Новости за 02.04.2017

Roger Federer continued his recent mastery of Rafa Nadal when he beat his great rival 6-3 6-4 in the final of the Miami Open on Sunday. Federer, peerless this year after returning from a six-month injury absence, broke once in each set on the Crandon Park hardcourt for his fourth consecutive victory over the Spaniard. […]

Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, supporters of a solution, gathered outside the Ledra Palace Hotel in the UN-controlled buffer zone on Sunday night, to send a message to the leaders to reach a deal as soon as possible. Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus and Unficy Chief of Mission Elizabeth Spehar received a […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel said refugees in Germany must respect tolerance, openness and freedom of religion, while senior members of her party called for a ban on foreign funding of mosques. Merkel, who will seek a fourth term as chancellor in what is expected to be a tight election in September, has come under fire for […]

Seventy five small packages containing a total of 800 grammes of cocaine was found inside the stomach of a passenger who arrived at Larnaca airport on Sunday, after he underwent a body scan, police said. Police said the 21-year old had been acting suspiciously when he arrived – they did not say from where – […]

ARSENAL 2 MANCHESTER CITY 2 Arsenal twice came from behind to draw 2-2 with Manchester City in a tense Premier League encounter on Sunday and stay seven points behind the fourth-placed visitors. Against a background of fan discontent over the form of Arsene Wenger’s side as he decides his future, Arsenal were nervy from the […]

Thousands of Hungarian and foreign students, professors and civilians rallied in Budapest on Sunday demanding the government withdraw legislation that could force a university founded by financier George Soros out of the country. The demonstrators, who walked from Budapest’s Corvinus University to the Central European University (CEU) founded by Soros in 1991 and then to […]

Three unaccompanied migrant minors were picked up by police in the Kaimakli area of Nicosia on Sunday afternoon, police said. The children, two girls and a boy aged 17, 15 and 16 respectively appeared to have entered through the north, they said. They were picked up around 5pm after police were notified. They have been […]

President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci were meeting for dinner in Nicosia on Sunday night on their first encounter since talks reached an impasse in mid-February. The aim of the meeting at the Ledra Palace in the capital’s Green Line at the invitation of UN Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide, is to […]

Late-blooming Johanna Konta won the biggest title of her career when she beat Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-3 in the women’s final at the Miami Open on Saturday. British 10th seed Konta used an aggressive game plan to overcome Danish 12th seed Wozniacki on the Crandon Park hardcourt. Konta stuck to her hard-hitting tactics, despite a […]

France’s polling commission has issued a warning over a Russian news report suggesting conservative candidate Francois Fillon leads the race for the presidency – something which contradicts the findings of mainstream opinion pollsters. The cautionary note from the watchdog on pre-election polling followed allegations in February by aides of centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron that he […]

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party won nearly half of the seats contested in by-elections on Sunday, the first vote since it swept to power a year ago and an early indication of support for her administration amid increased fighting with ethnic armed groups and slower economic growth. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy […]

By Bejay Browne   THE recently elected leader of Chlorakas community council in Paphos has vowed to clean up and maintain a ‘filthy’ beach which has been described as an embarrassment for Paphos. On Sunday, as thousands of people across Cyprus take part in the annual cleaning campaign ‘Let’s do it Cyprus!’, Nicolas Liasides, the […]

A four day-old baby was one of over 480 migrants rescued by humanitarian ships on Saturday during search and rescue operations in the central Mediterranean Sea. The baby was travelling on one of two rubber boats carrying over 200 migrants from North and Central Africa, Sri Lanka and Yemen and seen drifting some 22 nautical […]

Paris St Germain thrashed Monaco 4-1 in the French League Cup final on Saturday to lift the trophy for the fourth year in a row and gain a potential psychological edge over their rivals for the Ligue 1 title race. Julian Draxler put PSG ahead and Thomas Lemar levelled for Monaco before a goal from […]

Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich demolished Augsburg 6-0 with forward Robert Lewandowski scoring a hat-trick to protect their 13-point advantage over second-placed RB Leipzig who beat bottom club Darmstadt 98 4-0 on Saturday. The Bavarians, who face Real Madrid in the Champions League last eight this month, remained firmly on track for a record-extending fifth consecutive […]

Around 35,000 volunteers “of all ages” took part in the Let’s Do It Cyprus islandwide clean-up campaign on Sunday the office of Environment Commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou said. In addition to individual volunteers making up the unprecedented number, which was double last year’s participation, 563 organised groups with families, friends, NGOs, the National Guard, police, municipalities […]

Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot journalists got together at the journalists union village in Pervolia in Larnaca on Sunday for a tree-planting ceremony as a gesture of peace ahead of the leaders’ dinner later in the day in Nicosia. Speaking at the event, Giorgos Frangos, president of the Union of Cyprus Journalists welcomed the “symbolic […]

By Annette Chrysostomou Another 92 likely refugees arrived this week in Cyprus in an overcrowded boat, and with such arrivals on the increase, refugee support groups and individuals are finally coming together to offer more holistic support, both in the Kofinou reception centre and in the wider community. Damtew Dessalegne, the Cyprus representative of the […]

By Alastair Macdonald The week Britain filed for divorce from the European Union brought relief in London and Brussels that crockery was not smashed – far from it – but negotiators fear tantrums or even a breakdown once talks start. The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier sees them beginning in early June; first the […]

The Third President of the National Council of Austria Norbert Hofer is due in Cyprus on Tuesday. Hofer will meet House Speaker Demetris Syllouris and will also have a working lunch with the chairman of the House foreign affairs committee Giorgos Lillikas. He will also hold separate meetings with Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides, Famagusta Mayor […]

By Hasmik Mkrtchyan Armenians voted for a new parliament on Sunday in a closely fought race between the ruling party and a former coalition partner that heralds the start of a parliamentary system of government. Under constitutional changes critics say were designed to prolong the political life of President Serzh Sarksyan, parliament, not voters, will […]

Burglars stole two guns, jewellery and other valuables worth 35,800 euros from a home in Ayios Tychonos in Limassol on Saturday night, police said. According to the complaint made to police by the 39-year old owner of the house, she discovered the break-in at around 9.30pm when she and her husband rushed home after receiving […]

Twenty people were tortured and then murdered with clubs and knives at a Pakistani Sufi shrine, the police said on Sunday, in an attack purportedly carried out by the shrine’s custodian and several accomplices. Four others were wounded during the attack on Sunday morning at the shrine on the edge of Sargodha, a remote town […]

Arsonists attacked the Tseri sports club building in the early hours of Sunday, causing extensive damage to the exterior of the building, they said. An announcement from the club said the fire appeared to have been set at around 4am using a flammable substance. “The fire caused extensive damage to the exterior but fortunately did […]

Serbians voted for a new president on Sunday with conservative Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic the runaway favourite despite opposition warnings about the extent of his domination over the Balkan country, balanced between the West and Russia. Most polls see Vucic, 47, winning in the first round with more than 50 percent of the vote, trailed […]