Новости за 26.05.2016

Manchester United and England star Wayne Rooney was briefly in Cyprus this week attending his brother’s wedding, local media reported. According to online sports site Kerkida.net, on Wednesday Rooney was spotted at the Olympic Lagoon Resort just outside Ayia Napa, attending the nuptials of his brother, John. England’s all-time leading goal scorer, Rooney will captain […]

An analysis of radar images that peered inside the polar ice caps of Mars shows that Earth’s neighbour is coming out of an ice age that is part of an ongoing cycle of climate change, scientists said on Thursday. The Martian ice began its retreat about 370,000 years ago, marking the end of the last […]

Manchester United have appointed Jose Mourinho as their new manager, Sky Sports News reported on Thursday evening. The 53-year-old Portuguese replaces Dutchman Louis van Gaal whose two-year reign at Old Trafford ended on Monday, two days after United lifted the FA Cup. The self-styled ‘Special One’, Mourinho was sacked by Chelsea in December, ending his […]

Results from the French Open Men’s Singles Round 2 matches on Thursday: 6-Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) beat Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) 6-7(6) 3-6 6-3 6-2 6-2 Nicolas Almagro (Spain) beat Jiri Vesely (Czech Republic) 6-4 6-4 6-3 12-David Goffin (Belgium) beat Carlos Berlocq (Argentina) 7-5 6-1 6-4 Alexander Zverev (Germany) beat Stephane Robert (France) 6-1 3-6 6-1 […]

Vincenzo Guzzo, the IMF’s Resident Representative in Cyprus on Thursday called for greater efforts to prevent the slowly-growing economy from eventually stalling. “Further acceleration may be hard to achieve,” Guzzo cautioned, citing IMF staff projections, where growth is expected to remain at 2 per cent from 2017 through to 2020. NPLs are the biggest drag […]

Marcos Baghdatis was knocked out of the French Open in the second round by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Thursday after letting a two-set lead slip for the first time in his career in a thrilling match. The French sixth seed got off to a shaky start but, backed by the Philippe Chatrier court’s partisan crowd, clawed […]

The Larnaca District Court on Thursday remanded municipal secretary Lefteris Empedoclis for eight days to facilitate police investigations. The 55-year-old is suspected of being involved in bribery, the illegal acquisition of assets, corruption and money laundering. Empedoclis was arrested on Wednesday after Theodosis Chrysostomou, a businessman who owns a night-club in the Mackenzie beach area […]

The Guaba beach bar in Limassol will be jumping – once again – to the sounds of DJ Yves V on Sunday. The Belgian DJ clearly loves the Cypriot music scene, as he got the party started last summer and is determined to do the same on Sunday. Yves V is currently among the biggest […]

The hearing for the extradition of Seif Eldin Mustafa, the 59-year-old hijacker who forced an Egyptair domestic flight to land in Larnaca last March, to Egyptian authorities, will resume on June 1, the Nicosia district court ruled on Thursday. During Thursday’s hearing, the defendant’s lawyer cross-examined officer Vakis Prodromou, who is the police’s lead investigator […]

Nearly 1,000 people were killed in attacks on health centres worldwide over the past two years, almost 40 per cent of them in Syria, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday in its first report on the issue. The United Nations agency documented 594 attacks resulting in 959 deaths and 1,561 injuries in 19 […]

They packed up their belongings and began to walk, some heading for the fields, others to a gas station, all seeking to avoid state-run Greek migrant camps where they fear they will end up trapped. For months they had been living in Idomeni, a sprawling expanse of tents on Greece’s northern border with Macedonia and […]

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to secure the party’s presidential nomination, the Associated Press reported on Thursday, citing its own delegate count. A small number of unbound delegates said they would support Trump at the party’s July convention, the AP reported, pushing the billionaire businessman over the […]

A dominant Rafael Nadal arrived at one career milestone on Thursday but the speed of the Spaniard’s rampage through the early rounds of the French Open suggests his eyes are fixed firmly on another more significant one. The world number five, seeded four at the tournament he once owned, destroyed Argentina’s Facundo Bagnis 6-3 6-0 […]

Police clashed with relatives of murder victim Panagiotis Christodoulou, 38 on Thursday when they began attacking suspected killer Giorgos Xiourouppas after he walked into the Larnaca–Famagusta courtroom. Although Xiourouppas, 45 was supposed to answer the charges – a total of nine, which include premeditated murder and illegal possession of a gun on April 25 this […]

Central Bank of Cyprus Governor Chrystalla Georghadji said that an ongoing study of the bank supervisor showed that while the increase in bad loans over the past years was partly caused by strategic defaults, the main reason was a fall in incomes. “The main reason for the increase in the non-performing loans in Cyprus is […]

Structural reforms act as a catalyst for the credibility of the economy and investor confidence, Undersecretary to the President Constantinos Petrides said on Thursday. Petrides who is also in charge of public sector reform said: “We are midway through transforming Cyprus”. Addressing the 6th Alpha Bank Economic Congress, in Nicosia, Petrides said the crisis of […]

A migrant boat capsized in the Mediterranean on Thursday and about 100 of its passengers have been rescued while the number of dead is unknown, officials said. It was the second shipwreck in two days as sea crossings accelerate amid good weather. Five people were confirmed to have died when a large fishing boat flipped […]

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders could be heading to an unconventional face-off in California, after the two presidential candidates expressed an interest in squaring off in a one-on-one debate. That would leave Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on the sidelines in another bizarre twist to an unconventional election season. Sanders, a US senator from […]

Workers at the Cyprus Ports Authority on Thursday announced a two-hour work stoppage for noon Friday, in protest of management’s decision to accuse SYALK union boss Demetris Patsalos of turning against the authority in correspondence, statements, and articles. According to a statement by SIDIKEK-PEO union, the decision to strike was taken in a general assembly […]

President Nicos Anastasiades will not return to the negotiating table for a solution to the Cyprus problem unless the United Nations issue a correction or statement regarding their handling of the Istanbul incident, in which Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci was invited at the last minute to a dinner for world leaders hosted by Turkish […]

On Tuesday, 24th of May 2016, a press conference was held at ‘The Classic Ηotel’, during which, the Cloud Services by Cablenet Business where presented to the media world. Those present were greeted by the CEO of Cablenet, Mr. Nicolas Siakolas, the CEO of BMIT, Mr. Christian Sammut, whereas the Cloud services where presented by […]

Have you ever wondered how everyday objects affect the way we live and our sense of self? If you have, you are not alone, artist Miriam McConnon has pondered this very question and created a whole collection dedicated to finding the answer. These paintings and drawings will be on show at the Apocalypse Gallery in […]

An Indian man obsessed with setting Guinness world records got 366 flags tattooed on his body and had all his teeth removed so he could put nearly 500 drinking straws and more than 50 burning candles in his mouth. Har Parkash Rishi, who claims to have set more than 20 records, now calls himself Guinness […]

Emirates, which operates daily flights between Dubai and Cyprus, is boosting capacity on its twice weekly service to Larnaca and onward to Malta with the introduction of a Boeing 777-300ER aircraft starting from Wednesday, 1st June 2016. Travellers from Cyprus on this route have the option of either going to Dubai or to Malta. The […]

The Central Bank of Cyprus said that the Administrative Court rejected an ex parte application filed by FBME Bank for an injunction against the supervisory authority’s December 21, 2015 decision to revoke lender’s Cyprus branch licence. “The court said in its ruling that FBME failed to substantiate its allegations in favour of suspending the Central […]