Новости за 22.01.2017

Chelsea extended their lead at the top of the English Premier League to eight points on Sunday when recalled striker Diego Costa set them on their way to a 2-0 home win over struggling Hull City. Costa scored shortly before halftime after wing back Victor Moses ran at the Hull defence and found the Spain […]

Arsenal snatched a dramatic 2-1 victory over Burnley to keep their title hopes on track after the referee Jon Moss awarded penalties to both sides and sent off home manager Arsene Wenger in injury time. Jon Moss first pointed to the spot on 93 minutes when Francis Coquelin fouled Ashley Barnes and boyhood Arsenal fan […]

By Brian Homewood Serie A leaders Juventus brushed aside Lazio 2-0 on Sunday after coach Massimiliano Allegri threw caution to the wind in response to criticism following last weekend’s reverse at Fiorentina. Allegri, an often pragmatic coach, fielded an ultra-attacking line up and it quickly paid off as his side stunned sleepy Lazio with early […]

By Richard Martin Sevilla followed last week’s recovery against La Liga leaders Real Madrid by staging another stirring comeback to win 4-3 at Osasuna on Sunday, a victory that keeps the pressure on Zinedine Zidane’s side. Yet Atletico Madrid faltered again near the top of the table despite a brilliant strike from Antoine Griezmann earning […]

By Nick Mulvenney The whiff of sporting upset hung around Melbourne Park on Sunday after top seeds Andy Murray and Angelique Kerber were handed stunning defeats in the Australian Open fourth round. Britain’s Murray was bamboozled by the serve-volley game of Mischa Zverev to exit after 3-1/2 hours on Rod Laver Arena, while fellow world […]

Order of play on the main showcourts on day eight of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Monday (play begins at 0000 GMT; prefix denotes seeding): ROD LAVER ARENA 16-Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic) v 2-Serena Williams (U.S.) 8-Dominic Thiem (Austria) v 11-David Goffin (Belgium) Not before 0800: 5-Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) v 22-Daria Gavrilova […]

Police in Limassol are investigating a burglary at the home of a Russian couple where valuables worth more than 560,000 euros was stolen, it was reported on Sunday. According to Limassol deputy police spokesman Marinos Vassiliou the 50-year-old Russian and his wife, 37, also from Russia, reported that while they were sleeping on the first […]

Islamic State blew up a landmark hotel in western Mosul on Friday in an apparent attempt to prevent advancing Iraqi forces from using it as a base in their offensive to capture the city, witnesses said on Sunday. The Mosul Hotel, shaped as a stepped pyramid, appeared to be leaning to one side after the […]

A 52-year-old resident of Nicosia was arrested on Sunday to facilitate investigations concerning possession of child porn and solicitation of children for sexual purposes, police said. The arrest came after a tip-off to police that the man was frequenting certain social media sites, striking up conversations with underage girls and pressuring them into sending him […]

The President Nicos Anastasiades leaves Monday for Strasbourg, where on January 24 he will address the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Cyprus holds the presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council until May On the morning of January 24, Anastasiades will be welcomed at the Palais de l’ Europe by […]

Germany must brace itself for turbulent times under U.S. President Donald Trump, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Sunday, adding that free trade and trans-Atlantic cooperation to fight extremism and terrorism were key for Berlin. Steinmeier, who in August said Trump was a “Hassprediger” or “hate preacher”, wrote in the mass-circulation Bild newspaper that some […]

By Andria Kades   As if cancer treatment wasn’t enough of a traumatic ordeal, those patients living towards the west of Cyprus – Limassol, Paphos, Peyia and Polis Chrysochous – have the additional disruption of having to travel all the way to Nicosia to get the comprehensive therapy they need. The Bank of Cyprus oncology […]

House President Demetris Syllouris will on Thursday attend the first-ever meeting of the Parliament Speakers from Israel, Cyprus and Greece , that will take place in Israel at the initiative of Knesset Speaker Yuli-Yoel Edelstein. According to an announcment on Sunday by the House, Syllouris will depart for Israel on Tuesday. Parliamentary cooperation in the […]

Twenty-four people are missing from the wreckage of a hotel in central Italy that was flattened by a deadly avalanche, with difficult research and rescue operations still ongoing, authorities said on Sunday. A statement from the national fire service said the number of people missing rose by one after a rescued person said that a […]

Voting was under way on Sunday to whittle down Socialist candidates for the French presidential ticket to two from seven, with ex-prime minister Manuel Valls facing an outside risk of failing to make the runoff vote in a week’s time. Opinion polls suggest no Socialist has much chance of winning the presidential election this Spring, […]

The Syrian government and Iran are trying to wreck an attempt by Russia to move to a position of “neutrality” from being a combatant alongside President Bashar al Assad’s forces, the head of the Syrian rebel delegation at peace talks told Reuters. Mohammad Alloush said on Sunday the failure of Moscow to put pressure on […]

Driving under the influence of alcohol was the cause of two traffic accidents late Saturday and early Sunday in Kakopetria and in Nicosia, police said. At around 2.20 am Sunday during a traffic patrol, police in Kakopetria spotted a vehicle reverse into a parked car and try to drive off. He was pursued and intercepted. […]

A test firing of an unarmed British nuclear Trident missile from a submarine malfunctioned last June, the Sunday Times reported, prompting questions about why Prime Minister Theresa May did not tell parliament ahead of a vote on renewing the submarines. The paper quoted an unnamed senior naval source as saying the missile may have veered […]

A 42-year-old civil servant was remanded for five days on Sunday by the Limassol court after police said they found drugs in his possession. The man, according to police, was caught during a traffic stop around 8.30pm on Saturday night. During an inspection of the vehicle, officers said they found 11 baggies of cocaine containing […]

Russian ambassador Stanislav Osadchiy has expressed Moscow’s readiness to actively engage in solving the Cyprus issue and said the position of the Republic that international guarantees had to be abolished needed to be taken “fully into account”. In an article published on Sunday in Phileleftheros Osadchiy repeated well-known positions that artificial timeframes should not be […]

By Bejay Browne   HEAVY rainfall in recent weeks on an unfinished estate in Marathounda in Paphos is adding extra burdens on homeowners who for years have battled other structural and legal issues after the developer went bust. Tens of thousands of litres of water have been gushing out of a recently installed water run […]

Russia should part with the illusion that Western sanctions against the country will be lifted soon, Russian Prime Minster Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday. “It is obvious that all this will last for a long time. Do not rely on someone else’s election, on incoming new foreign leaders,” Medvedev told a meeting of the United […]

A draft resolution for the renewal of the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), which the British handed over on Thursday to the rest of the UN Security Council permanent members has been slightly amended compared with the resolution voted in July 2016. The British-drafted resolution to extend UNFICYP`s mandate for another […]

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Britain should take a leaf out of Switzerland’s book on how to handle relations with the European Union, according to Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung (NZZ) on Sunday. Switzerland has access to the European single market through a series of bilateral agreements and has skirted voters’ demand in a […]

The Jerusalem municipality approved building permits for more than 560 housing units in three East Jerusalem settlements on Sunday, two days after President Donald Trump took office in the United States. Chairman of Jerusalem city hall’s Planning and Building committee Meir Turgeman told Israel Radio the permits were held up until the end of the […]