Новости за 19.03.2017

Manchester City had to come from behind to hold Liverpool 1-1 as both teams lost ground in the Premier League following victories for Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. City, in third place, stayed a point ahead of the Merseysiders with a game in hand thanks to Sergio Aguero’s equalising goal. Knocked out of the Champions League […]

Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis said on Sunday that though the procedures for the reform of the health sector were in the final stages, there were still obstacles that must be overcome. “It’s not over until it’s over,” the minister said in an interview with Phileleftheros. “If you do not see the results then it’s not […]

Injury-hit Nice’s hopes of a first Ligue 1 title since 1959 suffered a setback on Saturday when they were held to a 1-1 draw at mid-table Nantes. Jean Michael Seri cancelled out Emiliano Sala’s opener to earn the third-placed visitors a point, which moves them on to 64 points, one behind Paris St Germain and […]

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 SOUTHAMPTON 1 Tottenham Hotspur kept up the distant chase of Premier League leaders Chelsea with a hard-earned 2-1 victory over Southampton to cut the gap to 10 points on Sunday. Goals from Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli in each half extended Tottenham’s unbeaten home record as they claimed a 10th successive league […]

Police have arrested a 25-year-old man from a Nicosia village on suspicion of possessing child pornography and solicitation of children for sexual purposes, they said on Sunday. According to police information, the 25 year old reportedly asked for and exchanged nude photos online with a minor. On Sunday morning, cybercrime officers and a forensic team […]

Protesters in central Beirut hurled empty water bottles at Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri on Sunday when he tried to calm hundreds of people rallying against proposed tax hikes. Carrying placards and banners, around 2,000 people flooded Riad al-Solh square to protest against tax hikes that parliament is considering to fund public sector pay rises. […]

Juventus beat a spirited Sampdoria 1-0 after Juan Cuadrado’s early goal to provisionally extend their lead in Serie A and take a step closer to a sixth successive Scudetto, while Napoli kept alive their faint title hopes with a 3-2 win at Empoli. Juventus moved up to 73 points with nine games to play when […]

A dispute between Benjamin Netanyahu and his finance minister over broadcast regulation sparked speculation on Sunday the Israeli prime minister could seek an election two years ahead of schedule. Some political commentators accused Netanyahu of using the issue as a pretext for engineering a national vote that could delay any U.S. peace moves under new […]

The Republican head of a congressional panel investigating accusations of Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election said on Sunday a leak involving former Trump aide Michael Flynn was a crime and that the panel was probing whether other names were leaked. “The one crime we know that’s been committed is that one: the leaking […]

Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Sunday the government would not take any fiscal measures that would undermine the economy`s growth prospects, despite the European Commission`s view that Cyprus should implement measures to comply with the Stability and Growth Pact targets concerning the structural balance in 2017. Georgiades told CNA that “the Commission`s view is […]

By Yann Le Guernigou and Gus Trompiz Police on Sunday questioned relatives of a man shot dead by soldiers at a Paris airport as they sought clues about why he tried to seize an assault rifle in an incident that has pushed security to the top of France’s election campaign. Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday accused a jailed Turkish-German journalist of being a terrorist agent, adding “Thank God he has been arrested”, comments likely to cause further unease in Berlin over the incident. Erdogan, who was speaking at a meeting of an Islamic foundation in Istanbul, said the reporter, Deniz Yucel of Germany’s Die […]

A 30-year-old man from Larnaca, Giorgos Stavrou completed the Limassol marathon on Sunday in memory of his brother Demetris who died last March from a heart attack aged only 32. According to CNA around 100 people. friends and family of Stavrou’s turned out to watch him run the 42 kilometres on Sunday. Wearing a jersey […]

Kenyan athletes won both the main marathon and the half marathon in both men’s and women’s classifications in Limassol on Sunday, organisers announced. Edwin Kiprop Kiyeng finished the main marathon in 2:15:04. The record is 2:13.29. In second place his compatriot Wycliffe Kip Biwot ended the run at 2:15:40 and third place came Russian-born Pavel […]

Diko leader Nicolas Papadopoulos on Sunday accused UN Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide of “repeating Turkish propaganda” by saying the key to a Cyprus solution lay in Nicosia. Papadopoulos was responding to a report in Phileleftheros on Sunday citing sources saying that Eide had made the comment to a group of foreign ambassadors at a […]

President Nicos Anastasiades was due to leave on Sunday for the US for a visit the government spokesman said on Sunday had three objectives, the Cyprus issue, foreign investment and energy. Especially important would be his meetings with the UN Secretary-General and the British foreign minister, Nicos Christodoulides said on the sidelines of a memorial […]

German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Germany owes NATO and the United States “vast sums” of money for defence. “There is no debt account at NATO,” von der Leyen said in a statement, adding that it was wrong to link the alliance’s target for members […]

Iraqi army helicopters strafed and fired rockets at Islamic State positions in Mosul’s Old City on Sunday as troops on the ground closed in on the strategic and symbolic prize of the al-Nuri Mosque. Federal Police troops had advanced past the train station in western Mosul closer to the mosque. A police commander said they […]

With warm words from Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ended his first trip to Asia since taking office with an agreement to work together with China on North Korea and putting aside trickier issues. China has been irritated at being repeatedly told by Washington to rein in North […]

Police announced on Sunday that it would be launching a new speeding clampdown in the coming week, beginning on Monday. “It is an indisputable fact that speeding is one of the main causes of serious and fatal road traffic collisions, which is why police are focusing their efforts in this direction,” a brief announcement said.

urkey on Sunday accused Germany of supporting the network of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric it blames for last year’s attempted coup, comments likely to aggravate a diplomatic feud between Ankara and Berlin. On Saturday, German news magazine Der Spiegel published an interview with the head of the BND foreign intelligence agency, who said Ankara had […]

Two brothers aged 37 and 22 from Aradippou were arrested on Saturday evening on suspicions of drugs possession, police said. The pair were driving in the village when police stopped them during a routine patrol. Police said the driver of the car tried to speed off but the patrol chased them down. During the chase, […]

Chuck Berry, who duck-walked his way into the pantheon of rock ‘n’ roll pioneers as one of its most influential guitarists and lyricists, creating raucous anthems that defined the genre’s sound and heartbeat, died on Saturday at his Missouri home. He was 90. Police in St. Charles County, outside St. Louis, said they were called […]

On March 12 1947 Enzo Ferrari fired up the 125 S, the first car to bear his name. That test-drive on the streets of Maranello marked the start of modern Ferrari history. The then-modest factory quickly grew into one of the great internationally-renowned ‘Made in Italy’ icons. Exactly 70 years later, on March 12 2017, […]

One person was in custody after a suspicious vehicle drove up to a White House checkpoint on Saturday night, the Secret Service said, after CNN reported that the driver claimed to have a bomb. CNN, citing two law enforcement sources, said there was no confirmation of any device in the vehicle but that security at […]