Новости за 22.11.2015

By Martyn Herman Novak Djokovic put the finishing touch to a magificent season by beating Roger Federer 6-3 6-4 to win the ATP World Tour Finals on Sunday for the fifth time in his career. The Serbian underlined his complete dominance of men’s tennis with an immaculate display at the 02 Centre in London to […]

By Tim Hanlon It was always going to be a tough task for Rafa Benitez to replace his popular, Champions League winning predecessor Carlo Ancelotti at Real Madrid and Saturday’s woeful 4-0 home defeat to Barcelona has turned the pressure up a notch. Facing widespread criticism for a game plan that seemed to fail calamitously, […]

Six French-speaking men, three of whom may have “ties to Islamist networks” have been detained at Glafcos Clerides Airport in Larnaca since Saturday night, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Sunday evening. The six, five Turkish nationals and one Algerian – all French passport holders – aged between 25 and 32, arrived on Saturday night […]

A double from Harry Kane, who scored in his fifth consecutive club match, inspired Tottenham Hotspur to a 4-1 win over London rivals West Ham United in the Premier League at White Hart Lane on Sunday. England striker Kane continued his searing form, finding the target in his fourth straight league game after 23 minutes […]

By Noah Barkin Russia feels increasingly under threat from developments in the Middle East and appears to be serious about cooperating with western countries to resolve the war in Syria, Germany’s foreign minister said on Sunday. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose Social Democrats (SPD) are traditionally more friendly towards Moscow than Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, also raised […]

One in four children in Cyprus are at risk of poverty, slightly below the European average, according to statistics released by the European Parliament (EP) ahead of a debate on the issue on Monday. MEPs debate on Monday a report calling on EU countries to make children a priority in their policies and urging them […]

The island’s five golf courses brought in only 25,000 golfers out of a total number of tourist arrivals of almost 2.5 million last year, according to an analysis of the sector published in Politis on Sunday. And, the paper said, last year was one of the best years for golfing visitors so far with 103,000 […]

By Kylie MacLellan British Prime Minister David Cameron will this week set out the case for joining air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, his finance minister said on Sunday, in a bid to persuade a parliament loath to embark on another war in the Middle East. Britain is already bombing IS in Iraq […]

By Trinna Leong Southeast Asian nations on Sunday established a formal community that attempts to create freer movement of trade and capital in an area of 625 million people with a combined economic output of $2.6 trillion. The community declaration was signed by leaders of the 10- member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in […]

Singapore Airlines said on Sunday there was a bomb threat to one of its flights which originated from San Francisco and landed safely at Singapore’s Changi Airport on Sunday. The airline, in a statement, did not provide any details of how the threat came to light or what action was taken to ensure the flight’s […]

Investigators on Sunday extended into a fifth day the detention of a man arrested on Wednesday outside the building where the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks died, the prosecutor’s office said Jawad Bendaoud told a French television station he had been asked to put two people up in his apartment for three days, but […]

By James Harding Giahyue Liberia has placed 153 people under surveillance as it seeks to control a new Ebola outbreak in the capital more than two months after the country was declared free of the virus, health officials said. Three Ebola cases emerged in Liberia on Friday. The first of the new patients was a […]

An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to a prison term, the state news agency said on Sunday quoting the judiciary spokesman, a case that is a sensitive issue in contentious U.S.-Iranian relations. The length of the prison term was not specified. “Serving a jail term is in Jason Rezaian’s sentence but […]

Tasos Michaelides, the shareholder in the Nicosia bus company OSEL who made allegations of mismanagement against the firm, which culminated in a brawl on Friday afternoon, said on Sunday he was reporting police to the independent authority for complaints against the force, according to the Cyprus News Agency. Three people, including OSEL boss Iordanis Iordanous, […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday called for an end to hooliganism associated with patriotism as it was giving fodder to anti-solution elements. He was referring to a series of attacks on Turkish Cypriot motorists by school students in three separate incidents on November 16 during anti-occupations demonstrations in Nicosia. Fifteen Greek Cypriot teens have been […]

A Palestinian girl tried to stab Israelis and was fatally run down by a Jewish settler in the West Bank on Sunday while, in a second incident in the Israeli-occupied territory, a Palestinian was shot dead after an attempted attack, Israeli police said. A surge in often spontaneous and leaderless Palestinian street violence since Oct. […]

Environment Commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou said on Sunday she had written to all local authorities urging them to ‘go green’ this Christmas and keep energy-wasting decorations to a minimum. “Due to the economic crisis, thousands of our fellow citizens are deprived of the essentials and are experiencing the nightmare of unemployment,” Panayiotou said in a statement.” […]

By John Irish, Robert-Jan Bartunek and Orhan Coskun There were multiple chances to stop the men who attacked Paris. In January, Turkish authorities detained one of the suicide bombers at Turkey’s border and deported him to Belgium. Brahim Abdeslam, Turkish authorities told Belgian police at the time, had been “radicalised” and was suspected of wanting […]

Belgian security officials were set to review on Sunday whether to keep Brussels on maximum alert, leaving the public to wonder whether the blanket metro closure and cancellation of events could continue into the working week. Prime Minister Charles Michel has advised the public to be alert rather than panic-stricken, but also said the raised […]

By Ahmed Aboulenein Egyptians voted on Sunday in the second phase of elections that are meant to restore parliament after a more than three-year hiatus but which critics say have been undermined by widespread repression. The elections have been hailed by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as a milestone on the army’s roadmap to democracy but […]

Russia’s Anti-Terrorism Committee said on Sunday that 10 militants who had sworn allegiance to Islamic State had been killed in a special operation in a southern Russian republic, Russian news agencies reported. “During the active phase of a special operation near Nalchik, according to preliminary information, 10 militants were neutralised,” the committee said, Interfax reported. […]

By Jan Strupczewski European Union leaders are not only unlikely to reach a deal next month with Britain on its demands for reform of the bloc but may not even narrow differences at a pre-Christmas summit, officials and diplomats said. After a week of “confessional” meetings between aides to summit chairman Donald Tusk and other […]

Game wardens on patrol in Paphos on Saturday night chased two men on a quad bike whom they believed were poaching in the Tsada area. The two got away but left behind the bike, which turned out to have been stolen. According to police, the Game Fund officers who were on patrol around 8.45pm identified […]

Two men were arrested, one late Saturday and one in the early hours of Sunday for offences related to two traffic incidents, one of which included an assault on police, and the other drink driving and abandoning the scene of an accident, police said. In the first incident in Limassol at around 10pm on Saturday […]

Five years after North Korea fired shells onto a South Korean island, Pyongyang vowed on Sunday to retaliate mercilessly should Seoul holds fire drills near the border on the anniversary. North Korea fired scores of artillery shells at South Korea’s Yeonpyeong island on Nov. 23, 2010, killing four people including two civilians in one of […]