Новости за 09.08.2016

Pavlos Kontides made an impressive start on the second day of the sailing competition at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday, winning the first race of the day in the laser class. The result more than made up for his terrible performance in Monday’s second race when he finished 31st. Tuesday’s second race saw the Limassol […]

Almost two and a half thousand motorists were caught speeding in the first week of August, according to figures released Tuesday by the police. In an anti-speeding campaign, the fourth carried out this year, traffic departments of all cities and headquarters police managed to bust 2,491 people for breaking the limit between August 1 and […]

British couple Mike and Ruth, were the first to tie the knot at the new civil wedding venue of ‘Aoratos’ in Ayia Napa municipality on Tuesday. The particular area the tourist couple chose, which means invisible in Greek, lies in the Cape Greco area and is famous as it has one of the most photographed […]

Energy cooperation between Cairo and Nicosia, developments on the Cyprus issue and the promotion of business projects were the focal point of discussions on Tuesday between Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides and Egypt’s political leadership. Kasoulides met in Cairo with Prime Minister Sherif Ismail and was later received by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The meeting lasted […]

Brazil’s first gold medal has boosted Olympic ticket sales and organisers expect attendances to pick up in coming days, although some venues including the Copacabana beach volleyball arena are still struggling to fill seats. Judoka Rafaela Silva, who grew up in Rio’s notorious Cidade de Deus favela, burst into tears on Monday as she held […]

If you are interested in issues that have to do with how you could grow your business, start a business or how to go about doing business with other professionals in Egypt, Dubai or Greece, then the Med Business Expo 2016 is a two-day event you should consider. The trade exhibition – conference will take […]

Of the around 20,000 ancient artefacts stored in the Paphos museum basement, only 5,000 have been digitised in the last seven years, the town’s mayor Phedonas Phedonos said on Tuesday. On Tuesday the head of the antiquities department Marina Solomidou-Ieronymidou visited the Paphos museum, accompanied by curator Despo Pilidou, in a bid to inform the […]

The officer working in the Interpol office in Nicosia who made the blunder of placing a call to criminal elements in Serbia has been transferred, the police confirmed on Tuesday as the attorney-general appointed three investigators to look into possible corruption and dereliction of duty by members of the police force over the debacle. Police […]

The education ministry announced on Tuesday that an administrative inquiry has been ordered into how high school pupils ended up travelling with a Turkish airline that used Tymbou airport in the occupied north. The probe was ordered after daily Phileleftheros reported that pupils and teachers used Pegasus Airlines to fly to Trabzon, Turkey for the […]

The death of an infant born with the birth defect microcephaly in the Houston area has been linked to the Zika virus, with the baby becoming infected in the womb while the mother travelled to Latin America, Texas health officials said on Tuesday. The Texas Department of State Health Services said the infant died in […]

A British national who attempted to smuggle tobacco and cigarettes from the north was on Tuesday hit with a hefty fine after having the duty free products seized. Customs officers manning the checkpoint in Ledra street stopped the man, who was carrying ten kilos of rolling tobacco and 13 cartons of cigarettes, on none of […]

Germany appears to have drastically curtailed its open-door policy for migrants in 2016, turning away 13,000 people without valid documentation in the first six months, already 4,000 more than in the whole of 2015, official data showed on Tuesday. Around 117,500 migrants were admitted in the same period, compared to a record of more than […]

A Royal Air Force helicopter was forced to land high up a mountain in Wales on Tuesday because of a technical problem and all four people on board managed to get off safely before it caught fire, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said. The ministry said the Griffin training helicopter had made a “precautionary landing” in […]

Police on Tuesday issued a missing persons bulletin for 16-year-old Alexandros Christodoulou from Limassol. Christodoulou has been missing since 8pm on Friday, August 5. He is slim, 1.70m tall, with short blond hair. Anyone with information on his whereabouts should contact Limassol CID, the public hotline 1460, or the nearest police station.  

Greek champions Olympiakos Piraeus have parted company with Spanish coach Victor Sanchez, they said in a statement on the club website on Tuesday. Former Olympiakos assistant manager Sanchez succeeded Marco Silva as head coach on June 23, but his side were stunned in the Champions League third qualifying round when they lost to Israeli champions […]

A mosaic depicting ancient chariot races was fully revealed by archaeologists for the first time on Tuesday at the Piadhia site in Akaki in the Nicosia district in the presence of Transport Minister Marios Demetriades and antiquities officials. The minster called the mosaic floor a “truly remarkable finding”. The mosaic is 26 metres long and […]

Flights at Larnaca airport faced delays, Tuesday following an incident involving a light aircraft which lost a wheel and a propeller on landing, without however causing any injuries to the two people on board. In a written statement, airport operator Hermes said that “due to the incident which occurred at 14:30 on the runway of […]

AS a dozen scantily clad Brazilian Samba dancers gyrated on to the stage, rocking peacock-style headdresses and glittery thongs, Usain Bolt was not about to be intimidated or upstaged. Instead, the world 100 and 200 metres record holder hoisted his arms in the air and began moving to the Samba beats, delighting hundreds of journalists […]

Turkey on Tuesday warned of rising anti-American sentiment and risks to a migrant deal with the European Union, ramping up the rhetoric in the face of Western alarm over the scale of purges in state institutions since last month’s failed coup. President Tayyip Erdogan, who was in Russia on Tuesday for talks with Vladimir Putin […]

The European Union should end accession negotiations with Turkey completely due to President Tayyip Erdogan’s “undemocratic initiatives” and his support for reintroducing the death penalty, Denmark’s government party said on Tuesday. “The red line is crossed for what should be a minimum for an EU candidate country,” foreign policy spokesman for the Liberal Party, Michael […]

Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan have a lot in common. They are what old-style newspapers liked to call “strongmen”. Neither is overly fond of dissent and they both upset Western leaders on a regular basis. The rub is that until now they have not been getting along very well. Putin imposed trade sanctions […]

Building permits were up in the first five months of the year, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Statistical Service. It said that during the period January – May, 2.156 building permits were issued compared to 2.034 in the corresponding period of the previous year. The total value of these permits decreased by […]

A bomb in a crowded in market in the north Afghanistan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Tuesday killed at least two people and wounded 15, police officials said. Mazar-i-Sharif, an important commercial centre near the border with Uzbekistan, has generally been spared the violence unleashed by insurgent groups battling the NATO-backed government in Kabul. The attack […]

Delta Air Lines Inc said it was cancelling some 300 flights on Tuesday morning, higher than an earlier estimate of 250, as the carrier worked to restore operations after a power outage hit its computer systems on Monday. The company, which has not yet given details about the financial impact of the outage, said it […]

British banks will from 2018 have to share customers’ data with third parties who can then show how much could be saved by using other lenders, the competition watchdog said on Tuesday. Customers currently are paying more than they should for banking and are not benefiting from new services, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) […]