Новости за 20.08.2017

Two goals from Marcos Alonso gave Chelsea a 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday in the first-ever Premier League game at Wembley Stadium. For all the noise and wall of flags that greeted their arrival, Spurs, who are playing at Wembley while their new stadium is constructed, needed an early goal to feel at […]

DOCTORS in Russia believe that a blind six-year-old boy from Paphos will eventually gain his sight after a series of ground breaking operations, the first of which was carried out successfully. Iordanis Demetrof (Dani) was born blind and has recently returned from a trip to Russia where he underwent the first of a series of […]

By Joseph Hinchliffe   Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called on Sunday for developers to incorporate safety features into their projects to prevent militant attacks with vehicles and other weapons as he announced new plans to protect the public. Turnbull unveiled Australia’s first national strategy to protect crowded places, which he said was initiated after […]

A seven-year-old British-Australian boy was among the 13 people killed when a van driven by a suspected Islamist militant mowed down pedestrians in Barcelona on Thursday, emergency services in the northeastern Spanish region said on Sunday. The boy, named as Julian Cadman by the British government, was separated from his mother who was taken to […]

Promoted Huddersfield Town made it two wins out of two in the Premier League as a superb Aaron Mooy strike gave them a 1-0 win over Newcastle United on Sunday. After their 3-0 win at Crystal Palace last week marked their return to the top flight after a 45-year absence, Australian Mooy fired them ahead […]

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi   Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday his country had foiled Western designs to topple him but his army had not yet won the fight to end Syria’s six-year-old insurgency. In an televised address, Assad said that even though there were signs of victory after six-and-a-half years of civil war, the […]

  Around 80 hard-line, Turkish nationalists gathered outside the offices of Kibris Media Group in the north on Sunday morning, to protest about a cartoon published by the group’s daily newspaper last May. Members of the Rebirth Party (YDP) and of more than 10 non-governmental organisations established by Turkish settlers in the north, laid black […]

A 19-year-old conscript and his 21-year-old cousin, both from Avgorou, were arrested on Saturday for carrying a shotgun within a game reserve area, outside the hunting season. The two men were spotted by members of the game and fauna service driving in the area of the Achna Dam in a car that had no licence […]

The Animal Party called on the government on Sunday to speed up procedures for better animal welfare measures after the death on Saturday of nine dogs who were found charred in their cages in Zakaki, Limassol, after a fire. According to Phileleftheros, the dogs were in a cage in a plot in Zakaki and were […]

By Angus Berwick   Spanish police hunting for a suspect after the Barcelona van attack that killed 13 people said on Sunday they could not rule out that he had slipped over the border into France. Spanish police said security operations were under way in Catalonia and on the French border as they try to […]

  By Valerie Volcovici   U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will recommend on August 24 whether to eliminate or shrink nearly two dozen national monuments, creating the first major test for a 111-year-old law that gives presidents the power to protect swaths of public land. Zinke is expected to recommend that at least some of […]

President Nicos Anastasiades will open on Monday in Nicosia the 19th conference of the World Federation of Overseas Cypriots (Pomak), the International Coordinating Committee – Justice for Cyprus (Pseka) and the World Conference of Young Overseas Cypriots (Nepomak). Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Issues and Overseas Affairs Fotis Fotiou, House speaker Demetris Syllouris and Archbishop Chrysostomos […]

Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe returned from South Africa early on Sunday, state media reported, after a 20-year-old model accused her of assault in an upmarket Johannesburg hotel room. South African police had placed border posts on “red alert” to prevent her leaving the country, but a security source told Reuters on Friday that the […]

By Tom Bergin   Britain will not rule out the possibility that the European Union may retain oversight of customs controls at UK borders after it leaves the bloc, as the country seeks ways to keep unhindered access to EU markets following Brexit. Last week, the UK published a policy document proposing two possible models […]

President Nicos Anastasiades said that despite the disappointment felt by many about the deadlock in Switzerland last month, Cyprus could not become a protectorate of Turkey. In his address on Saturday evening at the annual festival of Stroumbi village in Paphos, the president said he was willing to continue efforts to reunify the island but […]

Borussia Dortmund overcame hosts VfL Wolfsburg 3-0 on Saturday to make a flawless start to their Bundesliga season as last season’s runners-up RB Leipzig suffered a shock loss at Schalke 04. New Dortmund coach Peter Bosz had promised attractive, attacking football and his team, who finished third last season, delivered on his Bundesliga debut. There […]

A 50-year-old woman and a 79-year-old man were injured on Saturday in two separate accidents in Larnaca after being hit by cars. According to the police, the 50-year-old was hit by a car driven by a 26-year-old woman while trying to cross Stalingrad street on Saturday morning. She was taken to the Larnaca general hospital […]

Malaysia apologised on Sunday for the upside-down printing of Indonesia’s flag in the souvenir guidebook for the Southeast Asia Games, which officials said is being withdrawn and reprinted. The mistake, spotted at the games’ opening in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday, sparked an outcry in Indonesia and the hashtag #ShameonyouMalaysia was trending on […]

On one level, Elias Pantelides’ new book ‘Laconic Tales – Cyprus 1974’ is a local variation on everyone remembering what they were doing the day JFK was shot or the day the Twin Towers were destroyed. Cyprus’ 9/11 is of course July and August 1974, and Laconic Tales is a collection of various individuals’ accounts […]

By Alex Dobuzinskis   Dick Gregory, a comedian who lambasted racism and played a prominent role in the 1960s civil rights movement after becoming one of the first black comics to perform for white audiences, died on Saturday at age 84, his son said. “It is with enormous sadness that the Gregory family confirms that […]

ALMOST €100,000 has been robbed from cooperative banks across Cyprus this month, in three separate robberies. Although the events surrounding the cases are widely known, the culprits are still at large and police are assuring they are doing everything they can to solve the cases. The first robbery on August 2, took place in Pyrgos, […]

“REFUGEES in Cyprus at 272,000” boasted the headline on the Phil website the other day, informing its visitors that, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), “for Cyprus the number of the displaced in 2016 came to 272,000.” It was not just the number of tourists visiting Kyproulla that hit record highs in 2016. […]

PRESIDENT Anastasiades was ready to return to the negotiating table even tomorrow to continue the negotiations if Turkey was ready to implement the parameters set out by the Secretary-General of the UN, on the issues of security, guarantees, intervention rights and occupation troops, said an announcement issued by the presidential palace on Monday. Speaking to […]

British India was partitioned 70 years ago at the stroke of midnight on August 14, 1947. In the process a million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims perished in internecine killings that accompanied the movement of 12 million people in the biggest forced migration in history. India was the jewel in the British crown but Indian independence […]

By Gavin Jones THE EXPLOITS of the Great Alexander during his short time in the sun are well documented with a plethora of books recording his epic 22,000-mile journey from Macedonia to India and back, the battles, the appalling trek through the Arabian desert, his legacy and what else he might have achieved if he’d […]