Новости за 18.10.2016

Leicester City are on the brink of qualifying for the Champions League knockout stages after a 1-0 win over Copenhagen on Tuesday continued to defy their domestic woes and kept up a perfect record in Group G. For the third time this term Leicester went into a Champions League game on the back of a […]

Bayer Leverkusen and Tottenham Hotspur fought out a goalless draw in their Champions League Group E match on Tuesday, with each team missing golden chances in an entertaining encounter. The visitors were in control of the first half, hitting the woodwork through Vincent Janssen, while Leverkusen were in complete command after the break, squandering half […]

The European Union should implement visa-free travel for Turks by the end of the year and stop insisting Turkey change its anti-terrorism laws or Ankara may cancel its side of a deal to readmit illegal migrants, Turkey’s EU minister told Reuters. Turkey agreed in March to stop illegal migrants from crossing into Greece in exchange […]

Former director of the Paphos Sewerage Board (Sapa) Eftichios Malekkides threatened former Paphos mayor Fidias Sarikas after a row between the two men, defence witness Neofytos Koutalianos testified in court on Tuesday. Sarikas, along with former Paphos municipal councilors Giorgos Michaelides, Efstathios Efstathiou and Vasos Vasiliou and sitting councilor Giorgos Shailis, face charges of receiving […]

MPs expressed concerns on Tuesday that milk powder may be being used in halloumi production as available quantities of cow, sheep and goat milk cannot account for the almost double than anticipated production numbers. The issue was discussed at the House agriculture committee, which raised concerns over the lack of government control over imports of […]

US President Barack Obama lacerated Donald Trump on Tuesday over his repeated assertions that the Nov. 8 election is rigged against him, telling the Republican presidential candidate to “stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.” With opinion polls showing him falling further back in recent days against his White House […]

President Nicos Anastasiades agreed on Tuesday with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny to set up a working group which will study the consequences of the exit of the United Kingdom from the EU. The president, who is in Ireland on an official two-day visit, met Kenny at his office in Dublin, accompanied by the Government […]

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday he expects to work closely with the new UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in achieving a settlement solution. In his congratulatory message to Guterres after his election as UNSG, Anastasiades pledged his and the government’s full co-operation in the exercise of his duties. “I wish you every success in […]

Young Americans are so dissatisfied with their choices in this presidential election that nearly one in four told an opinion poll they would rather have a giant meteor destroy the Earth than see Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the White House. The tongue-in-cheek question was intended to gauge young Americans’ level of unhappiness about […]

Police suspect that the people behind the armed robbery that took place on Monday morning in Yermasoyia, Limassol may be part of a well-organised crime ring that pulled off three other similar heists. On Monday, three robbers snatched some €80,000 at gunpoint from two employees of a security firm outside a supermarket in Yermasoyia before […]

The government on Tuesday waved off as outdated a report by daily Simerini which suggested no Greek Cypriots would be able to reside permanently in the north post-settlement. The daily obtained and ran a confidential document pertaining to citizenship rights in a federated Cyprus. Titled Joint paper on citizenship and dated November 19, 2015, the […]

In a number of operations, some in cooperation with the police, smuggled cigarettes, tobacco, and fuel as well as counterfeit goods were discovered, an announcement from the customs department said on Tuesday. On Tuesday in a joint operation with the police in Nicosia, customs officers found a significant amount of smoking products in premises being […]

France transferred another dozen mostly Afghan teenagers to Britain on Tuesday as efforts to rehouse the most vulnerable migrants of the “Jungle” camp in northern France accelerated ahead of its demolition. The departures, which still amount to a small portion of an estimated 1,000 youngsters unaccompanied by adult family members, came as a court rejected […]

Do you want to get up close and personal with our capital? If so then the Nicosia Street Quest coming up next Tuesday will have you walking the streets, discovering all the hidden treasures of the city and all in an Indiana Jones type of setting. Your quest will be to navigate to up to […]

Low birth rate and increased life expectancy have led the government to include pension reform on its agenda, Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on Tuesday. In a speech read out by director of the labour department Alexandros Aklexandrou at a conference organised by the Federation of Employers and Industrialists (Oev) she said a series of […]

The leadership of Spain’s Socialists meet on Sunday to decide whether to enable their conservative rivals to form a minority government, thereby ending ten months of political deadlock. With just under two weeks to go until a deadline to form a government, the Socialist gathering is widely seen as a make-or-break summit that will determine […]

Cyprus and Russia are looking to improve cooperation between crime-fighting and judicial authorities by appointing liaisons that would help expedite procedures, Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Tuesday. Speaking after a meeting with Russia’s Prosecutor-general Yuri Yakovlevich Chaika, Nicolaou said the two sides recognised the current high level of cooperation. “We have responded to a […]

EU governments failed on Tuesday to approve a free trade agreement with Canada, as continued opposition from French-speaking southern Belgium threatened the entire deal. Almost all 28 EU governments, whose ministers were meeting in Luxembourg, now back the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta), which would be the bloc’s first trade accord with a G7 […]

A French Muslim won a court order on Tuesday lifting a travel ban she says was imposed due to her ultra-conservative Salafist beliefs, in a case exposing tensions between France’s official secularism and its Muslim minority. The 19-year-old, who was raised Catholic and converted to Islam two years ago, said she had wanted to go […]

A Ukrainian holidaymaker was injured on Tuesday, by the propeller of a water sports vessel in the sea area off Peyia, Paphos. The accident happened at around 1.30pm when the tourist was swimming in the Saint George area where it appears he was unaware of the presence of the boat. An ambulance was called to […]

Finance minister Harris Georgiades and the vice-president of the European Investment Bank Jonathan Taylor signed two agreements on Tuesday to finance two water management projects worth €55m. The first loan worth €40m concerns the improvement of the water supply system in the wider area of Nicosia which “will enhance safety of supply and the quality […]

Jose Mourinho could not help sounding a little smug about denting the hype surrounding Liverpool when he said his Manchester United team had shown that Jurgen Klopp’s high flyers were not “the last wonder of the world” on Monday. Yet after a 0-0 draw in the Premier League at Anfield, low on quality and high […]

German chemicals giant BASF said the two people who died after an explosion and subsequent fire at its flagship production complex at Ludwigshafen on Monday were both members of the site’s own fire brigade. They were responding to a minor fire near the huge complex of plants’ river harbour on Monday morning when a pipe […]

The transport ministry on Tuesday signed an agreement with airports operator Hermes authorising it to outsource part of the security services of the island’s two international airports to private contractors. “The agreement … regards taking on aviation security services and aims to improve the quality and the operating times of the services rendered, and better […]

The leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine will meet in Berlin on Wednesday to discuss the stalled Minsk peace plan to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine, but officials quickly dampened expectation of any breakthrough. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the meeting would aim to establish a timetable for elections in the Donbass […]