Larnaca early in October has posted a YouTube video explaining why she was named by local media on New Year’s Eve linking her to a burglary case. Russian Svetlana Zaitseva, who had posted a video that went viral of two...

Civil servants including teachers and police personnel called on Friday for talks with the government over a new pension plan, warning they would not agree to any unilateral decisions being imposed. The matter was discussed by civil servants’ union Pasydy, teachers’ unions Oelmek, Poed, Oltek and the police association (SAK)...

The first civil partnership agreement took place on Friday between two inmates in Nicosia central prison, governor Anna Aristotelous told the Cyprus Mail. Cypriot Kevork and Enzo from Brazil, both in their 30s, were married on Friday by the acting district officer of Nicosia, just under a year before they...

Revenue from tourism dropped 1.1 per cent year-on-year between January and October 2019, reaching €2.53 billion, the statistical service said on Friday. It was the first drop in 10-month revenues since 2014. According to the service, per capita spending during the period fell by 1.8 per cent, to around €685,...

More than 5,400 people have now applied for the state mortgage debt relief scheme, representing some 50 per cent of those eligible, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Friday. In a written statement, Petrides said data received from banks and other organisations showed that the final number of applications to...

Russia’s first plan to adapt to climate change is a tardy but much-needed acknowledgement of the risks and opportunities presented by global warming, although it lacks concrete action to address the increasingly evident threats, analysts said. The document, published this month on a government website, said climate change would have...

President of the International Ombudsman Institute Peter Tyndall has praised the work of Cypriot ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides at a recent conference. Tyndall was addressing a conference on The Venice Principles in Strengthening Ombudsman Institutions to representatives from 180 countries. “Ms Stylianou-Lottides’ strong reputation is justified when we measure her accomplishments...

A total of 25 plans to rejuvenate and improve the mountain areas were discussed by agriculture and environment minister Costas Kadis and mountain development commissioner Costas Hambiaouris on Friday. The meeting was attended by representatives of the water, forestry, agriculture and environment departments. Waste management is one issue which will...

Road works will be carried out on the Nicosia-Limassol highway on January 14 from 6pm to 6am, the public works department announced. The section of the highway from that runs from exit 13 to Lefkara and Skarinou to exit 12 to Kofinou and Larnaca will be closed to traffic for...

The man detained in the north on suspicion of being a member of Isis was re-remanded for four days, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Friday. According to Afrika newspaper, Omer Ozturk was arrested on Tuesday morning at the apartment he was staying in Famagusta and was remanded for three days....

Vehicle sales fell 5.2 per cent in 2019, the first drop after five consecutive years, the statistical service said on Friday. According to the service, vehicle registrations in 2019 reached 46,896 against 49, 450 the previous year. The drop is mainly due to a reduction in the sale of passenger...

The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (IATAS) has selected Cyprus to host two semifinals for the International Emmy Awards which take place between May and September The International Emmy Awards are bestowed by IATAS in recognition to the best television programmes initially produced and aired outside the United...

A psychiatric nurse who worked at Britain’s only state-funded gender identity clinic says children face untold risks taking “experimental” puberty blockers as she fights a legal battle to restrict the drugs for under-18s. Last year, 2,590 children were referred to the gender identity clinic at her former employer, the Tavistock...

In an unprecedented move, Omonia Nicosia, one of the island’s biggest football clubs, has issued a statement accusing the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) and other teams in the Cypriot football league of corruption and is asking the European and world football governing bodies UEFA and FIFA to intervene. “We believe...

Patients will be able to register with a different family doctor until May 31, 2020, Health insurance Organisation announced on Friday. HIO, in charge of Gesy has decided to extend the period when beneficiaries are allowed to change their general practitioner after being registered in the system for three months,...

By Ella Walker You’d think a chef – especially one famed for his decadent fish and chips – would struggle to fuse the dieter in him with his professional predilection for butter and all the good (if unhealthy) things that make food delicious. But Tom Kerridge, the man behind festival...

During times when there is plenty of water, Cyprus should embark on a programme of aquifer storage and recovery, injecting water in the aquifers to recover it at a later stage. The added bonus would be do reduce saline intrusion in the aquifers, by pushing it out towards the coast....

Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric on Friday condemned the U.S.-Iranian military confrontation taking place on Iraqi soil, saying it risked plunging the war-ravaged country and the wider Middle East into deeper conflict. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said attacks by both sides inside Iraq this month showed blatant disregard for its...

Dali primary school teachers, parents, and pupils have demanded to be transferred to other schools citing the pollution in the area caused by two asphalt plants. Kyriakos Kyriakou, chairman of the school’s parents’ association, told the Cyprus Mail on Friday a letter was sent to all parents this week to...

Volvo Cars has set a new, sixth consecutive global sales record in 2019, breaking the 700,000 cars sold mark for the first time in its 93-year history. The company recorded sales of 705,452 cars in 2019, an increase of 9.8 per cent compared to 2018, solidly outgrowing the overall market...

Everything and anything that ever happened in the game of golf can be found between the covers of Alastair Johnston’s vast 30,000-volume collection of golf books and he is donating the whole lot to the R&A at St Andrews. Johnston, former chairman of Scottish soccer club Rangers and vice chairman...