Новости за 13.07.2017

Apollon, AEL and AEL all picked up important first-leg wins in the Europa League second round on Thursday night. Lack of fitness and team cohesion is often the biggest concern going into the European qualifiers at such an early stage of the campaign, but there looked to be no such worry for Apollon as they […]

A US doctor offering experimental treatment to a critically ill British baby could fly to London in the next few days in a bid to help persuade a judge not to allow a hospital to turn off his life support. The parents of 11-month-old Charlie Gard have been fighting a legal battle to send their […]

A French court on Thursday said Paris Match’s publication of graphic pictures of the Bastille day attack in Nice was “obscene” and barred it from putting them on its website but did not heed calls to remove the magazine from news stands. Paris Match defended its decision to publish the images – including ones showing […]

The Internal Revenue Department (IRD) collected €11m since last week when the scheme for the settlement of due debts kicked in, it was announced on Thursday. According to tax department senior official, Klelia Papadopoulou, around 500 applicants – private individuals and companies – who chose to benefit from the scheme, paid in total €11m to settle […]

Former US President Jimmy Carter was receiving hospital care on Thursday after becoming dehydrated at a charity house-building project in Canada, but he is doing “OK,” Habitat for Humanity said. Carter, 92, became unsteady at the construction site and slumped away from his work area to a chair, according to eyewitnesses, who said he was […]

The large fire in the area of Stavrokonnou in Paphos that burned one and a half square kilometres and threatened houses on Wednesday, was possibly arson as there had been several fires on the same spot lately, the Fire Service spokesman said on Thursday. Speaking to state broadcaster CyBC, Fire Service spokesman Andreas Kettis, said […]

The number of people living in poverty in Italy climbed to its highest level for more than a decade in 2016 despite a modest economic recovery, data showed on Thursday, in a report that could hurt the ruling Democratic Party (PD). Those living in “absolute poverty” rose to 4.74 million last year, or 7.9 per […]

The European Commission called on Cyprus on Thursday to take steps to adopt measures and directives concerning among others the automatic exchange of tax rulings between EU authorities. In total, Cyprus received five reasoned opinions, giving it two months to fulfil its obligations to transpose measures on marketing standards for certain milk products, the rules […]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Iraqi security forces on Thursday of forcibly relocating at least 170 families of alleged Islamic State members to a closed “rehabilitation camp” as a form of collective punishment. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced victory over Islamic State in Mosul on Monday, three years after the militants seized the city and […]

By Alex Whiting Global warming may hit wine lovers where it hurts the most – the pocket – as rising temperatures are likely to increase labour costs in Europe’s vineyards, including Cyprus’, researchers said on Thursday. In the hills behind Cyprus’ coastal city of Limassol, grape pickers work in average peak temperatures of 36 degrees Celsius in August, […]

Just when you thought the world couldn’t give us any more music, the twelfth Cyprus Rialto World Music Festival proves you wrong. Going strong this July, the organisers are now ready to bring the explosive sounds of the group BandAdriatica to Limassol on Monday. The eight-member band from Italy – who, as it happens, are […]

Five-times champion Venus Williams rolled back the years to reach her first Wimbledon final since 2009 with a clinically-executed 6-4 6-2 victory over home hope Johanna Konta on Thursday. Konta was looking to become the first British woman to reach the Wimbledon final since Virginia Wade lifted the trophy in 1977, but she was picked off at […]

Joint event at the international agency’s headquarters, in the presence of the Finance Minister Investors showed a keen interest in an event organised in London by the Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency (CIPA) and international news agency Bloomberg to present the investment opportunities Cyprus has to offer in the financial services, shipping, energy, information technology and […]

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Donald Trump to Paris on Thursday with a warm handshake and smiles, a contrast to the clenched-jaw greeting they shared at their first meeting in May. “Emmanuel, nice to see you. This is so beautiful,” the US president told Macron as they met at the Hotel des Invalides where Napoleon […]

A Russian court sentenced a man convicted of murdering opposition leader Boris Nemtsov to 20 years in jail on Thursday and handed terms of between 11 and 19 years to four other men convicted of being his accomplices. Nemtsov, one of President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critics, was murdered in 2015 as he walked across a bridge […]

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides, briefed the ambassadors of the EU member states on Thursday about the outcome of the Conference on Cyprus in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. The minister also briefed the non-EU ambassadors who make up the five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council with France and the UK – Russia, China and the US. […]

A sustained increase in demand in building permits will help Cypriot banks improve their asset quality in the real estate sector, rating agency Moody’s said, as building permits in Cyprus reached a new high since the 2013 banking crisis. The island’s statistical service said the number of building permits issued in the country during the […]

Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, who was being treated for late-stage liver cancer, died on Thursday of multiple organ failure, the government said, having not been allowed to leave the country for treatment as he wished. Liu, 61, was jailed for 11 years in 2009 for “inciting subversion of state power” after he helped […]

The European Union issued a one-month ultimatum to Hungary on Thursday to address its concerns over an education law it says runs counter to the bloc’s values or face possible sanctions in court. European Commission deputy head Frans Timmermans called for the Hungarian government to respond within a month to Brussels’ criticism that the Higher […]

pain’s Garbine Muguruza reached her second Wimbledon final in three years with a thumping 6-1 6-1 win over Slovakia’s Magdalena Rybarikova on Thursday. A visibly confident Muguruza needed just 64 minutes to beat the 87th-ranked Rybarikova, who had beaten third seed Karolina Pliskova and American Coco Vanderweghe on her unexpected run to the last four. […]

They say when you love what you do, you don’t need to work another day! And then you realise it’s been 22 years since you decided to change the game, resist the norm and make the world recognise your talent, your passion, your creativity, your originality. And even aged 22, you’re still so young, almost […]

The Federal Republic of Germany donated on Thursday €100,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). “This donation to the CMP Project on the exhumation, identification and return of remains of missing persons in Cyprus will contribute to the Committee’s goal of identifying and returning as many remains of missing individuals as possible in order […]

The number one Belgian beer in the world, Stella Artois, has cemented its place in the preferences of millions of consumers, not just for its sophisticated taste but its philosophy. With its ‘passion for perfection’, this year it began an initiative called Host One to Remember aiming to inspire consumers across the world to raise […]

Liverpool will not be influenced by their Premier League rivals’ moves in the transfer market and will stick to their own signing plans, manager Juergen Klopp has said. Klopp’s side have added winger Mohamed Salah and England under-20 striker Dominic Solanke so far, but their spending has been put in the shade by local rivals […]

With the UK’s Silverstone racetrack exercising a break clause in its contract to host the British Grand Prix, a Formula One event that saw cars race through the capital’s streets revived the prospect of a long-touted London race becoming a reality. F1 boss Chase Carey told Reuters that Liberty Media were interested in bringing Formula […]