Новости за 28.04.2017

WORLD number one Andy Murray had to dig deep to overcame Albert Ramos-Vinolas 2-6 6-4 7-6(4) and reach the Barcelona Open semi-finals on Friday, avenging his defeat by the Spaniard in the Monte Carlo Masters last week. Briton Murray was overpowered by Ramos-Vinolas in the first set and had to save three break points in the ninth game of […]

Eurogate Container Terminal Limassol Ltd, the company which took over operations for the container business at Limassol port three months ago, said it has received a letter from the transport minister asking it to reconsider fees.

The Shoe Factory in Nicosia will host a piano recital next Friday by one of the most sought-after and talented pianists of his generation in Greece, Theodore Tzovanakis. The recital, presented by the Pharos Arts Foundation and supported by the Embassy of Greece in Cyprus, will feature an all-Russian programme including works by Alexander and […]

FRANCE and Germany sought a new deal with Turkey on Friday to repair relations with President Tayyip Erdogan but would not say whether the Turkish leader’s new powers and his crackdown on opponents had ended the country’s EU ambitions. Worried by what the European Union sees as Erdogan’s growing authoritarianism, EU lawmakers called this week for a […]

THE Motor Show exhibition for new cars, vans and motorcycles will once again open its doors to the public after an absence of five years. The employers’ and industrialists federation (OEV) and the car importers’ association (Semo) announced that the exhibition will be held at the former state fair grounds in Nicosia next week. Taking […]

AIRPORT operator Hermes has spent six weeks to upgrade Larnaca airport, replacing the asphalt of a third of the runways at a cost of more than €700,000. Dozens of workers were busy from midnight to morning and used 50,000 tonnes of asphalt in order to completely replace 30,000 square metres of the tarmac, the company […]

LABOUR Day events will take place on Monday with mobilisations in all districts, the left-leaning Pancyprian Federation of Labour (PEO) trade union announced. The campaign will run under the slogan, “We are working for reunification, social and trade union rights.” The May Day celebrations in Nicosia will be held in solidarity with the Turkish Cypriot […]

A Russian state prosecutor asked a court to jail a blogger who played Pokemon Go inside a church for three-and-a-half years on Friday, saying he was guilty of inciting religious hatred, a court employee told Reuters by phone. Ruslan Sokolovsky, 22, a popular blogger, last August posted a video online of himself playing Pokemon on his […]

The United Nations human rights office voiced deep concern on Friday at the execution of four men in Arkansas in the past week saying that the rush to carry them out before a drug expired added to the “arbitrariness and cruelty” of the process. Arkansas on Thursday executed its fourth inmate in eight days, administering […]

INTERPOL on Thursday added abducted four-year-old Marie Eleni Grimsrud of Cypriot and Norwegian parents to the organisation’s list of children abducted in Cyprus, bringing the total number to 13. The following minors are on Interpol’s wanted list: Ali Omar, 8, who has Syrian and Cypriot parents, disappeared on April 18, 2012 aged two and was […]

PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed their conviction that relations between the two countries would reach a new level after signing a number agreements on culture, education and scientific cooperation, merchant shipping, air services and agriculture. Speaking at a press conference in New Delhi, Anastasiades said the meeting was […]

Government guarantees extended mainly to general government bodies fell last year to below €2bn from €3bn the year before, the Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) said. The drop was mainly on the phasing out of the €1bn government guarantee extended to Bank of Cyprus, the PDMO, a division of the finance ministry, said in its […]

IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua weighed in more than four kgs heavier than challenger Wladamir Klitschko ahead of their title fight in London. The undefeated British fighter weighed at just over 113 kgs and the Ukrainian just under 109 kgs at Wembley Arena on Friday. Joshua, 27, is defending his title and bidding to add […]

VIOLENT as the killing of the three victims was, it was not proven that Christakis Thoma had acted with premeditation, the court ruled on Friday, finding him guilty of three counts of manslaughter. He had faced trial over the November 2015 murder of brothers Paraschos and Constantinos Dorzis, and their friend Emilios Miltiadous. Thoma, 31, […]

Pope Francis, making a two-day visit to Egypt, urged Muslim leaders on Friday to unite in renouncing religious extremism at a time when Islamist militants are targeting ancient Christian communities across the Middle East. Francis’s trip, aimed at improving Christian-Muslim ties, comes just three weeks after Islamic State suicide bombers killed at least 45 people […]

THE mother of a three-year-old girl reported to authorities in the north that her daughter had been abducted by her ex-husband and his parents and taken to the UK through the Republic. Daily Kibris reported that Nur Perihan Ozruyalik, her father and her grandparents, had crossed into the Republic through Strovilia and departed for the […]

A 30-year-old charged for a fatal Limassol hit-and-run denied on Friday that she had any legal responsibility for the accident but said she wished she could turn back time. Efi Herodotou had been wanted by police since 2011 over the 2007 incident in which Emilios Ioannou, 17, was killed. She had been living in Greece […]

He misses driving, feels as if he is in a cocoon, and is surprised how hard his new job is. President Donald Trump on Thursday reflected on his first 100 days in office with a wistful look at his life before the White House. “I loved my previous life. I had so many things going,” […]

  Finance Minister Harris Georgiades must launch a disciplinary probe against ministry employee Savia Orphanidou, who was found in violation of the law on holding party office, attorney-general Costas Clerides told him in a letter of response on Friday. Georgiades had addressed a letter to Clerides last week, seeking an opinion to settle his public […]

Controversy over her party’s record on the fate of Jews in World War Two returned to haunt French National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Friday as the man due to replace her temporarily as party leader suddenly stood aside. Jean-Francois Jalkh, a vice-president of the party, does not want to take up the […]

British police said on Friday they had thwarted an active terrorism plot after a woman was shot during an armed raid on a house in north London. Armed counter-terrorism officers using CS gas stormed a house in the Willesden area of the capital on Thursday evening which had been under surveillance, shooting a woman in […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he tried to telephone Germany’s foreign minister to clear the air after cancelling talks during Sigmar Gabriel’s visit to Israel but the German minister would not take the call. Netanyahu cancelled his planned talks with Gabriel on Tuesday after the minister met groups critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. […]

The 86-year-old actor – whose career has spanned over 60 years – is set to be honoured at the 71st Annual Tony Awards in June later this year for his longstanding and successful career. He said in a statement: “In 1975 when I came to NY to study acting, my father – the actor Robert […]

The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said it agreed to extend a €5m trade facility to the Turkish Bank Ltd, a lender established in 1901 as Nicosia Savings Box, a decision likely to anger the opponents of reconciliation with Turkish Cypriots. “Through the facility, the EBRD will issue guarantees in favour of international […]

A 36-year-old Nicosia man was jailed for eight years on Friday for stabbing his mother to death on the morning of November 11, 2016. The man was found guilty of manslaughter in the stabbing death of his mother, 65, in Ayios Dhometios. Following the incident, he rode his moped to a nearby police station, handed […]