Новости за 24.08.2017

Police on Thursday issued arrest warrants for six people after a group of about 50 hooligans interrupted the afternoon practice of Larnaca football team Aek on Wednesday by throwing stones at fans watching the players training at the ground next to the Gsz stadium. Five of them, aged 18 to 27, were arrested by Thursday […]

Scores of residents blocked Aglantzjia Avenue in Nicosia district on Thursday afternoon to protest over the planned felling of 90 trees as part of plans to widen the road. Aglantzjia municipality is also objecting to so many trees being cut down, and trying to get the public works department to go with an alternative plan. […]

While AEK were unable to overturn their 3-1 deficit against Viktoria Plzen, Apollon managed to book their place in the Europa League group stages with a heroic 1-1 draw away at FC Midtjylland. First up on the night were AEK, who started very brightly in Larnaca against a tough Plzen side as they went in […]

Massachusetts lottery officials on Thursday identified a 53-year-old health care worker who lives in Chicopee as the winner of more than $750 million in a Powerball drawing, the largest prize for a single ticket-holder in the contest’s history. The woman, Mavis Wanczyk, appeared at an afternoon news conference to claim her prize. “I wanted to get this […]

AEK were unable to make it into the Europa League group stages after a 0-0 draw at the AEK Arena against Viktoria Plzen on Thursday night (3-1 aggregate), despite a solid effort. The Larnaca side knew they faced a mammoth task of overturning the 3-1 deficit from the first leg against Viktoria Plzen but fans […]

Holders Real Madrid will start their attempt to win a record third straight Champions League title in a group with Borussia Dortmund, Tottenham Hotspur and Apoel Nicosia after Thursday’s draw. The Group H draw will see Real’s Welsh international Gareth Bale face his former club Tottenham for the first time since his 2013 move to […]

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo was named Uefa’s Player of the Year, beating Lionel Messi and Gianluigi Buffon to the prize, European football’s governing body announced during the Champions League group stage draw in Monaco on Thursday. Ronaldo helped Real to a second consecutive Champions League title and finished as the tournament’s top scorer with 12 […]

Cyprus champions Apoel will face Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Tottenham in the group stages of this season’s Champions League after the draw was made in Monaco on Thursday evening. It will be the fourth time in their history that the Nicosia giants have made it into the group stages of the continent’s top club […]

Danish police are putting an additional charge of abuse of a corpse to the court investigating whether Danish inventor Peter Madsen killed Swedish reporter Kim Wall on board his submarine. Police said on Wednesday, as they formally identified her headless torso, that the body had been weighted down with metal and an attempt had been made to remove […]

Government Spokesman Nicos Christodoulides will be among the key-note speakers at an international conference “Journalism, Society and Politics in the Digital Media Era” in Limassol at the beginning of September. The interdisciplinary conference – which is to take place between September 1 and 3 at the University of Technology (Tepak) in Limassol – aims to […]

A former executive of state-telecom Cyta said that the decision to pull out of television rights negotiations with Apoel FC was the right decision, as it may improve -at least in the short term- the profitability of the company which stood until early last year on the government’s privatisation list and is constantly losing market […]

After a decade of giving us musical wings on which to fly, the Flying Away Art and Music Festival will be raising the bar a few notches with this year’s installation – with its very own title of Level Eleven. The festival, which will take place from September 8-10 at Orfeas Stadium in Nicosia, will […]

The world needs to use water more efficiently rather than exhausting invisible underground supplies and blindly exporting “virtual water” to avert a global crisis that would undermine food and energy systems, a leading expert warned. More than one-third of humanity is water-stressed every year or season, while drought crises are on the rise from California […]

Rescue crews are searching for up to 14 people including Germans, Austrians and Swiss missing for more than a day after a landslide struck a remoteSwiss mountain valley near the Italian border, police said on Thursday. Authorities evacuated around 100 people from the village of Bondo and airlifted hikers from nearby huts in the eastern canton of Grisons […]

A Turkish Cypriot taxi driver told police he was attacked in Nicosia while driving past the clubhouse of Apoel, whose fans were out celebrating the team’s qualification for the Champions League group stages. Turkish Cypriot newspaper Kibris said Aziz Canas was attacked at around 1am while returning from Larnaca airport with two British tourists. He […]

Consultations between the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) and the Cyprus Medical Association (Cyma) on pay for doctors who want to join the National Health Scheme (Gesy) are set to begin in October, Health Minister Giorgos Pamporidis said on Thursday. Following a meeting at the Presidential Palace held by President Nicos Anastasiades, where representatives of the […]

Cyprus-based airline Cobalt Air on Thursday announced the launch of flights to London Gatwick and Frankfurt from Larnaca as part of its 2017 winter schedule. The flights to Gatwick will operate every day except Friday from October 30. They are in addition to daily flights to Stansted. Flights from Larnaca to Frankfurt will operate on […]

Manchester United have re-signed striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic on a one-year contract, the Premier League club announced on Thursday. The 35-year-old Swede joined United on a one-year deal as a free agent last season and scored 28 goals in 46 appearances for Jose Mourinho’s side before suffering a knee ligament injury in April. “We are delighted […]

Dutch police detained a second suspect on Thursday after a Spanish tip-off about a possible attack caused the cancellation of a rock concert in Rotterdam a day earlier. The 22-year-old man was arrested during police raids in the southern province of Brabant early on Thursday and was being questioned about the Rotterdam attack threat, the police […]

Following the collapse in the reunification talks, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has written to the members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) asking for their help in lifting the north’s isolation, it was reported on Thursday. Reports in the north said Akinci has sent a letter to the OIC informing it of the […]

Police using water cannon and batons clashed on Thursday with refugees who had occupied a small Rome square in defiance of an order to leave a building where they had been squatting. The clashes were the latest example of tensions in Italy as the country deals with an influx of migrants. They quickly became fodder […]

Cyprus Mail Online has introduced an Investment Watch page that provides news and information to businesses considering investing in Cyprus or setting up operations here. Our objective is to offer regular updates on investment opportunities and on the big projects in progress. We will also look at major developments in the economy and give insights […]

Cyprus is one of the countries where drones will be used by services firm Ernst & Young for auditing, following a pilot study introducing a combination of drones and pioneering industry software. According to the firm, the unmanned flying devices will initially be used in the manufacturing and retail sectors. Audits for car manufacturers, for […]

Net migration to Britain fell to its lowest level in three years in the 12 months to the end of March, with more than half the drop caused by European Union citizens leaving and fewer arriving since the Brexit vote. The biggest drop in the figures came from eight eastern European countries, including Poland and […]

Police on Thursday arrested two employees of a kiosk in Paphos in connection with theft from the premises. The two men, aged 40 and 42, were arrested after the owner of the kiosk told police that between January 1 and August 13, 399 prepaid cards with a total value of €21,375 were issued without the […]