s invasion of the island in 1974. But he was unable to convert the electorate to his view that half a loaf was better than none, and paid for his beliefs with a long stretch in the political wilderness. Ironically, the Turkish Cypriots' subsequent refusal to accept what he regarded as manifestly reasonable proposals turned Clerides from a conciliator into a rejectionist. His two terms as president,...
s policymakers insist the eurozone as a whole does not face a threat of falling prices. Jens Weidmann, the president of the Bundesbank, told an audience of German co-operative banks yesterday: "To say it very clearly: the European Central Bank council does not expect a deflation scenario." But the very fact that Weidmann, who is known for his fierce anti-inflation stance, felt forced to make such a...
s 24th birthday, the family said they remained "strong and resolute" and would continue to search for him. They confirmed in a post on the official Help Find Ben Needham Facebook page that a man who was thought to look like reconstructions of their missing son was unrelated to them. The post said: "The Needham family have, in the last few minutes … had confirmation that the DNA results on the...
t allow open reuse of election data for example, whilst in the US there is no federal dataset that contains all corporate registrations. The analysis also finds a 'very disappointing' degree of openness when it comes to company registers with only 5 out of the top 20 registering even basic information via a truly open licence. Only 10 of these allow bulk download. Another issue the research highlighted...
s fine for rigging Libor has a new job as head of troubled Bank of Cyprus. John Hourican, the former head of investment banking at RBS, was not implicated in the rate-rigging scandal which led to a £390m fine for the bailed-out bank in February, but he left to demonstrate responsibility. The 43-year-old has the task of restructuring Bank of Cyprus, which was the first bank in the eurozone to take a...
s new transparency bill he, like most politicians, will claim to have the thoughts and needs of his constituents at the forefront of his mind. But Baldoví will know better than most what his voters actually want, thanks to a radical experiment in direct democracy. Baldoví, an MP with the Spanish green party Compromís-Equo, has asked voters to sign up to an online platform that allows them to tell him...
Association (SJA) is running a competition in company with the Laureus Foundation , offering the winner a trip to Rio de Janeiro. British sportswriters and broadcasters are invited to write or broadcast about an example of sport helping to resolve conflict, whether in Britain or elsewhere in the world. The entries need to have been published by a print or online outlet, or to have been broadcast on...
s two sovereign bases on Cyprus might still be targeted if Assad decides to launch a counter-attack. Cyprus has huge strategic value for the UK because it is the home of the Joint Service Signals Unit – one of the world's largest surveillance and listening posts. This supplies secret intelligence to the UK and US from across the Middle East and may have been involved in helping to select potential...
presence is a precautionary measure against any potential attacks on bases if intervention is agreed The UK is sending six RAF Typhoon jets to Cyprus to defend the strategically important bases on the island against potential retaliatory attacks from the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The Ministry of Defence confirmed that the fighters were flying to the Mediterranean on Thursday morning, ahead of any...
s-length options for targeted attacks against Syria which have been refined over several months to minimise the risk of retaliation from President Bashar al-Assad's forces. At a meeting of the national security council (NSC), the chief of the defence staff, General Sir Nick Houghton , is expected to tell David Cameron the UK could assist US forces with cruise missile strikes launched from submarines,...
s Akrotiri airbase on Cyprus, less than 100 miles from the Syrian coast, in a sign of increasing preparations for a military strike against the Assad regime in Syria. Two commercial pilots who regularly fly from Larnaca on Monday told the Guardian that they had seen C-130 transport planes from their cockpit windows as well as small formations of fighter jets on their radar screens, which they believe...
s business?" the taxi driver shouts, echoing the question. "It's terrible! Terrible!" Chris Georgeo, 52, is at the wheel of his beaten-up minibus negotiating the tight roads of Larnaca, the holiday resort on the south-east coast of Cyprus, but he still takes both hands off the wheel to give a double thumbs down. "We can't survive, there are no jobs," he says. "There are far less tourists. They're scared...