Новости за 16.07.2016

Briton Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) won the 14th stage of the Tour de France after a sprint finish at the end of a 208.5-km ride from Montelimar on Saturday. Briton Chris Froome (Team Sky) retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey.

Chelsea have signed France midfielder N’Golo Kante from Premier League champions Leicester City on a five-year contract, the Londoners said on Saturday. Kante, 25, is new manager Antonio Conte’s second acquisition, following Olympique Marseille’s Belgium striker Michy Batshuayi, and arrives after playing at Euro 2016. “I am so happy to have signed for one of […]

Russian hammer thrower Sergei Litvinov believes the country’s athletes will be given a lifeline by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to compete at next month’s Rio Olympics. Sport’s highest court is set to rule by Thursday on the country’s suspension from track and field and Litvinov is confident CAS will overturn the ban […]

A search-and-rescue exercise, code-named ‘CYPUK-01/16’, will be conducted early on Sunday off Cyprus’ coast, with the participation of air and naval forces from Cyprus and the United Kingdom, a defence ministry statement said on Saturday. According to the statement, “coordination and operational command of the forces that will participate in the exercise will be with […]

A bushfire raging near Lofou, Limassol, on Saturday, was put under partial control late in the afternoon, the fire service reported. The fire has burnt through eight hectares of dry bush but posed no threat to residential areas. Strong winds increase the risk of a flare-up and complicated the task of putting out the fire, […]

Iran said on Saturday it fully supported the government of neighbouring Turkey against an attempted military coup launched on Friday night, despite Tehran and Ankara’s differences over Syria and other issues. The senior aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Tehran backed Turkey’s elected government against the coup but it expected Ankara […]

Turkish maritime authorities have reopened Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait to transiting tankers after shutting it earlier on Saturday for several hours following what the government said was an attempted coup by a faction in the military. The Bosphorus is one of world’s most important chokepoints for the maritime transit of oil with over three percent of […]

Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch was strangled by her brother in what appears to be an “honour killing”, police said on Saturday, shocking the south Asian nation where she divided opinion. Baloch’s raunchy social media photos challenged social norms in Pakistan, a deeply conservative Muslim country where women are often repressed by their family […]

Greece will examine the request for political asylum by eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece in a helicopter earlier on Saturday, two Greek government sources said. Greece arrested the men after they landed in the northern Greek city of Alexandroupolis. They are due to appear before a Greek prosecutor on Sunday, one of the […]

House Speaker Demetris Syllouris, who is serving as acting president in President Nicos Anastasiades’ absence, is in constant contact with him over monitoring the latest developments in Turkey, he said in a statement on Saturday. In the statement, Syllouris said he had chaired “a ministerial team, which was briefed by the leaderships of the security […]

A 51-year-old Israeli woman was seriously injured on Friday, when she fell down the stairs of the Peyia house she had rented for her holidays. According to a police report, the woman underwent surgery at Nicosia General Hospital, before being transferred to the intensive care unit for further treatment. The 51-year-old was injured at around […]

A sport pistol with four rounds of cartridges were found in a garbage can outside the Glafcos Clerides airport in Larnaca on Friday night, police said. The pistol, which was not in usable condition, was found in a garbage can in an area outside the airport around 8 pm on Friday. Police suspect it was […]

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the truck attack in the French city of Nice on Saturday and police arrested three more people there after the carnage that claimed the lives of at least 84 people. “The person who carried out the operation in Nice, France, to run down people was one of the soldiers of […]

Those Cypriot citizens who are in Turkey and have contacted the authorities following the attempted coup on Friday, are all safe the foreign ministry said on Saturday. All citizens are urged to stay indoors and refrain from wandering around, the ministry said in announcement. It also advised anyone who is planning to visit Turkey to postpone […]

Pissouri residents say they are fed up with living with water shortages especially during the summer months which can leave homes and businesses without water for days at a time. Last July, problems with the main water supply resulted in water shortages in the popular tourist area of almost a week. It took the water […]

(Adds NATO statement, paragraph 14, 16) By Alistair Bell WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) – The United States called on all parties in Turkey to support President Tayyip Erdogan’s government against a coup attempt as world leaders expressed concern about the upheaval in a NATO member country that bridges Europe and the Middle East. President Barack […]

A SUPREME Court decision to reduce the jail term of two men found guilty of raping a 50-year-old woman unleashed a wave of anger on Friday from support groups and members of the public who are staging a protest in response. The case concerns two men from Romania, who in 2013 at age 27, raped […]

A BIG FUSS was made in the social media and some papers because the Antiquities Department gave permission for a private concert to be held at the ancient Curium amphitheatre. It was inaccurately reported that a wedding reception had been held there for the son of the former DISY deputy Maria Kyriakou. Ms Kyriakou had […]

THIS is not an article on South Sudan, which is just as well because the conflicts there are almost fractal in their complexity. The mini-war last weekend between the forces of President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar, which killed more than 270 people and saw tanks, artillery and helicopter gunships used in the capital, […]

Flights to Turkey diverted and departures from Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport were canceled as a coup attempt unfolded in the country on Friday and Turkey’s military said it had seized power. A Reuters witness in Istanbul, citing a pilot, said all upcoming flights from the Istanbul airport had been canceled. Flight tracking website FlightAware.com so far listed 33 canceled […]

Access was restricted in Turkey on Friday to Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc’s YouTube shortly after news that a military coup was under way, according to two internet monitoring groups. Twitter’s official global public policy team tweeted: “We have no reason to think we’ve been fully blocked in #Turkey, but we suspect there is an […]

Below is a timeline of breaking events in Turkey on Friday. All times in GMT, based the times Reuters reported the events. Reuters does not vouch for events reported by other media. 2226 – Two loud explosions heard in centre of Turkish capital 2208 – Tanks surround Turkish parliament building, open fire. Gunfire heard at Istanbul airport. […]

President Nicos Anastasiades may come back to Cyprus sooner than originally planned from the ASEM summit in Mongolia following the coup in Turkey, sources close to the palace told the Cyprus Mail early Saturday. “[Angela] Merkel and [Dmitry] Medvedev will meet soon and according to developments the President may cut his visit short and head […]

Here are some details about the military coups in the last 50 years, which have unseated four elected governments in Turkey: 1960: — On May 2, an almost bloodless military coup was carried out, led by officers and cadets from the Istanbul and Ankara war colleges. — The next day, the commander of land forces, General […]