Новости за 09.08.2017

Cyprus cup holders Apollon continued their superiority over Apoel by beating the Cyprus champions 2-1 to lift the Super Cup on Wednesday night in the season curtain-raiser, extending their unbeaten streak against the Nicosia giants to seven matches. With both sides prioritising next week’s crucial Champions League and Europa League playoff ties, Apoel’s Giorgos Efrem […]

A Larnaca police officer who was found guilty of encouraging someone to sell him drugs was ordered to resign on Wednesday, following a unanimous decision by a police disciplinary committee. Officer Christakis Christodoulou, who worked with the traffic police had been fined €1,000 in January this year after being found guilty of trying to convince […]

Researchers in the United States have unveiled a prototype of a battery-free mobile phone, using technology they hope will eventually come to be integrated into mass-market products. The phone is the work of a group of researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle and works by harvesting tiny amounts of power from radio signals, […]

This weekend many villages around the island will be having their ‘dancers’ as they call it – which is a dinner/ show kind of event where everyone from the village and relatives from elsewhere come to see each other, eat and enjoy the music. The village of Lefkara in the Larnaca district is famous for […]

A 25-year-old man refused to leave the central prisons after his release as he had nowhere else to go it was reported on Wednesday. According to the daily Politis, the 25-year-old, who was sentenced to 45 days in prison for the possession of 7.8 grammes of cannabis, refused to leave the prison earlier in the […]

A newspaper may be entitled to a state subsidy of between €8,000 and €67,000 per annum over the next three years as part of the Press Support Scheme recently announced by the government, press and information office chief Sophie Michaelidou said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, Michaelidou explained that daily and weekly […]

FBI agents seized documents and other material from the Virginia home of Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, during a July raid as part of a special counsel’s probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, a spokesman for Manafort said on Wednesday. Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni confirmed that the […]

The European Union has proposed that Britons living in the bloc after Brexit will only have the right to stay in the country where they are resident when Britain leaves, Brexit minister David Davis said in a letter on Wednesday. The future rights of UK nationals living in the EU and EU nationals living in […]

Cypriot nationals no longer need a pre-arranged visa to visit Qatar, it was announced on Wednesday. According to an announcement, nationals of 80 countries – Cyprus among them – can now obtain a visa waiver upon arrival in Qatar. Cyprus is on the list of 33 countries whose nationals’ visa waiver will be valid for 180 days from the […]

The Cyprus Ports Authority (CPA) is doing everything it can under the law to deal with waste from ships that dock in Limassol, it said on Wednesday following reports of rampant pollution along the city’s coastline. In an announcement, the authority said it had licensed a company to collect oil sludge from ships docking at […]

Golfer Tiger Woods is expected to enter a program for first-time DUI offenders to resolve charges filed against him after police found him asleep at the wheel of his parked car alongside a Florida road, a prosecutor said on Wednesday. The former world No. 1 golfer was not in court as his lawyer entered a […]

Qatar announced on Wednesday a programme to allow visa-free entry for citizens of 80 countries to encourage air transport and tourism amid a two-month boycott imposed on the Gulf state by its neighbours. Nationals from dozens of countries in Europe and elsewhere including India, Lebanon, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States will now […]

A study on the creation of 35 to 40 administrative clusters of local councils, commissioned by the interior ministry, will be ready by November 2017, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Wednesday. Following a meeting with Union of Local Councils reps, Petrides said the grouping together of administrative services was the main item on the […]

According to the UN secretary-general’s report to the Security Council in September 1964, just before the battle of Tylliria, the Turkish Cypriot bridgehead around Kokkina and Mansoura was considered dangerous by the Cypriot government. It claimed “with some justification” that the Turkish Cypriots had been smuggling arms and men into the bridgehead in order to […]

The government was merely honouring a 2009 agreement between the two communities when it allowed a bus convoy of Turkish Cypriots through to the government-controlled areas to attend a commemoration ceremony in their enclave of Kokkina, deputy government spokesman Victoras Papadopoulos said on Wednesday. It went without saying, he said, that the government condemns the […]

A German lawmaker from the far-left Left party wants security guarantees from the German foreign ministry before embarking on a Nato-led trip to visit soldiers serving at an air base in Turkey next month. Disputes over access to German soldiers at Turkish bases have heightened tensions between the Nato allies. Germany warned its citizens about […]

Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez will miss their first two Premier League games of the season after picking up an abdominal strain in training, manager Arsene Wenger said on Wednesday. Wenger said the Chile international would miss Arsenal’s home fixture against Leicester City on Friday as well as the trip to Stoke City on Aug. 19. […]

Wayde van Niekerk retained his world 400 metres title in dominant fashion on Tuesday as he stormed to victory in 43.98 seconds but there was almost as much interest in the empty lane alongside him where Botswana’s Isaac Makwala should have been. South African Van Niekerk, the Olympic and defending champion and world record holder, […]

North Korea freed a Canadian pastor serving a life sentence there on humanitarian grounds, the official KCNA news agency said on Wednesday, just hours after the United States warned it would counter any threat from the North with “fire and fury”. The release came a day after Canadian officials said a delegation led by the […]

Manchester United coach Jose Mourinho said their pursuit of Gareth Bale was “game over” after the Wales forward started in Real Madrid’s 2-1 European Super Cup win on Tuesday. Mourinho had said on the eve of the contest between the Champions League and Europa League holders that he would “fight with other clubs” to sign […]

Blood bank stocks must remain high for the holiday season between August 10 and 20, deputy head of the blood centre Socrates Menelaou said on Wednesday, as he issued a call for donors in all regions. “At this moment, we are not at dangerous levels but an extraordinary event that can exhaust large reserves can […]

Helector Cyprus has decided to withdraw its name from consideration in a new deal for the operation of the Koshi waste-management plant, Central Committee of Changes and Claims chief Stratis Matheou said on Wednesday. The company is facing trial over allegations that it overcharged municipalities as operator of the Marathounda, Paphos, and Koshi plants. Last […]

The island’s trade deficit widened by €315.2m or 15 per cent in the first six months of the year to €2.4bn, compared with the respective period last year, the statistical service said. Total imports rose an annual 3.2 per cent to €3.7bn in January to June while total exports dropped 14 per cent to below […]

What to say about Avenue? It’s not the swankiest bar I have seen, nor does it boast award winning mixologists, artisan beers or cellars full of rare vintage wines. It is neither themed nor edgy, and its drinks menu is pretty simple, but boy is it popular! Having recently opened just off the Griva Digeni […]

Name: Lupin (Lupinus albus) Otherwise known as: Many Leafed Lupin, Wolfsbohne Habitat: A perennial member of the Leguminoseae family growing up to 1.5m in moist, well-drained soils throughout the world’s temperate zones and probably native to the eastern Mediterranean. This handsome plant has an erect stem containing a circlet of compound pinnate leaves that support […]