Новости за 22.03.2017

Contract negotiations with Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez are on hold until the end of the season, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said on Wednesday. Speaking to beIN Sports, Wenger had no news about his own future at the club other than saying he would remain committed and “completely focused” for as long as he stayed. […]

Two inmates escaped from the Central Prison in Nicosia on Wednesday afternoon, one of whom was captured after a short pursuit. Shortly after 6pm, two Georgian inmates, who had been sentenced to imprisonment for burglary, escaped from the prison. Prison guards immediately unleashed a man-hunt, in which warning shots were fired, and were able to […]

The extent of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has set a new record low for the wintertime in a region strongly affected by long-term trends of global warming, US and European scientists said on Wednesday. Sea ice around the North Pole expands to its biggest extent of the year in February or March after […]

A 55-year-old Georgian woman was remanded for six days by the Limassol district court on Wednesday, in connection with the theft of a safe from a luxury home in Limassol last Sunday. The safe was found on Monday in a private swimming pool, empty of its €250,000-worth contents. The woman’s 32-year-old son, Alexandros Melikides, is […]

New York police ramped up security at British sites across the city on Wednesday after an assailant stabbed a policeman outside Britain’s parliament and was then shot by police. Heavily armed officers and explosives-detecting dogs were deployed to locations including the British Consulate and the British Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan, senior New […]

The European Capital of Culture events not only offer much in terms of visual arts, music, dance and theatrical performances, but also the chance to get out, mingle and engage with the city and its surrounding villages in new ways. The community involvement programme, which is part of the Pafos2017 organisation, has a number of […]

Let’s take a look at the hotshots lighting up the top 5 European leagues.

Valtteri Bottas is determined to make the most of his “dream” opportunity after being ushered into the Mercedes seat left vacant by the sudden retirement of Formula One champion Nico Rosberg at the end of last season. The Finn has proved his pace over 77 races with Williams but knows he will be stepping up […]

Scotland‘s devolved parliament suspended a planned vote on Wednesday to give its government a mandate to seek a new independence referendum after an attack on Britain’s Houses of Parliament in London which police said they were treating as a terrorist incident. No date for the debate to resume was given. The Scottish parliament issued a […]

The US-led coalition have air-dropped ground forces near the Islamic State-held town of Tabqa in northern Syria, opening a new front in the campaign to capture the jihadist group’s nearby stronghold of Raqqa city. The Pentagon said on Wednesday the US military had airlifted allied Syrian Arab militia fighters near Tabqa, providing them fire support […]

  President Nicos Anastasiades said Wednesday’s meeting with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres was “very constructive” and that he was fully satisfied. He was speaking following a 40-minute tete-a-tete with at the UN’s New York headquarters. The president is in New York for an investment conference. “We did not in any way engage in […]

  The Limassol criminal court will issue its verdict on April 28 in the trial of Christakis Thoma, 31, accused of killing two brothers and another man in cold blood in November 2015. Thoma has been charged with the premeditated murders of siblings Paraschos, 19, and Constantinos Ntorzi, 21, as well as their friend Emilios […]

  The government’s aim is to create an Internal Affairs Service that will have the power to investigate claims of corruption within the police force effectively, justice minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Wednesday. Speaking after a House legal affairs committee session, in which discussion of five government bills on police corruption continued, Nicolaou addressed the […]

A joint military exercise between Cyprus and Israel has been successfully completed, the defence ministry said on Wednesday. The three-day Onisilos-Gideon exercise was part of the agreement for military co-operation between the two countries. The exercise took place inside the Nicosia flight information region and also incorporated a large section of territory. A large number […]

The Pancyprian Volunteerism Coordinative Council (PVCC) announced on Wednesday the launch of its ‘Adopt a family for Easter’ campaign. The campaign – that aims to collect foodstuff for needy families ahead of Easter- is running for the third year in the row.  Last year, 1,200 families were helped by private individuals and organisations, an announcement […]

UEFA will consider introducing squad limits and changes to the transfer system to prevent European teams hoarding players and stem the growing gap between rich and poor clubs, its president Aleksander Ceferin said on Wednesday. The Slovenian lawyer, elected as the head of European football’s’s governing body last September, told a conference in Lisbon that […]

The effort to reform the public sector has not been abandoned after the bills were rejected by parliament, reform commissioner Constantinos Petrides said on Wednesday, and work was being done to submit new ideas. “The effort has not been abandoned,” he said after a meeting with Citizens’ Alliance chairman Giorgos Lillikas. “We have worked to […]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday the United States would set up “interim zones of stability” to help refugees return home in the next phase of the fight against Islamic State and al Qaeda. The top US diplomat did not make clear where these zones were to be set up. He was […]

Cypriot photographer Elena Georgiou was among the five winners of the Instagram photo contest of the European Parliament (EP), it was announced on Wednesday. The photo contest titled ‘#ThisIsMy5’ was part of events celebrating the fifth-year anniversary of the Parlamentarium, the EP’s visitors’ centre in Brussels. Participants were asked to show through their photos, their […]

  A female secretary in the Customs Department who was reprimanded by her supervisor’s wife for dressing too sexily has been vindicated by the ombudswoman who ruled that she was the victim of sexist stereotypes against women, it was reported on Wednesday. According to the report, published by the daily Phileleftheros, the secretary filed a […]

An assailant stabbed a policeman and was shot by police just outside Britain’s parliament building in London on Wednesday in what police described as a “terrorist incident”. Amid confusing scenes, it appeared the incident may have unfolded in several locations, including on the nearby Westminster bridge where eyewitnesses said a car had crashed into pedestrians. […]

Vandals have cut down newly planted trees in the centre of Paphos old town which is currently undergoing a massive renovation project to beautify and upgrade the area. It was the second such incident in a matter of weeks. Paphos municipality issued a press release on Wednesday calling on police to immediately identify and punish […]

The European Central Bank (ECB) said that it issued a new guidance to euro area banks outlining measures and processes to effectively tackle non-performing loans, and called on governments to assist by adapting “legal and judicial frameworks”. “The guidance calls on banks to implement realistic and ambitious strategies to work towards a holistic approach regarding […]

Thousands of gay men prosecuted and jailed under an arcane German law were due to get compensation after the government passed a draft bill on Wednesday to quash their convictions. About 50,000 men were punished under the law that was drawn up in the 19th century, strengthened by the Nazis and only dropped in 1969 […]

The Turkish Cypriot authorities plan to chip cars and fuel vendors in a bid to put an end to unregistered vehicles and illegal fuel trade. ‘Deputy prime minister and minister of finance’ Serdar Denktash told daily Kibris on Wednesday that the new system aimed at putting an end to unregistered cars and abolishing the illegal […]