Новости за 19.06.2016

Istanbul riot police fired tear gas and rubber pellets on Sunday to disperse a march for transgender people banned after ultra-nationalists said that “degenerates” could not demonstrate. Hundreds of riot police cordoned off the city’s main Taksim Square to prevent the “Trans Pride” rally taking place during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Authorities have […]

By Emily Stephenson Republican Donald Trump said on Sunday the United States should consider more racial profiling in law enforcement, after urging harsher policies following last week’s mass shooting in Orlando. “I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country,” Trump said when asked on CBS whether […]

Nico Rosberg won the first Formula One race held in Azerbaijan on Sunday to turn the championship tide and stretch his lead over Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton to 24 points. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel finished as runner-up, 16.6 seconds behind, with Force India’s Mexican Sergio Perez back on the podium for the second time this […]

The memory units of both flight recorders from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 are severely damaged and will require “lots of time and effort” to fix, Egyptian aircraft accident investigation committee sources said on Sunday. The committee is analysing the memory units from the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) before determining […]

By Julien Pretot PARIS, June 18 (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo missed a second-half penalty and had a late headed effort disallowed as Portugal’s future at Euro 2016 looked in jeopardy following a 0-0 draw against Austria in a wide open Group F on Saturday. Ronaldo won his 128th cap to break the record of Luis […]

All firefighting units of the Republic have been mobilised to battle a blaze that broke out at around 1.30pm in the village of Evrychou in the Nicosia district, which was still out of control late afternoon on Sunday. Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos told CNA that four villages had been evacuated; Kourdali, Spilia, Ayia Irini and […]

By Julia Fioretti Brussels central train station was evacuated for about an hour on Sunday because of a suspicious suitcase amid heightened security fears in the Belgian capital after a huge anti-terror operation led to three men being charged with terrorism offences. The suitcase later turned out to be a false alarm but shows Belgium’s […]

Fourteen people, mostly children, have died after boats capsized in stormy weather during an outing on a lake in the Republic of Karelia in north-west Russia, the local Emergencies Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. It said it had completed search and rescue operations. There were 51 people, including four adults, on the outing. […]

A giant tourism project in the Yeroskipou, Paphos, area, named Eden City with a reported construction budget of around €3 billion, is facing delays and may even be denied by the government because of a bureaucracy-induced glitch in calculating the cost of leasing a chunk of government land. The planned project, proposed in January 2014 […]

Migrant support group KISA on Sunday called for a comprehensive integration policy and equal participation of asylum seekers and people with international protection in society. The call came a ahead of World Refugee Day on Monday. KISA also called on the Cyprus government to abandon the policy of concession of subsidiary protection status to beneficiaries […]

Turkish border guards shot dead at least 11 Syrians, mostly from one family, as they tried to cross into Turkey from northwestern Syria, activists and a monitoring group said on Sunday. At least two women and four children were among those killed in the shootings overnight as the refugees sought to cross into Turkey from […]

Iran has reached a deal to buy 100 planes from U.S. planemaker Boeing, and the two sides are awaiting approval by U.S. Treasury authorities, the head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation said in remarks published by state media on Sunday. So far, Boeing has only been granted permission to present its products to IranAir and […]

The Kremlin on Sunday rejected a suggestion by senior British government officials it may have deliberately sanctioned violence by Russian soccer hooligans at the Euro 2016 tournament in France as anti-Russian hysteria. It spoke out after Britain’s Observer newspaper published a report citing the unnamed British officials as saying they suspected the Kremlin may have […]

Russia said on Sunday it had reached an agreement with the United States on the need to improve coordination between their military operations in Syria, where they are backing opposing sides of a civil war and launching air strikes. Moscow’s intervention on the side of President Bashar al-Assad, alongside Western backing for rebel groups and […]

TEN years ago Paphos secured a Guinness World Record for the longest bra chain, the town ceded the title to Australia four years later. Now a group of Paphos women have pledged to win it back for Paphos in October 2017. The four women, who are all volunteer fundraisers supporting Archangel Michael hospice or the […]

By William James The campaign to decide Britain’s membership of the European Union restarted on Sunday after a three-day hiatus following the killing of lawmaker Jo Cox, with Prime Minister David Cameron warning that Britons faced an “existential choice” on Thursday. Campaigning activities ahead of the June 23 EU referendum resumed as two opinion polls […]

Italians began voting on Sunday for mayors of their largest cities in a ballot that will test Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s popularity and could hand control of the capital Rome to the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S). Renzi’s Democratic Party (PD) took a bruising in the first round of voting on June 5. Italy’s four biggest […]

Police were on Sunday trying to locate a Turkish Cypriot woman, 56, who appeared to have absconded with her grandchildren aged five and six, according to the Cyprus News Agency. According to the report, the children’s father, a Norwegian national and permanent resident of Cyprus, 44, told police that his mother-in-law had disappeared from their […]

By Tim Kelly Thousands of people gathered on the Japanese island of Okinawa on Sunday in one of the biggest demonstrations in two decades against U.S. military bases following the arrest of an American suspected of murdering a local woman. The protest marks a new low for the United States and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo […]

Flash floods and landslides killed 24 people in Indonesia’s Central Java province, officials said on Sunday, forcing residents to evacuate to safer areas as torrential rains damaged thousands of homes. Rescue teams searched for 26 others who remained missing after the region, among the most densely populated parts of the country, saw heavy rainfall overnight. […]

Arrest warrants were issued in the early hours of Sunday after an incident in Nicosia when a 30-year-old man tried to run over three other men, two aged 19 and one aged 22, after they harassed him and his girlfriend, police said. According to police, the 30-year-old was sitting in the parked car with his […]

France coach Didier Deschamps has proved himself as a flexible tactician as the hosts have became the first team to reach the last 16 of Euro 2016. While his predecessor Laurent Blanc rarely tinkered with his team during a game, Deschamps was quick to react when France laboured in a 4-2-3-1 formation in the first […]

Two individuals, a man from Argaka in Paphos and a woman from Syria were remanded for four days by the Paphos court on Sunday on suspicion of starting a devastating fire on Saturday that was still smoking, though brought under control early on Sunday. The, pair whose aged varied from 62 and 46 to 52 […]

After a couple of solid defensive performances in defeats by Switzerland and France, Albania need to discover some scoring form against Romania, their Italian coach Gianni De Biasi said ahead of Sunday’s vital Euro 2016 Group A fixture. The Albanians held their own for long spells in the opening 1-0 loss to the Swiss and […]

IT is 330 kilometres long, has more than 100 hairpin corners, and offers some of the most incredible views in Europe. The breathtaking pass overlooked by ‘Dracula’s castle’ in Romania is one of six routes including Yorkshire’s Blakey Ridge brought to life in ‘Europe’s Greatest Driving Roads’. Ford Performance’s award-winning engineers regularly drive the most […]