Новости за 13.09.2016

Paris St Germain’s stuttering start to the season continued on Tuesday when they were held to a 1-1 home draw by Arsenal in their Champions League Group A opener. The hosts enjoyed a dream start when Edinson Cavani put them ahead in the first minute but PSG wasted a handful of chances before Alexis Sanchez […]

The US economy could be $1 trillion smaller than otherwise expected in 2021 if Republican candidate Donald Trump wins the presidential election in November, economics research firm Oxford Economics said on Tuesday. While the firm said Trump’s policies – including more protectionist trade measures, tax cuts and mass deportation of illegal immigrants – may be […]

Manchester City’s opening Champions League Group C game against Borussia Moenchengladbach was postponed following torrential rain at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday. An afternoon downpour was followed by persistently heavy rain so referee Bjorn Kuipers and UEFA officials inspected the pitch and, although it appeared to drain well after the rain relented soon afterwards, the […]

Some sixty people and 22 vehicles from various departments were battling a blaze in the area around the villages of Alassa and Lania in Limassol district, which was brought under control on Tuesday night, the fire department said. The fire department reported that nine fire trucks from the rural fire stations of Moniatis, Pachna, Kivides and […]

The Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved the 2017 state budget, the first to be drafted following Cyprus’ exit from the three-year economic adjustment programme. The budget, based on the directives of the 2017-2019 Fiscal Policy Strategic Framework approved by the cabinet last May, is balanced, placing special emphasis on the implementation of development projects […]

The issues that remain to be solved in the Cyprus talks are important, however significant progress has been achieved even on major issues still open, but the prevailing tone is different, the UN secretary-general’s special advisor on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide stressed on Tuesday. Eide was speaking in Athens after meeting Greek Prime Minister Alexis […]

Israel’s elder statesman and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres suffered a stroke on Tuesday and doctors put him in an induced coma in hospital, his office said in a statement. In a career spanning nearly seven decades, Peres, 93, served in a dozen cabinets and twice as a Labour Party prime minister, even though he never […]

Larnaca district court on Tuesday convened at the city’s general hospital to issue remand orders against three men, as one of the suspects broke both legs after jumping from a first-floor balcony in Pyla to escape arrest on Monday. Eight-day remand orders were issued against a 40-year-old Armenian and two 30-year-old Georgian nationals to facilitate […]

Confidential athlete medical data relating to last month’s Rio Olympics has been hacked and published by a Russian cyber espionage group with the threat of more to come, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Tuesday. It identified the group as Tsar Team (APT28), also known as Fancy Bears. The www.fancybear.net website said it had […]

The air is always alive with music, and this week these are only a few of the events that will get your ears perked up and your feet tapping. First off soprano Tina Chester will perform in Paphos under the name Moonlight Serenade. Chester is no stranger to Cyprus, having performed at numerous ventures across […]

Archaeologists working at Kourion in Limassol this year have established that a large building being excavated, which looks to have collapsed during a massive earthquake in the 4th century AD, could either have been an elite residence or a public building. Its full size, construction and history remain unknown, however, the department said. The building […]

A 39-year old woman was remanded by the Limassol District Court for six days in connection with the theft of €8,672 from a private language school. The woman, a secretary at the school, is accused by the owner of stealing the money between October 7, 2015 and May 24, 2016. The suspect denies any involvement […]

Britain recorded its warmest September day in more than 100 years on Tuesday with temperatures rising to over 34 degrees Celsius in the southern county of Kent. The Met Office said on its Twitter page the town of Gravesend recorded a temperature of 34.4 degrees Celsius , making it the hottest day of the year. […]

A shipment of cannabis imported from Greece through a private moving company was still waiting on Tuesday to be collected almost a month after police set up a controlled delivery. After receiving a tip-off, police intercepted the 30kg shipment, which arrived in boxes on August 17. It is thought that the recipient realised that the […]

Norway’s prime minister said on Tuesday she wanted to work with Facebook to promote education in an apparent gesture of peace after a row with the company for deleting a Vietnam War photo of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack. Facebook re-instated the 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph on Friday after Solberg and others accused […]

Animal rights activists clashed with locals holding an annual bull-lancing festival in central Spain on Tuesday at which participants were for the first time in centuries banned from killing a bull after chasing it on horseback. The “Toro de la Vega” (Bull of the Plain) festival, in the small town of Tordesillas, dates back to […]

The House institutions committee complained on Tuesday that MPs are asked to hastily vote on numerous urgent bills that aim to harmonise national laws with those of the EU. The head of the committee, Disy’s Zacharias Zachariou, said not a single one of the 41 bills that had to be passed into law by the […]

The United States and Israel have reached final agreement on a record new package of at least $38 billion in US military aid and the 10-year pact is expected to be signed this week, sources close to the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. The deal will represent the biggest pledge of US military assistance made […]

Mistakes were made in the handling of the secondment by the education ministry of Despo Sergiou, a teacher – and elected member of ruling Disy’s political bureau – to Cyprus’ Permanent Representation of the European Union (PREE), but under no circumstances was there any intention to favour her over other candidates, minister Costas Kadis told […]

According to figures released by the European Commission last week, €159.5bn in Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue was lost across the EU in 2014. Calls by the Commission to overhaul and improve the EU’s VAT system have grown louder after the unacceptably high figure was released. In percentage terms, the VAT gap was highest in […]

A Paphos resident was remanded in custody for six days on Tuesday in connection with numerous burglaries over the past year. The 51-year-old was arrested on Monday as part of an investigation into a series of burglaries and thefts that took place between 2015 and September this year. Police said a search of the suspect’s […]

Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos promised on Tuesday to provide Cyprus with all the information, stored in various archives in Greece, regarding the 1974 coup and subsequent Turkish invasion of the island. Speaking after a meeting with House President Demetris Syllouris, Kammenos said the Greek government had decided to hand over any other available information, […]

Novels on subjects ranging from murder in 19th century Scotland to classical music in revolutionary China were short-listed on Tuesday for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, considered one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards. Three British authors joined two US writers and one Canadian on the shortlist for the 50,000 pound award for fiction, […]

A decision on former world number one tennis player Maria Sharapova’s appeal against a two-year doping ban will be issued in the first week of next month, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Tuesday. Five-time grand slam winner Sharapova, 29, was banned by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in June following a positive […]

The number of workers in the wider public sector rose in April to June by 417 in a year or 6.4 per cent to 64,734, which is the highest since the fourth quarter of 2014, the statistical service said. The increase was mainly on a rise in the number of workers employed by the central […]