Новости за 22.07.2017

Juergen Klopp revealed he spoke to Philippe Coutinho about Barcelona’s attempts to sign the Brazilian before the playmaker delivered a match-winning performance to help Liverpool win the Premier League Asia Trophy against Leicester City on Saturday. Coutinho has been the subject of a £70m bid by the Catalan giants, but Liverpool have said none of […]

Chris Froome kept his composure in a hostile environment as he virtually secured a fourth Tour de France title after extending his overall lead with a good showing in Saturday’s 22.5-km time trial through the streets of Marseille. The Briton was booed by the crowd in the Stade Velodrome — where the penultimate stage started and ended […]

LIKE those in all Cypriot resorts, hotels in Paphos say they are experiencing the busiest tourist season ever, and for the first six months of the year, visitor numbers have broken all previous records. Owner, and head of the Paphos hoteliers, Euripides Loizides told the Sunday Mail: “We are having an extraordinarily busy tourist season, […]

Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides on Saturday urged UN Special Advisor Espen Barth Eide to reflect on his role in the negotiation process that led an inconclusive result at the Conference on Cyprus in Crans-Montana. The spokesman was responding to comments by Eide in an interview with the Cyprus News Agency that the collapse of the […]

Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos suggested that Greece’s troops in Cyprus should be increased during the national council meeting attended by Greek Foreign Minister Nicos Kotzias last Tuesday, it has emerged. Asked to confirm a tweet saying so by former Disy MP Christos Rotsas, an Edek spokeswoman said it was a general suggestion without specifics. “Yes. […]

The Syrian military declared a cessation of hostilities on Saturday in the rebel-controlled Eastern Ghouta region near the capital, state television reported. Eastern Ghouta, stretching from eastern to northeastern suburbs of Damascus, has long been under opposition control in the six-year conflict, as rebels have lost ground in the west. State television reported a “cessation […]

Main opposition Akel announced on Saturday that it would launch consultations with Stavros Malas in its quest to find the right candidate for them to back in next year’s presidential elections. The party’s central committee, following a meeting earlier in the day, announced that it has authorised the Akel secretariat to proceed with their decision […]

Germany sought on Saturday to reassure the country’s three million people of Turkish descent it would stand by them as a political row with Ankara escalates, saying they were not the target of changes to government policy on Turkey. In a letter published in German and Turkish on Saturday in daily newspaper Bild, Foreign Minister […]

Two 23-year-old male tourists were seriously injured – one critically – early on Saturday after the quadbike they were driving had a head-on collision with a car in Ayia Napa. The accident occurred at 3am police said on Nissi Avenue, when the quadbike of the two tourists had a head on collision with a car […]

Israeli security forces on Saturday raided the home of the Palestinian attacker who stabbed to death three Israelis and restricted movement for Palestinians from his West Bank village, the military said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said security forces “surveyed the house of the assailant in the village of Khobar, searched for weapons and confiscated money used for […]

Customs confiscated more than 16kg of tobacco and 500 packs of cigarette found in the luggage of passengers at Larnaca airport on Saturday in two separate incidents. The tobacco was located in the luggage of a passenger who was due to depart for London on Saturday afternoon. Officers located and confiscated 16.45kg of tobacco that […]

The largest city on New Zealand’s south island has declared a state of emergency amid a severe storm which has already seen hundreds of homes evacuated across the Pacific island nation, highways cut and soldiers called in to help provide emergency services. The New Zealand Defence Force mobilised additional troops overnight on Friday, bringing its total deployment to […]

British transport minister Chris Grayling, one of Prime Minister Theresa May’s closest cabinet colleagues, has predicted she will remain in the job until at least 2020 and could even fight another national election. Following reports of cabinet infighting, Grayling said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph, published on Saturday, he was confident May would […]

Where do you live? I live in Nicosia with my family and three adorable dogs! Best childhood memory? Going to the park with my grandfather to feed the ducks. Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? What food would you really turn your nose up to? TGI Friday’s. I absolutely love chicken breast with whiskey […]

Turkey is thinking in terms that are behind our times Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Friday, in joint statements with the EU High Representative and Vice-President of the European Commission Federica Mogherini following their meeting in Athens. Mogherini on her part, said there is sufficient substance to continue the process for Cyprus when […]

A 29-year-old man from Anthoupolis, Nicosia, Marios Polydorou, died early Saturday when the motorcycle he was riding on Strovolos Avenue veered off course, hit a pavement and crashed into a wall. The accident occurred at around 3am, police said, when Polydorou lost control of his motorcycle. The 29-year-old, who was not wearing a protective helmet, […]

The failure of the Cyprus talks in Crans-Montana came down to the amount of time an agreed number of troops would remain on the island following a settlement, UN Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide said in an interview with the Cyprus News Agency published on Saturday. Though Eide, who will meet separately with the two […]

PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday that he expects the legal problem concerning the tender process for the development of the Larnaca port and marina to be overcome soon for the next phase to continue as planned. The president was referring to the temporary interruption of the process by the Tenders Review Authority, after a […]

SOME political parties still refuse to accept that the Co-operative Central Bank has lost its co-op status and has become just another bank. In September it will be listed on Cyprus Stock Exchange, while 25 per cent of its shares would have been given to its customers, attorney-general permitting, with the state remaining the majority […]

Six people were killed on Friday in the bloodiest spate of Israeli-Palestinian violence for years, prompted by new security Israeli measures at Jerusalem’s holiest site. Three Israelis were stabbed to death in a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, hours after three Palestinians were killed in violence prompted by Israel’s installation of metal detectors […]