Новости за 03.11.2016

Pieros Sotiriou’s second-half strike handed Apoel a massive three points against Young Boys which leaves them on the brink of qualification to the knockout stages of the Europa League. The Cypriot international, along with Efrem, missed a host of chances but persistence paid off and Apoel now sit top of Group B, five points clear […]

UNLESS the territory chapter of reunification talks is closed, the peace process cannot advance to the next stage, deputy government spokesman Victoras Papadopoulos said on Thursday, four days before the leader of the two communities are set to travel to Switzerland. The territory chapter must be completed before a multilateral conference – including the three […]

Manchester United’s woes deepened as stunning goals by Moussa Sow and Jeremain Lens gave Fenerbahce a 2-1 Europa League win on Thursday that left Jose Mourinho’s side facing a battle to reach the knockout stages. Without a victory in four Premier League games, United desperately needed a morale-lifting result in Turkey but were undone by […]

Novak Djokovic recovered from a slow start as he continued the bid to retain his world number one ranking with a 4-6 6-2 6-3 win over 14th-seeded Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the Paris Masters third round on Thursday. The Serb, needing to reach the final to stay ahead of Andy Murray at the top of […]

Spain‘s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy refreshed his cabinet for a new era of minority government on Thursday, bringing in six new faces and handing an expanded role to Economy Minister Luis de Guindos, who has a key budget-coordinating role with Brussels. The new, younger 13-member cabinet includes five women and gives a new role to […]

Greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 will exceed by 12 billion to 14 billion tonnes what is needed to keep global warming to an internationally agreed target, the United Nations said on Thursday. A day before the global Paris Agreement climate pact formally comes into force, the annual report of UN Environment analysed countries’ current pledges […]

The Cyprus Olympic Committee (COC) stated on Thursday that its top organ would soon convene in an extraordinary session in order to ‘carefully consider’ a damning report by the auditor-general into the entity’s financial shenanigans. In a statement, the COC said it would study the report and make all effort to comply with the auditor-general’s […]

The audit service’s budget should not be submitted by the finance ministry, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said on Thursday, noting that Cyprus had an obligation to make the service financially independent. Speaking before the House watchdog committee, Michaelides said that was the only institutional change the audit service asked for – an outstanding obligation dating back […]

Before the third Buffer Fringe Arts Festival kicks off – bringing with it an amalgamation of art projects from an array of people from different backgrounds – the Home for Cooperation will give us a little taste of what is to come on Wednesday with a pre-festival concert. The concert, or jazz jam as those […]

Syrian insurgents stepped up a week-long offensive on government-held areas in the city of Aleppo on Thursday, detonating three car bombs and firing shells which killed at least a dozen civilians, state media and a monitor said. Rebel groups detonated three large car bombs near pro-government forces on the western edge of Aleppo, the Syrian […]

Scientists have found that smoking a pack a day of cigarettes can cause 150 damaging changes to a smoker’s lung cells each year. The findings come from a study of the devastating genetic damage, or mutations, caused by smoking in various organs in the body. Publishing in the journal Science on Thursday, the researchers said […]

The period of submission for student grants for the academic year 2015/2016 has been extended until November 15, 2016 by the Student Welfare Service (SWS) of the education ministry. In its announcement, the SWS said although a list of students who are eligible for the grants was published on the education ministry’s website on October […]

Residents of Kantou in the Limassol district on Thursday closed the road leading from Episkopi to Omodhos to protest against the construction of a refuse transfer station close to their community. They symbolically closed the main road for a few minutes, requesting the station should be built somewhere else since the planned site is too […]

The British electorate would now vote narrowly to stay in the European Union, according to a BMG poll published on Thursday. The United Kingdom voted 51.9 per cent to leave the bloc in a June 23 referendum while 48.1 per cent voted to remain. A poll by BMG Research, showed that when asked if the […]

Court proceedings regarding a case related to the 2013 bank collapse were postponed on Thursday after two defendants failed to show up and the extradition procedure for two others was still in progress. In the case, filed at the Nicosia district court, the prosecution maintains that a company, Focus Maritime, had acted as a front […]

Cyprus is among the few European countries without an academy of science, letters and arts, Education Minister Costas Kadis said on Thursday at a ceremony where the plans were presented for the creation of one. During the ceremony, at the Presidential Place, Kadis said that the Cyprus Academy would be a “supreme spiritual institution that […]

Germany’s European commissioner apologised for offending China, gay people and French-speaking Belgians on Thursday as the EU executive tried to end days of scandalised commentary that might have jeopardised trade. Guenther Oettinger said in a statement released by the Commission that he now realised his remarks to a German business forum last week had “hurt” […]

The registration of halloumi as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) and its inclusion in the European Union’s list is not affected by trade agreements signed with third countries, Agriculture Minster Nicos Kouyialis said on Thursday. The minister said that the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta), signed last week between Canada and the European […]

Italy has committed human rights abuses that may amount to torture as it tries to process tens of thousands of boat migrants, Amnesty International said on Thursday, prompting a sharp denial from the national police chief. The report included allegations of beatings, electric shocks and sexual humiliation in a handful of cases involving mainly African […]

Nicolas Sarkozy accused his chief rival in the race for France’s centre-right presidential ticket of selling out to left-wingers ahead of a television debate on Thursday evening in which the ex-president hopes to close the gap. Trailing Alain Juppe, a former prime minister, in opinion polls, Sarkozy launched his attack in a Facebook post, setting […]

Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump head to North Carolina on Thursday in a final effort to shore up support in the swing state as two polls showed Clinton maintaining a narrow lead nationally just days ahead of the Nov 8 presidential election. The surveys by the New York Times/CBS and the Washington Post/ABC […]

Primary education teachers’ union Poed announced on Thursday it would suspend for two weeks the strike measures it decided on last month over the employment status of temporary teachers and other problems faced in schools, due to the Cyprus settlement talks in Switzerland. The head of the union, Filios Fylaktou told the Cyprus News Agency […]

The financial implications the Rugby Football Union could suffer for moving England matches away from Twickenham to raise the sport’s profile in the country outweighs the potential benefits of northern tests, RFU chairman Andy Cosslett has said. After the success of hosting a World Cup match against Uruguay in Manchester last year, the RFU has […]

Interior Minister Socratis Hasicos told parties on Thursday that they couldn’t cut government revenues and then expect it to expand social welfare policy. MPs discussing the interior ministry’s budget, asked Hasicos to afford more funds for refugees and low income classes. And this after hearing that Cyprus was the only EU country without state-imposed immovable […]

Former defence minister Costas Papacostas’ autobiography, titled Anemodarmeni Poria (Wuthering Life), was released this week, one year after his death at Nicosia General, where he served a five-year prison term after being found guilty in court for failing to act in connection with the 2011 Mari explosion. Since his conviction, Papacostas maintained that he had […]