Новости за 18.05.2016

– Sevilla survived a first-half battering before hitting back with three second-half goals, two from Coke, to beat Liverpool 3-1 in the Europa League final on Wednesday and win the trophy for the third season in a row. Liverpool dominated the early stages and went ahead through an exquisite goal by England striker Daniel Sturridge, […]

THE Turkish Cypriot administration in the north has 5 billion Turkish Liras in debt, it’s former ‘Prime Minister’ Ferdi Sabit Soyer was reported as saying on Wednesday. Quoted on the front page of the daily Halkin Sesi, Soyer reportedly told a television channel the north’s budget was TL 4.5bn but the ‘state’ had 5bn in […]

BRITISH bases police on Wednesday arrested a 42-year-old man in Achna village, near Famagusta, after guns and jewellery were found on his property. Acting on a tip off, officers searched the man’s home in Dasaki where they found three guns, a shotgun and two air rifles. Frozen birds were found in his freezer which police […]

APOLLON have won the Cyprus Cup after a 2-1 victory over Omonia at the Tsirion Stadium in Limassol, with Angelos Angeli hitting the winner for the Limassol side with 20 minutes to go in a highly-charged final. Apollon came out fighting from the very first whistle, not allowing Omonia time to settle on the ball […]

A TOTAL of 51 policemen are being paid to guard party heads and former state officials, the Justice Ministry said in an announcement on Tuesday, declining to identify how many were based on security grounds. The announcement was a response to a question by the Greens’ MP Yiorgos Perdikis, who then lambasted Justice minister Ionas […]

GREEN party leader George Perdikis will take questions from the public on Thursday through Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #askperdikes According to a party announcement, he will be answering the questions in real time between 6.30pm and 7.30pm. “More through the laptop, mobile and tablet screens,” the party said.

A 58-year-old man from Polemidia, near Limassol, was remanded for eight days on Wednesday after he reportedly stabbed his relative, aged 68, whose herd of sheep wandered into his farm and destroyed his vegetables. The court heard that the 58-year-old initially appeared at the Polemidia police station, alleging that had been attacked with a knife […]

ALMOST 250 state grant applications for university students have been rejected, while payments for over 2,000 successful applicants have begun, the Education Ministry said on Wednesday. Concerning the 2015-2016 academic year, the procedure adhered to new regulations introduced in December last year which makes the ministry the sole authority responsible for the grants, with one […]

The union representing England’s doctors and the government said on Wednesday they had agreed a deal to end a long-running standoff which led to their first all-out strike in the nearly 70-year history of the state-run National Health Service (NHS). Junior doctors, a term which covers recent medical school graduates right through to doctors who […]

FANS of Omonia football club brawled with members of riot squad MMAD on Wednesday afternoon, after setting fire to tyres outside their fan club in Pallouriotissa, Nicosia, and obstructing the Fire Service from putting it out. A 30-year-old woman was arrested on the scene while police is conducting investigations. Responding to the burning tyres in […]

Music can pretty much be found everywhere but that doesn’t mean everyone enjoys whatever they hear. So you can pick the right musical event for you, here are just a few of the events happening around the island. Starting off in Nicosia on Thursday, the local band TriCoolOre will be joined by internationally renowned trumpeter […]

PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades will be heading to Greece next week and will meet with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday. According to government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides, the two leaders will be discussing the Cyprus problem, energy and Turkey’s request to abolish visas for travel to the EU. Anastasiades will be arriving in Athens on May 25 […]

Which countries are getting the most sleep on average? If you live in the Netherlands or New Zealand, you’ll probably manage to get slightly more than eight hours per night, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances. However, if you live in Japan or Singapore, you’ll probably sleep about a half hour less […]

Security forces fired tear gas on Wednesday to block an intended march by protesters demanding a recall referendum to end Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist rule. In the third opposition rally in a week, several thousand protesters descended on downtown Caracas, witnesses said, planning to march to the national election board’s headquarters. But National Guard soldiers […]

The European Commission took another step on Wednesday in its unprecedented investigation into the rule of law in Poland, saying it would send its criticisms to Warsaw by Monday unless it saw “significant progress” by then. Poland said it would need more time, though it added that the two sides had narrowed some of their […]

Dutch football association chief Michael van Praag said he would stand as a candidate to replace disgraced Michel Platini as head of UEFA on Wednesday after European football’s governing body announced a September election for president. Van Praag, announcing his bid on the Dutch FA’s website, said UEFA had drifted into an impasse since Platini […]

A Nigerian teenager kidnapped by Boko Haram more than two years ago has been rescued, the first of more than 200 girls seized in a raid on their school in Chibok town to return from captivity in the insurgents’ forest lair, officials said on Wednesday. Soldiers rescued the girl near Damboa, army spokesman Sani Usman […]

The European Commission said that it will propose that the European Council to terminate the excessive deficit procedure for Cyprus, Ireland and Slovenia, after the three countries took effective action to reduce their fiscal deficits. The Commission took the decision to recommend the end of the procedure -which, in the case of Cyprus, was launched […]

Suzuki Motor Corp used the wrong methods to test the fuel economy of its cars in Japan, it said on Wednesday, widening a testing scandal that has already rocked smaller rival Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Japan’s transport ministry ordered widespread checks to industry methods after Mitsubishi Motors admitted last month it manipulated fuel economy data for […]

A woman was fined and ordered to be deported from the United Arab Emirates for breaching her husband’s privacy by checking his cell phone to see if he was cheating on her, Gulf News reported on Wednesday. The unnamed Arab expatriate was fined 150,000 dirhams ($40,843) by the criminal court in the emirate of Ajman, […]

Artist Susan Vargas will present a number of her drawings in ink and mixed media on Friday at Gloria Gallery in Nicosia. Vargas’ showing of her new series of work, under the name Exodus, will be opened by Emeritus Professor of Art History of Athens School of Fine Arts, Niki Loizidi, at 7.30pm. As well […]

ANY individuals named as being implicated in a criminal case will be prosecuted, irrespective of their name, Attorney-General Costas Clerides said on Wednesday in response to criticism that Greek financier and ex-Laiki Bank boss Andreas Vgenopoulos has not yet come up on charges with regard to allegations of his involvement in the collapse of the […]

A 70-year-old man who was arrested on Tuesday after 79 cannabis plants and four kilos of the drug were found in two of his Limassol homes, was remanded for eight days on Wednesday. Members of the drug squad YKAN had found 78 plants between two and 90cm tall and almost one kilo of dry cannabis […]

Queen Elizabeth unveiled plans by British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday to overhaul prisons and help the poor under a social reform agenda he hopes to press after a referendum on European Union membership. In a ceremony laden with pomp and pageantry in the upper house of parliament, the queen announced plans for more […]

CYPRUS wants to associate itself with European Space Agency (ESA) programmes and activities and to prepare for possible future accession to the ESA Convention, Transport Minister Marios Demetriades said on Wednesday. He added that island can offer itself as a staging ground for space programmes or to develop related technologies. Addressing the ‘Cyprus Embraces Space […]