Новости за 06.08.2016

By Alexandra Ulmer In what might well become the defining image of Brazil’s Olympics, the beach volleyball competition kicked off on the iconic Copacabana beach on Saturday to the cheers of hundreds of fired-up Brazilian fans. The only problem was that many more spectators were left waiting outside the venue in long queues. With the […]

By Pritha Sarkar Dethroning champions China has been the number one target for Japan at the Rio Olympics but after a day of falls and botched landings in men’s qualifying on Saturday, Kohei Uchimura and his team mates were left with sore bodies and bruised egos. Uchimura suffered the most spectacular of falls from the horizontal bar — […]

By Mary Milliken Unflappable American teenager Virginia Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Saturday, holding her nerve against two Chinese Olympic champions to clinch the women’s 10m air rifle event. The 19-year-old U.S. college champion edged out China’s Du Li, gold in Athens in 2004, with an Olympic-record […]

The work of Cypriot directors continues to be honoured by the cultural centre Technopolis 20 in Paphos this month during its open-air cinema event. The cultural centre will continue to screen feature and short films every Tuesday at 8.30pm. This Tuesday the documentary The Cypriot Fiddler by Nicoletta Dimitriou will be screened. The documentary follows […]

  Police on Saturday denied suggestions that a police officer deliberately mishandled a tip-off from Serbian Interpol alerting them to a possible murder attempt on Ayia Napa businessman Phanos Kalopsidiotis back in March, but conceded an administrative error had occurred. Kalopsidiotis, 51, was shot dead in his Ayia Napa restaurant on June 23 along with […]

TURKEY’S failed coup and President Tayyip Erdogan’s subsequent purges of state institutions are reminiscent of the Reichstag fire in Nazi Germany and its use by Hitler to amass greater power, the head of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party said. The blaze in the German parliament building in 1933 was portrayed by the Nazis as a Communist […]

Three decades after media mogul Rupert Murdoch instigated its demise as the centuries-old home of Britain’s newspaper industry, London’s Fleet Street bade farewell on Friday to its last two journalists. Known as the “Street of Shame”, Fleet Street once housed thousands of reporters, editors and printers working for the country’s biggest national papers as well […]

Swimmers at the Paphos municipal baths beach have been treated to the sight of two loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) swimming in the area. The head of Paphos swimmers association Matheos Ierokipiotis told the Cyprus News Agency that the two turtles have been seen in the area over the last few days. “Many of us had […]

South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has won most votes in Tshwane municipality, home to the capital Pretoria, the state news agency said on Saturday, dealing a major blow to the ruling African National Congress (ANC). The DA garnered 43.1 percent of votes compared with 41.48 percent for the ANC in the municipality, the South African Government News Agency […]

A car was destroyed and another was damaged by fire in Nicosia on Saturday morning. According to the fire service, four fire engines responded after being alerted at around 8.25am that two vehicles were in flames on the ground-floor parking of a five-storey apparent building in Kaimakli. The fire, which was put out some 20 […]

The Nautilos Youth Centre in Nicosia has a lot lined-up this month with food as the focus. With the recent opening of Jamie Oliver’s Italian restaurant in the capital, and with all the hype going on around the chief’s food, you might want to get to know Oliver a bit better by watching Jamie Oliver’s […]

ALL general stores ought to remain closed on the religious holiday of August 15, the labour ministry said in an announcement on Saturday. Specialty stores may remain open on this date, but under the law employees must be compensated with double pay per hour of work, the ministry said.

Police are looking for 17-year-old Ana Maria Isabela Matei from Romania who has been reported missing from her Limassol home since Tuesday. Ana Maria is described as 1.80m tall, thin, with black hair and brown eyes. Police are urging anyone who possesses any information that could help trace Ana Maria to contact the Limassol CID or the […]

Three Cypriot athletes will compete during the first day of the 31st modern Olympic Games in Rio, in swimming and gymnastics. The opening ceremony of the Olympics took place at the Maracana Stadium with the Cypriot team being the 46th team to enter the stadium among 207 delegations. The Cypriot flag was held by silver […]

  By Emily Stephenson and James Oliphant Republican Donald Trump acted to steer his White House campaign back into favour with his party’s establishment on Friday by endorsing US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and two Republican senators seeking re-election, after expressing coolness toward them earlier this week. “I need a Republican Senate and […]

The first new asthma pill in decades has produced promising results in a small clinical trial, potentially paving the way for another treatment option for patients by the end of the decade. Fevipiprant, which is being developed by Novartis, reduced a biological marker of asthma nearly five-fold in the 12-week trial involving 61 patients, researchers […]

US-backed forces trying to oust Islamic State militants from the Syrian city of Manbij took “almost complete control” of the city on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), which includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia and Arab fighters, launched its campaign two months ago with the backing of […]

  A 39-year-old man from Poland who was arrested on Friday after he admitted to the police he had smuggled bags of cocaine into Cyprus in his stomach was remanded on Saturday for six days. The incident emerged after the man was found Friday morning in the departure lounge of the Larnaca airport doubled over […]

  A fire swept through a bar in the northern French city of Rouen overnight, killing 13 people and injuring six, after a birthday cake with candles and sparklers fell to the floor and set the carpet ablaze, police said. The fire broke out in the basement of the popular Cuba Libre bar and quickly […]

By Mary Milliken and Caroline Stauffer Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, all to the pounding beat of samba, bossa nova and funk. Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer declared open […]

Tonight the Ithaki Beach bar in Moni, Limassol, will make sure Saturday night partying follows into Sunday morning, with the sounds of DJ Priku. Adrian Niculae – or DJ Priku as he is known on the decks – from Romania, is a passionate music maker. Priku started experimenting with electronic sounds in 2004 and became […]

HUMAN trafficking has evolved in over a decade into a complex crime that includes sexual and work exploitation, forced begging, illegal adoptions and sham marriages, the head of the task force combating the crime said on Friday, as she received a second award in as many months. But it has not been easy as the […]

THE data released by JCC, the company administering credit card payments, was very revealing as it put into context the angry statements of the last week about the use of Ercan/Tymbou airport by Greek Cypriots. Citing the large number of passengers that used Ercan in 2015 (between 3.5 and 4 million) some parties had called […]