Новости за 19.08.2017

New signing Jese made a dream debut for Stoke City, scoring the winner in a 1-0 victory over Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday. The livewire Spaniard, signed on loan from Paris St Germain in midweek, started and finished the decisive move 90 seconds after halftime, slotting home expertly after a sharp link up […]

Twilight will fall at midday on Monday, stars will glimmer and birds will roost in an eerie stillness as millions of Americans and visitors witness the first total solar eclipse to traverse the United States from coast to coast in 99 years. The sight of the moon’s shadow passing directly in front of the sun, blotting out […]

Liverpool ground out their first Premier League victory of the season after winger Sadio Mane scored an opportunistic goal to give them a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace at Anfield on Saturday. The pacy Mane took advantage of a double mistake by Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic and steered the ball past Wayne Hennessey in the […]

IN WHAT could be seen as the unofficial announcement of the kick-off of President Nicos Anastasiades’ bid for secure a second term in February’s presidential election, the cabinet met at a special session in Troodos on Saturday followed by remarks with a focus on economy and energy-related ‘wins’ for the government. President Nicos Anastasiades has […]

Anti-fascist activists gathered in the Berlin suburb of Spandau on Saturday to protest against a vigil by about 250 neo-Nazis commemorating the 30th anniversary of the death of Nazi convict Rudolf Hess. The neo-Nazis planned a march from the suburb’s station to the former Spandau Prison where Hess, an early ally of Germany’s wartime dictator […]

Manchester United continued their perfect start to the Premier League season by crushing Swansea City 4-0 with a flurry of late goals at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday. The scoreline matched their opening-day destruction of West Ham United after Romelu Lukaku, Paul Pogba and substitute Anthony Martial scored within four minutes to add to Eric […]

A lifeguard at Coral Bay, Paphos, rescued a swimmer and carried him out to shore, it emerged on Saturday. According to a report, a Greek Cypriot man swimming at Coral Bay shortly after noon Saturday, felt tired and could not return to the shore, thus being in danger of drowning. He was spotted by lifeguard […]

Eight people were injured in a knife attack in the Siberian city of Surgut, the local office of the Russian law enforcement committee said in a statement published on its website. “A man was moving along the main streets stabbing people”, it said, adding “the attacker has been killed.” “The committee is investigating attempted murder”, the […]

The cabinet has begun an overview of the government’s work with a view to continuing reform, deputy government spokesman said on Saturday. After a cabinet session at the Presidential Residence in Troodos, Papadopoulos said “the regular session was followed by an unofficial one, in which the government’s work all these years has been overviewed”. “It […]

Rieko Ioane and Ryan Crotty both crossed twice as New Zealand ran in eight tries in a brilliant display of running rugby to demolish Australia 54-34 in the Rugby Championship opener on Saturday. The world champions extinguished any chance of an upset with three tries in seven first-half minutes and continued to slice through the […]

Defence Secretary Jim Mattis travels to the Middle East and eastern Europe next week to play the increasingly familiar role of reassuring allies that the United States is committed to them despite mixed messages from President Donald Trump. Mattis will visit Jordan, Turkey, and Ukraine to address concerns about the fight against Islamic State and […]

Public finances are fully in check and within the targets set in the 2017 government budget, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Saturday. Speaking to reporters after a cabinet session at the Presidential Residence in Troodos, Georgiades said he “presented to the cabinet the half-year fiscal report, as the law stipulates”. “Public finances are fully […]

Spanish police were on Saturday searching for the driver of a van that ploughed into a crowd in Barcelona, killing 13 people, in one of two deadly attacks in Catalonia carried out by a network of suspected Islamist militants. The van driver has yet to be identified, police in the northeastern Spanish region said late […]

Where do you live? Polemi Village with my wife, Molly Best childhood memory? Bonfire Night. I loved everything connected with it. Memory is an amazing thing; our Garden of Memories project is all about just this – what, how and who we remember and what we do to mark it. Most frequented restaurant and absolute […]

Nine dogs died in a kennel at Zakaki, Limassol, in a fire that was found to have been arson, a police report said on Saturday. According to the report, a civilian saw the fire shortly after 6am and was able to rescue three dogs from their cages in a fenced area owned by a 29-year-old. […]

A 38-year-old Armenian man was remanded for three days on Saturday in connection with circulating a forged document and counterfeiting. According to a police report, shortly after 2:30am Friday the man arrived at Larnaca airport from Barcelona. Passport control found that the passport he presented had been registered lost or stolen on June 22, 2016. […]

A 50-year-old man was remanded for six days by the Limassol district court on Saturday in connection with shots fired with a shotgun outside a coffee-shop in Kato Polemidia, Limassol. According to a police report, prior to the shooting incident the 50-year-old had been causing a disturbance and breaking glasses at the coffee-shop, leading the […]

Finnish police are investigating Friday’s knife attacks that killed two and wounded eight in the city of Turku as crimes related to terrorism, they said on Saturday. The suspect was an 18-year Moroccan, police added. The two people killed were Finns and an Italian and two Swedish citizens were among the injured. “Due to information […]

Two individuals were arrested and facing remand in connection with cannabis found during routine checks on incoming mail parcels at Larnaca airport, the customs department said in a statement Saturday. According to a statement, a customs official on Friday identified a parcel, addressed to a woman, containing 180 grams of cannabis. In cooperation with the […]

Tottenham Hotspur are targeting four new signings in the transfer window but need time to recruit the right players to help the club progress, manager Mauricio Pochettino said ahead of Sunday’s match against champions Chelsea. Spurs, who were second in the Premier League last season, are the only English top-flight club yet to sign a […]

The Italian government has decided to donates to four research projects in Cyprus within the framework of its longstanding support to archaeological missions on the island. An announcement on Friday from the Italian embassy of Italy said its government was continuing its longstanding tradition of supporting archaeological missions in Cyprus, “a country with a rich and […]

The driver of the van that ploughed into crowds in Barcelona, killing 13 people, may still be alive and at large, Spanish police said on Friday, denying earlier media reports that he had been shot dead in a Catalan seaside resort. Josep Lluis Trapero, police chief in Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia, said he could […]

A crisis engulfing Australia’s parliament has widened after a key independent senator became the seventh parliamentarian referred to the High Court to determine if his dual citizenship makes him ineligible to sit in parliament. Senator Nick Xenophon’s announcement on Saturday that he holds dual British citizenship comes as the future of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s […]

The 79th football championship kicks off this weekend with just four of the scheduled seven games taking place due to the postponement by the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) of  three fixtures involving the three Cyprus teams (Apoel, Apollon, AEK) battling in Europe  for a place in the group stages of the Champions League and the […]

After a first week in the Premier League that saw the champions Chelsea toppled and 31 goals flying in, the victories by Manchester‘s clubs on the opening weekend suggested they could be the teams to chase this term. The rivals are book-ending week two, with United at Swansea City in Saturday’s lunchtime game and City testing Everton’s new big-spending resolve […]