President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman will next meet on Tuesday, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday, with the meeting set to be the latest in an ongoing series of weekly talks between the pair.

Letymbiotis also said that following the conclusion of the leaders’ meeting, the pair will hold a joint meeting with the bicommunal technical committees on youth and cultural heritage, as well as the civil society steering committee.

The meeting will come with the Greek Cypriot side reporting that progress has been made on the prospect of opening new crossing points between the island’s two sides, with Greek Cypriot chief negotiator Menelaos Menelaou saying that a dispute over the routing of the planned transit road between Athienou and the Nicosia suburb of Aglandjia “has been overcome”.

He said that the outstanding dispute now remains over the question of whether a planned crossing point to connect Louroujina, the southernmost Turkish Cypriot village, with nearby Lymbia, will open at the same time.

The Turkish Cypriot side’s position is that the road between Athienou and Aglandjia constitutes two crossing points, one in Athienou and one in Aglandjia, and that they are part of a package of four alongside plans for a crossing point in the eastern Nicosia suburb of Mia Milia, and one in Louroujina.

However, the Greek Cypriot side treats the road between Athienou and Aglandjia as one crossing point, counterweighted by the Mia Milia crossing point, and is therefore of the view that the Louroujina crossing point should only be opened if a second transit road, through the Turkish Cypriot Kokkina exclave in the Tillyria region, also be opened.

Sides remain at odds over meaning of political equality

Away from the matter of crossing points, the sides remain locked on the question of the meaning of political equality, with the Turkish Cypriot side insisting that a rotating presidency between the island’s two major communities is an “indispensable component” of political equality which must be agreed upon before negotiations begin.

However, Christodoulides has on this front accused Erhurman of attempting to set “preconditions” on the resumption of negotiations.

“It is clear that the Turkish side … is setting terms and preconditions for the resumption of talks. They are demanding that we accept, in advance, specific positions of interest to the Turkish Cypriot community, while showing absolutely no willingness to discuss or accept our own positions on other significant aspects of the Cyprus problem,” he said.

Erhurman remains resolute on his four-point methodology which he says must be met before negotiations recommence in earnest.

Those four points foresee that the Greek Cypriot side accept political equality, time-limit negotiations and preserve all past agreements, and that the UN guarantee that embargoes placed on the Turkish Cypriots be lifted if the Greek Cypriot side leaves the negotiating table again.

Erhurman rejects Varosha proposal, asking instead for direct trade regulation

However, more recently, Christodoulides brought 19 new points for discussion to the table, among which was a proposal to open and repopulate the fenced-off area of Varosha under the United Nations’ administration and open the port of Famagusta under the European Union’s control.

Erhurman said he had rejected this because it falls short of the entry into force of the European Union’s direct trade regulation.

The direct trade regulation is a pending EU regulation which would allow Turkish Cypriot goods, as certified by the Turkish Cypriot chamber of commerce, to be exported directly into Europe via the Green Line, and given preferential treatment inside the European single market as European goods.

It was proposed in July 2004, three months after the rejection of the Annan plan by the Greek Cypriot side in a referendum, shortly after the Republic of Cyprus’ accession to the EU.

Ryan Reynolds cumple 50 años este viernes 23 de octubre, pero a estas alturas es probable que esté saturado de celebraciones. El 30 de septiembre fue el cumpleaños de su hija Inez; el 4 de octubre, el de su hija Betty; y, el 12 de octubre, el de su amigo Hugh Jackman, que es casi como uno más de la familia —además del protagonismo en Deadpool y Lobezno, ambos comparten la propiedad de BONDS Flying Roos, un equipo australiano que compite en la liga internacional de vela—. “Me paso el día respirando helio, inflando globos, vaciándolos, volviendo a inflarlos”, confesaba el actor canadiense a la revista People a principios de septiembre, cuando bautizó esta época del año como el “callejón de los cumpleaños” del que no puede escapar. “No me gustan los cumpleaños. O sea, no me quejo por tener uno, pero tampoco soy de los que dicen: ‘Oye, organicemos una gran fiesta para mí’. Estoy bien, ya recibo suficiente atención”, confirmó sobre sus expectativas por alcanzar el medio siglo de vida.

