Новости за 05.11.2016

By Steve Tongue Premier League leaders Manchester City were left in danger of losing top spot for the first time all season after being held 1-1 at home by Middlesbrough on Saturday. City’s unexpected lapse left Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea with an opportunity to take over at the head of the table before the weekend […]

The Cyprus Food and Nutrition Museum in collaboration with the Cyprus Tourism Organisation is organising a grape wine escape on November 15 for anyone who enjoys roaming the country side and wants to learn about the age-old art of winemaking. The specially designed wine trail, dubbed The Grape Escape Wine Trail, is the first of […]

In the wake of recent incidents of school violence the Pancyprian Association of Psychologists (Pasypsy) has voiced concerns that projects like literacy programmes and the Educational Priority Zones (EPZ), a programme aimed at channelling resources to schools in disadvantaged areas and encouraging the development of new teaching projects, have been terminated as they have great […]

Australia scored five tries in an emphatic 32-8 win over Wales in Cardiff on Saturday, the Wallabies’ 12th victory in a row over the Welsh. Wales had flyhalf Dan Biggar sent to the sin bin after 16 minutes when the Wallabies were 8-3 up following hooker Stephen Moore’s try from a driving maul. Yet it […]

Despite difficulties, the renovated Apostolos Andreas chapel in Karpasia will be unveiled on Monday, head of the bicommunal committee for cultural heritage Takis Hadjidemetriou said on Saturday. According to local daily Phileleftheros, Hadjidemetriou said that the renovation was the result of cooperation between a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot contractor. The chapel had been […]

By Renee Maltezou and Lefteris Papadimas Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras promised “brighter days” on Saturday after a cabinet reshuffle aimed at speeding up reforms Athens has agreed to implement under its latest international bailout deal and to shore up his government’s popularity. But Tsipras signalled he would stick to the fiscal course agreed with […]

Scotsman Andy Murray will take over from Novak Djokovic as world number one when the rankings are updated on Monday after his Paris Masters semi-final opponent Milos Raonic pulled out through injury on Saturday. “Yesterday at I believe 4-2 in the first set I started feeling some pain in my leg,” fourth-seeded Canadian Raonic told […]

The Peace By Praxis – Applied Mediation Arts centre is gearing up to offer all those interested in meditative life principles and finding their inner peace, a seminar to get them on the right track on November 20. The Inner Peace, Inner Power seminar aims to give all participants the knowledge on how to transform […]

AKEL leader Andros Kyprianou and President of the Republican Turkish Party (CTP) Mehmet Ali Talat have expressed the hope that progress will be achieved at this weeks Cyprus talks between the two leaders in Switzerland. In statements following their meeting on Saturday in the buffer zone Kyprianou and Talat stressed that if no progress is […]

A 37-year-old man was caught driving drunk, while his car had no licence plates, no road tax, no insurance and no MOT certificate in Limassol early on Saturday, and police found a hunting shotgun with 24 shells in the vehicle. According to a police report, shortly before 2am on Saturday, Limassol CID men patrolling the […]

By Babak Dehghanpisheh Iraqi troops advancing towards Mosul battled on Saturday for the last town left between them and the Islamic State stronghold to the north, which is already under assault from special forces fighting inside the city’s eastern districts. Saturday’s attack on Hammam al-Alil, about 15 km south of Mosul, targeted a force of at least 70 Islamic State fighters […]

SOUTH Africa’s JP Duminy and Dean Elgar both scored centuries in a third-wicket partnership of 250 to drive the tourists to a 388-run lead over Australia at the end of the third day of the first test in Perth. Australia removed both centurions around the tea break, as well as Temba Bavuma and captain Faf […]

One of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militant group Boko Haram from their school in north-east Nigeria’s Chibok in 2014 has been found by soldiers, a Nigerian army spokesman said on Saturday. Around 270 girls were kidnapped by the jihadist group, which has waged a seven-year insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic caliphate in the […]

Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump battled over the strength of the economy in the final stretch of their race for the White House on Friday, with Clinton praising the latest U.S. jobs report and Trump dismissing it as a fraudulent disaster. With four days left in an often bitter contest that has tightened in the last […]

Spain said security forces had arrested the head of Basque militant separatist group ETA in south-western France on Saturday in a joint operation between the French domestic intelligence service and Spanish police. Mikel Irastorza was detained in a house in Ascain, a village near the Pyrenees mountains, the Spanish Interior Ministry said in a statement, […]

Four brothers were arrested by police in Athienou, Larnaca early on Saturday in connection with claims of disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace. According to a police report, shortly after 1am Saturday it was notified that a fight had broken out at a house in Eleftherias street and that certain individuals had been injured. Athienou […]

The UN Secretary-General is looking forward to offering his personal support to the two leaders work as they enter into this crucial phase of the negotiations, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in New York, referring to the talks starting on Monday in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland in the presence of Ban Ki-moon. Dujarric said “the Secretary-General […]

British politicians called for an end to the harsh criticism of judges who dealt a blow to the government’s Brexit preparations, with a former attorney general saying the attacks by some fellow lawmakers and newspapers reminded him of fascism. England’s High Court ruled on Thursday that the decision to begin Britain’s formal divorce talks with […]

Turkish authorities ordered the formal arrest pending trial on Saturday of nine executives and journalists of a leading opposition newspaper who were detained on Monday, broadcaster NTV said. The detention of the editor-in-chief and senior staff of Cumhuriyet over the secularist newspaper’s alleged support for a failed coup in July was described by a top […]

After beating the ‘best team in the world’, playing lowly Middlesbrough on a November afternoon in the north of England should bring Premier League leaders Manchester City nicely back to earth. Saturday’s home game (5pm) may look like three easy, if unglamorous, points after City’s 3-1 Champions League heroics against Barcelona but midfielder Kevin De […]

League leaders AEK have another difficult home game this weekend against third-placed AEL, while Apoel have a seemingly easy fixture at home to first division newcomers Karmiotissa in round ten of the Cyprus football championship. Omonia will want to build on their recent impressive run against AEZ while Apollon take on much-improved Ethnikos Achnas in […]

By Stelios Orphanides Andreas Vgenopoulos, the Greek entrepreneur considered responsible for the demise of failed lender Cyprus Popular Bank (or Laiki), died on Saturday in Athens. Vgenopoulos, born in 1953, died due to heart failure in a clinic in Athens, state radio CyBC reported on Saturday.

THE police launch a new website on Friday which will run in parallel to their existing app. “From the time we launched the app, we had it in the back of our minds to link it with the web page,” said Matheos Siamptanis, designer of the page. “In contrast with the old website, our new […]

THE REPUBLIC’S Audit Service should have become financially independent when Cyprus entered the EU, but this did not happen. When Cyprus signed the memorandum of understanding with its lenders, one of the provisions was the financial independence of the Audit Service, but it has yet to be implemented, the finance ministry saying that it was […]

In a democratic country, should negotiations for a Cyprus settlement be held in secret or should the public have a source of accurate and responsible information? This question has come up repeatedly in recent months with respect to leaks from the National Council, the demands by the opposition to be informed, and the fact that […]