Новости за 19.02.2017

Lincoln City, the first minor league team to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals in 103 years, were handed a tie at either 12-time winners Arsenal or fellow National League club Sutton United when the draw for the sixth round was made on Sunday. Lincoln, who play in the fifth tier of the English game, could […]

Mario Balotelli was sent off as Nice moved up to second in Ligue 1 after Wylan Cyprien’s first-half goal earned them a 1-0 win at bottom side Lorient on Saturday. Italian striker Balotelli picked up a straight red card when he argued with referee Tony Chapron in the 68th minute but Nice held firm to […]

Napoli eased past Chievo 3-1 away on Sunday to provisionally move second and Gabriel Barbosa came off the bench to score his first Serie A goal as lethargic Inter Milan snatched a late 1-0 victory at Bologna to reclaim fourth place in the standings. Napoli bounced back from their Champions League defeat by Real Madrid […]

By Martyn Herman Harry Kane’s hat-trick turned Tottenham Hotspur’s potentially tricky FA Cup fifth-round tie at Championship side Fulham into a Sunday stroll by the River Thames as they won 3-0 at Craven Cottage. England striker Kane struck early on and twice after the interval to take his tally for the season to 19 as […]

AN open call is inviting women to become involved in a Peace2Peace crochet project which will see them decorate stones to be placed in a new public garden in Moutallos in Paphos. Peace2Peace was formed by three women – Greek Cypriots, Christiana Mouzouri, Elena Daniel and Turkish Cypriot, Nilgun Akin. Members hand crochet hundreds of […]

By Emilia Christofi In the past ten years, 558 Greek Cypriots and 184 Turkish Cypriots missing were identified and their remains returned to their families. For their families, the wait is over and the pain has now turned to mourning. For the remaining 950 Greek Cypriots and 309 Turkish Cypriots missing, the wounds remain open. […]

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on Sunday from a historic NASA launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that has sat idle since the end of the space shuttle program nearly six years ago. The rocket, launched at 9:39 a.m. EST (1439 GMT), carried a cargo ship with about 5,500 pounds […]

More than 12,000 new trees have been planted in the burnt areas of the Ayios Theodoros valley in the Solea region, which fell victim to a five-day forest fire in June last year, Agriculture Minister Nicos Kouyialis said on Sunday. At an event in the region, the minister said that the number of new trees […]

A blast from a suicide car bomb ripped through a market in Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, killing 18 people and wounding at least 25, a local official said, days after the country elected a new president. Casualties were confirmed by Ahmed Abdulle Afrax, the mayor of Wadajir, the district of the city where the […]

The Special Adviser to the Secretary General, Espen Barth Eide, discussed the current state of play in the Cyprus talks with UK Minister of Europe Sir Alan Duncan, according to a post on his twitter account. Eide spoke of a “strong UK support”. The two officials met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. […]

By Evie Andreou Lowering the alcohol drink driving limit for new drivers and better placement of ambulances in tourist hotspots have helped make Cyprus one of the safest holiday destinations, according to a recent survey. “Recent online surveys rank Cyprus among the top safest small countries,” said Xenia Loizidou, the coordinator of the Safer Tourism […]

Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have moved ahead of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) in an opinion poll by the Emnid institute for the first time since 2006, Bild am Sonntag newspaper said. The Emnid poll of 1,885 voters found the SPD would win 33 percent of the vote, up 1 point in […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met secretly a year ago with the leaders of Egypt and Jordan in a failed attempt by the Obama administration to convene a wider regional summit on Israeli-Palestinian peace, Israel’s Haaretz daily said on Sunday. At the White House on Wednesday, Netanyahu again raised the possibility of what he described as […]

By Bejay Browne TWO of Paphos’ most popular museums are currently closed, leading would-be visitors to question the timing of the closures while the town is in the midst of its year-long stint as European cultural capital. The archaeological museum, which is crammed with artefacts, is undergoing renovation while the Byzantine museum is being moved […]

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim that Washington was keen for a new start in relations between the two countries, sources in Yildirim’s office said, after ties soured during the Obama administration. Pence and Yildirim met on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich, Germany, and discussed improving ties, […]

Two men aged 26 and 27 have been arrested to facilitate investigations into conspiracy to commit a crime, smuggling, and drug possession with intent to supply after officers found 11 kilos of cannabis, police said on Sunday. Drug squad officers in collaboration with members of the SBA police on Saturday evening stopped two persons walking […]

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said President Nicos Anastasiades currently has his mind pulled in two directions, one focused on a solution and the other the presidential elections next year. In an interview with Kathimerini, Akinci said that on the talks horizon there were dark clouds forming and thickening and it was up to Anastasiades […]

Disy leader Averof Neophytou on Sunday conceded that the Enosis vote in the House over a week ago, from which his party abstained rather than oppose, might have been untimely given the status of the Cyprus negotiations but said the over reaction by the Turkish Cypriot side could give the impression that others were trying […]

Lorry drivers using Limassol port returned to work on Sunday following a series of meetings on Saturday to resolve the two-week-old crisis that brought the container terminal to a standstill. According to CNA, citing Povek union, so far everything was running smoothly. On Saturday the truckers agreed to give a 30-day adjustment period to the […]

Malaysian police said on Sunday that four North Korean suspects in the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fled Malaysia on the day of the killing. The four North Koreans flew out of Malaysia, but police would not reveal the flight’s destination, just that they were coordinating with Interpol […]

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will visit the north on Monday and Tuesday, the Turkish foreign ministry announced on Sunday. The visit, according to the announcement is to exchange views on the current state of the Cyprus negotiations process. Cavousoglu will meet Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akıncı, ‘prime minister’ Huseyin Ozgurgun and ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin […]

The children’s carnival will take place in Limassol on Sunday along the coastal road. The parade will start at 11.30am near the Citizens Service Centre and will end at the municipal gardens south entrance. Driver are asked to avoid parking in the area of Molos, the old port and Spyros Araouzou. Drivers can make free […]

A search was continuing on Sunday for a Greek Cypriot diver off Pomos in Paphos who was reported missing by his parents on Saturday evening. According to CNA, the 31-year-old from Limassol had gone spear fishing early on Saturday but had not been answering his phone all day and by 5.30pm, his parents reported to […]

Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff known as “Jane Roe” in the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion, died on Saturday at the age of 69, a journalist close to McCorvey said. McCorvey died on Saturday morning of heart failure at an assisted living home in Katy, Texas, Joshua Prager, a journalist […]

Any U.S. attempt to divide Europeans is doomed to fail as Washington lacks the capacity to offset the benefits the European Union offers its members, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in an interview with newspaper Journal du Dimanche on Sunday. Asked about the lack of unity of Europeans with regards to U.S. President Donald […]