Новости за 01.09.2017

Results from the US Open Men’s Singles Round 3 matches on Friday: Denis Shapovalov (Canada) beat Kyle Edmund (Britain) 3-6 6-3 6-3 1-0 (Edmund retired) 29-Diego Schwartzman (Argentina) beat 5-Marin Cilic (Croatia) 4-6 7-5 7-5 6-4 Paolo Lorenzi (Italy) beat Thomas Fabbiano (Italy) 6-2 6-4 6-4 12-Pablo Carreno (Spain) beat Nicolas Mahut (France) 6-3 6-4 […]

ELEVEN suspects believed to involved in possible fraud surrounding research programmes at the state technical university (Tepak) were remanded for eight days on Friday at Limassol district court. The case concerns 23 EU co-funded programmes worth €5m between 2008 and 2015. The prime suspect is a female former employee of the university, Rozita Pavlidou, who […]

INTERIOR Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday announced measures designed to halt the apparent misappropriation of Turkish Cypriot properties that has been going on for decades without any effort to change the current state of affairs. It followed recent reports of mismanagement by Paphos Mayor Phedonos Phedonos, although the ministry said it had been working on […]

CAPITAL Intelligence, the Limassol-based rating company, said that it affirmed Cyprus’s BB- sovereign credit rating, the B short-term foreign currency rating and their outlook at ‘stable’. Capital Intelligence cited the island’s economic recovery and improved fiscal data, the satisfactory access to international markets demonstrated with the latest government bond issue in June, expectations that recent […]

A total of 50,952 students will attend public schools this year, education minister Costas Kadis said on Friday, adding that the ministry is ready to start the new school year. The 39,199 students at secondary and technical schools are the first to start on Thursday, September 7, while for the others Monday, September 11 will […]

Role-playing and narration will be the devises that five actors will take on in Nicosia and Limassol to bring us the play Moonstruck. Moonstruck was written by Greek Cypriot folk poet Pavlos Liasides in the 1960s. Liasides wrote mainly in the Cypriot dialect and this play was written in political verse – also known as […]

A motorist who was nearly five times over the alcohol limit was caught by police during a routine check late on Thursday in Paralimni, it was announced on Friday. The 38-year-old driver was stopped at 11.30pm on Protaras avenue and a breathalyser test indicated 105 μg instead of the 22 μg permitted by law. When […]

BANK employees’ union Etyk said that it is considering ways to pressure the government to fully compensate members of provident funds of the two major lenders who suffered losses in the 2013 banking crisis and once again accused the chairman of the Fiscal Council of bias and hatred. The union, which has in recent weeks […]

NEW plans to redesign Tseri Avenue will be drawn up soon and will examine the possibility of two lanes, it was decided on Friday, Strovolos Mayor Andreas Papacharalambous. Although the government has wanted to facelift the area for years, opposition from residents and shop owners, as well as cash needed for the works being blocked […]

Pope Francis saw a Jewish psychoanalyst once a week for six months during the 1970s and found the experience beneficial, the pontiff was quoted as saying in a new book. “For six months, I went to her once a week to shed light on certain things,” the Argentine pontiff said in a series of interviews with […]

Two German citizens have been detained in Turkey for what Berlin believes are “political” reasons, the German government said, the latest in a string of arrests of European citizens that have put relations with Ankara under unprecedented strain. Germany was not officially informed of the detentions, which took place at Antalya airport on Thursday, leaving […]

Former England captain Wayne Rooney has been charged with a drink-driving offence, Cheshire police said in a statement on Friday. Rooney, 31, has been released on bail and is due to appear at Stockport Magistrates’ Court on September 18. The Everton forward has been charged with driving while over the prescribed alcohol limit. “The man […]

German Social Democrat (SPD) leader Martin Schulz, whose party trails Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s conservatives by 17 points, said he was going into Sunday’s television debate convinced he would win this month’s elections. “I am not in the least bit nervous,” he told Bild newspaper in an interview conducted after media reports suggesting his predecessor as leader […]

The ‘Two Ghosts’ singer dedicated a performance of his song ‘Sign of the Times’ to 14-year-old Freya Lewis – who suffered multiple fractures, lacerations and burns after a bomb was detonated at an Ariana Grande concert in May – while filming his BBC concert special, reducing the teenager and her family to tears. Freya’s sister, […]

The federation of patient associations called on the state on Friday to increase health spending so that public hospitals could cope with the rising needs. The federation said the state should invest more in human resources and equipment, and put the needs of patients above everything else. “For many years, health spending was not only […]

The ‘Hung Up’ singer has relocated to Portugal with her family after her 11-year-old adopted son David – who she has with ex-husband Guy Ritchie – joined the Benfica soccer team youth academy. Portuguese weekly magazine Visão reported: “Madonna is no longer a tourist, she now lives in Lisbon.” The publication revealed Madonna has been […]

English football clubs splurged on the final day of the transfer window, laying out 210 million pounds to take total gross spending to a record-high 1.4 billion pounds as the Premier League again flexed its unrivalled financial muscles. Figures from Deloitte’s Sports Business Group showed a 23 percent rise from the previous record, set last […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping is a diplomatic pioneer whose ideology has transcended centuries of Western international relations theory, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday, lauding Xi ahead of a congress of the Communist Party. China has become more assertive in its foreign policy under Xi, who has touted his global Belt and Road infrastructure […]

The Netherlands are on the brink of elimination from the 2018 World Cup following Thursday’s 4-0 drubbing by France but skipper Arjen Robben is optimistic they can still make it to Russia next year. France now top Group A with 16 points, while the Dutch are six points behind in fourth place, two points behind […]

US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media are part of a global trend of hostility to freedom of speech and damage the US public interest, a UN human rights expert said on Friday. David Kaye, the UN special rapporteur on the freedom of expression, said Trump’s attacks, such as a Feb 17 tweet listing […]

The state-owned Cyprus Cooperative Bank expects to reduce its non-performing loans stock of €7.2bn by over €1bn before the end of the year, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Friday without citing a source. The lender, which received almost €1.7bn in taxpayers’ money in the form of capital injection in 2014 and 2015, is expected […]

A week after Hurricane Harvey came ashore in Texas, rescuers kept up a marathon search for survivors on Friday as large pockets of land remained under water after one of the costliest natural disasters to hit the United States. The storm has displaced more than 1 million people with 44 feared dead from flooding that […]

Legendary icons Elvis Presley and Neil Diamond will light up the Paphos and Limassol stage when tribute entertainers Marios Kombou and Fisher Stevens will perform their double-tribute performances in the coming days. The two entertainers will put on four shows, hosted by the Colosseum restaurant in Paphos and the Pissouri Amphitheatre, which will make any […]

Marios Zachariadis has submitted his resignation from the Fiscal Council citing personal reasons, the fiscal watchdog said. The economist, who teaches at the University of Cyprus, filed his resignation a week ago, a source familiar with the matter said. He was appointed at the council, tasked with monitoring the drafting and implementation of the government […]

Kenya‘s Supreme Court on Friday declared President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election win invalid due to irregularities committed by the election board and ordered a new vote in 60 days. The decision to cancel the vote result, the first of its kind in Kenya‘s history, sets up a new race for the presidency between Kenyatta and veteran opposition leader Raila […]