Новости за 16.08.2016

Sergio Aguero scored a hat-trick – and missed two penalties – as Manchester City all but secured a place in the Champions League group stage with an emphatic 5-0 win over Steaua Bucharest on Tuesday night. David Silva and Nolito were also on target as City, with Joe Hart again on the bench, eased to victory […]

Cypriot Olympic hope, sailor Pavlos Kontides failed to win a bronze medal, finishing in seventh place in the final standings on the last day of the laser class sailing at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday. Kontides finished sixth in his final race. The gold medal was won by Australian Tom Burton, the silver by Tonci […]

POLICE said late Tuesday they were in the process of securing arrest warrants for three persons, two men, thought to be responsible for the killing of Briton George Low on Sunday in Ayia Napa, and a woman for being an accessory to their escape. “We are seeking two Turkish Cypriot men in connection with the […]

TWO Brits traveling from Jordan to the United Kingdom through Larnaca were fined €1,600 each on Tuesday by the Larnaca District Court, after admitting to trying to smuggle 600 cartons, each containing 200 cigarettes, in their luggage. The two men arrived at Larnaca airport on Sunday afternoon from Amman, Jordan. During baggage checks, the Customs […]

TWO and a half years after being appointed Auditor-general, Odysseas Michaelides said he has found corruption levels in the broader public sector to be more than he thought it would be before taking over. In an interview to local daily Phileleftheros, Michaelides, who has grown increasingly unpopular among top government officials who claim his snooping […]

CYPRUS recorded the second biggest reduction in the number of recorded serious road injuries between 2010 and 2015, according to the European Transport Safety Council’s (ETSC) latest report. However, according to the same report, the number of road deaths on the island during the same period fell by a mere 5 percent. The ETSC report, […]

FISHERMEN with spear-guns have been spotted fishing near bathers at beaches, the Cyprus Marine and Port police cautioned on Tuesday. In a news conference, port police head Kyriacos Mavris said that the middle of the summer season sees many people taking to the beach, and issued advice to beachgoers. Although very few serious accidents in […]

THE owners of holiday homes and residents of an area of Peyia demonstrated at the town hall on Tuesday, demanding supply of clean water after their source was contaminated. The problem has affected some 300 dwellings for the past two months. The homes are connected to a private well belonging to the developer who constructed […]

POLICE want to question a second Greek Cypriot man whom they suspect of being involved in the moving of 156 kilos of cocaine discovered in a bonded warehouse in Limassol on August 4. Police investigators told Limassol district court on Tuesday that this man is a friend of the 44-year-old Greek Cypriot who is currently […]

Bastian Schweinsteiger and Lukas Podolski will be honoured with farewell matches after announcing their retirement from international duty, according to a statement by the German Football Association. Schweinsteiger revealed his intention to end his international career after winning his 120th cap in Germany’s Euro 2016 semi-final defeat by France in July, and will have a […]

Joao Havelange, the former president of FIFA, died in Rio de Janeiro’s Samaritano Hospital on Tuesday, the hospital said, without giving further details until authorised by his family. The former Olympic swimmer and water polo player for Brazil had been in and out of the hospital in recent months with respiratory problems. Havelange, who was […]

On being introduced to the ‘halohalo’, I’m pretty sure it should be served by a moustachi-oed French bartender, and drunk by trenchcoat-wearing women who dash in and murmur ‘listen very carefully, I shall drink this only once…’ Not handed over a modern counter by the striking, twenty-something Mila, barista at her father’s Tea One shop […]

Germany’s European Affairs Minister held out the possibility of Britain achieving “special status” in its relationship with the European Union but pressed London to get on with starting talks on leaving the bloc early next year. British media reported at the weekend that London could delay triggering the procedure for exiting the EU until later […]

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique has confirmed that more new faces will arrive at the Nou Camp this transfer window while some squad members will be sold. The Spanish champions have recruited Andre Gomes, Samuel Umtiti, Lucas Digne and Denis Suarez since the end of last season while Marc Bartra, Thomas Vermaelen, Adriano Correia and Sandro […]

Archbishop Chrysostomos on Monday said that he had made many interventions to the government for shops to remain closed on August 15 and on Sundays but without any result. Speaking to CyBC on the occasion of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, the Archbishop said his efforts had not been heard. “The supermarkets want to […]

Two men in the Grand-Synthe migrant camp near Dunkirk in northern France were being treated in hospital for gunshot wounds after a fight broke out on Monday night, a police official told Reuters. The two migrants, one of whom was Iraqi, had been taken to a hospital in Dunkirk, the official said on Tuesday. Police […]

Fund managers, some of whom lent money to Athens in an ill-fated return to markets two years ago, are considering buying another bond planned for next summer. With the highest debt to GDP ratio in the eurozone, and on its third international bailout since sinking into crisis in 2009, Athens is hoping to regain access […]

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci will be flying to Ankara on Tuesday evening for a meeting with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday morning but no information was given about the agenda. Akinci will be accompanied by the Turkish Cypriot negotiator in the reunification talks, Ozdil Nami, and other associates. He […]

President Nicos Anastasiades expressed his determination to stamp out corruption in the police force and warned the underworld that its end was nigh. “It is a shame that a minority of corrupt policemen discredit an entire force, which has so many successes to show, and create the wrong impression about honest officers,” Anastasiades told the […]

Russian bombers based in Iran on Tuesday struck militant targets inside Syria, the Russian Defence Ministry said, after Moscow deployed Russian aircraft to an Iranian air force base to widen its campaign in Syria. The ministry said the strikes, by Tupolev-22M3 long-range bombers and Sukhoi-34 fighter bombers, were launched from Iran’s Hamadan air base. It […]

Three people died and three were injured in a collision involving a pleasure boat and a speedboat off the Greek island of Aegina close to Athens on Tuesday, the coastguard said. Circumstances of the collision were unclear. Private vessels were collecting survivors who had fallen into the water, a coastguard official said. There were about […]

A fire at the Paralimni lake area has been put under control, authorities said on Tuesday. The fire, which burned wild shrub and reeds, was brought under full control at 2.25pm, the fire service said. Earlier, reports said there was also a power outage in the area. The fire service said four engines were on […]

By Preston Wilder There’s limited release and then there’s Midnight Special, playing a single late-night show on just three screens across the island (it’s not showing at all if you’re in Limassol) on the slowest week of the year, when everything is shut for August 15. Granted, the previous three films by writer-director Jeff Nichols […]

Serbian-born Cypriot athlete Milan Trajkovic has qualified for the men’s 110m hurdles semi-final in the Rio Olympics. The 24-year-old athlete competed on Monday at the Rio Olympic Stadium during a sudden and heavy downpour, which did not discourage him. Trajkovic finished with a time of 13.59 and qualified third in his series and with the […]

A 76-year-old man died on Tuesday morning in Akaki after his vehicle was crushed by a water tank that was being towed by a tractor. At some point the steel tank disengaged from the tractor, tipped over and hit the 76-year-old pick up, which was following. Reports said the man was rushed to hospital where […]