Новости за 28.09.2017

Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud grabbed his 100th goal for the club and Theo Walcott chimed in with a double as they won 4-2 at Bate Borisov on Thursday to extend their perfect Europa League start. The Group H victory in Belarus came after Arsene Wenger’s side raced into a three-goal lead within 25 minutes, including a […]

Acclaimed investigative reporter Demetris Mamas died on Thursday after a long battle with cancer. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was being treated at Nicosia general hospital. Mamas became a household name in the 1990s through to the early 2000s with his distinctive brand of reporting. He worked with a number of newspapers […]

The supreme court on Thursday reversed the prior acquittal of Evripides Christou, who had been found not guilty of the murder of his wife Aliki Christoforou at their home in Kritou Terra, Paphos, in July 2014. The judges did not order a retrial, directly convicting Christou of the murder charge. His lawyer will plea for […]

The number of millionaires in the world rose by nearly 8 per cent last year to an all-time high of around 16.5 million people, with record total wealth of $63.5 trillion, according to a report by global consultancy firm Capgemini. The wealth of high net worth individuals (HNWI) – which Capgemini defines as those with investable assets […]

The lead Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament poked fun at British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday, quipping that she gave her Brexit speech in Florence because she was familiar with the city’s 15th century politics of betrayal. In a speech to students at the London School of Economics, Guy Verhofstadt said Brexit was […]

China is making progress in enforcing sanctions imposed on North Korea, a US State Department official said on Thursday, and urged skeptical members of Congress not to rush to enact any new ones. “We are working closely with China to execute this strategy and are clear-eyed in viewing the progress – growing, if uneven – that China has made on […]

England suspended all-rounder Ben Stokes and opener Alex Hales from international cricket until further notice on Thursday after the pair were involved in an altercation outside a Bristol nightclub. The announcement came a day after Stokes, England’s highest-profile cricketer and vice-captain of the test side, was named in the 16-man squad for the Ashes tour […]

Police said on Thursday they completed an administrative probe into how an inmate at Nicosia’s central prisons was deported despite facing charges of assaulting a prison guard – but questions mounted over the convoluted affair after reports that the man in question was also a suspect in a drugs-related case. On Wednesday, Akel MP Irini […]

A 29-year-old man was remanded on Thursday for six days in connection with bombing and firing shots at two shops last week in Limassol. The suspect was arrested on Wednesday after he was named by another man, 28, who claimed he had lent him his car, which was spotted in the surveillance camera footage near […]

Islamic State released an audio recording of its leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi on Thursday, the first communication from the elusive jihadist leader in almost year during which the group has lost much of the territory it controlled in Iraq and Syria. The date of the 46-minute recording, released via the Al-Furqan news organisation, which is […]

Iran will abandon the nuclear deal it reached with six major powers if the United States decides to withdraw from it, its foreign minister told Qatar’s al Jazeera TV in New York. A collapse of the 2015 deal, which US President Donald Trump has called “an embarrassment” but which is supported by the other major […]

Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, organized its first informative media breakfast which took place on Wednesday, the 27th of September, in Nicosia. During the event, journalists and top marketing officials had had the opportunity to meet with the Country Manager of Emirates in Cyprus, Ms. Asma Al Rahma, and her team and get informed […]

A 44-year-old non-commissioned officer of the national guard was remanded for eight days on Thursday in connection with at least two bomb attacks in Limassol. Police told court during the remand hearing that the man’s DNA was traced on an explosive device that was found on the veranda of a Limassol home last Saturday owned […]

Tests to find out more about our personality often ask: ‘If you were a colour, what colour would you be?’ If the trio performing in Paphos on Saturday were asked that same question they would definitely answer ‘purple’, as they have already chosen the colour to be part of their name. The Purple Acoustic Trio […]

The formation of a new party named ‘I the Citizen’ (EOP) has been approved by the interior ministry and is expected to be officially unveiled next week, the Cyprus Mail has learned. Widely referred to in Greek-Cypriot media as the ‘Russian Party’, the EOP’s leader is a man named Alexei Voloboev, reportedly the owner of […]

Turkey said on Thursday it had stopped training peshmerga forces in northern Iraq in response to a Kurdish independence vote there, whose backers had thrown themselves “into the fire”. The Kurdish peshmerga have been at the forefront of the campaign against Islamic State and been trained by NATO-member Turkey’s military since late 2014. Northern Iraq’s […]

German champions Bayern Munich sacked coach Carlo Ancelotti a day after they lost 3-0 at Paris St Germain in the Champions League, German media reported on Thursday. Italian Ancelotti joined last season and won the Bundesliga title in his debut campaign but he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of 2016/17 Champions League by eventual winners […]

The Nicosia district court ordered that the application of an emergency injunction filed by Hermitage Capital founder William Browder should be served to Attorney General Costas Clerides, a lawyer said. The judge set the hearing for October 4, lawyer Christos Pourgourides who represents Browder said in a telephone interview on Thursday. Browder, the investor-turned-activist, resorted […]

The University of Nicosia (UNIC) is delighted to announce that general registration for DECENTRALIZED 2017 is now open. Decentralized 2017 is a pioneering summit focused on the impact of blockchain technology and decentralized systems on industry and society. Forty-two leading blockchain executives, academics and technical experts from 18 countries will be speaking on November 2nd […]

US President Donald Trump temporarily lifted restrictions on foreign shipping on Thursday to help get fuel and supplies to Puerto Rico as the US territory reels from the devastation of Hurricane Maria. Trump, at the request of Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello, “has authorised the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico. It will go into effect immediately,” White House spokeswoman […]

Saudi Arabia’s lifting of a much criticised ban on women drivers will reduce the number of car crashes in a country with one of the world’s worst traffic-related death rates, its interior minister said on Thursday. King Salman announced the historic change on Tuesday, ending a conservative tradition which limited women’s mobility and was seen […]

A 65-year-old man and his 39-year-old son were sentenced on Thursday to 18 and eight years in prison after being found guilty by the Limassol Criminal Court for the rape and sexual abuse of four of their underage relatives between 1992 and 2009. The 65-year-old was arrested in 2015, along with his now 66-year-old wife […]

President Tayyip Erdogan suggested on Thursday that Turkey could free a detained US pastor if the United States hands over a Muslim cleric living in Pennsylvania whom Ankara blames for a failed military coup last year. Turkey has been seeking the extradition of Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of Erdogan whose supporters are blamed for […]

Despite assurances to the contrary, Ryanair has announced flight stoppages for Paphos. Just two weeks ago the low cost carrier announced the cancellation of 2,100 flights up to the end of October, and on Wednesday it added a further 18,000 to the list originally scheduled for November 2017 to March 2018. The additional cancellations include […]

The EU should do its duty as a repository of democratic values by telling Spain to allow a referendum on Catalan independence to take place, the region’s foreign affairs chief said. Authorities in Barcelona are determined to hold the vote as planned on Sunday, despite concerted opposition from the Spanish government, which has declared it […]