Новости за 11.12.2016

LIVERPOOL 2 WEST HAM UNITED 2 Liverpool took the lead against West Ham United but then had to come from behind in another game of thrills and spills for Juergen Klopp’s unpredictable side who where held to a 2-2 home draw in the Premier League on Sunday. Liverpool, six points adrift of leaders Chelsea, managed […]

Undersecretary to the President Constantinos Petrides is to hold a news conference on Monday to explain the implications of the rejection of the civil service reform bills by the opposition parties in the legislature on Friday. “On Monday, a press conference on the civil service reform (will take place) because we all need to be accountable,” Petrides […]

MANCHESTER UNITED 1 TOTTENHAM HOTSPURS 0 Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s first Premier League goal earned Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United a much-needed 1-0 victory over high-flying Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford on Sunday. The Armenian, who was carried off on a stretcher with 10 minutes remaining after a heavy tackle left him clutching his ankle, blasted home on […]

Two Israeli nationals that were sailing northwest of Cyprus and encountered problems were rescued on Saturday night, in a coordinated operation by the Larnaca joint rescue coordination centre (Jrcc) the defence ministry said on Sunday. According to an announcement, the Jrcc received a call at around 9.35pm from the US alerting it that a sailboat under the US flag with […]

By Doina Chiacu and Howard Schneider   U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he didn’t believe reports that intelligence agencies concluded Russia intervened in the presidential election on his behalf, according to an interview broadcast on “Fox News Sunday.” “I think it’s ridiculous. I think it’s just another excuse. I don’t believe it,” Trump said in […]

By Costas Pitas   Britain’s defence minister said on Sunday he was ready to work with his new U.S. counterpart but that Western nations could not treat Russia as an equal partner as Moscow was a strategic competitor. Several appointments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump have suggested his administration could forge warmer relations with Russia’s […]

By James Davey   Opponents to Britain leaving the European Union will launch a fresh legal action this week, which could further hamper Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans, The Sunday Times reported. The newspaper said campaigners will write to the UK government on Monday saying they are taking it to the High Court in […]

Iran may spare the life of businessman Babak Zanjani, sentenced to death for fraud, if he can pay back large sums he owes to the government for oil sales despite sanctions, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday. Earlier this month, Iran’s supreme court upheld the death penalty against Zanjani, accused by prosecutors of owing the […]

By Anamesere Igboeroteonwu and Ulf Laessing   At least 100 people were killed by the collapse of a church in southeastern Nigeria, a resident and photojournalist who visited the town morgue said on Sunday, a day after the incident. “At Uyo teaching hospital where I am now I could see over a hundred corpses, many […]

Communications and works minister Marios Demetriades stressed his determination to see the completion of procedures for the redevelopment of Larnaca’s marina and port within 2017, regardless of parliament’s cutting of the budget for consultancy services for privatisations. Deputies decided during the final day of the 2017 state budget debate on Wednesday, to cut the expenditure item […]

Italy’s president on Sunday gave Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni a mandate to try to form the country’s new government. Gentiloni said he would try to form the government as soon as possible and that it would move “within the same framework” as the outgoing government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. “I am aware of the […]

By Manuel Mogato Roman Catholic churches in Manila on Sunday read a prayer against Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s plans to re-impose the death penalty on heinous crimes, including drug-related offences. Last week, the justice panel in the lower house of Congress approved a legislative measure to bring back state-sanctioned executions on at least 20 crimes, […]

UEFA’s executive committee took several decisions in their last meeting regarding the Champions League, hosting of Euro 2024 and the inaugural Nations League. Champions League UEFA reconfirmed the changes to the Champions League which were announced in August and will apply to the competition for three seasons starting in 2018/19. These include awarding four places […]

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi Islamic State fighters have captured Palmyra castle overlooking the ancient city in eastern Syria, a news agency affiliated to the militants said on Sunday. Heavy Russian air strikes had pushed back the militants from inside the city hours after they captured it last Saturday in a surprise multi-pronged offensive, according to a […]

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Saturday called on the political parties of Greece to “shape a national position” on the Cyprus problem. Speaking during the Greek Parliament’s budget debate, Tsipras said Greece could not tolerate the continuation of the outdated system of guarantees nor of the presence of Turkish troops in Cyprus. Greece with the […]

THE NEGOTIATING process for the settlement was at a critical juncture and that required daring decisions, said President Anastasiades on Saturday night. Speaking at the unveiling of a bust of the Lebanese philosopher, artist and poet Gibran Khalil Gibran in Limassol, Anastasiades said: “We are at a critical juncture in the negotiating process of the […]

By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, Arwa Gaballa, Ali Abdelaty and Amr Abdallah   An explosion inside Cairo’s Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people, most of them women, and injured 49, Egypt’s state television said. Security sources told Reuters that at least six children were among the dead. Police and armoured vehicles filled the streets surrounding the […]

TWO SHOTS were fired outside the house of a 63-year-old woman in Limassol at 3am today, damaging the door of the house and her car that was parked outside. Police that arrived at the scene and were investigating said a shotgun had been used.

A 26-year-old man from Nicosia was arrested on Saturday for allegedly throwing a dog off a third-floor balcony and killing it. According to the police, another man, who did know the alleged perpetrator, had witnessed the incident and reported it. Police arrested the man on the strength of the testimony given.      

By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar A suicide truck bomb hit the entrance of Somalia’s biggest port on Sunday, killing at least 29 people, police said, an attack claimed by Islamist al Shabaab militants. The fighters said they were trying to disrupt protracted parliamentary elections – part of efforts to rebuild the fractured nation after […]

By Johan Ahlander and Ilze Filks   Nobel laureate Bob Dylan sent a message on Saturday thanking the Swedish academy for awarding him the Nobel prize for literature, an honor the American singer and songwriter believed was about as likely as “standing on the moon.” “I’m sorry I can’t be with you in person, but […]

By Richard Martin Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos again came to his side’s rescue as they snatched a dramatic 3-2 victory over Deportivo La Coruna on Saturday to keep Zinedine Zidane’s side six points clear at the top of La Liga and set a club record 35 games unbeaten. Ramos, the scorer of Real’s 90th-minute […]

Champions Bayern Munich reclaimed top spot in the Bundesliga after crushing VfL Wolfsburg 5-0 on Saturday as RB Leipzig slumped to their first loss of the season — a 1-0 defeat at strugglers Ingolstadt. Arjen Robben put the dominant hosts ahead with a trademark move down the right and a superbly curled left-footed shot in […]

Electric motoring hasn’t yet really caught on in Cyprus, but some interesting UK research suggests that it will soon be shaping our future – and not just on the roads. There are already over 60,000 home charge points for electric cars in the UK, and this new research suggests that these sockets will be one […]

By Humeyra Pamuk and Murad Sezer Two bombs exploded less than a minute apart, killing 29 people and wounding 166 outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul on Saturday night, in a co-ordinated attack on police shortly after a match between two of Turkey’s top teams. First a car bomb exploded outside the Vodafone Arena, home […]