Archive for 2017

Cypriot Minister of Education K.Kades calls on EU counterparts for specific funding to promote cultural heritage 

The Minister of Education and Culture, Kostas Kadis, called on his EU counterparts to assist the support of studies to promote cultural heritage as a means of social and economic development, on the second day of works of the Education, …

Review of the UN Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will submit early next week his report on the strategic review of the UN Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).

The report has been submitted by the UN Peacekeeping Force Operations under the UN Undersecretary Pierre …

President Anastasiades and PM of Lebanon hold meeting in Cyprus 

President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades and Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad Hariri held a meeting today in Cyprus.

Government Spokesman Nikos Christodoulides wrote on his account on twitter, that the meeting was warm and fruitful.…

UEFA Champions League round up

Last season’s semi-finalists Monaco were eliminated from the Champions League following a 4-1 home defeat by RB Leipzig, who boosted their hopes of qualifying from Group G behind leaders Besiktas.

The Germans took an early lead in the sixth minute …

Seville coach Berizzo diagnosed with prostate cancer

MADRID (Reuters) – Sevilla coach Eduardo Berizzo has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will undergo treatment after further tests, the Spanish club said Wednesday.

The 48-year-old Argentine saw his side produce a stirring fight back from three goals down …

David Cassidy, teen heartthrob of ‘The Partridge Family,’ dies at 67

Reuters) – David Cassidy, a singer and actor whose androgynous features and jaunty voice made him a 1970s teen heartthrob on the “The Partridge Family” television show, died on Tuesday at age 67, his publicist said.

Cassidy, who was diagnosed …

Graduate with 2:1 sues Oxford for £1m

An Oxford graduate’s failure to get a top degree cost him a lucrative legal career, the High Court has heard.

Faiz Siddiqui alleges “inadequate” teaching on his modern history course resulted in him getting an upper second degree in June …

Appeal for missing vulnerable man, last seen in North London

Police are appealing for help to find a missing vulnerable man from Sutton.

Mark Woods, 47, was last seen in Islington at 14:00hrs on Monday, 20 November. He was walking in the direction of Highgate.

Mark is described as white, …

Appeal to identify man who installed camera in coffee shop toilet

Detectives in Lambeth have released an image of a man wanted for questioning after a small camera was discovered in the toilet of Starbucks in Vauxhall.

The small device was hidden in a grate in the ceiling in the only …

Cyprus: Clear positions in accountability and steadfastness are needed, not all-purpose policies with ambiguities and transformations

Nicolas Papadopoulos stubbornly refuses to clarify whether he will seek a bizonal, bicommunal federal solution as set out by the parameters of the United Nations or whether he will address the Secretary-General of the Organization with the same ambiguities and …