Новости за 10.02.2020

Socialist Edek’s disciplinary board unanimously voted on Monday evening to oust MEP Demetris Papadakis from the party for alleged disloyalty. The MEP did not appear before the board, which convened in Limassol. Speaking earlier on private Sigma television, Papadakis said he would still represent the party at the European Parliament...

By Brendan Pierson A former friend of Jessica Mann, one of the accusers in the Harvey Weinstein rape trial, told jurors on Monday that Mann did not show any signs of distress on the day the former Hollywood producer allegedly attacked her. Weinstein, 67, has pleaded not guilty to charges...

By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Suleiman Al-Khalidi Turkish forces struck dozens of Syrian government targets in northwestern Syria on Monday after five Turkish soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in Idlib province, the Turkish defence ministry said. The base at the town of Taftanaz was attacked a...

A man who had climbed on the roof of an unfinished building in Limassol on Monday evening and threatened to jump surrendered to police a few hours later. He was taken to hospital as a precaution. Police negotiators and the fire service scrambled to the scene after they were notified...

The health ministry said Monday a test to determine whether a Chinese woman had contracted the coronavirus came back negative. “The patient, whose clinical status is improved, will remain hospitalised today for preventive reasons,” the ministry said in a statement. “A small number of people, who travelled on the same...

Potato farmers in the Famagusta district said Monday the overnight frost had damaged their crops, warning that not enough could be saved to serve foreign markets. According to the head of the Famagusta branch of farming union EKA, Yiannakis Gavril, the damage was big in the coastal area of Liopetri,...

Lawmakers said on Monday the cabinet is no longer allowed to grant Cypriot citizenship to foreign nationals under the citizenship-via-investment scheme, and even threatened legal action against the government should it issue new passports. Chair of the House interior committee Eleni Mavrou (Akel) asserted that under a law passed a...

By Shivani Singh and Stephanie Nebehay The World Health Organisation said on Monday the spread of coronavirus cases among people who have not been to China could be “the spark that becomes a bigger fire” and the human race must not let the epidemic get out of control. As of...

The Cyprus Mail has been nominated as one of the three finalists in the ELAFI Animal Welfare Award 2020 in the Media Reporter of the Year 2020 category. According to Anna Georghallides, founder and CEO of the ELAFI Animal Welfare Awards, the annual event was created in order to reward...

Defence Minister Savvas Angelides was in Tel Aviv on Monday for talks with his Israeli counterpart on enhancing bilateral security and defence cooperation, while Nicosia signaled its intention to beef up its military capabilities. Angelides met with Naftali Bennett to discuss “ways to further enhance the bilateral ties between Cyprus...

The gender equality commissioner condemned Monday an incident in parliament last week in which a male Disy MP verbally attacked Akel MP Irini Chalarambides during discussion of a list of politically exposed persons (PEP) with bad debts, that ended in acrimony. In a written statement, Iosifina Antoniou said she “unequivocally...

Significant gaps remain for those with disabilities in terms of accessibility and welfare, MPs said on Monday. Members of the House human rights committee met to discuss the implementation of the Second National Disability Action Plan. Chairperson of the committee, Disy MP Mariella Aristidou, highlighted the progress made by focusing on...

Sometimes you just have to ‘agree to disagree’ and move on. I am an outsider and maybe I see this more pragmatically and the real issue here is that both sides do not want the other side interfering in it’s affairs. The island has tribes – Greek and Turkish and...

A total of 1,235 families have benefited from the state’s ‘baby dowry’ scheme since it was introduced in December 2017, the labour ministry announced on Monday. The total cost between December 2017 and December 2019 came to €1,197,890 the ministry said. It will run until December 2023. Each family benefitting...

Goethe-Institut Cyprus is offering free German language courses and other prizes to participants in a European-wide competition on high and pop culture, it announced on Monday. According to the announcement, the best quotes will be included in an installation entitled “Disappearing Wall”, which will be on view in the participating...

By Gemma Dunn Alexa Chung is returning to her presenting roots focussing on her favourite pastime, fashion. And having secured her status as a global icon in the style stakes, she couldn’t be happier. “My life had become more entrenched in the fashion industry,” she explains. “I was invited to...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Monday that there was a need for a national strategy to tackle issues faced by refugees and a plan should be in place by June. The minister was speaking at a meeting at the Presidential Palace at which President Nicos Anastasiades received a delegation...

A Chinese woman who lives in Cyprus has been quarantined pending tests to determine whether she has contracted the coronavirus, the health ministry said Monday. The woman was on a flight from Moscow to Larnaca when she developed high fever and other symptoms similar to those of the coronavirus. She...

The health ministry on Monday issued an urgent plea, calling on the public to donate blood, as seasonal viruses had cut the number of regular blood donors. “The blood centre of the health ministry is calling on regular and new blood donors who do not have a health problem to...

Human remains have been found on a beach in the north, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Monday. Kibris Postasi reported a decomposed body was found in Yialousa in the north near a tobacco factory at 9.30am on Monday. The remains appear to belong to a man. The body has not...

I still cannot comprehend why our State’s negotiating team had to use “free” flights to get to New York? They were on official government duty, attending an important international event, so couldn’t ‘we’ afford to lease a private plane for them o even let them travel first class (which would...

Turkey’s lira slipped in volatile trade on Monday after new government limits on banks’ foreign-exchange helped the currency briefly erase Friday’s sharp losses before selling resumed. Investors and traders said the whip-saw trading – after weeks in a narrow range – suggested Turkish state banks were again intervening to attempt...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday he had never worked with such an untrustworthy politician as Mustafa Akinci, widening the Turkish Cypriot leader’s rift with Ankara as elections in the north loom in April. Calls have come out of Ankara over the weekend for Akinci to resign over...

The only slight flaw in Little Women is that it’s Little Women. That won’t be a problem for many people – including writer-director Greta Gerwig, who obviously reveres the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott – but I’ve never had much time for the genteel, do-gooding March sisters: Jo the...

Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Dele Alli has apologised for a video posted on his Snapchat account in which he appeared to mock an Asian man in relation to the coronavirus outbreak. The newly identified coronavirus outbreak in China has killed over 900 people, with more than 40,000 infected. Alli, who has...