Новости за 10.04.2016

Tottenham destroyed a lacklustre United with a three-goal salvo in six second-half minutes to keep alive their Premier League title quest. Starting the match 10 points adrift of leaders Leicester, Tottenham shaved the gap to seven with goals from Dele Alli, Toby Alderweireld and Erik Lamela earning them a first home league win over United […]

Striker Jamie Vardy may have returned to the headlines as Leicester City closed in on the Premier League title on Sunday, but the contribution by the team’s defenders cannot be overlooked. In the 2-0 victory at Sunderland Vardy became the club’s first player to reach 20 top-flight league goals since Gary Lineker’s 24 in 1984-5. […]

By Paul Taylor In Athens, walls have ears. The leaking of a conference call of International Monetary Fund officials on Greece’s latest bailout review has further undermined mutual trust in fraught debt talks, embarrassed the European Commission and infuriated the IMF and Germany. At stake are the IMF’s reputation as a stern enforcer of financial […]

Four Lebanese nationals, three men and a woman, were rescued by Cypriot marine police on Sunday after the yacht they were in started taking in water. According to the Cyprus News Agency, the boat had left Limassol for Lebanon, when at around 3.45pm, two miles out off the marina at St Raphael, the vessel sent […]

FBME Bank said on Sunday that the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) had triggered the deposit guarantee scheme so that the supervisory body could claim to have fulfilled its duties to depositors “and evade further exposure for misconduct”. The CBC announced on Saturday that after taking note of its own findings, FBME Bank Ltd-Cyprus Branch […]

Six out of ten Cypriots believe that corruption is largely responsible for the economic situation and most also believe society allows it to flourish, according to a poll published on Sunday in Simerini newspaper. The survey was conducted by IMR and the University of Nicosia. According to the results, six out of ten people believe […]

U.S. President Barack Obama said Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton never jeopardised national security in the handling of her emails as his secretary of state. Obama, in an interview broadcast on Fox News Sunday, said Clinton has recognised a carelessness on the email issue in which she used a private server for government business. “But […]

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk tendered his resignation in a televised broadcast on Sunday and signalled support for parliamentary speaker and presidential ally Volodymyr Groysman to take over his post. Yatseniuk has resisted pressure to resign since surviving a no-confidence motion against his government in February, but Ukraine’s political crisis has fractured the ruling coalition […]

Usually concerned with top secret matters affecting national security, Britain’s eavesdropping spy agency GCHQ was also on the lookout for leaks of a yet-to-be-published Harry Potter book, its publisher has revealed. Shortly before the publication of one of the volumes in J.K. Rowling’s seven-part wizarding saga, with millions of fans worldwide at a fever pitch […]

Dubai’s Emaar Properties plans to build a new tower in the emirate to surpass the Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building, Chairman Mohamed Alabbar told reporters on Sunday. The new project comes as Dubai developers continue to announce new schemes despite a softening real estate sector, with the Emaar-built Burj Khalifa expected to be […]

A 17-year-old boy from Paralimni who has been in critical condition in the intensive care unit of the Nicosia General Hospital since his motorcycle was hit by a car on Friday night, has died, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Sunday. The teen died around noon. The accident occurred at around 8.30pm in Paralimni on […]

Some 15,000 people turned out on Sunday to take part in the ‘Let’s do it Cyprus’ clean-up campaign all over the island, Environment Commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou said. Local authorities, National Guard, environmental and volunteer organisations, government departments, businesses, political parties and the public a took part in the event. Cyprus is one of 100 countries […]

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit remote northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Sunday, shaking buildings in the Afghan and Pakistan capitals, witnesses and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The USGS said the quake was centred near Chitral in Pakistan at a depth of 210 km (130 miles). Tremors were also […]

By George Psyllides   Publication of the statements and allegations made to police by people involved in the waste management scandal in the Greek Cypriot press this week make for depressing reading for those concerned about the ethics of public officials. Larnaca Mayor Andreas Louroudjiatis, for example, allegedly received backhanders during meetings in the street […]

DISY leader Averof Neophytou said on Sunday the issue of the party allegedly ignoring an internal vote for two election candidates and shoving them aside to suit the leadership, which caused an uproar during the week, was now closed. Neophytou was addressing the party’s 55 hopefuls and other members at an event marking the launch […]

The Russian air force and Syrian army are preparing for a joint operation to liberate Aleppo, Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halaki told visiting Moscow lawmakers on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. “We, together with our Russian partners, are preparing for an operation to liberate Aleppo and to block all illegal armed groups which have not […]

Macedonian police used tear gas to push back hundreds of migrants from a border fence on Sunday at a sprawling refugee camp on the Greek side of the frontier, a Reuters witness said. Tear gas was fired on a crowd of more than 500 people who had gathered at the fence at the makeshift camp […]

The planners behind the March 22 bombings in Brussels which killed 32 people had initially planned to hit France for a second time but struck closer to home as investigators made arrests among key suspects, Belgian prosecutors said on Sunday. Investigations into the Nov. 13 Paris attacks which killed 130 people showed many of the […]

US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, will hold a series of meetings in Nicosia and Ankara this month. Nuland will visit Cyprus on April 19 where she will be received by President Nicos Anastasiades and hold a series of meetings with other Cypriot officials. She will also meet with […]

In a city obliterated by a U.S. atom bomb more than 70 years ago, Japan kicked off a gathering of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies with a call to end nuclear weapons. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, who presides over the two-day annual meeting this year, said on Sunday that […]

Islamic State wants to carry out attacks in Germany and the security situation is “very serious”, the head of the country’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) told a Sunday newspaper, adding that he knew of no concrete plot to strike. The militant group released a video on Tuesday suggesting it may carry out further attacks in […]

Electrical devices and other items were stolen from a holiday home in Lagia village near Lefkara, Larnaca, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Sunday. According to police at around 9.30pm on Saturday, a 55-year-old homeowner complained to police at Lefkara that someone had broken into his home in Lagia and stolen a 42-inch TV, a […]

President Nicos Anastasiades fired the starter pistol for the 10th Limassol marathon on Sunday and waved to runners as they went by. In a short address to open the event, Anastasiades welcomed the volunteers who were participating in aid of the Karaiskakio Foundation, the island’s bone marrow registry. He also congratulated Limassol, his home town, […]

Finance Minister Harris Georgiades will meet IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and US Deputy Treasury Secretary on the sidelines of the Spring IMF-World Bank meetings taking on April 15-17 in Washington DC. The meetings mark Cyprus` exit from its three-year economic adjustment programme. Cyprus officially concluded its bailout after receiving €7.3 billion from the total […]

A 64-year-old man from Giolou village in Paphos lost his life on Saturday night after becoming trapped under his overturned tractor while working in a field. According to police, at 9pm Andreas Petrou was found by his wife and other relatives trapped under the vehicle. She had gone looking for him after he failed to […]