Section: Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)
Britain’s Cameron appeals to EU reform doubters at home, abroad (Updated)
By Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper British Prime Minister David Cameron appealed to doubters at home and in other EU capitals on Tuesday to embrace his attempt to reform the 28-member bloc as a chance to boost prosperity rather than writing it off as ‘Mission Impossible’. Cameron, under pressure after overseeing what critics see as a...
Crash forensics to determine whether bomb downed Russian jet
By Tim Hepher With world powers divided over the cause of a Russian jetliner crash, much rests on forensic teams as they scour a sandy trail of wreckage almost a week after 224 people died in Egypt’s worst air disaster. Britain said on Thursday it believed Islamic State may have downed the jet, but Egypt said there was no evidence of a bomb...
Cairo and Kremlin say no evidence yet that bomb brought down Russian plane
Investigators have found no evidence so far that an explosion on board brought down a Russian passenger plane that crashed on Saturday, Egypt’s civil aviation minister said. “The investigation team does not have yet any evidence or data confirming this hypothesis,” Hossam Kamal said in a statement, adding that Egypt adheres to international...
Flight recorders show crashed Russian jet not struck from outside – investigator (Update 1)
By Lin Noueihed The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt was not struck from the outside and the pilot did not make a distress call before it disappeared from radar, a source in the committee analysing the flight recorders said on Monday. The source declined to give more details but based his comments on the preliminary examination of the black...
Crash investigation begins in Cairo
Egyptian and Russian investigators will begin examining within hours the contents of the two black boxes recovered from the Russian airliner that crashed over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, judicial and ministerial sources said. The sources said the examination would take place at the civil aviation ministry in Cairo. Russian’s...
Women’s acquittal in topless protest at Notre Dame is upheld
The acquittal of eight women from the activist group Femen over a topless protest they held in Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral two years ago was upheld by a French court of appeals on Thursday. The feminist activists mixed with hordes of queuing visitors to enter the 12th century church unspotted in 2013 – one day after Pope Benedict resigned...
Family confirms first Russian military fatality in Syria, disputes ‘suicide’
By Maria Tsvetkova The parents of the first Russian serviceman confirmed dead in four weeks of air strikes in Syria said on Tuesday they did not believe the military’s account that their 19-year-old son had hanged himself. In an interview with Reuters at their home in southern Russia, Alexander and Svetlana Kostenko said their son, Vadim,...
Eurosceptics claim victory in landmark Poland election
By Pawel Sobczak and Wiktor Szary Poland’s eurosceptic Law and Justice party (PiS) claimed victory on Sunday in a watershed election that risks putting the ex-communist state on a collision course with key European Union allies. Run by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of Poland’s late president Lech, PiS secured 38 percent of the...
Poland votes, conservative euro-sceptic party looks set to win
Poles vote in an election on Sunday that could end nearly a decade of economic and political stability in the country by bringing to power a conservative, euro-sceptic party whose policies diverge from those of many of Poland’s European allies. If opinion polls are correct, the ruling Civic Platform (PO), a pro-market, centre-eight grouping...
Syria air strikes push Putin’s rating to new high – Russian state pollster
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has hit a record high of almost 90 percent, primarily as a result of his decision to launch air strikes against Islamist militants in Syria, Russia‘s state pollster said on Thursday. VTsIOM, the pollster, said Putin’s rating had reached 89.9 per cent in October, up from a previous...
