Новости за 08.05.2017

    First-half goals from Spaniards Diego Costa and Marcos Alonso and a tap-in by Nemanja Matic propelled exuberant Chelsea to within three points of clinching the Premier League title on Monday and condemned Middlesbrough to relegation. Costa got his 20th league goal this season, controlling a ball lofted into the area by compatriot Cesc […]

A 56-YEAR-OLD male driver who was almost six times over the limit and caused an accident in Paphos on Sunday evening, was fined on Monday and his licence was taken away for four months. The man was driving on the wrong side of Europa Avenue at around 9.10pm when two cars – one of them […]

Marcos Baghdatis has been beaten in the first round of the Madrid Open. The Cypriot tennis star lost 7-6(1) 6-4 to big-serving Australian Nick Kyrgios. Rafael Nadal meanwhile has asked to begin his participation in the claycourt tournament a day later than planned due to an ear infection, meaning he will face Italian Fabio Fognini […]

British-born Cypriot Jason Charalambous is standing as the Conservative candidate for Islington South and Finsbury in the UK general election on June 8, it was announced on Monday. Charalambous, a solicitor-advocate by profession, is standing against sitting Labour MP Emily Thornberry. He told the Islington Gazette, that he would make a claim for “strong and […]

  In the last game of round six of the playoffs AEL defeated Anorthosis by 2-0 and all but secured the coveted fourth place that leads to Europe. A goal in each half by Sassy gave the Limassol side the three points and they are now five points clear of fifth placed Omonia with just […]

Two men, both aged 44, believed to be involved in the abduction twelve days ago of four-year-old Marie Eleni Grimsrud were released on Monday after court rejected a police request to renew their remands. A 46-year-old man from Paphos, arrested on Saturday, was remanded on Monday for eight days in connection with the same case. The […]

  Police chief Zacharias Chrysostomou on Monday ordered the immediate suspension of a sergeant and three officers following a letter from Attorney-general Costas Clerides and the findings of a report into corruption in the police force. The investigation, carried out by former supreme court justice Andreas Paschalides and former police officials Panayiotis Pelagias and Agamemnon Demetriou, was […]

Germany on Monday reiterated its opposition to the introduction of joint eurozone bonds a day after the election of French President-elect Emmanuel Macron, who favours more European integration. Macron’s victory is a relief for Germany, the main defender of the European Union against rising anti-establishment sentiment on the right and left of the political spectrum. […]

  The son of one of the defence lawyers in the trial of the Ayia Napa gangland shooting last June, in which four people were killed, has tried to tamper with a key prosecution witness by offering a bribe in exchange for his silence, it was alleged in court on Monday. Businessman Theofanis Theofanous ‘Kalopsidiotis’, […]

  Lawmakers have decided to give the Church of Cyprus one more month to come up with a uniform policy on funeral charities before taking legislative action. The House human rights committee was on Monday again discussing the issue of money collected at funerals and the inability of the family of the deceased to determine […]

The ARTos Foundation in Nicosia will show the newest and coolest Polish animation of the last two years during the Festival of Polish Animation – O!PLA ACROSS THE BORDERS #4 on Thursday. O!PLA is a fully independent cultural project and in its fourth edition – which was presented in 69 Polish cities from March to […]

On May 10 between 4.30pm and 9.30m local roads will be closed in the area around the Curium Amphitheatre site within the Western Sovereign Base Area, it was announced on Monday. This is due to the closing ceremony for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development annual meeting and business forum. For security reasons, it will not […]

Facebook must remove postings deemed as hate speech, an Austrian court has ruled, in a legal victory for campaigners who want to force social media companies to combat online “trolling”. The case – brought by Austria’s Green party over insults to its leader – has international ramifications as the court ruled the postings must be […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party has opened up the biggest lead on record for polls conducted by research firm ICM, suggesting it remains on course for a sweeping win in a national election in a month’s time. An ICM poll published on Monday, which was conducted immediately after the Conservatives scored big wins […]

Leicester City were never going to defend their Premier League title and a top-half finish would be fair reflection of club’s topsy-turvy campaign, winger Marc Albrighton has said. Leicester have struggled to repeat the heroics of last season and were only a point above the relegation zone before manager Claudio Ranieri was sacked and replaced […]

The Co-operative Central Bank will offer loans for roof heat-proofing at favourable terms, in collaboration with the employers’ association (OEV), it was announced on Monday. At a joint news conference, a scheme was unveiled offering loans of up to €10,000 at 3 per cent interest, with no assets as collateral, for a maximum repayment period […]

  The leaders of Diko, Edek and the Solidarity Movement, the parties of the so-called centre space, met on Monday to lay the foundation for their joint campaign for the 2018 presidential elections. All three parties are backing Diko leader Nicolas Papadopoulos as their candidate.  The meeting took place at the Solidarity offices in Nicosia. […]

Emmanuel Macron was elected French president on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who threatened to take France out of the European Union. The centrist’s emphatic victory, which also smashed the dominance of France’s mainstream parties, will bring huge relief to European allies who had feared […]

Cyprus and Luxembourg signed on Monday a double tax avoidance and prevention of tax evasion treaty, based on the model convention of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the finance ministry said. Finance minister Harris Georgiades and his Luxembourgian peer Pierre Gramegna signed the agreement, which aims at helping the two EU members strengthen […]

More than 200 migrants are feared to have died in the Mediterranean over the weekend, according to testimony from survivors, and several bodies, including that of an infant, have washed up on a Libyan beach. About 7,500 people have been rescued off the coast of Libya since Thursday, the Italian and Libyan coastguards said. Two […]

A former general manager of Greek-owned waste-management company Helector Cyprus has pleaded guilty to charges of bribing public officials in the ongoing trial of the Paphos and Koshi landfills, it was reported on Monday. Demetris Giannakopoulos was accused of having bribed former Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas in 2009 and 2010 with some €310,000 in exchange […]

The rejectionist parties joined in the condemnation of UN Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide on Monday. As they met to discuss their strategy for the presidential elections, the leaders of Diko, Solidarity and Edek urged President Nicos Anastasiades not to accept any new role for the special envoy in the talks that might be outside […]

For all his mitigating talk of injuries and Europa League commitments, Manchester United’s Jose Mourinho is struggling to throw off his reputation as a risk-averse manager whose teams no longer match their main rivals. A blizzard of statistics accompanies each Premier League games these days and Sunday’s 2-0 defeat at Arsenal threw up a particularly […]

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday the United States would closely examine proposed de-escalation zones aimed at easing Syria’s civil war but warned “the devil‘s in the details” and that much needed to be worked out. The deal to create “de-escalation” zones in the major areas of conflict in western Syria took effect […]

Undersecretary to the President Constantinos Petrides will be the new interior minister, replacing Socratis Hasikos following his resignation for personal reasons last week, it was announced on Monday. Petrides, who was also the reform commissioner, was the leading contender to fill Hasikos’ shoes ever since his post was vacated. Vasilis Palmas, the former government spokesman […]