Новости за 29.09.2015

By Mike Collett Arsenal’s Champions League hopes were left dangling by a thread on Tuesday after they lost an astonishing clash 3-2 to Olympiakos Piraeus who won a competitive European match in England for the first time in 50 years. After losing their opening game to Dinamo Zagreb two weeks ago, Arsenal are bottom of […]

Jose Mourinho suffered a nightmare homecoming as Porto, the club he led to the Champions League title in 2004, inflicted a 2-1 defeat on his woefully out-of-sorts Chelsea side in Group G on Tuesday. Mourinho sprang a surprise before the game by leaving out Eden Hazard, Nemanja Matic and Oscar and the Londoners went behind […]

A woman who wants to remain anonymous for personal reasons has donated €175,000 to the University of Cyprus, the third time she has done so. The latest donation follows two others for €200,000 each in the previous two years, the university announced on Tuesday, adding that the money from this donor now totals €575,000. The […]

By Angelos Anastasiou Former deputy Attorney-general Rikkos Erotokritou’s phone calls to him over the contentious ‘Providencia’ case in the summer of 2013 were unrelated to public discussion about the theft of shares in Russian companies reportedly going on at the time, former police chief Michalis Papageorgiou told the court on Tuesday. During Tuesday’s hearing of […]

By Angelos Anastasiou The need to investigate the events leading up to the ill-advised takeover of Uniastrum Bank by the Bank of Cyprus in 2008, with a view to bringing those responsible to justice and punishing those found guilty, was the consensus of discussion at the House Ethics committee on Tuesday. Committee chairman Nicos Nicolaides […]

By Jean Christou Though political parties were on Tuesday expecting President Nicos Anastasiades to set out his ‘red lines’ on the Cyprus talks during his address to the UN General Assembly in New York, he limited himself to saying that Turkey should turn its rhetoric into action, and that a reunified Cyprus did not need […]

Nearly 30,000 people, including more than 250 Americans, have left their countries to join militant Islamists fighting in Syria and Iraq, many with the Islamic State, according to a congressional study of the issue released on Tuesday. The six-month study by Republicans and Democrats on the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee said the US […]

US President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro at the United Nations on Tuesday in a rare one-on-one meeting between the former Cold War foes as they work toward improving relations after decades of animosity. Castro, in the first speech at the UN by a Cuban president since his older brother Fidel […]

By Elias Hazou The police are set to begin investigating a number of cases involving the apparent plunder of the pension fund of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA), it emerged on Tuesday. After an in-house investigation, the state telecoms company identified five cases of investments gone sour. These were forwarded to the Auditor-general, who on […]

By Maria Gregoriou For all the parents out there who are tired of having to text their kids to get out of the internet world and join them at the dinner table, here is an event that teenagers can enjoy without even clicking the on button. Yes, there are still games, parties and sports that […]

By Andria Kades The University of Cyprus (UCy) decision to admit five students based on international exam standards and after they had been accepted by foreign universities was illegal, the House education committee heard on Tuesday. Present at the session was UCy rector Constantinos Christofides and teacher’s union OELMEK representatives.  Christofides last week requested unions […]

A Greek businessman has been arrested and charged with money laundering and bribery as part of an investigation into suspicious arms deals, court officials said on Tuesday. Greece has promised to crack down on corruption and reform its spendthrift state, which many Greeks blame for the country’s worst debt crisis. Prosecutors are investigating alleged financial […]

By Brian Homewood Trinidadian Jack Warner, once one of the most powerful men in world football, has been banned from all football-related activities for life, the ethics committee of the global governing body FIFA said on Tuesday. Warner, 72, was one of 14 football officials and sports marketing executives indicted in the United States on […]

The government has set an energy-savings target of 14.5 per cent for the year 2020, a senior energy ministry official told MPs on Tuesday. Every percentile in energy savings currently corresponds to €10m, said Stelios Chimonas, permanent secretary of the energy and commerce ministry. For its energy-efficiency plans for the period 2014 to 2020, the […]

By Maria Gregoriou The Pharos Arts Foundation will present a screening of the documentary A Temporary Arrangement with the Sea by Peter West and Steve Martland on Saturday. The documentary, written and co-directed by Peter West, looks at composer Louis Andriessen, his artistic personality and the world in which he lives and works. Andriessen is […]

By Stelios Orphanides Hundreds of individuals and institutional investors from Greece have appealed to the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) claiming compensation for money they lost in Cyprus’s 2013 banking crisis, a U.S. law firm said. “Claimants include 676 individual and institutional investors asserting 434 separate claims against Cyprus,” Wilmington-based […]

By Tulay Karadeniz President Tayyip Erdogan said the Turkish military had killed more than 30 Kurdish militants on Friday in a cross-border operation he described as part of the rebels’ “last struggle”. Erdogan, addressing village leaders at the presidential palace on Tuesday, did not say where the targets were; but the military has been bombarding […]

The Green Party said on Tuesday it was concerned over information gathered by an international NGO ‘Compassion in World Farming’ that showed a hazard to the food chain in Cyprus when it came to chicken farming. The NGO issued a statement at the weekend saying said it had just finished a survey in France, Italy […]

By Shravanth Vijayakumar Everton manager Roberto Martinez was thrilled with his side’s reaction after they fought back from two goals down to win their Premier League match against West Bromwich Albion on Monday night. The Toffees found themselves 2-0 down in the 54th minute when Craig Dawson scored from a corner but striker Romelu Lukaku […]

Russian and US leaders, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama, discussed information sharing on the crisis in Syria when they met in New York on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Peskov said an information centre was being established in Baghdad to share information between Russia, Iran, Iraq and Syria. Russia has also agreed a separate […]

By Angelos Anastasiou A request by EDEK MP Fidias Sarikas and AKEL municipal councillor Yiorgos Shailis pleaded not guilty on Tuesday, after their request to be charged and tried separately from the other three defendants in the SAPA trial was rejected by the Paphos Criminal court. Sarikas and Shailis had asked to be charged separately […]

BirdLife Cyprus on Tuesday announced the launch in Cyprus of  EuroBirdwatch 2015, an annual even to raise awareness of migration by helping count birds. EuroBirdwatch comprises hundreds of nationally organised activities. Last year, 40 countries in Europe and Central Asia took part in organising 1,184 events, with more than 33,000 people turning out to watch […]

A 78-year-old woman from Limassol, Georgia Nicolaou was killed by a car as she crossed the road on Tuesday morning. According to police, shortly after 7am, Nicolaou was crossing at Anoikomoiseos Street at Ayios Athanasios when she was hit by a car, driven by a 33-year-old woman. The driver was not under the influence of […]

President Barack Obama and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shook hands at the United Nations, an Iranian official said on Tuesday, the first handshake between a US president and a high-ranking Iranian official in over 30 years. Iran and the United States have been at loggerheads since they severed diplomatic ties shortly after the […]

From this week, a live cam aims to show the progress of works at Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square to the public via web streaming. The camera, which will be installed in the coming days, is going to be connected to the municipality’s website, from where everyone can see the progress of the project via live streaming. […]