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What does the Brexit deal say about the Irish 'backstop'? Brexit

What does the Brexit deal say about the Irish 'backstop'?

November 15th, 2018 One of the most difficult issues in Brexit talks was the Northern Irish 'backstop', an insurance policy to avoid a return to controls between the British province and EU-member Ireland which could threaten the 1998 peace accord which ended 30 years of violence. Following are some of the key clauses from the Brexit deal's so-called...
Our View: For Anastasiades it’s all about the illusion of movement Our View

Our View: For Anastasiades it’s all about the illusion of movement

November 15th, 2018 OUR politicians now have something new to worry about with regard to the Cyprus problem – ‘the terms of reference’. These have to be agreed on between the two sides before the UN sanctions another peace drive. During her last visit, the UN envoy Jan Holl Lute had asked the two leaders to agree on the terms of reference by the end...
Why has only Canada come clean over the Khashoggi tapes? CM Regular Columnist

Why has only Canada come clean over the Khashoggi tapes?

November 15th, 2018 How odd! Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sends an audio recording of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul to the governments of all Turkey’s major Nato allies, and the only one that gets it is Canada. What happened to the copies that President Erdogan sent to the United States,...
Prince Charles parties as he celebrates 70th birthday Britain

Prince Charles parties as he celebrates 70th birthday

November 14th, 2018 Britain's Prince Charles celebrated his 70th birthday on Wednesday by attending public and private parties as parliament sang his praises and his office released new photographs of the heir to the throne with his close family. The Prince of Wales and Queen Elizabeth's eldest son, Charles was born at Buckingham Palace on Nov. 14, 1948,...
Limassol carnival ban for Netflix TV heist show characters Cyprus

Limassol carnival ban for Netflix TV heist show characters

November 14th, 2018 Fans of Netflix money heist TV show La Casa De Papel have been told they cannot take part in Limassol’s official carnival parade next March if they try and dress up as their favourite characters. Limassol municipality told the Cyprus News Agency the decision has been taken for security reasons as the popular Spanish-language TV...
AG confirms investigation into former Co-op boss and others Cyprus

AG confirms investigation into former Co-op boss and others

November 14th, 2018 Attorney-general Costas Clerides confirmed on Wednesday he had ordered an investigation into the Co-op Bank’s former CEO Nicolas Hadjiyiannis and other senior officials over their refusal to hand over loan information to the financial ombudsman. Speaking in parliament, Clerides confirmed a report in daily Phileleftheros that he had...
Co-op: wrong people, government mistakes, poor governance (Updated) Cyprus

Co-op: wrong people, government mistakes, poor governance (Updated)

November 14th, 2018 Incapable people, government mistakes and no corporate governance were the reasons the co-op bank collapsed, Central Bank Governor (CBC) Chrystalla Georghadji told an inquiry on Wednesday, also blaming political parties for meddling in every way. The governor told the inquiry probing the state bank’s demise that the wrong people,...
UK PM May faces a fight to seal Brexit deal Brexit

UK PM May faces a fight to seal Brexit deal

November 14th, 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May faces one of the most the most dangerous moments of her premiership as she tries to convince senior ministers and parliament to accept a draft divorce deal agreed with the European Union. Here is reaction: JEREMY CORBYN, LEADER OF THE MAIN OPPOSITION LABOUR PARTY "We will look at the details of what has...
Our View: No affordable housing a symptom of Limassol’s success Our View

Our View: No affordable housing a symptom of Limassol’s success

November 14th, 2018 It is perfectly understandable that people are protesting about soaring property prices in Limassol. Rents have been on an upward spiral for a few years and the protests about the problems created for the less well-off are becoming more frequent. The latest was held on Saturday night outside the Limassol District Office, where tents were...
Terms of reference must be ready by year’s end (updated) Cyprus Talks

Terms of reference must be ready by year’s end (updated)

November 13th, 2018 The terms of reference that will determine whether reunification talks would resume must be drafted by the end of the year, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday. Anastasiades said UN special envoy Jane Holl Lute had asked the two sides to agree on terms of reference for the resumption of the talks. “She set a timeframe by...
Americans opt for beef and pork as US sanctions hit exports Americas

Americans opt for beef and pork as US sanctions hit exports

November 13th, 2018 By Tom Polansek Americans are losing their taste for chicken and eating more beef and pork as President Donald Trump's trade wars reduce U.S. pork exports to China and Mexico and leave cheaper bacon and ribs at home. An expansion in the number of U.S. hogs and cattle is contributing to the change in diets by boosting supplies of...
A funny way of being serious Life & Style

