Новости за 13.05.2017

Apoel won their fifth straight Cyprus football championship after beating arch-rivals Omonia 3-1 on Saturday evening. It is the 26th top-flight title in their history. It was a game that was decided by two big calls by the officials, first by referee Vassilis Demetriou who awarded a harsh-looking penalty to Apoel with the scores level […]

Rafael Nadal ended a seven-match losing streak against Novak Djokovic in emphatic fashion by thrashing the world number two 6-2 6-4 on Saturday to reach the final of the Madrid Open and move within a step of a third consecutive clay-court title. The Spaniard and four-time winner in Madrid got off to a dream start […]

Swansea City moved to within sight of Premier League survival on Saturday with a comfortable 2-0 victory against a lacklustre Sunderland side already doomed to relegation. With third-from-bottom Hull City in action 24 hours later 17th-placed Swansea moved four points clear of their rivals with goals by Fernando Llorente and Kyle Naughton. Spaniard Llorente headed […]

Ninety-one people who died in traffic accidents in six years had not been wearing their seat belts, police said on Saturday, expressing disappointment over the results of a week-long campaign that saw over a thousand drivers and passengers booked for not wearing the safety device. According to a statement, police had carried out a campaign […]

Soprano Ester Ustaeva will perform in Paphos next week with local Maestro Yiannis Hadjiloizou at the piano for an evening of opera. The concert, organised by The Cyprus Academy of Music and iDA Productions Centre, will include arias and songs by Rossini, Mozart, Rimsky Korsakov, Gershwin, Kalman, Puccini, Loewe, Bellini, Gounod and more in an […]

A global cyber attack described as unprecedented in scale forced a major European automaker to halt some production lines while hitting schools in China and hospitals in Indonesia on Saturday, though it appeared to die down a day after its launch. Capitalising on spying tools believed to have been developed by the U.S. National Security […]

ON Sunday afternoon the Cyprus museum, the archaeological museum, the castles of Limassol, Kolossi, Paphos and Larnaca as well as the Institute of Neurology and Genetics and the Nicosia, Strovolos, Limassol, and Sotira town halls will be lit in blue and purple as part of a public awareness campaign for Huntington’s disease. The Institute of […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping offered the prime minister of deeply indebted Greece strong support on Saturday, saying the two countries should expand cooperation in infrastructure, energy and telecommunications. Xi told Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that Greece was an important part in China’s new Silk Road strategy. “At present, China and Greece’s traditional friendship and cooperation […]

Riyad Mahrez had a bizarre penalty ruled out as Manchester City survived a stirring Leicester City fightback to claim a 2-1 victory and climb above Liverpool into third place in the Premier League on Saturday. After dominating before the interval the hosts were hanging on at times in the second half and Mahrez had the […]

Twenty-three people were killed and 13 injured when a bus carrying Turkish tourists crashed near the south-western holiday town of Marmaris, a local governor said on Saturday. Television footage from the scene showed a yellow bus lying on its side surrounded by ambulances, with bodies nearby. The bus had travelled from the western city of […]

Lewis Hamilton took pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix for the second year in a row on Saturday with Ferrari’s championship leader Sebastian Vettel alongside the Mercedes driver on the front row. The pole was the 64th of the Briton’s career, one short of his late Brazilian boyhood idol Ayrton Senna in the all-time […]

Negotiations on the Cyprus problem must be protected in order to succeed, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during their meeting on Saturday in China. A Cypriot government source, who spoke to CNA after being informed by the Greek government, said that the Greek prime minister underlined his support to the […]

Turkish Cypriot politician Serdar Denktash has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a north Nicosia hospital with heart problems. According to a hospital statement, Denktash went to the hospital with chest discomfort and difficulty in breathing at around 1pm on Saturday. The 58-year-old is the head of the Democratic Party and son of […]

CHILDREN’S Rights Commissioner Leda Koursoumba said on Friday that the country should introduce a rating system at theatres following a number of complaints filed to her office where schools brought children to see age-inappropriate performances. In a report on the assessment of youth and children’s theatre, Koursoumba said that there was no regulating framework for […]

For the first time on our island the award-winning play Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe will be performed in Nicosia from Wednesday. The play, which deals with the subject of depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love, is about a woman with a seven-year-old girl who […]

A senior North Korean diplomat who handles relations with the United States said on Saturday Pyongyang would have dialogue with the U.S. administration if conditions were right, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. Choe Son Hui, North Korea’s foreign ministry director general for U.S. affairs, made the comment to reporters in Beijing as she was […]

SCRIPTWRITERS from all over the world are invited to submit their work to a contest held as part of the 12th Cyprus international film festival to be held in Paphos in June, which will see their ideas turned into a short film. The winner of the script writing contest will be awarded with the opportunity […]

Antonio Conte spent the immediate aftermath of Chelsea’s title-winning 1-0 victory at West Bromwich Albion on Friday being bounced skywards by his players but once back on terra firma his mind was already focusing on the next target — the double. In claiming the Premier League title at the first time of asking Conte matched […]

Sweet-swinging South African Louis Oosthuizen and American journeyman Kyle Stanley wielded hot putters to share the halfway lead at The Players Championship on Friday as Vijay Singh turned back the clock to move within three strokes. Oosthuizen matched Stanley for the best round of the day, six-under-par 66 at the TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra, […]

Donald Trump warned ousted FBI Director James Comey on Friday not to leak to the media, a move that prompted fresh charges the president is trying to silence the man who led an investigation into possible collusion between Trump’s election campaign and Russia, Reuters reported. On Twitter, Trump appeared to suggest that if Comey leaked […]

Where do you live? I live in Peyia with my wife Liz. I have a studio here and we enjoy a wonderful panoramic view across the bay to Paphos. Best childhood memory? A metallic green Raleigh Lenton sports bicycle, with drop handlebars, my parents bought for me for passing the 11+ exam. Most frequented restaurant […]

Paphos police have arrested a 39-year-old Polish man wanted in his country for a string of burglaries, fraud, and driving under the influence of alcohol. The man was arrested on a European warrant. He was located at the hotel where he worked, police said.

There is a “realistic possibility” Russia might try to interfere in Britain’s national election next month, according to Boris Johnson, Britain’s foreign secretary. In an interview with The Telegraph newspaper published on Saturday, the Conservative politician also said Russian president Vladimir Putin would “rejoice” if Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party won the June 8 election. Referring […]

Police on Friday arrested a 24-year-old man and his parents after finding around 850 grammes of cocaine at their home in Nicosia. A 27-year-old was also arrested during the operation after it emerged that he was sought for burglary and theft in Paphos. Drug squad officers searched the house at around 7pm on Friday, in […]

Every Saturday morning for the past 13 years, a group of Greek and Turkish Cypriots with pro-solution views have been meeting informally for coffee at the Buyuk Han in Nicosia, talking, debating and just hanging out. The weekly gathering has come to be known as ‘the Traitors’ Club’. The club itself has been well-documented (A […]