Section: Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)
Russia to US, Trump: Sort out your own pre-election hacking scandal
Russia told the United States on Thursday to get to the bottom of a hacking scandal involving Democratic Party emails itself and rejected what Donald Trump said was a sarcastic suggestion that Moscow should dig up Hillary Clinton’s “missing” emails. Trump, the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, angered Democratic circles on...
100-year global study finds world’s tallest are Dutch, Latvians
Dutch men and Latvian women are the planet’s tallest people but Iranian men and South Korean women have grown the fastest in the last century, according to the largest ever study of height around the world. Americans, once among the world’s tallest people, have dropped from having men and women at 3rd and 4th in the global height...
Ukraine shocked by “cynical” car bomb murder of investigative journalist
By Natalia Zinets and Sergei Karazy An award-winning journalist working for the online investigative website Ukrayinska Pravda was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev early on Wednesday morning, in what a senior Ukrainian official called a “cynical murder”. Pavel Sheremet, a Belarussian known for his outspoken criticism of his home...
Malaysia Airlines ‘settles damages with MH17 victims’
Malaysia Airlines has struck a deal to settle damages claims for most victims of its MH17 flight that was shot down over eastern Ukraine two years ago on Sunday, Dutch national broadcaster NOS reported. NOS cited Veeru Mewa, a lawyer representing Dutch victims. Under the Montreal Convention, airlines must pay damages of up to about €130,000 to...
EU ministers meet on Turkey, facing perfect storm
European foreign ministers will urge Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday to respect the law and human rights in dealing with defeated coup plotters but have limited leverage over their strategic neighbour. Diplomats said an EU line on Turkey would be agreed after ministers breakfast in Brussels with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. He...
World unites in horror at Nice carnage, backs France
World leaders united in horror and pledged their determination to fight terrorism on Friday after a truck attack on a Bastille Day crowd in the French Riviera city of Nice killed 84 people. US President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and European and Asian leaders meeting for a summit in Mongolia joined in condemnation of what...
Kerry meets with Putin about cooperating against Islamic State in Syria
US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian President Vladimir Putin about boosting military and intelligence cooperation against Islamic State and al Qaeda in Syria and told him that without “concrete, near-term steps,” diplomatic efforts to end the war could not go on indefinitely. Kerry met Putin for three hours at the Kremlin and their...
New UK prime minister May names Philip Hammond as Chancellor
Philip Hammond, who until earlier on Wednesday was Britain’s Foreign Secretary, has succeeded George Osborne as Chancellor in the government being formed by new Prime Minister Theresa May to take Britain out of the European Union. Osborne – Chancellor since 2010 and a close ally of David Cameron who formally stepped down as prime minister...
The most expensive cities worldwide to drink a beer
If you’re on a business trip to the city of Lausanne in Switzerland, you might have to think twice about drinking an evening beer on your company’s tab in one of the city’s bars. Eyebrows would certainly be raised in accounting at a 33cl beer that costs a whopping $17.60. Situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, the city has the...
Czech president urges referendum on EU, NATO, says would back staying (Updated)
Czech President Milos Zeman has called for the Czech Republic to hold a referendum on its membership of the European Union and NATO following Britain’s shock vote to leave the EU, though he said he backed his country staying in both organisations. Zeman has no power to call a referendum, which would require a constitutional amendment. But...