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Scintille in diretta a Omnibus, su La7, tra Luca Sommi, giornalista del Fatto Quotidiano e conduttore di Accordi & Disaccordi, e il giornalista economico Alan Friedman. Casus belli: le proteste giovanili di Milano e il ruolo delle presunte interferenze russe nell’alimentare le tensioni sociali in Europa.
Tutto comincia dall’analisi di Sommi sugli scontri di Milano. Il giornalista del Fatto respinge l’idea che dietro la rabbia dei ragazzi ci sia la regia di Mosca e richiama invece le disuguaglianze economiche, l’inflazione e la perdita del potere d’acquisto delle famiglie. Sommi insiste soprattutto su un punto: attribuire il disagio giovanile alle infiltrazioni russe significa distogliere lo sguardo dalle condizioni materiali in cui vivono milioni di persone.
“Mi viene da sorridere al pensiero che il disagio giovanile in Italia e in Europa sia colpa delle infiltrazioni di Putin – osserva – Non riesco a rimanere serio su questa cosa, perché in realtà parliamo di un problema strutturale”.
Poi richiama la condizione sociale di tanti manifestanti, spesso figli di immigrati di seconda generazione o delle fasce più povere della popolazione italiana: “Qui ci sono dei ragazzi che non ce la fanno più. A 11 anni vai in piazza a manifestare. Questo è un termometro di una sperequazione sociale esasperata. Se tu togli 300 euro di reddito di cittadinanza magari al papà, che temporaneamente era in difficoltà, e non hai il coraggio di tassare le multinazionali e i super ricchi, allora accadono queste cose”.

A intervenire successivamente è Antonio Di Bella, ex direttore del Tg3, che introduce una distinzione tra le origini delle proteste e il loro sfruttamento politico da parte del Cremlino: “È chiaro che il fuoco degli scontri non viene acceso dalla Russia o da qualche misterioso manovratore. Ma apertamente gli esponenti del governo Putin usano le tensioni europee come prova della crisi dell’Occidente“.
Di Bella cita anche Aleksandr Dugin, ideologo nazionalista russo e rbadisce che non c’è nessuna “manina misteriosa” ma una strumentalizzazione alla luce del sole: “È evidente che chi manifesta e gli scontri non sono creati da fuori, ma sono alimentati e sfruttati da fuori”.
Dal collegamento Friedman applaude e mostra il gesto dell’ok con la mano. E commenta: “Antonio Di Bella ha detto perfettamente. Poi che qualche filoputiniano difenda Putin non è una sorpresa, che sia un giornalista per un giornale di propaganda del Cremlino, che sia un politico di destra…”.
Sommi interviene: “Friedman, attenzione a dare dei filoputiniani perché si beccano le querele e poi le si pagano”.
Il giornalista americano ribatte immediatamente: “Mi stai minacciando?”..
“No – replica Sommi – Ti invito alla cautela a usare certi termini perché li hanno già usati a lungo anche sul Corriere della Sera e poi hanno pagato copiosamente per aver dato dei filoputiniani a chi si interroga sulle questioni invece di chi liscia da una parte. Te lo dico così, per rinfrescarti le idee”.

Il riferimento è alla vicenda giudiziaria di Alessandro Orsini, sociologo e professore associato alla Luiss Guido Carli di Roma. Il 5 giugno 2022 il Corriere della Sera pubblicò un articolo firmato da Monica Guerzoni e Fiorenza Sarzanini, intitolato “Influencer e opinionisti. Ecco i putiniani d’Italia” e dedicato a una presunta rete di opinionisti e influencer che rilanciavano la propaganda del Cremlino, con riferimenti alle attività del Copasir e dei servizi di intelligence. Tra i nomi compariva quello di Orsini, accompagnato dalla sua fotografia. Il professore ha promosso una causa civile contro Rcs, il direttore Luciano Fontana e le due giornaliste. Il Tribunale di Milano, in primo grado, ha condannato i convenuti a risarcirlo con 27.500 euro per danni e circa 5mila euro per spese processuali.

