Новости за 12.03.2017

The economic crisis has changed the behaviour of Cypriot consumers who are have moved from ‘shopping big’ to ‘shopping smart’, according to the head of the pancyprian supermarkets association Andreas Hadjiadamou. Hadjiadamou was quoted in Phileleftheros in an article on Sunday saying that since the crisis, price has become the driving factor. This was observable, […]

Liverpool kept their push for a top-four finish on course as Emre Can thundered home a second-half winner to complete a hard earned 2-1 Premier League comeback win over Burnley at a relieved Anfield on Sunday. Juergen Klopp’s side were again out of sorts but earned their first back-to-back league wins this year to keep […]

The newest tool for internationally acclaimed organizing guru Marie Kondo in her global battle against messy rooms is an app. “My goal is to have as many people as possible who can get the job done in tidying up,” she said in an interview after speaking at the South by Southwest technology conference in Austin, […]

Tottenham Hotspur booked their place in the FA Cup semi-finals but an injury to Harry Kane marred the party as they marked their last tie at their White Hart Lane home with a 6-0 thrashing of third-tier London rivals Millwall on Sunday. England international Kane, the Premier League’s joint top scorer, had to hobble off […]

A landslide at a huge garbage dump on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa killed 35 people who were searching for food and other goods there, an official said on Sunday. Hundreds of people rely on the 50-year-old Reppi dump, the city’s only landfill site, to survive. They sift through the garbage for […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday called on international organisations to impose sanctions on the Netherlands, as a diplomatic row over Ankara’s political campaigning among Turkish immigrants in Europe continues to simmer. Speaking at an event in Kocaeli province, near Istanbul, Erdogan said the Netherlands was acting like a “banana republic”, and criticised European countries […]

Ground staff at Berlin’s two airports will start a 25-hour strike on Monday, the Verdi union said on Sunday, stepping up action in a pay dispute that has already caused the cancellation of around 1,000 flights. Workers at Berlin’s Tegel and Schoenefeld airports will walk out at 4 am local time (0300 GMT) on Monday […]

Nine out of ten Greek Cypriots believe the excuse Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci gave for leaving the negotiations was inadequate and eight in ten think his stated concerns were unjustified, according to a poll published on Sunday. Akinci walked away from the table after the House voted to allow schools to commemorate a 1950 […]

The Citizens Alliance, with 114 votes in favour and 20 against decided on Sunday that party leader Giorgos Lillikas was the most appropriate candidate for the presidential elections in 2018. In a written statement after the vote on Sunday, the Supreme Senate laid out several reasons, from the Cyprus talks to the economy, as to […]

Socialist Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos on Sunday called for a referendum before the Cyprus negotiations go any further, he said. Sizopoulos, whose party has disavowed the notion of a bicommual, bizonal federation, was speaking at a party district conference in Paphos to elect new officials. Before the resumption of talks and before the conclusion on […]

Britain is drawing up contingency plans for the unlikely event it has to walk away from divorce talks with the European Union without a deal, Brexit minister David Davis said on Sunday. Prime Minister Theresa May is set to begin exit talks by the end of the month, kicking off Britain’s most complex set of […]

Government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Sunday it was too early to focus on presidential elections at a time when it was important to see how the Cyprus talks could be re-started. Christodoulides was speaking at an Eoka memorial service in Paphos. He said that over any five-year period there were three election cycles in […]

Disgraced South Korean leader Park Geun-hye left the presidential Blue House on Sunday, two days after a court dismissed her over a corruption scandal, bound for her private home and facing the possibility of prosecution and jail. Park left the compound in a motorcade of fast-driving black cars, flanked by police motorbikes, after bidding farewell […]

Cairo’s population is set to grow by 500,000 this year, more than any other city in the world, adding to the pressure on an Egyptian economy struggling to recover from six years of political turmoil. Greater Cairo, a metropolitan area including Cairo and parts of the Giza and Qalyubia provinces, is home to some 22.8 […]

Solidarity leader and MEP Eleni Theocharous said on Sunday the Cyprus problem had been driven to the edge of an abyss and the Greek Cypriot side was hanging from a bush, which if it broke, would lead to the depths of chaos. Theocharous, who last year announced she planned to run in the presidential elections […]

Hailstones the size of peas fell in parts of the capital, Nicosia, on Sunday as forecast storms and heavy rains hit much of the island. Police warned motorists earlier that due to the unpredictability of isolated heavy showers – some short-lived but intense – motorists should exercise caution as roads might be slippery and dangerous. […]

German police said on Sunday they had ended a major operation launched after they received information about a possible threat of an attack in the south-western town of Offenburg on Saturday night. Officers stepped up security in the town centre and on public transport and police said one possible target was a night club which […]

A 33-year-old man from Sotira village in the Famagusta area was physically attacked and robbed in his home on Saturday evening after four men forced their way in, police said. Two aged 17 and 21 have been arrested. According to police, the victim was at home in his apartment when the 17-year-old from Ayia Napa […]

A Limassol bar owner was arrested, charged and released late Saturday for allowing a minor to drink alcohol, and for not having an liquor licence or a permit for loudspeakers. During a routine check, officers came across three minors in the bar, one of whom was drinking alcohol. Further investigations revealed the owner was not […]

Three police officers were slightly injured and three people were arrested at the AEL-Apollon match at Tsirion stadium in Limassol on Saturday night, police said. Before the start of the match fans incited violence at one of the entrances, at around 6.30 pm when they attacked stadium security who were monitoring the entryway. Police said […]

A 30-year-old man was arrested in Paphos in the early hours of Sunday on suspicion of injuring a nightclub security guard with a knife. According to police, they were called to the club around 3.30am after reports of a scuffle. There they found the security guard, aged 40, had sustained some light injures to his […]

Turkey will retaliate in the “harshest ways” to Dutch moves to bar the flight of the Turkish foreign minister and prevent the family minister from entering the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Sunday. “This situation has been protested in the strongest manner by our side, and it has been conveyed […]

We have written a lot recently about the progress towards driverless cars, and the fact that they will soon be with us. Indeed, some cars already have features which remove the need for the driver to be actively in control at all times, but recent research suggests that the biggest challenge facing a future of […]

Actress Margot Robbie has been revealed as Nissan’s new electric vehicle (EV) ambassador after racing the carmaker’s radical all-electric BladeGlider sports car around the world famous Monaco Grand Prix circuit, at midnight. The prototype 190km/h Nissan BladeGlider, which hits 100km/h in less than five seconds, challenges the conventional thinking of what an all-electric sports car […]

It would be a serious dereliction of duty if the British government failed to plan for the possibility of not reaching an exit deal with the European Union, a committee of lawmakers said in a report published on Sunday. Prime Minister Theresa May, who will trigger the formal divorce process by the end of this […]