Новости за 14.08.2017

A car ploughed into the outdoor terrace of a pizzeria in the small town of Sept-Sorts east of Paris on Monday, killing an 8-year-old girl and injuring several other people, BFM TV reported. France’s national gendarmerie said they were dealing with an incident in Sept-Sorts and urged the public not to hinder their operation. It […]

The European Capital of Culture Pafos2017 schedule of events this month may be somewhat laid back – with film screenings under the stars taking over – but the music events of the month stand out from the musical crowd all over Europe. After two truly majestic concerts at the famous Petra tou Romiou (Aphrodite’s Rock), […]

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Monday that there was no need to blame the entire Greek Cypriot community for the atrocities committed against the Turkish Cypriots in the past, but that those who committed the atrocities should definitely bear the brunt. Akinci addressed a commemoration ceremony in the north for 126 Turkish Cypriots […]

  By Christo Johnson Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed when a mudslide struck the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown on Monday, Vice President Victor Foh said. The Red Cross put the number of bodies so far at the central morgue at 179. Earlier, an official at the morgue at Connaught […]

Liverpool attacking midfielder Philippe Coutinho was not included in the 22-man travelling squad for the first leg of their Champions League playoff against Hoffenheim, the Premier League club said on Monday. According to reports in British media, Barcelona target Coutinho submitted a transfer request last week after Liverpool rejected a second bid worth 100 million […]

Residents of the fenced off town of Varosha in Famagusta on Monday called for the recommencement of the settlement talks. Following a meeting at the Famagusta municipality’s cultural centre in Dherynia to mark the 43rd anniversary since the capture of Varosha by the Turkish troops, the municipality adopted a resolution on the recommencement of the […]

China’s Commerce Ministry issued a ban effective from Tuesday on several imports from North Korea, including coal, iron ore, lead concentrates and ore, lead and seafood, a move that is in line with UN sanctions announced this month. Beijing issued the banning order on Monday. UN sanctions must be implemented 30 days after the resolution […]

The occupancy ratio at hotels in Paphos over the mid-August holidays is high and improved compared to last year, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported on Monday citing the head of the district branch of the Cyprus Hotel Association, Thanos Michaelides. Still, last minute vacationers may also find available accommodation in the Paphos and Polis […]

Police are investigating attempted murder after a 36-year-old man from Larnaca who was staying at the Polis Chrysochous camping site in Paphos, was taken to the local hospital early Monday with a serious stab wound after a fight. The man showed up at the Polis hospital at around 1am where he was treated for deep tissue […]

The general government generated a fiscal deficit of €138.4m in the second quarter after posting a €200.9m surplus in the quarter before, the statistical service said. The deficit was on a 6.7 per cent annual increase in spending in April to June to almost €1.8bn which an 11 per cent increase in revenue to over […]

Relatives of the 121 Helios victims were due on Monday to visit the site where the plane went down at Grammatiko in Greece on August 14, 2005 for the annual memorial services to mark the 12th anniversary of the crash. At the site where the Helios Airways Boeing 737 crashed, in Grammatiko, a small chapel was erected dedicated […]

Diego Costa has accused Chelsea of treating him like a “criminal” in a forthright newspaper interview which will deepen the breach with the Premier League club. The striker is seeking a move back to Spain in the transfer window and has not played for Chelsea since the FA Cup final in May, following which he […]

STRATTON * DIRECTED BY Simon West STARRING Dominic Cooper, Connie Nielsen, Tyler Hoechlin UK 2017 95 mins. HOW TO BE A LATIN LOVER ** DIRECTED BY Ken Marino STARRING Eugenio Derbez, Salma Hayek, Raphael Alejandro US 2017 115 mins. Maybe I’m too cynical for Stratton. Maybe we all are. Or maybe it’s just a bad […]

Cyprus’s economy expanded 3.6 per cent in the second quarter of the year compared with the respective period of 2016 and a seasonally adjusted 3.5 per cent, the statistical service said citing a flash estimate. Compared to January to March, economic activity rose in the second quarter 0.9 per cent, Cystat said in a statement […]

Neymar lived up to expectations as he showed his class on his Ligue 1 debut on Sunday, scoring one and setting up another goal in Paris St Germain’s 3-0 win at En Avant Guingamp. The Brazilian, who joined PSG for a record-shattering 222 million euros from Barcelona this month, found Edinson Cavani with a perfectly-timed, […]

A wildfire that broke out on Sunday near the village of Koutrafas, about 40 kilometres west of Nicosia, destroyed 15 hectares of vegetation, the Cyprus News Agency reported. The Cyprus Fire Service was notified at 1.44 pm on Sunday and the Lakatamia fire station and the rural fire stations of Evrychou and Peristerona dispatched four fire fighting vehicles […]

Police have confirmed that two people, a 34-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman, were killed in a road accident outside the capital on Sunday on the Nicosia-Limassol highway. The couple was from Romania but resident in Cyprus. According to police, the 36-year-old, who was driving, lost control of the vehicle and hit the barrier on […]

Police are searching for the whereabouts of three men who attacked, hit and injured with a knife a 36-year-old private security guard on Sunday night after the latter did not allow them to enter a music event in Lofou, in Limassol, without a ticket. The incident occurred at around 11.30pm outside the place where the […]

The death of the 22-year-old female domestic worker from Nepal who was found floating unconscious in her employers’ swimming pool in Protaras on Sunday, was drowning, it was announced on Monday. According to state pathologist Eleni Antoniou who carried out the post mortem on the woman, she died from asphyxia due to drowning. The 22-year-old […]

Firefighters on Monday battled to contain a wildfire northeast of Athens as high winds caused the blaze to spread overnight after it damaged dozens of homes at a coastal village northeast of the Greek capital. More than 160 firefighters with 68 fire engines, two water-dropping helicopters and two fire-fighting planes tackled the blaze, which broke […]

By Christine Kim and Ben Blanchard Tensions on the Korean peninsula eased slightly on Monday as South Korea’s president said resolving Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions must be done peacefully and key US officials played down the risk of an imminent war with North Korea. Concern that North Korea is close to achieving its goal of putting […]

By Ian Simpson President Donald Trump’s remarks condemning violence at a white nationalist rally were meant to include the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups, the White House said on Sunday, a day after he was criticized across the political spectrum for not explicitly denouncing white supremacists. US authorities opened an investigation into the deadly […]

Cyprus was on Monday marking the 43rd anniversary of when the Turkish military launched its second offensive occupying the best part of Mesaoria, Famagusta, Karpasia and Morphou. The president and the government call on Turkey to put an end to the occupation and to abandon its intransigent positions that are not conducive to a settlement. “This […]

Photographers from the two European Capitals of Culture – Paphos and Aarhus – were invited to Japan to take part in the European Eyes on Japan photography project and on Friday we can see the results in an exhibition. The programme has been inviting photographers from the two European capitals since 1999 to document images […]

The “Big Ben” bell in the British parliament’s famous clock tower will cease its regular bongs at noon on August 21, falling silent for most of the next four years while renovation works are carried out, the House of Commons said on Monday. The hammers which have struck the 13.7 tonne bell every hour for […]