Новости за 09.09.2017

Manchester United’s perfect start to the season ended with a 2-2 draw at Stoke City, whose battling performance in a seesaw game denied the leaders a fourth successive Premier League victory. Stoke set out to stretch United with long balls wide and took the lead on 43 minutes when Darren Fletcher found Mame Diouf, whose […]

English champions Chelsea ground out their third successive Premier League win after goals from Alvaro Morata and N’Golo Kante helped them to a 2-1 defeat of Leicester City on Saturday. Spain striker Morata headed the visitors into a 41st-minute lead and former Leicester midfielder Kante doubled their advantage with a long-range effort before Jamie Vardy […]

The Pharos Arts Foundation will continue its new season of music on Friday with a solo violin recital by Emmanuel Tjeknavorian. The violinist’s return visit to The Shoe Factory in Nicosia will mark the beginning of an extensive tour in some of Europe’s most prestigious venues, including the Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Philharmonie […]

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who has been largely out of the spotlight since stinging electoral defeats, on Saturday sought to reclaim the mantle of main opponent to President Emmanuel Macron, which polls now attribute to the far-left. Surveys show that while Le Pen gathered more votes in the presidential election this spring than […]

Turkey cautioned its citizens on Saturday to take care when travelling to Germany, citing what it said was an upswing in anti-Turkish sentiment ahead of a German national election later this month. The advisory is likely to further exacerbate tensions between the two Nato allies, whose ties have soured following last year’s failed coup against […]

Tepak fraudsters’ list rises to 14 By Angelos Anastasiou FOURTEEN suspects were remanded on Saturday, four for six days and the rest for eight, in connection with cases of fraud at the Limassol-based technical university (Tepak) and the University of Cyprus, with the prime suspect alleging she will name others also involved in the scam. […]

Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus scored twice as Manchester City hammered Liverpool 5-0 in the Premier League at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday with the visitors forced to play the second half down to 10 men. The result sends City, temporarily at least, to the top of the Premier League table with 10 points from four […]

A 46-year-old man arrested on Friday in connection with the robbing of the Ayios Athanasios co-op bank, the second in a month, was remanded for eight days by the Limassol district court on Saturday. The Georgian suspect appears to have been the individual who was seen picking up the two robbers from the area where […]

South Africa fought back from a 10-point deficit early in the second half to secure a 23-23 draw with Australia in their Rugby Championship clash in Perth on Saturday and remain unbeaten in six tests this year. Centre Jesse Kriel and hooker Malcolm Marx crossed for the Springboks, who dominated the breakdown and set piece […]

Barcelona’s mayor has asked for reassurances that municipal staff would not face legal action or lose their jobs if they helped to organise an Oct 1 referendum on Catalonia seceding from Spain. However, some of the region’s nearly 1,000 mayors have already said they would go ahead with the vote, despite it being declared illegal […]

ENERGY minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis was briefed on initial findings from drilling by a consortium of France’s Total and Italy’s Eni in block 11 in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone on Friday and will in turn brief the House Commerce committee on Tuesday. According to unnamed government sources cited by the Cyprus News Agency, energy ministry technocrats […]

Friday is starting to be the new Saturday with music events popping up everywhere. Jazz is on the up and up lately, but that doesn’t mean that orchestra music is taking a back seat. Limassol and Nicosia has it all, all you have to do is take your pick. Starting off with the capital, the […]

FAITH and politics should not mix, but religion can catalyse political solutions because every house of God is a house of forgiveness and love, the Maronites’ Archbishop Joseph Soueif said on Friday. Speaking to reporters, Soueif was asked whether Cyprus’ Maronite community is facing problems in holding liturgies in the Turkish-held areas. “We have renewed […]

A sensational try by rookie flanker Vaea Fifita was the catalyst for the All Blacks to rally past Argentina for a 39-22 bonus-point victory in their Rugby Championship clash at Taranaki Regional Stadium on Saturday. The lanky Fifita, making his first start in his second test, was put into space from 35-metres out and outsprinted […]

The Red Cross organisations are scaling up operations in Myanmar’s violence-riven north-west, after the United Nations had to suspend activities there following government suggestions that its agency had supported Rohingya insurgents. While the world has focused on Bangladesh, where some 290,000 Rohingya have fled an army crackdown on the militants in two weeks, a serious […]

Where do you live? Me, my husband and 2 kids live in Tala, Paphos. Best childhood memory? Sitting on my dad’s shoulders and looking at the animals at the zoo. Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? Well, now it is our Blue Diamond, of course. And my absolute favourite dish is called ‘Duck a […]

POLICE in Cyprus have stepped up security measures at the island’s ports and airports after a message from Interpol Brussels about a possible terrorist attack against on European soil, police spokesman Andreas Angelides said on Saturday. The message, addressed to an airline through Twitter, alerted travellers of a heightened risk of terror attacks in Europe. […]

South Korea braced for a possible further missile test by North Korea as it marked its founding anniversary on Saturday, just days after its sixth and largest nuclear test rattled global financial markets and further escalated tensions in the region. Throughout the week, South Korean officials have warned the North could launch another intercontinental ballistic […]

Pope Francis on Saturday travels to Medellin, once notorious as the stomping grounds of drug lord Pablo Escobar, to find a city transformed since his predecessor Pope John Paul visited in 1986. Violence between cartels, paramilitary groups and guerrillas raged in the poor ‘comuna’ neighborhoods on its outskirts and the late pontiff was moved to […]

Hurricane Irma walloped Cuba’s northern coast on Saturday as a Category 5 storm, as millions of Florida residents were ordered to evacuate after the storm killed 21 people in the eastern Caribbean and left catastrophic destruction in its wake. Irma struck Camaguey Archipelago with 260 kph winds early on Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center […]

Cine Attikon and the European Capital of Culture Pafos2017, with the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Cyprus, will present the comedy Oro Verde (Green Gold) on Wednesday. The 2014 comedy starring Fausto Sciarappa, Giorgia Wurth and Carlos Leal, is inspired by events that took place in Ticino in the early 2000s. The main […]

Liverpool could hardly be in higher spirits as they set out on the short trip to Manchester City on Saturday (2.30pm) hoping to make a strong case for their Premier League title prospects. Pep Guardiola’s City and neighbours Manchester United, together with champions Chelsea, have already been installed as the trio most likely to contest […]

Even though the championship began three weeks ago, this weekend will be the first time this season that there will be a full fixture list, with six games taking place. Three teams – Apoel, Apollon and Omonia – will be competing for the first time while a further four teams will be playing their second […]

Saudi Arabia on Saturday suspended any dialogue with Qatar, accusing it of “distorting facts”, just after a report of a phone call between the leaders of both countries suggested a breakthrough in the Gulf dispute. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke by the telephone with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on […]

At least 61 people died when the most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in over eight decades tore through buildings and forced mass evacuations in the poor southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, triggering alerts as far away as Southeast Asia. The 8.1 magnitude quake off the southern coast late Thursday was stronger than a […]