Новости за 12.07.2017

Almost a week after Cyprus talks failed in Crans-Montana, Greece and Turkey stepped up the rhetoric on Wednesday while initial party support for President Nicos Anastasiades’ handling of the negotiations appeared to be fading in the wake of electoral expediencies. Main opposition Akel and Diko both criticised the president, the former saying he seemed to […]

Apoel earned a narrow 1-0 win in their Champions League second round first leg qualifying match against F91 Dudelange on Wednesday night at the GSP Stadium. It was far from a vintage display from the Cyprus champions, as they needed a 71st minute Facundo Bertoglio strike to give them a slight advantage going into the […]

More than 17,000 people have expressed interest in taking exams for the new teacher appointment system, the education ministry said on Wednesday. The deadline for expressions of interest expired at the end of June. Although 17,417 people say they are interested in doing the exams, the ministry said, the final number of those who will […]

Roger Federer turned his 100th Wimbledon match into an exhibition as he outclassed Milos Raonic 6-4 6-2 7-6(4) on Wednesday to reach the semi-finals for a record 12th time. The Swiss, who turns 36 next month, played his best tennis of the tournament to dismantle the big-serving Canadian who knocked him out at the semi-final […]

MPs agreed on Wednesday that a single system needs to be in place for the collection and management of rubber, to avoid incidents like the large fire earlier in the month near the Vasiliko cement factory caused by large piles of old tyres being stored next to a flammable substance. The issue was discussed on […]

Three-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic’s painful year continued as he retired with an elbow injury during his quarter-final against Czech Tomas Berdych on Wednesday. The second seed had lost the opening set and was down a break in the second when he walked to the net and shook his opponent’s hand. The retirement, with the […]

Motorists in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom spend billions each year in time and fuel searching for parking spots then pay for more time than they need to avoid tickets that would likely cost less, concludes a study released on Wednesday by traffic data aggregator INRIX. As cities become more congested, the direct and […]

Gilles Muller’s unlikely Wimbledon run came to an end when he was beaten in five sets by Croatian Marin Cilic in their quarter-final on Wednesday. Cilic, who triumphed 3-6 7-6(6) 7-5 5-7 6-1 will now face Sam Querrey in the semi-finals after the American upset home favourite Andy Murray. The 34-year-old Muller was an unexpected […]

Fourteen projects worth €9.4 million centred around rural development and the creation of tourism infrastructure in villages have been approved, it was announced by Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides on Wednesday. “The projects will be carried out in the framework of the Rural Development Program, with the use of funds from the European Union. We think […]

Christopher Wray, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, pledged on Wednesday to lead the agency with independence and without regard to partisan politics as he testified during his US Senate confirmation hearing. Trump nominated Wray on June 7 to replace James Comey, who he fired May 9, with the president later citing the “Russia thing” […]

Andy Murray’s Wimbledon title defence evaporated on Centre Court in a painful five-set demise to Sam Querrey on Wednesday as the hip injury that has dogged the world number one throughout the tournament finally got the better of him. Murray’s hopes of becoming the first Briton to retain a grand slam title since Fred Perry […]

Dani Alves has completed a surprise move to Paris Saint-Germain, the French club said on Wednesday. “I am extremely happy to have joined PSG,” Alves said after signing a two-year contract following his release by Juventus. “The past few years I saw the formidable growth of the club and its place as one of the […]

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator said on Wednesday there were many differences with Britain on citizens‘ rights, including on the role of the EU court, that needed to be sorted out before talks on a trade deal could start. “We want EU citizens in Britain to have the same rights as British citizens who live in the EU,” Michel […]

Six bills on preventing and clamping down on police corruption are to be tabled to the plenum for a vote in the autumn, the head of the House legal affairs committee, Giorgos Georgiou, said on Wednesday. The aim, Georgiou said, is to continue discussion of the bills at the beginning of September when the House […]

Undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather and mixed martial arts champion Conor McGregor traded barbs during a lively press conference in Los Angeles, delighting a rowdy crowd ahead of their Aug. 26 fight in Las Vegas. The media conference was the first in a four-day international tour promoting the bout. The contrasts between the two was immediately […]

Six aircraft have joined forces with land crews to put under control a large fire that has been raging since 2pm near Stavrokonnou, in Paphos, the fire service said on Wednesday. According to the fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis, a large number of firemen and forestry department officers are working to prevent the fire from […]

By George Christou Loucas Charalambous, the Sunday Mail’s regular columnist for close to 20 years, passed away in his sleep on Tuesday night. He was 67. Never afraid to express views that ruffled feathers and exposed the hypocrisy of politicians, Loucas always wrote with honesty and integrity, which even his biggest critics would acknowledge. He was a committed […]

Archaeologists excavating a mass grave from Spain’s 1936 to 1939 Civil War have found the naturally preserved brains of 45 people eight decades after they were shot and buried on a hillside in the northern province of Burgos. Spain has hundreds of mass graves from the war and from ensuing decades of dictatorship under General […]

Limassol fishermen threatened to block the sea entrance to the city’s port on Wednesday after the Department of Fisheries decided to close the sea corridor for boats as it is located between two protected areas of the Olympia Coast. “The 54 fishermen will take strong measures, including the closure of the port with their boats,” […]

The Premier League’s reputation as richest in the world was reinforced by an annual football finance report which showed record revenue of 3.6 billion pounds in 2015/16, a 9 per cent jump on the previous season. Across all four divisions, the 92 clubs generated 4.4 billion pounds, another record, with new highs in spending, profits […]

Russian Ambassador to Cyprus Stanislav Osadchiy said on Wednesday it would be hard to find a solution to the Cyprus problem outside the UN parameters, as suggested by Turkey following the collapse of reunification talks last week. “It is difficult to find a fair solution outside the UN parameters,” Osadchiy said after a meeting with […]

Greece’s fiscal position has improved and the European Union should end disciplinary procedures against it over its excessive deficit, the EU commission said on Wednesday, paving the way for the country to return to international bond markets. EU fiscal rules oblige member states to keep their budget deficits below 3 per cent of their economic […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has filed an appeal to a German court over a ruling that banned parts of a satirical poem, a spokesman for a court in Hamburg said on Wednesday, in a case that has worsened relations between Berlin and Ankara. In February the court upheld an earlier ruling banning parts of the […]

Turkey on Wednesday blamed Greece for the failure of reunification talks in Switzerland to yield any positive results, after Greek Foreign Minister Nicos Kotzias suggested on Monday that Turkey had held an uncompromising stance. Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Hüseyin Müftüoğlu, said in a statement that Kotzias’ comments were unacceptable. On Monday, Kotzias suggested that Turkey […]

Bank of Cyprus chief executive John Patrick Hourican said that the lender is considering unspecified steps to accelerate the reduction of its “monstrous” non-performing loans that make half of the total portfolio. Hourican, who was commenting in an interview with Bloomberg TV, said that “what I would try to do is focus on transformational trade”. […]