Новости за 15.11.2015

By Marcelo Teixeira Nico Rosberg won the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix for the second year in a row on Sunday and denied Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton a first success in the homeland of his late hero Ayrton Senna. Triple champion Hamilton, who has now failed in nine attempts to win in Brazil, finished […]

By Ingrid Melander and Tom Heneghan For the second time this year France’s Muslims have seen carnage brought to the streets of Paris by a few radical Islamists and fear that they will now suffer as a consequence. The shocking wave of violence on Friday, when heavily armed militants killed 129 people and injured 352 […]

By Pritha Sarkar No one has come close to cracking the riddle of beating Novak Djokovic on an indoor court for more than three years and Kei Nishikori became the latest player on Sunday to discover just how difficult it is to solve that puzzle. Djokovic began his bid for a record fourth successive title […]

The leaders of the world’s 20 most powerful countries agreed to step up border controls and aviation security in the wake of the Paris attacks that killed 129 people, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters on Sunday. The heads of the Group of 20 (G20) largest economies, meeting in Turkey, condemned the attacks […]

By Crispian Balmer Standing before a makeshift memorial to the dead, strewn with candles, flowers and scribbled notes, Caroline Pallut hid her tears behind dark glasses. Her cousin, 37-year-old Maud Serrault, died on Friday night when Islamist gunmen attacked a Paris rock concert in a coordinated series of strikes across the city that killed 129 […]

By Matt Spetalnick and Lidia Kelly U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on the need for a Syria-led political transition, including U.N.-mediated talks, when they spoke at the G20 summit on Sunday, a White House official said. The Cold War superpower foes have been at odds over the future of Syrian […]

By Bejay Browne A PAPHOS resident is trying to drum up support for an initiative to clean up litter from around the island. British expat, Maggie Wright has lived in Cyprus since 2003 and said that over the last twelve years, discarded rubbish which litters roadsides and the countryside has mushroomed out of control. “I […]

By Matt Spetalnick and Jan Strupczewski U.S. President Barack Obama vowed on Sunday to step up efforts to eliminate Islamic State in Syria and prevent it from carrying out attacks like those in Paris, while European leaders urged Russia to focus its military efforts on the radical Islamists. Speaking at a G20 leaders summit in […]

By Jan Strupczewski Greece and its euro zone creditors have reached an agreement on many, but not all, issues in the reform programme that Athens is implementing in return for loans, the head of euro zone finance ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem said in a statement on Sunday. Greece needs a positive review of its reform progress […]

The problem of non – performing loans (NPL) in the banking sector will be discussed in a meeting between President Nicos Anastasiades and representatives of the banks and with Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) Governor Chrystalla Georghadji, during the coming week. Anastasiades who was on Sunday asked to comment on the possibility of such a […]

By Michael Nienaber Bavarian allies cranked up pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday to reverse her “open-door” refugee policy, saying the deadly attacks in Paris underlined the need for tougher measures to control the influx of migrants. The coordinated assault in the French capital, in which at least 129 people were killed, has […]

Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos on Sunday said all measures were being taken by state services when it came to the safety of the country, and especially by those services that have responsibility for migrant issues. Hasikos was speaking on the sidelines of an event to inaugurate a private collection of religious items belonging to the […]

By Ivana Sekularac and Igor Ilic The holder of a Syrian passport found near the body of one of the gunmen who died in Friday night’s attacks in Paris was registered as a refugee in several European countries last month, authorities said. The man, identified by Serbian authorities only by his initials A.A., came into […]

Turkey has cancelled a $3.4 billion long-range missile defense system tender which was provisionally awarded to China, a move that had stirred U.S. and Western concern, an official at the Turkish prime minister’s office told Reuters on Sunday. NATO member Turkey in 2013 had chosen China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corp as the preferred […]

By Robert-Jan Bartunek and Barbara Lewis Belgian prosecutors on Sunday said seven people had been detained following raids in Brussels after the attacks on Friday in Paris and that two of the Paris assailants had been living in Belgium. Those two assailants were among the killers who died during Friday’s attacks, the statement said. Belgian […]

Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has said his country’s intelligence services shared information they had which indicated that France, the United States and Iran were among countries being targeted for attack. He did not elaborate, but the comments came after 129 people were killed in Paris on Friday by gunmen and suicide bombers in attacks […]

Ninety two National Guardsmen have died on the island’s roads since 1996, according to road safety group REACTION. The NGO’s head Marios Stavrou said 1999 was the worst year for conscript road deaths with ten during that year alone. This year three soldiers have died in road accidents. Stavrou was speaking on the occasion of […]

Ruling DISY on Sunday paid tribute to party founder and former Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides on Sunday at a memorial service in Episkopi to mark the second anniversary of his death. In his speech, DISY leader Averof Neophytou paid tribute to the former President who held office for two terms, from 1993 to 2003, and […]

By Jan Strupczewski and Lidia Kelly European Union countries should not give in to base reactions of rejecting refugees after the Paris attacks because the shooters were criminals, not asylum seekers, European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said on Sunday. Top Polish and Slovak officials have poured cold water on the EU refugee relocation plan right […]

Egyptian police found the bodies of 15 African migrants on Sunday who appeared to have been shot dead in the turbulent area of northern Sinai near the border with Israel, security sources said. They said another eight migrants had been wounded in the attack. Ambulances rushed to the scene south of the town of Rafah […]

A 32-year-old man has been arrested in Dherynia after police said they found 0.3 grammes of cocaine on his person in addition to two cigarette butts they believed to contain cannabis in an ashtray in his home. Acting on a tip-off, police had put the man’s home under surveillance on Saturday afternoon. After he exited […]

Turkish Cypriots were on Sunday celebrating the 32nd anniversary of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) of the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’ on November 15, 1983. In an televised address on Saturday night, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said any strengthening of the ‘TRNC’ should not be seen by the Greek Cypriot side as […]

By Matt Spetalnick and Dasha Afanasieva U.S. President Barack Obama described the killings in Paris claimed by Islamic State as an attack on the civilised world and said on Sunday the United States would work with France to hunt down those responsible. “As we I’m sure each said to (French) President Hollande and the French […]

French police have identified one of the assailants in the coordinated attacks in Paris as Ismael Omar Mostefai, a 29-year- old French national, and seven of his relatives are being questioned, sources and French media said on Sunday. Authorities had a dossier on Mostefai that marked him as a potential Islamist militant. He also had […]

By Igor Nitsak Ukraine, who have never won a playoff for a major tournament finals in five previous attempts, took a firm grip on their Euro 2016 qualifying tie with Slovenia by winning the first leg 2-0 on Saturday. Winger Andriy Yarmolenko opened the scoring with a low shot into the far corner of the […]