Новости за 16.09.2015

By Mike Collett Chelsea forgot their Premier League woes and got their Champions League campaign off to a flying start with a 4-0 thrashing of Israeli champions Maccabi Tel Aviv in their opening Group G match at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night. Despite Eden Hazard blazing an early penalty high over the bar, Chelsea scored […]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is looking forward to meeting the leaders of Cyprus` two communities during the UN General Assembly in New York to discuss with them, and add his political support, to their efforts for a solution. Replying to a question by a CNA correspondent at UN headquarters, during a press conference to […]

Government intervention in the banking sector in Cyprus resulted in irreversible losses, amounting to 10.5 per cent of the island’s GDP, a European Central Bank report says, describing the Cypriot case as the “worst case” in terms of government support recovery. According to an ECB report titled “The fiscal impact of financial sector support during […]

A request by the House legal affairs committee to scrap up to €2,000 in legal aid for bondholders and instead have the state cover the court costs is still awaiting an answer from the justice ministry, committee chairman Sotiris Sampson said on Wednesday. Speaking after a session where the proposal – part of a government […]

By Stelios Orphanides Bank workers union ETYK threatened to escalate industrial action at Hellenic Bank after asking members to refrain from overtime work at the lender, citing the bank’s decision to appoint managers without union approval, which prompted chief executive officer Bert Pijls to admit that chances for an agreement were slim. “The determination demonstrated […]

By Maria Gregoriou There is a treat awaiting rock and pop fans on Sunday in Paphos when the Papageorgio String Quartet will perform with guest singer Filippos Constantinos (formerly with the Greek band One). The quartet plays some very well-known rock and pop songs as you have never heard them before, as behind the violins […]

By Alister Doyle The amount of fish in the oceans has halved since 1970, in a plunge to the “brink of collapse” caused by over-fishing and other threats, the WWF conservation group said on Wednesday. Populations of some commercial fish stocks, such as a group including tuna, mackerel and bonito, had fallen by almost 75 […]

By Andria Kades Shipping is central to Cyprus’ goal to become an energy hub, Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis told Martime Cyprus delegates on the last day of the three-day conference on Wednesday. “Our excellent long standing relations with Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, the commitment of the president to solve the Cyprus problem along with our efforts […]

By Evie Andreou Aglandjia municipality is inviting runners of all ages to participate in the first night-run event ever being organised in Cyprus, supported by Hellenic Bank. The ‘Hellenic Bank Running under the Moon’ event, taking place on October 10, will host four run challenges; 5k, 10k, a 1k children’s run and a 5k group […]

The Cabinet announced on Wednesday that Cyprus would take in 274 refugees out of the 120,000 who have arrived in other European countries, as per the recent proposal of the European Commission, Deputy Government spokesman Victoras Papadopoulos said. On September 9, Papadopoulos said, the head of the European Commission urged all EU member-states to take […]

By Maja Zuvela and Krisztina Than Riot police fired water cannon and tear gas on Wednesday at migrants demanding to be let through Hungary’s newly shut EU frontier, while refugees at other Balkan frontiers clambered through cornfields in search of new routes. Hungary’s decision this week to shut the European Union’s external border with Serbia […]

By Angelos Anastasiou House Speaker Yiannakis Omirou on Wednesday asked President Nicos Anastasiades and Finance Minister Harris Georgiades to deliver a copy of the infamous ‘Lagarde’ list to his office, per the decision of a joint session of the House watchdog and ethics committees, he said. He noted that the committees’ decision implied no distrust […]

By Annette Chrysostomou The number of applications for the bi-communal cooperation awards offered by the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation has quadrupled this year, the organisation said on Wednesday. By midnight on September 15, the deadline for applying, the number of bi-communal team entries reached 116, surpassing all previous records, the foundation said. “The new record number […]

Police arrested a man aged 52 on Wednesday in connection with the Ayia Fyla co-op case where up to €25 million in irregular loans were given out after property prices were inflated as part of a scam. Arrested in Nicosia, he was taken to Limassol for further questioning while police are still on the hunt […]

CARREFOUR Cyprus, the largest retail chain in the country, is celebrating its tenth anniversary by offering ten weeks of special offers, events for children and adults, competitions and lots of gifts. From September, consumers will have the chance to participate in the big competition “play and win on the spot” that will last for ten […]

By Stelios Orphanides Cyprus is the first country to make a contribution to fund established by the Development Bank of the Council of Europe, also known as CEB, to finance transit and reception centres for refugees and economic migrants, the finance ministry said today. Send to Kindle

Agriculture Minister Nicos Kouyialis, along with his EU counterparts, met Pope Francis on Wednesday in the Vatican under the umbrella of the Pontiff’s initiative on climate change, the government said. Kouyialis expressed the commitment of the Republic of Cyprus to promote the goals set for environmental protection. The EU ministers pledged to work in solidarity […]

Tens of thousands of Malaysians, most from the majority Malay community, marched through the capital on Wednesday in a show of support for the scandal-plagued government, stoking fear of ethnic tension in the diverse Southeast Asian country. Riot police used water cannons to disperse thousands of red-shirted protesters trying to break through barricades at Kuala […]

Two of KEAN’s flagship soft-drinks are now launched with stevia sweeteners. With extracts from the leaves of the stevia plant, the new stevia soft-drinks, in the traditional orange and lemon flavours, do not contain any added sugar or aspartame, which makes them the natural choice for health food lovers and for those with special dietary […]

By Shravanth Vijayakumar Arsenal’s drive to win the Champions League is “immense” after their painful early exits in the past few seasons, manager Arsene Wenger has said. The Premier League club are one of the most successful in England but have never managed to add the Champions League trophy to their cabinet. The closest they […]

By Simon Jennings Football fans in England were wincing over their breakfast on Wednesday as horrific pictures of Luke Shaw’s broken leg were splashed across the nation’s newspapers. The Manchester United left-back suffered a gruesome double fracture in Tuesday night’s Champions League tie against PSV Eindhoven after a scything tackle in the penalty box from […]

By Shravanth Vijayakumar Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has refused to blame new recruit Raheem Sterling’s profligacy infront of goal for the Premier League leaders’ 2-1 home loss to Juventus in the Champions League on Tuesday. Sterling, who joined City from Liverpool in the summer under controversial circumstances, was in impressive form in the Premier […]

By Daren Butler and Birsen Altayli Authorities issued warrants against 11 executives and university officials in central Turkey on Wednesday in an operation targeting supporters of a US-based cleric accused by President Tayyip Erdogan of plotting a coup, local media said. The state-run Anadolu Agency said the move was aimed at the ‘parallel state structure’, […]

Islamic State fighters have made considerable progress near the contested northern Syrian city of Aleppo and are threatening to rout core elements of Western-backed Syrian rebel forces there, France’s defence minister said on Wednesday. The Islamist militant group launched an offensive in northern Aleppo province last month, in a blow to the rebels in an […]

Austria introduced stricter border controls on Wednesday, following Germany’s lead while at the same time trying to clear a backlog of tens of thousands of migrants still on its soil because of similar measures introduced by Berlin. The countries acted in unison more than a week ago in opening their borders to a wave of […]