Новости за 29.01.2017

Hertha Berlin missed their chance to move up to third place in the Bundesliga, slumping to a 2-1 defeat at Freiburg on Sunday for their second consecutive league loss this year. Freiburg’s Janik Haberer fired in six minutes before the break but Hertha, who were beaten by Bayer Leverkusen last week, remained largely toothless up […]

Gonzalo Higuain scored his eighth goal in the last six league games to inspire Serie A leaders Juventus to a 2-0 win at Sassuolo on Sunday while second-placed AS Roma lost 3-2 at Sampdoria. Roma led twice before two goals in three minutes sent them to a defeat which left them four points behind Juve, […]

Barcelona’s Luis Suarez snatched a late equaliser to salvage a 1-1 draw at Real Betis in La Liga on Sunday but their title hoeps were dented as the champions were denied a goal despite the ball clearly crossing the line. Fellow contenders Sevilla also faltered with a 3-1 loss at Espanyol after playing almost the […]

U.S. Senator John McCain said on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s order targeting immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries has been “confusing” and raised a number of questions. “It’s been a very confusing process,” McCain, a Republican and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told CBS’ ‘Face the Nation.’ McCain said the effect of […]

Premier League clubs Watford and Hull City, and Championship club Leeds United, paid the penalty for fielding weakened teams when they were all knocked out of the FA Cup in the fourth round on Sunday. Like Liverpool, beaten at home by Wolverhampton Wanderers the previous day, they miscalculated in resting so many players ahead of […]

A global backlash against U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration curbs gathered pace on Sunday as several countries including long-standing American allies criticised the measures as discriminatory and divisive. Governments from London and Berlin to Jakarta and Tehran spoke out against Trump’s order to put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and […]

  As talks on a settlement have entered a more decisive phase over the last couple of years, young professionals and companies from both sides of the divide have been setting an example on how cooperation between the two communities could be beneficial to all. In total, 40 young professionals have participated in the Cross-Community […]

One person was killed and four others injured on the Parekklisias- Kellakiou road on Sunday, CyBC reported The dead man has been named as Neophytos Neophytou, 42, from Paramytha, Limassol. The accident happened when an 84-year-old man driving along the same road tried to overtake a group of women cyclists and headed into the oncoming […]

A Pakistani court acquitted 112 suspects in the 2013 torching of hundreds of Christian homes in the eastern city of Lahore over a rumour that one of the residents there had blasphemed, a lawyer said on Sunday. In March 2013, more than 125 homes in Lahore’s Josep Colony were burned by a mob of more […]

Malaysian rescuers on Sunday found 23 Chinese tourists and two crewmembers alive after their boat sank in rough seas off the coast of Borneo a day earlier, but five Chinese tourists and one Malaysian crew member are still missing, officials said. The boat, a catamaran, failed to arrive at popular tourist spot Mengalum island after […]

When Benjamin Netanyahu sent a tweet in support of President Donald Trump’s plan for a wall along the Mexican border, the Israeli prime minister can barely have expected it would be retweeted 40,000 times and cause a backlash at home and abroad. Already under arguably the greatest pressure he has faced in his 11 years […]

Born: Aug. 8, 1981 in Basel, Switzerland. (Age: 35) GRAND SLAM TITLES (18): Australian Open 2004, 2006-07, 2010, 2017; French Open 2009; Wimbledon, 2003-2007, 2009, 2012; U.S. Open 2004-2008 * Bursts on to the scene in 2001 when he ends Pete Sampras’s 31-match winning streak at Wimbledon in the fourth round before losing in quarter-finals. […]

A legal adviser for Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy was shot dead outside the country’s busiest airport on Sunday after returning from a government-led trip to Indonesia. An unidentified lone gunman killed the veteran lawyer, Ko Ni, and injured two others in front of the main terminal of Yangon International Airport at 5 p.m., […]

Roger Federer came out on top after a rollercoaster ride in the 35th chapter of his rivalry with Rafa Nadal to win his fifth Australian Open 6-4 3-6 6-1 3-6 6-3 and clinch a first grand slam title in four and a half years on Sunday. The 35-year-old capped his triumphant return from knee surgery […]

Former Education Minister and MP for Larnaca, Christoforos Christofides died Sunday at age 88, Larnaca Press reported. Christofides was a dentist by profession, headed the Larnaca Dentists Association, and during the Eoka struggle 1955-1959, was held for two years by the British. He served as an MP from 1970-1981, heading the House interior committee and […]

Leaders of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) on Sunday unanimously nominated former European Parliament President Martin Schulz to run against conservative Angela Merkel in a national election in September, sources familiar with the decision said. The decision is to be formalised at a special party conference to be held on March 1. Schulz tweeted that […]

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci says he is ready to discuss adaptation of the 1960 structure for security and guarantees to fit the situation in 2017 so that both sides can feel secure. He also said, in an interview with CNN Turk, that a reasonable number of Turkish troops should remain on the island and […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told U.S. President Donald Trump that the global fight against terrorism was no excuse for banning refugees or people from Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, her spokesman said on Sunday. “She is convinced that even the necessary, decisive battle against terrorism does not justify putting people of a specific […]

Germany made mistakes with an open-door policy that saw more than a million migrants enter Germany over the past two years, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble acknowledged on Sunday, but he said Berlin was trying to learn from those missteps. “We have tried to improve what got away from us in 2015,” Schaeuble told the newspaper […]

There must be something very special about Andy Binicos, the Cyprus national rugby coach, because he has been appointed to one of the most prestigious roles in international club rugby – the general manager and head coach of the Natal Sharks Rugby Academy, in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. He takes up the position this […]

U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed that his administration will honour a refugee resettlement deal with Australia, a source close to the Australian government said on Sunday. Trump spoke by telephone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull earlier on Sunday, officials in both countries said, one of a number of conversations the new U.S. president […]

A Romanian man died in Limassol in the early hours of Sunday while trying to get to his apartment from a balcony after forgetting his keys. The 44-year-old had been able to enter the building around 1am and went onto the roof in an attempt to climb down to his third-floor balcony using some cable […]

Bayern Munich edged past Werder Bremen 2-1 on Saturday for a Bundesliga record 13th consecutive win over them to stay three points clear at the top of the table. Bayern, who face Arsenal in the Champions League knockout stage on Feb. 15, never hit top form but are now on 45 points with promoted RB […]

Inter Milan continued their stunning revival under coach Stefano Pioli as they beat basement club Pescara 3-0 to record their seventh successive Serie A victory which lifted them above Lazio into fourth place on Saturday. Danilo D’Ambrosio set them on their way by steering the ball in midway through the first half, while Portugal international […]

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger praised Danny Welbeck after the striker scored his first goals since injuring his knee last May to help his side hammer Southampton 5-0 in the FA Cup on Saturday. Welbeck, starting for the first time this season after three substitute appearances since recovering, struck twice in the opening 22 minutes and […]