Friedman sbotta: “Questo è talmente da cafone che neanche ti rispondo. Io non sono qui per litigare e non credo di aver nominato nessun giornale. Attenzione, signor avvocatino“.
Sommi non arretra e gli fa notare la sequenza degli interventi: “Hai parlato di “giornalisti filoputiniani” subito dopo che ho detto che un conto è esultare perché l’Europa va male, visto che c’è una guerra, un conto è avere l’intromissione di Putin nei social»”.
Friedman rivendica di non aver indicato alcuna testata né alcuna persona specifica: “Ho fatto il nome di qualche giornale? Mi querela per non aver fatto nessun nome e aver parlato genericamente? Ma va’! Io volo alto e non scendo a questi livelli bassi, ok?”.
Sommi ride e ribadisce: “Hai appena detto dei giornalisti filoputiniani”.
“Ho parlato genericamente dei putiniani in Italia senza nominare nessuno, signorino“, rilancia Friedman.
Greco, visibilmente spazientito, cerca di chiudere il battibecco: “No, no, non ha nominato nessuno, benissimo”.
Ma Friedman continua a interrompere, ripetendo “Signorino!” e poi “Piccolo signore!“, mentre Sommi reagisce divertito e il conduttore è costretto ad arrendersi con una battuta: “Siamo alla frutta, come dicono in Calabria“.

L'articolo Scontro tra Sommi e Friedman su La7. “Attento a dare del filoputiniano, poi le querele si pagano”. “Mi minacci, signor avvocatino cafone?” proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and mathematicians have a complicated relationship.
• OpenAI has taken credit for solving hundreds of math problems, irking many mathematicians.
• At a recent talk at Stanford, Altman said mathematicians have already gone from anger to acceptance.

Like someone in mourning, Sam Altman said mathematicians went through phases after OpenAI began its blitz into the field.

First, there was disbelief. Then, there was pain.

"The day one reaction was like, 'We're cooked, and our field is over,'" OpenAI's CEO said. "'We're telling our grad students to switch majors.'"

After that, there was anger.

"The day three reaction was maybe like: 'It's horrible that OpenAI did this,'" Altman said at a recent talk at Stanford, before hundreds of students jittery about the viability of their future careers.

Come day five, though, in Altman's telling, mathematicians began to come around to what he described as AI's now-inalienable role in the study of numbers and proofs.

"We've now seen a lot of people say, actually, I'm going to have a different but hopefully better kind of career as a mathematician," Altman said.

Altman's buoyant assessment contrasts sharply with what some in the math community have described as an existential transformation.

After OpenAI abruptly broke into the field's prerogatives in September, announcing its models had solved the Navier-Stokes equations — a famously challenging math puzzle that stumped the industry's brightest since the 19th Century — preeminent mathematicians erupted in fury.

A pair of academics, one at New York University and another at Anthropic, accused OpenAI of using data from their chat logs to help crack the problem. Mathematicians also complained that while an AI model might have solved the problem, it didn't show its work, leaving them with the less celebratory task of verifying it.

And in the wake of all that controversy, there was more controversy.

A group of undergrads at Caltech, wary of how rapidly AI was disrupting their field and wanting to stay relevant, advertised a "mathathon" where participants were encouraged to use AI to solve long-standing problems.

OpenAI dropped out of sponsoring the event after more than 700 academics signed an open letter denouncing the competition for promoting AI "slop." (Organizers have since made adjustments to the rules, and the competition is set for November.)

More recently, Terence Tao, a math prodigy at UCLA who earned his doctorate at 20, said math's "romantic era" is over, as top academics like him adjust to a workflow that involves verifying AI's work rather than solving problems individually.

"Some things are being lost," Tao said after OpenAI this month said it solved over 700 more problems.

Meanwhile, Altman, sitting on the opposite side of the debate, has adopted the optimism of the disrupter.

"I don't think there's going to be like a job apocalypse," Altman said of AI causing companies to restructure their workforces. In the field of math, however, Altman said the disruptions came more quickly than in other disciplines and industries.

"That was the fastest that I think we've all gotten to watch a field go through this cycle," he said.

