Новости за 13.01.2020

By Lisa Richwine Hollywood’s Oscar voters passed over big names including Jennifer Lopez, Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro on Monday, while issuing a surprise first Academy Award nomination to actor Antonio Banderas for Spanish film “Pain and Glory.” Singer and actress Lopez was widely praised for her role as...

RULING Disy on Monday said it will back a government bill seeking to regulate the operation of provident funds, but censured what it called last-minute additions being inserted into the document. The bill has already been submitted to parliament. It is based on an EU directive which must be transposed...

By Toby Melville and Gerhard Mey Queen Elizabeth has reluctantly agreed to her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s wish for a more independent future after the British royal family held crisis talks on Monday to resolve a widening rift among the Windsors. Harry and his American actress wife will...

By Andrew Osborn and Tuvan Gumrukcu Libya’s warring leaders made some progress at indirect peace talks in Moscow on Monday but failed to agree on an unconditional and open-ended ceasefire. In talks that lasted about eight hours, mediators Russia and Turkey urged the rivals to sign a binding truce to...

Procedures for the construction of a new building to house the state broadcaster are at an advanced level, CyBC’s board chairman Andreas Frangos told MPs on Monday. Frangos presented CyBC’s budget for 2020 to the House finance committee, where MPs heard that the current building is ‘sick’ and unsuitable for...

A doctor enrolled in the national health system Gesy was reprimanded by the Commissioner for personal data protection for registering patients on his list without their consent. According to a report released on Monday by the commissioner’s office, a Gesy doctor registered two underage footballers as his patients without the...

THE difference in the treatment of male and female football players by the Cyprus football association (CFA) and the disparity in their earnings was at the centre of a hearing in the house committee on human rights and equal opportunities, introduced by Akel. The enormous differences in salaries, the failure...

For rock fans in Larnaca and even in the rest of the island, Savino Live pumps out quality music events almost weekly. With performances from popular local bands to even international musicians, the venue is responsible for a fair amount of Larnaca’s events agenda. This month, Savino has two performances...

By Niki Charalambous KEEPING the Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios mansion as an ethnological museum is a matter of public interest, the transport ministry said on Monday following increased criticism over the announcement by Archbishop Chrysostomos that it would be turned into a byzantine museum. Tourist guides and political parties voiced their opposition...

MAIN opposition Akel leader Andros Kyprianou accused his ruling Disy counterpart of lying on Monday, after Averof Neophytou suggested Kyprianou was trying to scupper local authority reform. Kyprianou reacted to a statement made by Neophytou who accused him of seeking to score points by supporting individual referenda before any reforms...

THE foreign ministers of Cyprus and Greece on Monday held talks in Athens revolving around Turkey’s recent actions in the eastern Mediterranean and in particular Ankara’s maritime accord with Tripoli. Nicos Christodoulides and his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias also signed a memorandum of understanding between their respective ministries for policy...

Dark comic book story Joker led nominations on Monday for the Oscars, with 11 nods, including best picture and best actor for Joaquin Phoenix. The Warner Bros film will compete for the top prize with race car drama Ford v Ferrari, Netflix gangster movie The Irishman, Nazi satire Jojo Rabbit,...

Three Belgian doctors go on trial for murder on Tuesday for helping a woman end her life, in the country’s first criminal case concerning euthanasia. The doctors, whose names have not been made public, are accused of unlawfully poisoning 38-year-old Tine Nys on April 27, 2010. Prosecutors say Nys did...

Where there’s a will there’s a way. The idea that one can identify 10 issues resolve them and you’re home and dry is akin to me climbing Mount Everest just because I know where the top is. I need to learn to climb mountains, train, work with and listen to...

Swap your coat for a cape this winter says KATIE WRIGHT Of all the incredible outfits on the autumn/winter catwalks, some of the most dramatic were topped with capes that allowed models to sweep down the runway, fabric billowing like wings behind them. At Celine and Chloe, the classic camel...

A Chinese woman has been quarantined in Thailand with a mystery strain of coronavirus just days ahead of the Lunar New Year, when Chinese tourists flock to Thailand, authorities said on Monday, the first time it has been detected outside China. A 61-year-old man has died from pneumonia in the...

Environment Commissioner Kelia Vasiliou decried thoughtless individuals on Monday as she posted videos on social media of various snow-covered areas polluted with trash left behind by visitors who crowded the area over the weekend. Three separate videos posted on the Facebook account of the new environment commissioner showed litter left...

Despite the heavy rains that have hit Cyprus recently, the village of Pissouri, located in the Limassol district, has been without water for the past week after pipes supplying residents ruptured again. Pissouri community leader Lazaros Lazarou described the situation as critical. “This is a proper emergency,” he told Cyprus...

TV hypnotherapist Aaron Calvert explains how hypnosis could help get you in the right mindset, along with tips to keep you on track. By Lisa Salmon. Want 2020 to be the year you finally quit smoking for good? More than half (56%) of smokers are trying to quit this new...

Self-care rituals and practices to combat stress and induce relaxation are a growing phenomenon. Breathing meditations, yoga sessions or even daily journaling are all increasing methods people are using to connect with and release stress. Qi Qong is another powerful healing practice, integrating movement, posture, breathing and awareness, and trainer...

By Toby Melville and Gerhard Mey SANDRINGHAM, England, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth and her heirs will meet Prince Harry on Monday to thrash out a plan for him and his actress wife Meghan after they triggered a family crisis by deciding to step back from royal duties and...

Attorney-general Costas Clerides appointed two independent investigators to look into the circumstances that led to the suicide of a 15-year-old boy in September last year, it was announced on Monday. A written statement by the state Legal Service said the AG has appointed lawyers Modestos Poyiadji and Andreas Andreou to...

Iran’s police said on Monday officers had not fired at protesters demonstrating over Tehran’s admission that it shot down a passenger plane, as video on social media recorded gunshots and pools of blood. U.S. President Donald Trump, tweeting on Sunday during a second day of Iranian demonstrations, told the authorities...

No country, race or religion has a monopoly of wisdom and competence. When two different lots blot their respective copy books, there is no moral equivalence between them but individually they show that regimes of all kinds everywhere sometimes do reprehensible things. In July 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down...

By Preston Wilder Come on lad, says the sergeant to a daydreaming soldier: “Pick a man. Bring your kit” – and we’re off, just like that, our setting being World War I (hence the title), our heroes being Lance Corporals Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) who have just...