Новости за 20.04.2017

A French policeman was shot dead and two others were wounded in a shooting in central Paris on Thursday night before the gunman himself was killed by officers, police and the Interior Ministry said. A second suspect thought to be involved in the incident on the Champs Elysees shopping boulevard just days ahead of France’s […]

US President Donald Trump’s administration is shifting its stance on Russia and now sees Moscow as a competitor, Britain‘s defence minister said on Thursday during a trip to the Baltic states designed to underline NATO’s new deterrent forces. In his election campaign last year Trump voiced admiration for President Vladimir Putin, and contacts between his […]

The happenings of one day in our lives can make all the difference, or they could just be a snippet of how we really are. American playwright Eugene O’Neill chooses one day in August 1912 to present the Tyrone family to his audience in the play Long Day’s Journey into Night, which will be presented […]

A number of journalists have violated the code of ethics, risking the creation of hate, bigotry, and racism, the island’s media watchdog has said. According to a written statement, during its last meeting, the media complaints commission looked into the recent situation regarding the Enosis (union with Greece) referendum and the involvement of a section […]

  AFTER a two-month pause, negotiations proper for a Cyprus settlement resumed on Thursday with the leaders of the two communities discussing governance, the economy and EU matters amid the news that Turkey had issued a notice it would sending a survey vessel to the island’s exclusive economic zone. It was the second face-to-face this […]

Bulgarian authorities have detained five German citizens suspected of links to a militant organisation after they entered the Balkan country from Romania, the state security agency said on Thursday. Four have now been expelled and the fifth, a minor, is being looked after by social assistance authorities until he can be handed over to his […]

Cyprus and Austria have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in military matters. The MoU was signed during a meeting on Thursday between Defence Minister Christoforos Fokaides and his Austrian counterpart Hans Peter Doskozil in Nicosia. The two ministers described the MOU as a tangible demonstration of the common will of the two […]

Pakistan‘s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled there was insufficient evidence to order Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s removal from office over corruption allegations levelled by the opposition and it ordered further investigations. A verdict to dismiss Sharif would have left his party in power but would have sparked turmoil at a time when Pakistan is experiencing […]

A scaled-down, two-man US-Russian crew arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, six hours after blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a NASA TV broadcast showed. A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Jack Fischer, 43, and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, 58, lifted off at 1:13 pm local time/3:13 am EDT (0713 […]

Three women dressed in burqas killed a man who had been accused of blasphemy in 2004 in a northeastern Pakistani town, police said on Thursday, the second brutal killing over alleged insults to Islam in a week. Blasphemy is a highly charged topic in Pakistan where there have been at least 66 murders over unproven […]

An aircraft flying between Warsaw, Rhodes and Paphos, which made a forced landing at the Antalya airport in Turkey due to a medical emergency, was not allowed by Turkish authorities to fly to Cyprus and was forced to turn back to the Greek island, it was reported on Thursday. The pilot of the aircraft operating […]

A 38-year-old Limassol resident has been arrested after police secured testimony allegedly linking him with a case of extortion and theft. According to police, a 64-year-old tourist who was staying in a Limassol hotel, reported on Tuesday that while waiting at the bus stop at around 10am, he was approached by a man he didn’t […]

The Paphos District Court issued a two-day detention order on Thursday, against the 34-year-old man who was involved in the internet cafe fire in Paphos on Wednesday morning. The 34-year-old was arrested for arson after a fire broke out at an internet cafe in Paphos in the early hours of Wednesday, which caused severe damage but no injuries. […]

Russian navy vessels arrived in the Philippines on Thursday for joint exercises as part of a drive for new security ties under President Rodrigo Duterte’s revamped foreign policy of courting the traditional foes of Manila’s top ally, Washington. The guided-missile cruiser Varyag, accompanied by the fuel tanker ship, Pechenge, are on a four-day goodwill visit […]

A 37-year-old woman was stabbed to death in the north on Thursday afternoon just outside Nicosia. Reports said Gamze Pehlivan was stabbed multiple times with a sharp implement and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The 35-year-old man suspected of stabbing Pehlivan was arrested in Nicosia a couple of hours later. It was […]

On Saturday, come down to Faneromeni Square in Nicosia and help create the first wall of kindness. The wall of kindness is a charity work phenomenon, during which unwanted clothes are hung on a wall and collectively make the wall one of kindness. These clothes – mainly winter ones – or other objects, such as […]

Hard-left presidential challenger Jean-Luc Melenchon and conservative Francois Fillon were neck-and-neck behind the frontrunners in an opinion poll on Thursday, as candidates made last-ditch appeals to undecided voters. Voters will cast their ballots on Sunday in the first round of what has transformed into the most unpredictable French election in living memory, with four candidates […]

Turkey‘s justice minister said on Thursday that any opposition challenge to a referendum that expanded President Tayyip Erdogan’s powers would be rejected by the constitutional court, and Europe’s human rights court had no jurisdiction on the matter. The main opposition CHP party said on Wednesday it was considering taking its appeal for the referendum to […]

Spaniard Albert Ramos dumped world number one Andy Murray out of the Monte Carlo Masters 2-6 6-2 7-5 on Thursday after firing back from 4-0 down in the final set to take his place in the quarter-finals. Murray, who suffered an elbow injury in March and made his return from a five-week layoff on Wednesday […]

North Korean state media warned the United States of a “super-mighty preemptive strike” after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States was looking at ways to bring pressure to bear on North Korea over its nuclear programme. US President Donald Trump has taken a hard line with North Korean leader Kim Jong […]

Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will vow on Thursday to defeat what he calls a “cosy cartel” at the heart of British politics that protects the interests of the wealthy. The pledge will come in a speech to launch his Labour Party’s national election campaign. Opinion polls show Corbyn’s Labour facing a heavy defeat at the […]

Players from Premier League title-chasers Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur dominate the Professional Football Association’s Team of the Year announced on Thursday, occupying eight of the starting 11 spots. Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante, a league title winner with Leicester City last campaign, Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea and Tottenham trio Dele Alli, Danny Rose and […]

Police in Limassol seized four luxury vehicles that were reported stolen in Spain, it was announced on Thursday. The cars were among 16 reported stolen to Spanish authorities between January 24 and February 17, and shipped to Cyprus through Portugal. Twelve cars had been already re-exported to Asia before they received a Europol alert, police […]

Cyprus donated €125,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), it was announced on Thursday. The CMP expressed its sincere thanks to the Republic of Cyprus for its donation, which brings the country’s financial assistance to the committee to around €2.5m since 2005. “This donation to the CMP project on the exhumation, identification, and return […]

  THE Poseidon consortium whose bid to construct and run a new Paphos marina has been rejected said on Thursday it would launch an appeal with the supreme court, saying the decision was unlawful. Poseidon’s tender was rejected by the marine management committee on Wednesday after the Paphos Chamber of Commerce insisted Poseidon didn’t meet […]