El actor John Goodman, de 74 años, considera que empezó a madurar pasados los 55, cuando decidió dejar el alcohol y empezar a bajar de peso. En ese proceso sufrió altibajos: “Perdía 60 libras (unos 27 kilos) en un verano y luego las recuperaba todas —llegando a ganar 70 u 80 libras—, y eso terminó por agotarme”, ha recordado en una entrevista en The New Yorker, publicada el pasado domingo. “Tomé medidas para no tener que pasar más por eso. Llegué a pesar casi 400 libras (unos 180 kilos). Después de dejar de beber, seguía comiendo de una forma compulsiva, casi como si fuera una adicción”, continúa. El actor, que ha participado en más de 90 películas, explica en la revista estadounidense que decidió dejar el alcohol porque se sentía “muy inmaduro” y el consumo solo “perpetuaba esa inmadurez”. “Quería vivir permanentemente en un ambiente al estilo de Animal House (Desmadre a la americana, 1978)”, señala en referencia a la famosa comedia estadounidense.

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EXCLUSIVE: Twenty-three years after Duane "Dog" Chapman chased fugitive Max Factor heir Andrew Luster to Mexico and tackled him on a Puerto Vallarta street, the convicted serial rapist is a free man — despite an initial sentence of 124 years.

"I hope he's smart enough — and he's smart — to never do anything like that again," Chapman told Fox News Digital Wednesday, more than two decades after the capture that helped make him a household name.

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Chapman, his son Leland and several others went to Mexico after receiving a tip about Luster's whereabouts — months after he fled the U.S. in the middle of a California rape trial. They first identified him from the tipsters' photo, which showed a knee and a watch.

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Chapman had been studying his face closely for weeks, but he also recognized the watch from a televised interview, he said. And he credits his son with first spotting Luster, who was speaking with a young woman in a bar on June 18, 2003.

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"When I saw him, you talk about an adrenaline rush went through my body," Chapman told Fox News Digital Wednesday. "Tim got down . ..he snuck up behind him, and then I pushed him. He fell over. We all jumped on him, and I screamed, 'You're under arrest by the United States of America.'"

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They pulled him into an SUV and drove off — only to be intercepted on the road outside town by Mexican authorities who arrested everyone amid the chaos.

Luster claimed he'd been kidnapped, Chapman said, so he handed the lead investigator what Chapman called a "bible" of information on the case.

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Luster, the great-grandson of makeup mogul Max Factor, vanished during a recess in his trial and was convicted in absentia on 86 counts involving the drugging and raping of three women between 1996 and 2000 at his home in Mussel Shoals, California.

One of the victims, who asked not to be named out of concerns for her safety, said she's still struggling to comprehend Luster's release even though she knew it was

 coming.

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"It’s very unsettling knowing that he is not behind bars, not in a closed facility," she told Fox News Digital Wednesday. "He is out in the public, in a community that just — it just doesn’t feel very good at all."

She said she has concerns for her own safety, her family, Luster's other victims and even investigators after a notebook containing a "payback list" was recovered from his Mexican hotel room — with their names on it.

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She said she dated Luster for five or six months without knowing she'd been drugged and raped the night they met — something detectives discovered years later, after they recovered videotapes from the home.

"It was me, comatose on his bed, wearing the clothes that I was wearing the first night I met him," she said. "That’s how I knew when it happened, because I had just bought that outfit, and I was wearing it the night that I met him. So that’s how I figured out when it happened to me, which was absolutely horrifying."

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Police found more than 100 videos, she said. Not all of them involved criminal activity, but those that did were "mortifying," she said, as Luster spoke to the camera like he were playing with "a toy."

"They’re pretty brutal," she added. "The things that he did to us while we were completely unconscious were things that, I mean, had we been able to feel anything, it would have been awful. He narrated the video and talked to the camera throughout and thoroughly enjoyed the whole entire thing."

He initially received consecutive sentences totaling 124 years — later reduced to 50, and he was released earlier this month after over two decades behind bars.

Prosecutors had opposed early release in 2024 and again in 2025. However, he was able to earn substantial early release credits under California's controversial Proposition 57 criminal justice reforms, and his prison term came to an end on Oct. 11.

"I did not know that [Prop 57] meant that it was gonna make Andrew Luster’s crimes be deemed nonviolent," Doe No. 3 told Fox News Digital. "That’s just so baffling. I just feel like if anybody could watch these tapes of what he did to me and all of these other women, just to look at that and try to put the word nonviolent on it, that word could not come out of your mouth. It just would be impossible."

Doe was among those who successfully lobbied for changes to the law to close that nonviolent loophole.

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Chapman said he never received the bounty for Luster and lost hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money for the operation and ensuing legal fallout.

