Новости за 28.08.2017

Results from the US Open Men’s Singles Round 1 matches on Monday 10-John Isner (U.S.) beat Pierre-Hugues Herbert (France) 6-1 6-3 4-6 6-3 5- Marin Cilic (Croatia) beat Tennys Sandgren (U.S.) 6-4 6-3 3-6 6-3 8- Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) beat Marius Copil (Romania) 6-3 6-3 6-4 29- Diego Schwartzman (Argentina) beat Carlos Berlocq (Argentina) 6-2 […]

The historic Italian training vessel “ITS Palinuro” arrived in Larnaca on Monday and will be open to the public until Thursday. Giuseppe Valentini, commanding officer of the Palinuro, said that the ship is used by the Italian navy to train cadets as part of their three-year training course. The vessel, he explained, was built in […]

The summer holidays may sadly be coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean the summer fun is over. And making sure that the beats won’t fade away anytime soon is the Guaba Beach Bar in Limassol. Kicking off the first event of September will be a performance with English DJs Gareth Emergy – back […]

A 34-year-old Belarussian tourist, who had gone missing on Monday morning after going swimming in Pomos, Paphos, was found by a 27-year-old man in the afternoon, a police report said. According to the report, the tourist was found walking along the Pachyammos-Pomos road. He told police that he had started drifting in currents while swimming […]

Cyprus should issue a demarche to Russia over the latter’s plans to sell Turkey its S-400 anti-aircraft missile system, former House speaker Yiannakis Omirou said on Monday. Earlier this year, Turkey and Russia reached a preliminary deal for the sale to Ankara of S-400 missile interceptor batteries. The contract has yet to be signed. In […]

Ousmane Dembele insisted he is not feeling under pressure to perform despite joining Barcelona as a club record signing and the second most expensive footballer of all-time. The 20-year-old winger, signed from Borussia Dortmund for a fee which could rise to 147 million euros ($176 million), was presented to over 17,000 fans at the Nou […]

  The unlawful transfer of land to individuals by the government extend far beyond Turkish Cypriot properties, Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos claimed on Monday, further fuelling the controversy his earlier remarks sparked. He said the scams include the granting of the use of state land to individuals on a preferential basis. The outspoken mayor, who […]

Bank of Cyprus is holding its 2016 annual general meeting on Tuesday, eight days after the island’s largest lender sent shockwaves through its shareholder base with its decision to increase provisions by €500m. The bank, which last year posted an after-tax profit of €64m, reduced its non-performing loan ratio to 52 per cent or €10.4bn […]

The bicommunal group #UniteCyprusNow on Monday slammed the opening of Dherynia beach close to the fenced-off town of Varosha in Famagusta only to Turkish Cypriots and Turkish nationals. “The recent opening of a beach in Dherynia to just Turkish Cypriots and Turkish citizens is ethnic separation and a violation of human rights and freedoms,” the group said […]

Liverpool have agreed a club record fee to sign midfielder Naby Keita from Germany’s RB Leipzig, with the 22-year-old set to join the Premier League club in July 2018, British media reported on Monday. The Merseyside club will pay the Guinea international’s 48 million-pound ($62 million) release clause plus an undisclosed premium. Liverpool are yet […]

India and China have agreed to an “expeditious disengagement” of troops in a disputed border area where their soldiers have been locked in a stand-off for more than two months, India‘s foreign ministry said on Monday. The decision comes ahead of a summit of the Brics nations – a grouping that also includes Brazil, Russia and South […]

  Opposition parties said on Monday they were against an amending bill brought by the government to license and supervise non-credit institutions that offer housing loans, arguing that ultimately it will put consumers at risk. Back in April the House had passed a law designed to transpose into domestic law EU-wide rules on mortgages introducing […]

Manchester United are well placed to challenge for the Premier League and Champions League titles amid strong competition on both fronts, the club’s Serbia midfielder Nemanja Matic told Reuters on Monday. The 29-year old defensive midfielder blended seamlessly into Jose Mourinho’s side after joining from Chelsea during the close-season and made an immediate impact in […]

Critics of Nicos Anastasiades on Monday slammed the president over a private and confidential letter he sent to select people, including a number of journalists outlining why the talks failed in Crans-Montana. The government played down the move on Monday. Politis newspaper on Sunday published a response to the president from one of its journalists […]

The violin is no longer a quintessentially classical music instrument. Its strings now touch all musical styles from all over the world. Ukrainian violinist Svyatoslav Kondrativ, who will be performing at the Arabica Coffee House in Nicosia on Sunday, knows its virtuosity all too well. The virtuoso violinist, conductor and composer, will perform his concert […]

September is just around the corner, and that means that the Nicosia Septemberfest is just a few sleeps away. This year is the festival’s seventh instalment and it promises seven nights of live music, food stalls, plus 100 different types of beers from all over the world for us to choose from. Each night has […]

British officials arrive in Brussels on Monday hoping to push the EU towards talks about post-Brexit ties, which the bloc refuses to launch until there is a deal on London’s exit bill and other “divorce” questions. The third round of Brexit talks comes more than a year after Britons voted in a referendum to leave […]

Police are looking for Malkit Singh, 26, from India, in connection with a murder and are asking the public for help in locating him. The killing took place on Sunday morning in Ayios Dhometios in Nicosia after a stabbing victim later died in hospital. According to Cybc, a man and a woman, both non-Cypriots aged […]

APS Holdings aims at reducing the ratio of Hellenic Bank’s delinquent portfolio to a quarter of current levels possibly in the medium-term, and sees “opportunities” in the recovering real estate sector even as the current legislative framework to reduce bad loans requires improvement, a director said. “Reducing the non-performing loan ratios below 15 per cent […]

  The child of a Greek Cypriot mother and a Turkish father has not yet been issued a passport, even though the child was born in Cyprus, its parents are married and the family live in the Larnaca region. A letter Child Commissioner Leda Koursoumba sent on behalf of the parents to Interior Minister Constantinos […]

The Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) said on Monday that it sold €100m in 13-weeks treasury bills at an average rate of minus 0.4 per cent. Total subscriptions amounted €173m, the PDMO said in an emailed statement. When the government sold this type of security at an auction in July, the average yield was also […]

A German nurse jailed for murdering two patients is suspected of killing at least 84 other people, police said on Monday. If convicted, the man identified only as Niels H. under reporting rules, would be one of Germany’s most prolific serial killers. In past hearings, he admitted deliberately injecting patients at two clinics in northern […]

Change happens in the blink of an eye at Real Madrid and time may be running out for Gareth Bale. The Welsh forward netted the team’s first goal of the league season against Deportivo La Coruna as the European champions put in a commanding performance to win 3-0 on the opening weekend. Seven days later, […]

Arsenal’s shocking performance in their 4-0 Premier League defeat at Liverpool on Sunday was slammed by the club’s former greats with all-time top scorer Thierry Henry describing the team as “unwatchable”. Arsene Wenger’s team were 2-0 down at the break and could have lost be an even bigger margin if it had not been for […]

The 30 Seconds To Mars frontman took to the stage at The Forum in Los Angeles to remember the Linkin Park star, who died by suicide earlier this year. He said: “Witnessing his life taught me important things, especially about working relentlessly, pursuing dreams and being kind and caring while doing it. “When I think […]