Malaysia deported a Saudi Arabian blogger on Sunday, police said, despite fears voiced by human rights groups that he could face execution in his home country over Twitter comments he made that were deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad. Hamza Kashgari, a 23-year-old columnist, sparked outrage in the oil-rich kingdom with comments posted on the
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Whitney Houston, whose soaring voice lifted her to the top of the pop music world but whose personal decline was fueled by years of drug use, died on Saturday afternoon in a Beverly Hills hotel room. She was 48. The pop superstar died on the eve of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles at the
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Greece's technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos will not announce a cabinet reshuffle on Friday, a government official said, playing down speculation of an imminent reshuffle after one minister and five deputy ministers stepped down over an unpopular bailout package which includes unpopular wage and pension cuts. "There will be no reshuffle today," said the official
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Greece's largest police union has threatened to issue arrest warrants for officials from the country's European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders for demanding deeply unpopular austerity measures. In a letter obtained by Reuters on Friday, the Federation of Greek Police accused the officials of "…blackmail, covertly abolishing or eroding democracy and national sovereignty" and
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The Cyprus Tourist Organisation (CTO) said on Friday it expected tourist arrivals from Russia to be over 400,000, announcing at the same time the launching of flights from sever more airports of the Russian Federation. In 2012 flights will be conducted to Cyprus from 16 towns of the Russian Federation, namely Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg,
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The gross investment volume between Cyprus and Russia reached one hundred billion dollars over the last 20 years, while the value of economic and financial ties between the two countries reached 1.3 billion dollars in 2011, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Cyprus Vyacheslav Shumskiy has said. In his address at the Russia-Cyprus Business and
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The economic future of Cyprus – from tax and tourism to energy and immigration – is the subject a day-long conference on Friday at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Politicians, academics and business leaders will consider how to sustain the country through the current European financial crisis and build a prosperous future.
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Eastman Kodak Co, the inventor of the digital camera, plans to get out of that business in the first half of the year as the bankrupt company looks to cut costs. The decision to stop selling digital cameras along with pocket video cameras and digital picture frames marks the end of an era for the
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Greek workers went on strike against austerity measures on Friday, docking ships and halting public transport, hours after euro zone finance ministers said Athens needed to make more cuts to convince them to release a financial bailout. The euro and shares fell on Friday, reflecting concern over a possible failure in the debt restructuring after
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President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias has assured that ''we will continue to encourage and support the activities of international companies in Cyprus, while at the same time promoting new measures to ensure that the attractiveness of the investment environment is constantly upgraded.'' Addressing the Russian-Cyprus Business and Investment Forum in Limassol, President
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