Mexican law did not allow bounty hunters to apprehend fugitives. Chapman said he was arrested alongside his son Leland, longtime friend and associate Tim Chapman, who is not a blood relative, and members of a camera crew.

"He told me, 'I’m going to get him for you,' and he did," Doe said of Chapman. So to help him get out after he put Luster back behind bars, she kicked off a legal fundraiser that she said attracted donations from around the country.

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A judge in Mexico later dismissed the case.

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The incident happened shortly before Chapman rose to fame with A&E's reality series, "Dog the Bounty Hunter."

Chapman is returning to the screen with a new YouTube series launching Saturday — "Dog the Bounty Hunter ... Everyone Deserves a Second Chance."

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As part of the series, he plans to help bail out certain inmates with a history of good behavior and positive reports — but not for people facing serious felonies or sex abuse charges, he said.

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"We'll call out the ones that deserve a second chance, right, and you can't be perfect OK, so if they run, yeehaw," he said. "I don't wish they would, but if they do, then I'm going to catch them."

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He said he's got at least another five to seven years of bounty hunting left in him.

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Fox News' Greg Wehner and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman has said that he will “immediately” accept the opening of formal negotiations with the aim of resolving the Cyprus problem if his counterpart, President Nikos Christodoulides, unconditionally accepts that there be a rotating presidency in a post-solution Cyprus.

He said the issue had most recently been raised during the United Nations’ high-level week last month, when both he and Christodoulides were in New York, with Christodoulides having requested a tripartite meeting with him and either UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres or Cyprus problem envoy Maria Angela Holguin.

With Christodoulides pushing for a meeting before both men returned to Cyprus, Erhurman said that Holguin had informed him that “the Greek Cypriot side was ready to accept the rotating presidency”.

In response, he said, he had said that “I am ready to sit at the negotiating table if the Greek Cypriot leader, Nikos Christodoulides, explicitly and unconditionally accepts the rotating presidency”.

However, he said, he “received no response” to this, and as such, no meeting was held before both men returned from New York.

“Our stance is consistent and stable. We are ready for all kinds of negotiations, but the preparation must be done properly. We are pushing for a result,” he said.

In the absence of this commitment, he said, “I did not want a token meeting” or a “photo opportunity meeting”, but instead, “I want to get work done.”

Christodoulides said Erhurman wishes to set ‘preconditions’

Those comments come after Christodoulides had accused him of attempting to set “preconditions” on the resumption of negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem in reaction to his insistence on a rotating presidency.

“It is clear that the Turkish side … is setting terms and preconditions for the resumption of talks. They are demanding that we accept, in advance, specific positions of interest to the Turkish Cypriot community, while showing absolutely no willingness to discuss or accept our own positions on other significant aspects of the Cyprus problem,” he said.

He added that “it is for this reason that I have repeatedly stated that all these issues must be discussed at the negotiating table”.

“In my view, setting terms and preconditions prior to the resumption of negotiations is a tactic which does not facilitate progress,” he said, before adding that the Turkish Cypriot side’s view is “particularly revealing” as it “sheds light on why the talks have not yet resumed” and “highlights one of the primary reasons for this continued delay”.

Dana: Rotating presidency an indispensable component of political equality

The rotating presidency has long been viewed by the Turkish Cypriot side as being fundamental to the political equality between Cyprus’ two major communities which is stipulated by United Nations resolutions.

Erhurman’s undersecretary Mehmet Dana had told the Cyprus Mail that it is an “indispensable component” of political equality, saying that “political equality forms the foundation of a structure requiring the joint exercise of a limited number of specific powers, shared competences, and this is not open to negotiation”.

He added that the “primary reason” for the collapse of previous rounds of negotiations on the Cyprus problem, and “specifically” those between Nicos Anastasiades and Mustafa Akinci at Crans-Montana in 2017, was that “political equality was made a subject of negotiation and subsequently used to cause a deadlock in the process”.

Therefore, he said, “guided by the [United Nations] secretary-general’s approach that ‘this time must be different’, acceptance of this issue in principle must occur prior to the commencement of the negotiation process”.

“Naturally, once the rotating presidency is accepted in principle, the specific terms, such as the duration of the respective tenures and other details, would be negotiated once the talks actually begin,” he said.

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