Новости за 08.10.2015

US officials said four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from a warship in the Caspian Sea on Wednesday had crashed in Iran while Russia insisted they had reached their targets in Syria. The White House declined to comment on the report from the officials, who asked not to be identified, and the State Department […]

POLICE on Thursday released without charging a 25-year-old man whom a Dutch woman accused of raping her. The man had been arrested and on Wednesday was remanded for eight days by the Paphos District Court. He had denied the accusations. The 23-year-old woman claimed she was walking along Posidonos Avenue at around 5.30am on Sunday […]

THE Defence ministry and national guard have decided on a series of measures to combat a rise in fatal car accidents after a number of young conscripts lost their lives recently on the roads. Currently, conscripts are allowed free public bus transport, however a minimum of eight soldiers are required to use a certain route […]

Novak Djokovic kept his juggernaut rolling at the China Open by improving to 26-0 with a 6-2 6-1 win over local hope Zhang Ze on Thursday which tied him with Jimmy Connors for the second-longest unbeaten record at an ATP Tour event. The Serbian top seed, a five-time winner at the China Open, is now […]

LIMASSOL’S pre-natal care unit at the general hospital resembles that of a third world country and is outdated, the House health committee heard on Thursday. In light of the recent events that have shamed the health sector including a dead baby found at a morgue trashcan, the birth of a still born twin a mother […]

By Stelios Orphanides ATTORNEY-general Costas Clerides declined to dismiss proceedings against fertiliser maker PhosAgro, its principal owner, Russian entrepreneur and company director Andrei Guryev, and 12 other co-defendants in a more than €1bn fraud case, a spokesperson for the claimants said. Send to Kindle

By Maria Gregoriou Halloween is slowly creeping its way into our calendar, and if you’re the type to go out and trick-or-treat dressed up as someone – or something – else, then you will have already got your outfit all sorted out. But the question remains, will you be all dressed up with nowhere to […]

Former Borussia Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp will sign up as Liverpool’s new manager after he lands in Merseyside later on Thursday having agreed terms earlier in the day, English and German media reported. After days of speculation, the charismatic 48-year-old was expected to finally sign his contract as replacement for Brendan Rodgers, who was sacked […]

A Spanish court ordered Lionel Messi and his father Jorge on Thursday to stand trial in a tax fraud case and the state attorney said Barcelona FC’s star player should serve a jail sentence of up to 22 months if found guilty. The two men are accused of defrauding the Spanish state of 4.2 million […]

By Kirstin Ridley A former manager at ICAP, the world’s largest interdealer brokerage, and a former trader at U.S. bank JPMorgan, plotted to corrupt a new recruit as part of an alleged scam to rig global interest rates, a prosecutor told London’s second Libor trial on Thursday. In a recorded telephone conversation dated Aug. 20, […]

By Angelos Anastasiou THE probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) against former Bank of Cyprus officials Andreas Eliades and Theodoros Aristodemou kick-started by allegations made by Yiannis Kypris, also a former BoC official, to the commission’s chairwoman Demetra Kalogirou, prosecution witness Alkis Pierides told the court on Thursday. According to the witness at […]

AN Air Serbia passenger aircraft, diverted to Larnaca airport while en route to Belgrade, continued onto its final destination later on Thursday. Airports operator Hermes spokesman Adamos Aspris said the airliner, travelling from Abu Dhabi to Belgrade, landed safely at Larnaca international shortly before 1pm. At around 12.30 Cypriot authorities were alerted that the pilot […]

THE road to Skarinou was cut off on Thursday afternoon due to torrential rains in Larnaca district. The rains came down the Pentaschinos river and flooded roads in Ayios Theodoros, police said. Moreover, according to Fire Service deputy director Marcos Tragkolas, the fire brigade, disaster response unit EMAK and the Larnaca District Administration have so […]

A 34-year-old man in Limassol was held in custody on Thursday after he was arrested the previous day on suspicion of sexually harassing a 14-year-old girl, his partner’s daughter who he lives with. The girl reported the man to police with her grandmother saying that in September, he used to enter her room when her […]

TWO people were found guilty on Thursday for trafficking a mother of four from Bulgaria and sexually exploiting her. The mother, who  was a prostitute in her home country was invited to the island by one of the accused to work at a massage parlour, Nicosia criminal court heard.  She was told the job would […]

By George Psyllides DIKO has filed a proposal to scrap road tax and raise the tax on fuel in a bid to create a “simpler and fairer” system for the public. “The current system is unfair, complicated, and has many distortions,” DIKO MP and House Transport Committee chairman Antonis Antoniou said on Thursday. “With the […]

By Andreas Cremer German prosecutors raided Volkswagen’s headquarters and other offices on Thursday as part of their investigation into the carmaker’s rigging of diesel emissions tests. Prosecutors from Braunschweig, close to the German company’s home town of Wolfsburg, said they were targeting documents and data storage devices that might help with their inquiries. Volkswagen said […]

By Stelios Orphanides As ETYK members continue to abstain from overtime work at Hellenic Bank for a fourth consecutive week, the lender mulls taking its gloves off unless the bank workers union cancels its labour action after the attorney general opined against it, a source said. Send to Kindle

The Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) announced it would be disbursing €500mln to Cyprus on Friday following a positive assessment of the seventh review of the island’s macroeconomic adjustment programme. “Cyprus has taken another step towards a successful completion of its ESM programme in the first quarter of 2016,” ESM Managing […]

Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time,” the Swedish Academy said on Thursday in awarding the 8 million crown ($972,000) prize. Literature was the fourth of this year’s Nobel prizes. The prize is named after dynamite inventor Alfred […]

Greek and Turkish Cypriot contractors have proposed undertaking joint projects inside the buffer zone involving reconstruction and restoration of historical buildings. The contractors held a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday during which they recommended confidence building measures that will help the two sides come closer. Costas Roushias, chairman of the contractors’ federation said […]

By Alastair Macdonald European Union governments are set to agree on Thursday to step up deportations of illegal immigrants and beef up the EU’s border guard service as they try to cope with a surge in refugees from war-torn Syria. Diplomats say interior ministers meeting in Luxembourg should agree, among other things, to back the […]

By Ece Toksabay and Gulsen Solaker A state prosecutor has banned Turkey’s largest pay-TV platform from broadcasting channels close to an arch-enemy of President Tayyip Erdogan, heightening concern about press freedom weeks ahead of an election. Digiturk is the third platform to ditch channels close to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen on the orders of the […]

FIFA President Sepp Blatter and his possible successor, European soccer chief UEFA Michel Platini, have been provisionally suspended for 90 days, the ethics committee of football’s global governing body said on Thursday. “During this time, the above individuals are banned from all football activities on a national and international level,” FIFA’s ethics committee said in […]

By Robin Emmott NATO said it was prepared to send troops to Turkey to defend its ally after violations of Turkish airspace by Russian jets bombing Syria and Britain scolded Moscow for escalating a war that has already killed 250,000 people. Officials at the U.S.-led alliance are still smarting from Russia’s weekend incursions into Turkey’s airspace […]