A funny way of being serious

November 13th, 2018 In Georgiou’s World, one English Cypriot parodies those around him. NADIA SAWYER meets a young man taking the internet by storm from his ‘village full of sheep’  Charlie Chaplin once famously said that, a day without laughter is a day wasted, which might explain why in today’s online world funny videos are some of the most...
Island life of old comes to book Cyprus

Island life of old comes to book

November 13th, 2018 Two years ago, we wrote about ‘Tales of Cyprus’ – a fabulous Facebook page that charts the island’s past through interviews, footage and photos from bygone generations. Back then, just a few months on from its inception, the page’s author and driving force, Australian-born Cypriot Costas Emmanuelle, was already making a name...
Our View: Russia’s Osadchiy needs to act more like an ambassador Our View

Our View: Russia’s Osadchiy needs to act more like an ambassador

November 13th, 2018 WE WOULD have thought that after the press backlash caused by his public criticism of comments made by the Disy leader a few months ago, the ambassador of Russia, Stanislav Osadchiy, would call an end to his habit of openly interfering in local affairs. He avoided public comment on the government’s unexpected decision not to grant the...
Police investigating woman's murder (update 2) Cyprus

Police investigating woman's murder (update 2)

November 12th, 2018 A 56-year-old woman was stabbed to death in her car on Monday in what police believe had been a robbery-motivated crime in the small village of Ikos, in the Marathasa region. Police said they were questioning a 40-year-old foreign national who was arrested hours after Yiannoula Hadjiyianni was found dead in her car with stab wounds to...
Scientists to swap dusty old kilogram for something more stable Tech & Science

Scientists to swap dusty old kilogram for something more stable

November 12th, 2018 After years of nursing a sometimes dusty cylinder of metal in a vault outside Paris as the global reference for modern mass, scientists are updating the definition of the kilogram. Just as the redefinition of the second in 1967 helped to ease communication across the world via technologies like GPS and the internet, experts say the...
Briton dies from rabies after cat bite in Morocco Britain

Briton dies from rabies after cat bite in Morocco

November 12th, 2018 A Briton who died after being bitten by a cat with rabies while abroad in Morocco "did not receive the vaccine until it was too late", it has emerged. Public Health England (PHE) issued a warning to travellers after the UK resident contracted the disease after being bitten by a rabid cat. No more details have been released by...
And now for something completely different: Chinese robot news readers Tech & Science

And now for something completely different: Chinese robot news readers

November 12th, 2018 Chinese news readers may have some new competition - artificially intelligent robot anchors that can mimic human facial expressions and mannerisms while reading out reports. The AI anchor, developed by state news agency Xinhua and tech firm Sogou Inc, was on display at the World Internet Conference in the eastern Chinese town of...
World leaders ceremony marks WW1 Armistice centenary (updated) Europe

World leaders ceremony marks WW1 Armistice centenary (updated)

November 11th, 2018 By Richard Lough and Luke Baker Some 70 world leaders gathered under rainy skies at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Sunday for a solemn ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. U.S. President Donald Trump, Russia President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and dozens of monarchs, presidents...
We should think of small pebbles when we remember the war Opinion

We should think of small pebbles when we remember the war

November 11th, 2018 By Gwynne Dyer “If they are not remembered, was the sacrifice they made even worthwhile?” asked an American veteran of the Iraq War who named his son after a fellow soldier who was killed there. It’s quite common, actually. My brother-in-law is named after a member of his father’s bomber crew who was killed over the Balkans...
The celebrated ‘weaning process’ Opinion

The celebrated ‘weaning process’

November 11th, 2018 By Christos P Panayiotides “Weaning” is the stage of a baby’s rehabilitation from breastfeeding. In the political sphere, the term is often used to describe the desirable objective of weaning Turkish Cypriots from Turkey. This is a political absurdity, given the behaviour and the way of thinking of certain Greek Cypriots (who...
Brexit – ask the High Commissioner Brexit

Brexit – ask the High Commissioner

November 11th, 2018 Cypriot authorities clarify important aspects of post-Brexit status for UK expats   By British High Commissioner Stephen Lillie It was good to meet some of the Larnaca residents in Oroklini this week in the first of our series of Brexit outreach meetings taking place across the island over the next few weeks. Over one...
Our View: Anastasiades sheds light on why two-state solution appeals to him Opinion

Our View: Anastasiades sheds light on why two-state solution appeals to him

November 11th, 2018 PRESIDENT Anastasiades’ appearance on television on Tuesday night did nothing to dispel the view, steadily gaining ground, that his ultimate objective is a two-state solution. He is not, however, ready to advocate partition publicly, as he has done in private meetings and his contacts with the Turkish foreign minister, going instead...
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