Новости за 14.05.2017

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 MANCEHSTER UNITED 1 Tottenham Hotspur signed off 118 years at their soon-to-be-demolished White Hart Lane stadium with a 2-1 win over Manchester United on Sunday that ensured they will finish as Premier League runners-up. A carnival atmosphere preceded kickoff and the stadium erupted after six minutes when Victor Wanyama headed them in […]

By Bejay Browne PAPHOS officials hope that a law to punish owners of dogs which bark uncontrollably will be passed by parliament before the summer recess. “The amendment is only two pages and it’s not a difficult task, so I am optimistic. If not, it will be in the autumn,” said Green party MP, Charalambous […]

The remand of the 46-year-old man, detained in connection with the abduction of four-year-old Marie- Eleni Grimsrud outside her kindergarten in Dasoupolis on April 27, has been extended by two more days, police said on Sunday. The four-year-old is currently with her father, who allegedly was behind the abduction. The suspect was arrested on May 5 […]

By Elizabeth Piper   Britain is gearing up for rows with the EU over the structure of divorce talks and the future role of the European court, fuelling an increasingly bitter war of words before negotiations begin. David Davis, Brexit minister in Prime Minister Theresa May’s government, described the EU’s position on the talks’ format […]

Thousands of Muscovites joined a protest rally in the centre of the Russian capital on Sunday against government plans to resettle millions of citizens from shoddy Soviet-era apartment blocks. The draft law on renovation envisages moving some Muscovites into modern flats but has also fuelled concerns about property rights, a year after city authorities provoked […]

Austria is heading for a snap parliamentary election after the centre-left chancellor said on Sunday the ruling coalition had been shattered by his ambitious young foreign minister, who is poised to take over the main conservative party. An election will give the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) a good chance of entering national government less than […]

LEADER of the Citizens’ Alliance Yiorgos Lillikas officially announced his candidacy for the presidential elections on Sunday and gave a brief overview of his programme. Lillikas, who on Wednesday received the green light from his party’s senate to stand as candidate in the 2018 presidential elections, called on his supporters to help him complete the journey he […]

By Andria Kades Although attempts by the transport ministry to encourage public transport have been partially successful, efforts in Limassol are being hampered by virtually non-existent facilities. Bus stations scattered across the city give no indication of what time the next bus will arrive nor is there a printed schedule of the routes at the […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday hit back at critics of his stance on the Cyprus talks and called for the unity of the political parties so that the challenges ahead could be met. Unveiling a monument in Agios  Athanasios in honour of Greek Cypriots and Greeks who fell during the 1974 invasion, the president said that […]

Lewis Hamilton won the Spanish Grand Prix from pole position on Sunday to cut Sebastian Vettel’s overall lead in the Formula One championship to six points with a quarter of the season completed. The Mercedes driver’s 55th career win was hard-fought and tense, however, with Ferrari’s Vettel seizing the lead at the start and in […]

Hull City were relegated from the Premier League after a 4-0 defeat at Crystal Palace, who guaranteed their own survival with a superb performance on Sunday. First-half efforts from Wilfried Zaha and Christian Benteke were followed by a Luka Milivojevic penalty after the break and a late effort from Patrick van Aanholt to leave Hull […]

  Rescuers saved 484 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Saturday and found the bodies of seven men who had died in the attempt to get to Europe, Italy’s coast guard said. More than 45,000 people have reached Italy by boat from North Africa this year, a more than 40 percent increase on the […]

  Ukrainian police have detained a Ukrainian prankster for jumping onto the stage at the Eurovision Song Contest and dropping his trousers while singer Jamala was performing, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Sunday. The man, identified by Avakov as prankster Vitalii Sediuk, took to the stage draped in an Australian flag and flashed his […]

By Brenda Goh and Yawen Chen   Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged $124 billion on Sunday for his new Silk Road plan to forge a path of peace, inclusiveness and free trade, and called for the abandonment of old models based on rivalry and diplomatic power games. Xi used a summit on the initiative, attended […]

By Evie Andreou The announcement this week that the government intends to pay mothers of large families an allowance for their grown-up children could easily be dismissed as a classic example of how Cypriot mums cling to their children long after they’ve reached adulthood. As always, the truth is a bit more complex. The allowance, […]

A 26-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in connection with the crowd trouble after the football match between Aek and Ael in Larnaca. After the end of the game, some Aek fans, reportedly, threw stones at Ael fans outside the stadium and at police officers that tried to restore order.

President Nicos Anastasiades paid tribute to Cypriot mothers on the occasion of Mother’s Day through his Facebook account on Sunday. Mother’s Day is celebrated in Cyprus on the second Sunday of May. The president said that the role of women as mothers in today’s society was very complex and demanding as they had to juggle motherhood, a professional […]

Centrist Emmanuel Macron took power as president of France on Sunday in a sumptuous inauguration ceremony in the Elysee Palace presidential residence in Paris following his May 7 election victory. On arriving for the ceremony at the 18th century palace, Macron, 39, a former investment banker and economy minister, held a private meeting with outgoing […]

Britain is spending around 50 million pounds (€58,9million) on improving the security of the National Health Service’s computer systems and had warned the NHS it faced cyber threats, defence minister Michael Fallon said on Sunday. In an interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Fallon said the British government under Prime Minister Theresa May had […]

Cyprus and China have signed an agreement on the mutual recognition of university titles, it was announced on Sunday. Education Minister Costas Kadis and the Education Minister of the People’s Republic of China Chen Baosheng singed on Sunday in Beijing the Agreement for the Mutual Recognition of Higher Education Titles. The education ministry said in […]

Technical staff scrambled on Sunday to patch computers and restore infected ones, amid fears that the ransomware worm that stopped car factories, hospitals, shops and schools could wreak fresh havoc on Monday when employees log back on. The spread of the virus dubbed WannaCry – “ransomware” which locked up more than 100,000 computers – had […]

Suleiman Al-Khalidi   The Syrian army and its allies are on the verge of completely seizing the rebel-held district of Qaboun on the edge of the capital Damascus following over two months of aerial strikes and artillery shelling, rebels and state media said on Sunday. But rebels said they still held a small pocket within […]

At least two people died and seven more were injured when a train derailed in northern Greece on Saturday night and ripped through a house, authorities said. The train carrying 70 passengers was heading from Athens to the second-biggest city of Thessaloniki when it derailed in the town of Adendro, some 37 km (23 miles) […]

North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Sunday in defiance of calls to rein in its weapons programme, South Korean and U.S. officials said, days after a new leader took office in the South, pledging to engage it in dialogue. The U.S. Pacific Command said it was assessing the type of missile but it was […]

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