Новости за 06.09.2017

World number one Rafa Nadal provided Russian teenager Andrey Rublev with a tennis lesson on Wednesday, racing into the semi-finals of the U.S. Open with a ruthless 6-1 6-2 6-2 win. The 19-year-old, who grew up idolising Nadal and had the Spaniard’s poster pinned up on his bedroom wall was smiling from ear-to-ear as he […]

Catalonia’s parliament voted on Wednesday to hold an independence referendum on Oct. 1, setting up a clash with the Spanish government that has vowed to stop what it says would be an illegal vote. After 12 hours of often chaotic debate in the Barcelona parliament, a majority voted for the referendum and the legal framework […]

China’s exit from the 2018 World Cup qualifying had been signposted for months but when it was finally confirmed on Tuesday, Marcello Lippi’s team departed with the battered pride of the country’s footballing reputation all but restored. For a nation with ambitions to be a major power within the game, there were positives to be […]

Potentially catastrophic Hurricane Irma clobbered Caribbean islands with pounding winds, rain and surging surf on Wednesday as officials in Florida called for evacuations ahead of the storm’s expected landfall there this weekend. Irma could become the second powerful storm to thrash the US mainland in as many weeks, but its precise trajectory remained uncertain. Hurricane Harvey killed more […]

Limassol municipality sought to play down concerns on Wednesday after beachgoers noticed waste water flowing into the sea from rainwater drains on Olympion beach. Responding to complaints, the municipality said the water seen coming from the drains was water from swimming pools and a fountain at a coastal resort. The municipality’s health services said it […]

CoCo Vandeweghe defeated world number one Karolina Pliskova 7-6(4) 6-3 to become the third American woman to reach the semi-finals at the US Open on Wednesday. The 25-year-old New York native fed off the energy of the partisan crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, which erupted when Pliskova returned a serve into the net on match […]

Akel-affiliated lawyer Argentoula Ioannou, whose dismissal University of Cyprus rector Constantinos Christofides implied had been the real reason behind the party’s recent attacks on him, accused him on Wednesday of having squandered public money on multiple occasions. In an open letter to the rector, Ioannou joined the escalating row between him and Akel MP Giorgos […]

Within the framework of the Centre of Performing Arts MITOS the Yard.Residency, a theatrical performance will be given on Friday under the name Inside Devising: Rebecca. The devising theatre performance, created and performed by Charalambia Theofanous, explores physically and vocally the effects of solitude and grief. It draws inspiration from the character Rebecca in Gabriel Garcia […]

Preparations for a lavish wedding party on the beach at the Anassa hotel in Latchi, Paphos have been halted after authorities revoked the permit, the hotel’s management said on Wednesday. High profile celebrities Christina Aguilera and Justin Bieber have been booked to perform at the wedding, which will now be limited to the hotel itself. […]

Turkey’s president said on Wednesday it was time for the EU to make up its mind whether it wants his country to join the bloc, a day after Germany’s Angela Merkel vowed to push her EU partners to consider suspending or ending its accession talks. Merkel had sharpened her rhetoric in the build-up to this […]

The Paphos criminal court on Wednesday sentenced two men in prison for five and four years after they were found guilty of property fraud. The two men from Paphos, aged 63 and 50, were charged with selling land to a British man, 90, in 2012, which he later found had been sold twice. The man […]

A Greek MEP censured House president Demetris Syllouris for inviting members of neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn to a dinner he was hosting for Cypriot and Greek members of the European parliament. In a letter responding to Syllouris’ invitation, Greek ruling party Syriza MEP Stelios Kouloglou declined because two Golden Dawn MEPs had also been invited, […]

France plans to pass legislation this year to phase out all oil and gas exploration and production on its mainland and overseas territories by 2040, becoming the first country to do so, according to a draft bill presented on Wednesday. President Emmanuel Macron wants to make France carbon neutral by 2050 and plans to curb […]

The defence ministry is to set up a military museum in Nicosia with a decision already taken by the cabinet, it said. The museum will gather up records and items pertaining to the military history of the island. It will be housed on Byron Avenue in the capital when it opens in the coming months. […]

Government forces have used chemical weapons more than two dozen times during Syria’s civil war, including in April’s deadly attack on Khan Sheikhoun, UN war crimes investigators said on Wednesday. A government warplane dropped sarin on the town in Idlib province, killing more than 80 civilians, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria said, in the most […]

A three-person panel, tasked with overseeing the implementation of the new appointment system for public-school teachers, was created by the cabinet on Wednesday. The new system, which comes into effect this year, aims at gradually phasing out the old system, which ranked candidates according to a waiting list based on graduation year alone, and replacing […]

Britain’s world number two Andy Murray will “most likely” miss the rest of the season due to a hip injury that kept him out of the US Open, he announced on Wednesday. “I won’t be able to compete in (next month’s) events in Beijing and Shanghai, and most likely, the final two events of the […]

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin has backed calls for the close-season transfer window to end before the start of the domestic league season across Europe. The chairmen of the 20 English Premier League clubs will vote at a shareholders meeting on Thursday to decide if their window should close before the season starts and several managers […]

Paris St Germain’s new striker Kylian Mbappe said he joined “for the project” and not just to play alongside Brazil’s talisman Neymar, as the French club’s president added that his record summer transfers had been carried out in complete transparency. Mbappe joined PSG on an initial season-long loan from Monaco weeks after the Ligue 1 […]

Argentina came from behind to draw 1-1 with Venezuela on Tuesday but their inability to take what should have been an easy three points means the 2014 losing finalists are still a long way from guaranteeing their place in Russia next year. The home side had won all six of their previous home qualifiers against […]

If the current trend continues there will be more deaths from a lack of resistance to antibiotics than cancer by 2050, the Cyprus Consumer Association claimed on Wednesday as it launched a new campaign. Cyprus is the first to host a European campaign to raise awareness of the growing resistance to antibiotics which lasts until […]

French fashion companies Kering and LVMH will stop hiring excessively thin models worldwide under a new charter developed in response to continued criticism the industry encourages eating disorders. France banned ultra-thin models under a 2015 law though it only stipulated models needed a doctor’s note attesting to their health based on age, weight and body […]

The supreme court on Wednesday struck down two more laws which had been referred by President Nicos Anastasiades on constitutional grounds after they were passed by the House of Representatives last April. In total, 15 out of 16 laws referred by Anastasiades have now been found to be unconstitutional. The first law banned the state […]

Archaeologists believe that skeletons and scraps of ceramics found close to Limassol’s old harbour during road works were part of a mediaeval cemetery. Once the recording and documentation of the findings is completed, the antiquities will be stored so they are available for future generations. The new findings were discovered in Siafis street. Earlier this […]

Laureate Education Inc., the owner of the Nicosia-based European University of Cyprus (EUC), is considering selling its subsidiaries in Italy and Germany, as well as its Cypriot unit, which declined to comment. Information about the intended sale appeared first in the Education Investor website on August 23. The Laureate Education, which acquired EUC in 2005 and completed […]