Новости за 20.01.2020

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday rejected the Democratic-led House of Representatives’ impeachment charges and called for their immediate dismissal by the Republican-led Senate in a memo offering a legal and political case against his removal. The 116-page Trial Memorandum sought to undercut charges that the Republican president abused his...

Nearly 10,000 Cypriots have registered for the right to remain in the United Kingdom after Brexit, according to the data provided by the UK Home Office. By the end of December 2019, the total number of Cypriots registered for the right to remain was 9,700. In that month alone a...

Banking union Etyk complained on Monday that other trade unions were attempting to poach members from them. Etyk was responding to a decision last week by trade union Sek that it was seeking to create its own Cyprus-wide banking union. “For some time (not just now), Sek and others are...

The EU’s proposal for a temporary ban on facial-recognition technology won backing from Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai on Monday but got a cool response from Microsoft President Brad Smith. While Pichai cited the possibility that the technology could be used for nefarious purposes as a reason for a moratorium,...

By Tessa Vikander and Moira Warburton Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou arrived in a Vancouver courtroom on Monday for the start of a trial to decide whether she can be extradited to the United States, as China repeated its call for Canada to release her. The United States has...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government was defeated in parliament on Monday for the first time since a December election, with the upper chamber voting in favour of a move to protect the rights of EU citizens in Britain after Brexit. Johnson’s Conservatives won a large majority in the lower...

Interior minister Nicos Nouris on Monday pledged that a new and swifter licensing system for ‘strategic investments’ will make Cyprus an attractive place for foreign investors. He was presenting to MPs a government bill titled ‘The Facilitation of Investments Law of 2019’ which aims to cut red tape and introduce...

Turkish Cypriot authorities have deported 33 Syrians who arrived in northern Cyprus last week, it was reported on Monday. The Syrians, all male, had been detained after their boat was spotted off Limnitis in the north. They were deported to Turkey on Sunday evening. Turkish-Cypriot media reported that according to...

The government said Monday it is taking all necessary diplomatic steps to denounce Turkey’s latest unlawful act in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), while Ankara appeared to be taunting Nicosia by promising to ‘share’ whatever natural gas it may discover in the island’s block 8. “Turkey is developing into a...

Novak Djokovic dropped a set in the first round of the Australian Open for the first time in 14 years but recovered to beat Jan-Lennard Struff. Djokovic is going for an eighth title at Melbourne Park and is the clear favourite but he admitted he has focused on recuperation over...

By Abbas Juma, Perhaps, the most important international event since the beginning of the year was held in the capital of Germany – the conference on Libya. All interested parties were invited – representatives of Russia, Turkey, the USA, the EU, the UN. In the end, a final agreement was...

The chief executive of Google parent company Alphabet on Monday backed an EU proposal to temporarily ban facial-recognition technology because of the possibility that it could be used for nefarious purposes. “I think it is important that governments and regulations tackle it sooner rather than later and gives a framework...

By Abi Jackson We’ve long been sold the notion that January is an anti-climax. The parties are over; all we’ve got now are tightened purse strings and an expanse of cold, grey weeks to get through. But with the chaos of Christmas well behind us, now we can really settle...

The two biggest banks are expected to offload around €4 billion in non-performing loans (NPLs) in the coming months, central bank governor Constantinos Herodotou said on Monday. Speaking before the House finance committee, Herodotou said Bank of Cyprus and Hellenic Bank were in the process of selling €4bn in NPLs....

By Katie Wright January brings with it that ‘back-to-school’ feeling, so there’s no better time to refresh your workwear wardrobe. We’re not talking a major overhaul here. Just a few carefully chosen updates that will get you in gear for the year ahead. Plus, with the spring collections starting to...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Somalia had invited Turkey to explore for oil in its seas, after Ankara signed a maritime agreement with Libya last year, broadcaster NTV reported. Turkey has been a major source of aid to Somalia following a famine in 2011 as Ankara seeks...

AKEL MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek has asked the European Commission how it intends to help the Turkish Cypriot community whose demographic make-up is being altered because of the increasing number of naturalisations of Turkish settlers. The MEPs’ office on Monday announced that Kizilyurek, in a question he submitted to the European...

Order of play on the main showcourts on the second day of the Australian Open on Tuesday (play begins at 0000 GMT, prefix number denotes seeding): ROD LAVER ARENA Kristina Mladenovic (France) v 2-Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) 19-Donna Vekic (Croatia) v Maria Sharapova (Russia) 1-Rafa Nadal (Spain) v Hugo Dellien...

A man who admitted killing a pensioner by jumping on his chest and setting his house alight knew what he was doing despite having learning difficulties and behavioural disorders, a prison psychiatrist testified on Monday. Twenty-one-year-old Michalis Christophorou has admitted killing his 76-year-old neighbour Kokos Mavrommatis last January in Larnaca...

Sometimes women lie about being raped, sometimes they don’t. just a fact of life. but extrapolating the Napa case – based on your own subjective take on it – into some grand narrative that injustice against women is the norm, well, that’s just unrealistic and a maximalist stance to boot....

Norway’s Finance Minister Siv Jensen and her right-wing Progress Party will resign from the government over a decision to bring home from Syria a woman suspected of Islamic State affiliation, Jensen said on Monday. The resignation robs Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg of her parliamentary majority and could make the...

A 23-year-old man from Larnaca was jailed for six years on Monday after admitting to trafficking about 1.5 kilos of cocaine. A second man, Marios Georgiou, 32, was jailed for two years in connection with the same case. Ioannis Evangelou and Georgiou were arrested on May 25, 2019 during a...

President Nicos Anastasiades departs on Tuesday for Israel, where he will attend the 5th World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem on Thursday, following an official invitation from the President of Israel. He is expected to hold a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the event. According...

Charlize Theron is unrecognisable as Fox News star Megyn Kelly in Bombshell, a film that looks at the sexual harassment scandal at the network. She talks to Laura Harding about how Me Too has changed things for women, and the complexity of making a film about the controversial conservative news...

The European Union will discuss all ways to uphold a formal ceasefire in Libya but any peace settlement will need real EU support to make it hold, the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell said on Monday. Asked about whether the EU could consider a military peace-keeping mission, Borrell said: “A...