Новости за 26.07.2017

Apoel’s hopes of reaching the Champions League group stages hang in the balance after a 1-0 defeat away at FC Viitorul in the first leg of the third qualifying round on Wednesday night. The Romanian champions showed their threat early on when they launched a rapid counter attack, as Benzar weaved through a couple of […]

Italy’s Federica Pellegrini became the first swimmer to win seven medals in a single event at the world championships after a stunning victory in the women’s 200 metres freestyle final on Wednesday. On a glittering night for Italy, Gabriele Detti won his first world title in a close finish in the men’s 800m freestyle, an […]

FIFA will monitor the Greek football federation (EPO) for at least a year after it holds elections for a new president and executive board next month, the global football body said on Wednesday. FIFA intervened in the trouble-hit EPO last October following months of turmoil on and off the pitch and has been effectively running […]

President Nicos Anastasiades announced on Wednesday that he would not release the minutes of the controversial five-hour dinner of July 6 at the Crans-Montana Conference on Cyprus, which ended in failure. In a statement, Anastasiades said that at the request of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and out of respect for “diplomatic norms”, he had decided […]

Even before the European Capital of Culture Pafos 2017 became an even bigger reason to show off the home of Aphrodite, Paphos was always a place of beauty and the city we all flocked to for high profile events. So it is no surprise that an original musical has been composed around its beauty. The […]

Crews of the fire service disaster response unit Emak have been trying to prevent an acetylene cylinder at the Vassiliko cement factory that went up in flames at around 2.30pm on Wednesday from exploding by cooling it down, the spokesman of the fire service Andreas Kettis said. According to reports an acetylene cylinder caught fire while […]

The youngest victim of the bombing attack at the Manchester Arena Stadium eight-year-old British Cypriot Saffie Rose Roussos was laid to rest on Wednesday almost two months after the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 21 other people. Saffie’s wicker casket, adorned with red roses, arrived in a silver hearse at Manchester Cathedral followed […]

A Russian man suspected of laundering at least $4 billion of criminal funds by switching them into the digital currency bitcoin has been arrested in Greece, police said on Wednesday. Police sources identified the individual as Alexander Vinnik, 38. After a tip-off, he was arrested in a small beachside village in northern Greece, on a […]

The interior ministry’s personnel need to be relocated from their current main building which is in need of repair, too small and energy-intensive, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Wednesday. The construction of the building dates back to 1882 cannot function as a modern office building, he said. The old colonial building is energy-intensive with […]

Visitors from mainland Europe in the second quarter accounted for more trips to Ireland than Britons for the first time since quarterly records began nearly two decades ago. The numbers offset a decline in British tourists brought on in part by the weaker pound since the vote to leave the European Union. Trips to Ireland grew by 6.6 per […]

The Met Office on Wednesday raised the danger risk from the heat to yellow, as temperatures continued to rise. According to the Met, inland temperatures rose to 42 degrees Celsuis on Wednesday with evening temperatures of 26C expected. Temperatures will drop slightly to 40C during the day on Thursday. In the mountains it will reach […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel on Wednesday of inflicting damage on Jerusalem’s “Islamic character”, in comments likely to further inflame regional tensions in a dispute over the Al-Aqsa mosque. The dispute over security at the mosque compound – where Israel installed metal detectors at entry points after two police guards were shot dead this month – has touched […]

  UN Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide said Wednesday the best chance for a settlement in Cyprus was through the parameters established by the international organisation, as he announced his return to the island next week. Eide, who has been criticised heavily by the Greek Cypriot side over comments he made following the collapse of […]

Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou has been in Greece seeking Greek expertise in establishing a coastguard in Cyprus, it was announced on Wednesday. Greek Shipping Minister Panayiotis Kourouplis told Nicolaou his department was ready to provide know-how and experience regarding the structure and operation of coastal surveillance. In a written statement, Nicolaou said the two countries […]

The European Union warned on Wednesday that it was ready to act within days to counter proposed new US sanctions on Russia, saying they would harm the bloc’s energy security. Sanctions legislation overwhelmingly approved by the US House of Representatives on Tuesday has angered EU officials for breaking transatlantic unity in the West’s response to […]

  Employers association OEV, said on Wednesday it accepted the labour minister’s proposal regulating the cost of living allowance (Cola) but expressed reservations over some of its provisions. The minister proposed Cola payments, frozen following the bailout, to restart in January 2018. Cola will be added to the salary once a year, provided that the […]

Twelve-time grand slam champion Novak Djokovic will miss the rest of the tennis season to recover from an elbow injury, the Serbian said on Wednesday. The 30-year-old posted a video statement on Facebook in which he said he had decided to rest the injury which caused him to retire during his Wimbledon quarter-final against Czech […]

The spending by Premier League clubs in the current transfer window is unsustainable, Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has said. English top-flight teams have splashed out more than $1 billion since the end of last season but Spurs, runners-up to Chelsea in May, have not yet added to their squad. “Some of the activity that […]

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would not allow transgender individuals to serve in the US military in any capacity. “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the US Military,” Trump […]

  Detailed minutes during the controversial five-hour dinner of July 6 at the Crans-Montana Conference on Cyprus, which ended in failure, were kept for the Greek Cypriot side by chief negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis and contain the events that unfolded, the diplomat said on Wednesday. President Nicos Anastasiades announced on Monday that the minutes from the […]

  Police were continuing investigations on Wednesday into the circumstances under which a speed-boat crashed into the rocks off Latchi, Paphos, on Monday night, killing one Chinese woman and critically injuring three others. Aboard the boat were the woman, 32, along with a Chinese couple and their two children, who were in Cyprus on holiday, […]

Imagine a parallel world for children that has the same basics as ours but it is just a whole more fun. Can you imagine it? Well you really won’t have to after August 3 when Masterland the Children’s City of Craftsmen in Limassol will have its grand opening. The children’s city of Masterland is an […]

Two men were arrested in Nicosia on Tuesday in connection with assaulting and seriously injuring a police officer. Last Friday two police officers spotted two persons who were moving suspiciously in a residential area in Nicosia. One of them fled and the other one was caught but when police attempted to check his identity two […]

Nasos Demetriou, the 23-year-old man accused of the attempted murder of fellow villager Michalis Vassiliou from Mazotos last December, pleaded not guilty to the charge on Wednesday. Representative of the prosecutor’s office Thanassis Papanicolaou told Larnaca court that the attorney general has rejected the defendant’s demand to change the charge from attempted murder to causing […]

Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has conceded he is frustrated by their lack of progress in Europe but says the club will be better prepared for the Champions League this year after going out in the group stage last season. Lloris made it to the semis of Europe’s top club competition with Olympique Lyonnais in […]