Новости за 05.04.2017

Barcelona cruised to a 3-0 win over Sevilla with a mesmerising attacking display on Wednesday thanks to two goals from Lionel Messi and one from Luis Suarez in the space of eight minutes to provisionally go above Real Madrid at the top of La Liga. Barca lead the standings on 69 points although Real Madrid, […]

The traditional US Masters Par 3 contest was called off on Wednesday for the first time in its 57-year history with heavy storms forecast in the Augusta area. Twenty-six players started their rounds in the curtain-raiser event for the year’s first major which starts on Thursday. Former Masters champion Mike Weir of Canada fired a […]

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday reiterated its support to the reunification talks during a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci in Brussels. The commission said it was a productive meeting with the two men discussion the current state of affairs in the Cyprus talks. The two men agreed to be in touch. […]

  Limassol port workers decided on Wednesday to give 30 more days to try and resolve a dispute with the general cargo operator over the distribution of work on the dock. Porters want 100 per cent of the work while the company, DP World, says porters should only deal with loading and unloading ships. However, […]

New York’s Eleven Madison Park nabbed the top prize at the World’s 50 Best Restaurants on Wednesday, only the second non-European restaurant to win the gong. The restaurant overlooking Madison Square Park was praised for its sense of fun in blending a creative tasting menu with gracious hospitality. It rose from third place last year, […]

Limassol Bishop Athanasios’ defence lawyer on Wednesday described the parents of a monk who are suing him and others as a group of maniacs looking for scapegoats to satisfy their pain. The man’s family are seeking general damages of up to €2m from Maheras monastery, abbot Epifanios, Bishop Athanasios, and the archbishop, in his capacity […]

Apoel and AEL played out a dire goalless draw in the first leg of their Cyprus Cup quarter-final at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia on Wednesday, meaning the fourth team to join Apollon, Doxa and Anorthosis in the semi-finals will be decided in the return leg in a fortnight’s time in Limassol. The game was […]

Turkish prosecutors are seeking up to 43 years in jail for journalists from a leading opposition newspaper on charges of supporting a terrorist organisation and targeting President Tayyip Erdogan through “asymmetric war methods”. An indictment seen by Reuters on Wednesday said Cumhuriyet had effectively been “taken over” by the network of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, […]

Women are just as ambitious as men at the start of their careers but this falters if companies fail to encourage them, according to a study released on Wednesday that sought to dispel the myth of a gender ambition gap. A survey by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) of 200,000 employees, including 141,000 women from […]

Under the name A Contemporary Evening, K Cineplex in Nicosia, Larnaca and Paphos will screen the best of modern ballet from the Bolshoi stage on Sunday. The recorded screening will showcase a one-time event from Moscow during which Bolshoi dancers performed a ballet in two acts. This ballet will bring together three short pieces by […]

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday withdrew his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, from the National Security Council on Wednesday after it was decided he was no longer needed on the key foreign policy group, a senior White House official said. Bannon’s removal from the NSC, which includes senior members of Trump’s foreign policy team, was […]

The cabinet has approved the regulations for the state health services organisation that will oversee hospital autonomy, it was announced on Wednesday. According to the health ministry, the cabinet’s move aims at ensuring that the timeframe set by political party leaders last year on the introduction of the national health scheme (Gesy), is kept. Hospital […]

  Chairman of the Turkish Cypriot Democratic Party (DP) Serdar Denktash and the authorities in the north were slammed on Tuesday for granting thousands of new ‘TRNC citizenships’ to Turkish mainlanders. Politicians and the public, through social media, heavily criticised the year-old National Unity Party (UBP)-DP coalition. Republican Turkish Party (CTP) Chairman Tufan Erhurman issued […]

Owners of businesses near Lady’s Mile beach prevented access to Limassol port for a short time on Wednesday to demand improved access to the popular beach and provide services to visitors. Protesters had initially blocked the Limassol port’s entrance, angering lorry drivers, and then moved toward the road leading to Lady’s Mile, accompanied by MPs, […]

Around 270,000 Syrians in Germany have the right to bring in their family members, a newspaper said on Wednesday – a statistic that could fuel the debate about migration less than six months before a national election. Mass-selling tabloid Bild cited a government paper as showing a total of 431,376 Syrians applied for asylum in […]

  Land at the Halepianes area outside Nicosia, initially earmarked for the construction of Omonia football club’s stadium, has been handed over to the Bank of Cyprus (BoC) in a land for debt swap, reports said on Wednesday. According to daily Politis newspaper, the bank took over the real estate, made up of several individual […]

Former Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas’ plans to hand over some of his property in exchange for the dropping of some corruption charges against him have been stymied by legal obstacles, it emerged on Wednesday. The charges relate to overcharging at waste-management plants in Paphos and Larnaca. Vergas, who is already serving a six-year sentence after […]

Six people of central Asian origin have been detained on suspicion of recruiting for radical Islamist groups, Russian investigators said on Wednesday, but added there was no proof linking the detainees to the deadly metro bombing in St Petersburg. Russian state investigators say their main suspect in Monday’s bombing, which killed 14 people and injured […]

Attorney-general Costas Clerides’ legal opinion on the constitutionality of a Disy-sponsored proposal to transfer decision-making on commemoration of historical events in state schools from parliament to the education ministry will be presented prior to Friday’s plenum, when the proposal is scheduled to be put to a vote, House speaker Demetris Syllouris said on Wednesday. Although […]

Danny Willett has chosen a traditional English Sunday roast for his US Masters champions dinner at Augusta and delivered a special tribute to American great Arnold Palmer. Thirty-four former winners of the tournament started with cottage pie before tucking into roast beef with Yorkshire pudding and apple crumble. “There’s been a lot of thought gone […]

Russia denied on Wednesday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was to blame for a poison gas attack and said it would continue to back him, setting the Kremlin on course for its biggest diplomatic collision yet with Donald Trump’s White House. Western countries, including the United States, blamed Assad’s armed forces for a chemical attack […]

Arms covered in red and green ink, tattoo artist Alvaro Quesada is hardly what cancer survivors expect at a Madrid infirmary, the first public hospital in Spain to offer nipple and areola tattooing. Yet his service of tattooing realistic-looking nipples onto women who have had their breasts reconstructed after mastectomies signals the final step of […]

Chapecoense beat Atletico Nacional 2-1 in the first leg of their South American Supercup final as the game was marked by memorials to those killed in an air crash before the teams’ scheduled Copa Sudamericana final last November. The match was the first between the sides since all but three of the Brazilian team and […]

General shops such as supermarkets must remain closed on Easter Sunday and Monday according to the law, the labour ministry announced on Wednesday. Employees of specialty shops such as clothing and shoe stores, which are allowed to remain open, must be paid double their hourly rate, the ministry said. All general shops must close at […]

The German cabinet approved a plan on Wednesday to fine social networks such as Facebook up to €50m if they do not remove hateful postings quickly and to make them reveal the identity of those behind the posts. “There should be just as little tolerance for criminal rabble rousing on social networks as on the […]