Новости за 09.07.2017

By Madeline Chambers   Germans expressed anger on Sunday over violence that hit a G20 world leaders’ summit in Hamburg, raising awkward questions for Chancellor Angela Merkel less than three months before an election. About 20,000 police struggled to contain several hundred anti-capitalist militants who torched cars, looted shops and hurled Molotov cocktails and stones […]

By Valerie Volcovici and Yasmeen Abutaleb   U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he and Russia’s president had discussed forming a cyber security unit, an idea harshly criticized by Republicans who said Moscow could not be trusted after its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Tweeting after his first meeting with President Vladimir […]

Valtteri Bottas won a cliffhanger Austrian Grand Prix for Mercedes on Sunday with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel finishing a mere 0.6 of a second behind to increase his lead over Lewis Hamilton to 20 points after nine races. Hamilton, Bottas’s team mate, started in eighth place after a grid penalty triggered by an unscheduled gearbox change […]

By Francesco Canepa and Tulay Karadeniz   Germany began on Sunday to pull its troops out of a Turkish air base where they have supported international operations against Islamic State following a row with Ankara over access, a German defence ministry spokesman said. The withdrawal from the Incirlik base, approved by the German parliament last […]

The chief executive officer of Franco-Dutch airline group Air France-KLM urged French authorities on Saturday to take “urgent” measures to reduce delays for passengers caused by security checks at Paris airports. The delays caused by police checks, in a country that was hit by deadly Islamist militant attacks in the last two years, come at […]

Fire-fighting crews and helicopters are trying to put out a fire that broke out at around 3pm on Sunday in Kyvides, in Limassol. The task of the firemen is difficult, due to strong winds in the area, they said. Earlier in the day, firemen and volunteers managed to put out the blaze that erupted in […]

By Neil Robinson Manchester United’s former England captain Wayne Rooney has rejoined his boyhood favourites Everton on a two-year deal from their Premier League rivals, the striker said on Sunday. “Excited to be back at @Everton. Can’t wait to meet up with @RonaldKoeman and the lads! #EFC,” he said on twitter where he was pictured […]

By Brian Lait Do you remember those heady days when British Airways opened Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow Airport? T5 was designed by the architect Richard Rogers (now Lord Rogers) and cost a mere £4.3 billion. It was opened by Her Majesty in March 2008, or the first part was. The terminal is actually three […]

Four people were hurt, but none gored, on Sunday on the third day of the week-long San Fermin festival in northern Spain in which bulls chase red-scarved runners through the streets of Pamplona. The run, which on Sunday included bulls from the Puerto de San Lorenzo ranch, was quick at just 2 minutes and 22 […]

Main opposition Akel cast a shadow on Sunday over President Nicos Anastasiades’ version on who was to blame for the collapse of the settlement talks in Switzerland. In an announcement, Akel’s parliamentary spokesman Giorgos Loukaides, said that they hoped that the UN and the EU’s versions are the same as that of Anastasiades as to […]

By Stephen Kalin   Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul on Sunday and congratulated the armed forces for their “victory” over Islamic State after eight months of urban warfare, bringing an end to three years of jihadist rule in the city. The battle has left large parts of Mosul in ruins, killed thousands […]

Ministers and other state officials on Sunday attended memorials for the victims of the 2011 Mari blast that claimed the lives of 13 men. Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Issues and Overseas Cypriots, who attended the memorial of Sergeant Vasilis Krokos in Nicosia, said that the government would never again allow something like that to happen. […]

Jewellery worth €6,000 was reported stolen from a house in Timi, Paphos, on Sunday. According to police, the 70-year-old owner of the house reported there was a break-in at her home sometime after midnight, and jewellery worth €6,000 was stolen. Following investigations, police said that the perpetrators entered the house through a window.  

In the end it was not to be. In the early hours of Friday morning the UN secretary-general, tired and bedraggled, made a short statement that the conference on Cyprus was closed without agreement being reached. The Cyprus problem had exhausted the poor man and it showed. More pressing problems in Korea required his attention, […]

By Christian Shepherd   Ailing Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo can be moved abroad safely for treatment and he wants to go to either Germany or the United States, but it needs to happen soon, two foreign doctors who visited him said on Sunday. Liu, 61, was jailed for 11 years in 2009 […]

The fire service was called in on two occasions Saturday night and early Sunday to put out fire on two cars, one of which burst into flames when it crashed. The first incident occurred at around 11.20pm in Limassol between the roundabouts of Mesa Yeitonia and Ayios Athanasios, when a car went up in flames […]

Just as Turkey abandoned the first Conference on Cyprus, in Geneva, it torpedoed the second one, the Greek Foreign Ministry has said. The Greek Foreign Ministry said that Turkey drove the Crans-Montana conference to an impasse. “A very characteristic feature of its stance was the revelations Turkey made during the dinner on July 6, when […]

By Stelios Orphanides As the European Central Bank (ECB) is unlikely to change its accommodating monetary policy in the foreseeable future, governments are likely to continue benefiting from low borrowing costs, a Saxo Bank official said. The ECB, which in recent years resorted to negative rates and an expanded asset purchase programme in an attempt […]

By Rennos Ioannides* The level of accumulated non-performing loans (NPLs) along with the other challenges facing banks are so critical that they make local banks extremely vulnerable to any sort of downturn or adverse development. The risk of reigniting a 2013-like crisis cannot be completely overlooked. It’s no wonder; these are worrying times for local […]

Drilling operations in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone will not be postponed and no pressure is exerted to this end, President Nicos Anastasiades said. Speaking to an event in Limassol on Saturday evening,  Anastasiades said that drilling operations will move forward as planned. Commenting on whether the deadlock of the settlement talks  in Switzerland would affect […]

By Jeff Mason   U.S. President Donald Trump took a conciliatory tone on Saturday at a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping where the leaders agreed to keep working on two pressing issues: the nuclear threat posed by North Korea and bilateral trade irritants. Trump campaigned in last year’s presidential election on cracking down on […]

By Teppei Kasai and Issei Kato   Japanese rescuers continued their search for victims of freak rains that have triggered floods and landslides in southwest Japan and left at least 18 people dead and hundreds of others displaced, public broadcaster NHK reported on Sunday. About 1,900 policemen and soldiers, using heavy machinery, braved the rain […]

By sheer coincidence, only two days before the June 14 Grenfell Tower fire in London, MPs here were wrapping up discussion of new fire safety regulations for buildings. And this past Friday, the House plenum voted through the new regulations. Known as the Fire Protection Code of Practice, the 400-page document was inserted into the […]

It was never likely that tennis’s grand old master Roger Federer would be taken by surprise when serve-volleyer Mischa Zverev came at him with a blast from Wimbledon’s past. Zverev was billed as an intriguing conundrum for Federer and a potential third-round banana skin with his old-school style harking back to a bygone era of […]

Skoda is upgrading the smallest member of its model range: the CITIGO is being launched with three or five doors and lots of new design, technology and equipment features. The city runabout has a length of 3,597 mm, width of 1,645 mm and height of 1,478 mm (five-door model), making it one of the most […]