Новости за 12.09.2017

Romelu Lukaku opened his Champions League account as Manchester United marked their return to the competition with a 3-0 rout of Basel in their opening Group A match at Old Trafford on Tuesday. United, who missed last season’s Champions League but qualified this time by winning the Europa League, dominated the first half and went […]

Chelsea enjoyed a triumphant return to the Champions League after a year out on Tuesday, thumping the competition’s debutants Qarabag 6-0, including a stunning, if miscued, strike from new signing Davide Zappacosta. The Azeri champions were never any match for their English counterparts and it took only five minutes for Pedro to open the scoring […]

Diko head and presidential candidate Nicolas Papadopoulos pledged on Tuesday to bring the pride and prosperity of Cypriots back, at the inauguration of his campaign headquarters in Nicosia. Surrounded by his supporters – among them officials of Edek, the Solidarity Movement and of the Citizens’ Movement – Papadopoulos said that in February, after the presidential […]

State schools are not yet ready to accommodate all children with disabilities and many families are still waiting for the education ministry to decide whether their child will be allowed to go into the classroom, organised parents said on Tuesday. A day after primary students went back to school, many children with disabilities are still […]

A 55-year-old Greek man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to smuggling six kilos of cannabis into Cyprus with the intent to sell. Epaminondas Gypalis pleaded guilty to five counts of possession of narcotics with intent to sell. However, Nicolas Georgiou, 26, and Ioannis Demetriades, 28, both from Paphos, who face the same charges, pleaded not guilty. […]

Apple Inc on Tuesday rolled out its much-anticipated iPhone X, a redesigned product of glass and stainless steel with an edge-to-edge display that Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook called “the biggest leap forward since the original iPhone.” The phone features wireless charging, an infrared camera and special hardware for facial recognition, which will replace the […]

The government on Tuesday said it is opposed to a proposal for extending paternity leave and benefits to unmarried couples as that would have an unpredictable cost impact on the Social Insurance Fund (SIF). The House labour committee was discussing a bill tabled by main opposition Akel, which provides that paid paternity leave is broadened […]

The government has sent a memo to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe asking it to exert pressure on Turkey to meet its obligation to ensure that no interference with burial sites takes place in the future in the north of Cyprus, by employing practical and effective means, it was reported on […]

A declaration purportedly penned by an armed group seeking justice, threatened violence if banks sought to evict people and auction off their homes, it emerged on Tuesday. The author of the rambling rant appears to be particularly irked by a recent deal between asset management company Altamira and the co-operative central bank. Describing it as […]

Eastern European Union states must drop their resistance and accept their share of refugees who arrived in the bloc, officials and diplomats said on Tuesday after a court ruled they must abide by the quota. The EU’s highest court ruled last week that member states must take in a share of refugees who reach Europe, […]

A novel U.S. legal battle over who owned a famous smiling “selfie” taken by a critically endangered monkey six years ago – the animal who snapped the picture or the nature photographer who owned the camera – has been settled out of court. Attorneys for Naruto, a rare crested macaque, and for David Slater, a […]

President Nicos Anastasiades is set to receive a new dog from a shelter on Wednesday morning, it was announced on Tuesday. According to an official announcement, Argos animal sanctuary is to deliver the president’s new dog on Wednesday morning to the Presidential Palace. The rescue dog is to replace Anastasiades’ pervious pet, a Scottish Terrier […]

The Onisiphoros gas field in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is not commercially viable, Energy Minister Giorgos Lakkotrypis said on Tuesday as it has been found to contain less than half a trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas. Announcing the raw results of the exploration well by Total and ENI in block 11, the […]

The International Festival 2017 has brought with it a whole lot of music and now it is time for the festival to show us some theatre. The play to set the theatrical wheels in motion will be Caligula, by Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus. It is directed by Aliki Danezi Knutsen and sees Yiannis Stankoglou in […]

The UN Security Council unanimously voted to step up sanctions on North Korea, with its profitable textile exports now banned and fuel supplies capped, prompting a traditionally defiant threat of retaliation against the United States. Monday’s decision, triggered by the North’s sixth and largest nuclear test this month, was the ninth such resolution unanimously adopted […]

The Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah has declared victory in the Syrian war while Russia said government forces had driven militants from 85 per cent of the country where President Bashar al-Assad’s rule seemed in danger two years ago. The comments from two Syrian government allies mark the most confident assessments yet of Assad’s position in the war […]

With election campaigning gradually intensifying, main opposition Akel and the government exchanged barbs on Tuesday over the state of the economy some five years after Nicos Anastasiades took office. Akel spokesman Stephanos Stephanou accused the administration of lacking credibility, saying their pledges were a joke. He blamed Anastasiades for the seizure of bank deposits in […]

A decision by Germany to suspend all major arms exports to Turkey weakens Ankara’s fight against terrorism and makes Europe vulnerable, Turkish EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik said on Tuesday. Celik was speaking in London after German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Monday Berlin had suspended major arms exports due to deteriorating human rights […]

Civil servants have seen their income slashed by 30 per cent on average throughout the economic crisis, union Pasydy boss Glafcos Hadjipetrou said on Tuesday. Hadjipetrou was speaking after delivering a copy of the union’s decisions taken at its general meeting last May to President Nicos Anastasiades. “[Tuesday’s] meeting was largely ceremonial in nature,” Hadjipetrou […]

Cristiano Ronaldo is eager to return to action as he prepares for his first start of the season when Real Madrid begin their Champions League defence on Wednesday against Apoel Nicosia, coach Zinedine Zidane said on Tuesday. Ronaldo, who was the top goalscorer in Europe’s elite competition last season for the fifth consecutive year and […]

Pay-TV group Sky and the English Football League (EFL) have agreed a 600 million pound five-year domestic broadcasting deal, they said on Tuesday. The deal, which the EFL said represented a 36 per cent increase on the current value of the rights, runs to 2024 and allows the broadcaster to stream all midweek Championship (second […]

A Spanish court has suspended a Catalan law that outlined a legal framework for an independent state, a court source said on Tuesday, the day after hundreds of thousands rallied in Barcelona to support secession from Madrid. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s government is increasing the pressure to prevent an independence referendum, scheduled for Oct 1, […]

President Emmanuel Macron faces the first challenge on the streets to his business-friendly reform agenda on Tuesday, when workers from the hard-left CGT union march through French cities to protest against a loosening of labour regulations. Sounding a call to the working class, Philippe Martinez, the head of the Communist Party-linked CGT, branded the reforms […]

Leading British theatre director Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, has died at the age of 86, the National Theatre said on Tuesday. Hall died on Monday at University College Hospital, London, surrounded by his family, the theatre said in a statement. “Peter Hall was an internationally celebrated stage director and theatre impresario, […]

Finance Minister Harris Georgiadesold an investors summit on Tuesday that Cyprus had not become complacent about the economy despite strong growth, and that much was still to be done. The second such summit in Limassol, attracting more than 150 investors from across the globe, was organised by the Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency (CIPA) to present […]