Новости за 22.10.2017

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 4 LIVERPOOL 1 Tottenham Hotspur brutally exposed Liverpool’s defensive frailties as Harry Kane plundered two more goals in his side’s 4-1 Premier League romp at Wembley Stadium on Sunday. In front of 80,000 fans, the biggest ever Premier League attendance, Kane took his league tally to eight for the season with his side’s […]

Zookeepers at Berlin’s main animal park are hoping to cure a young female panda’s habit of walking backwards by introducing her to one of life’s most precious pleasures: sex. They plan to introduce four-year-old Meng Meng to Jiao Qing, a panda three years her senior, in the hope that romance will help her with the […]

By Margarita Antidze   Kakha Kaladze, a former defender for Italian club AC Milan, was elected mayor of Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia, as the country’s ruling Georgian Dream party won a majority of seats in local councils. Kaladze, who ran as a candidate for the Georgian Dream party, took 51.13 percent of the […]

Cypriot Laser champion Pavlos Kontides won a silver medal in the Laser Radial Medal Race at the  World Cup Series in Gamagori, Japan, Rio 2016 bronze medallist Sam Meech (NZL) won the gold after battling it out with the Cypriot London 2012 silver medallist. Tom Burton (AUS) moved into the third place, securing the bronze […]

Cypriot Laser champion Pavlos Kontides won a silver medal in the Laser Radial Medal Race at the  World Cup Series in Gamagori, Japan, Rio 2016 bronze medallist Sam Meech (NZL) won the gold after battling it out with the Cypriot London 2012 silver medallist. Tom Burton (AUS) moved into the third place, securing the bronze […]

By Elaine Lies and Makiko Yamazaki   A typhoon roared towards Japan’s main island on election day on Sunday, killing at least two people, prompting a warning for tens of thousands to evacuate and the cancellation of hundreds of flights. One man was killed under scaffolding that collapsed in high winds and a fisherman was […]

By Stephanie Nebehay   Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been removed as a goodwill ambassador, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday following an outrage among Western donors and rights groups at the appointment. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus named Mugabe to the largely ceremonial post at a high-level WHO meeting on chronic diseases, […]

  THE GOVERNMENT plans to submit coordinates, regarding its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the sea north of the island, to the United Nations in the coming days. It would also try to engage in discussions with Turkey about the delineation of its EEZ, in that part of the sea, reported Philelefteros on Sunday. Asked […]

  THE GOVERNMENT plans to submit coordinates, regarding its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the sea north of the island, to the United Nations in the coming days. It would also try to engage in discussions with Turkey about the delineation of its EEZ, in that part of the sea, reported Philelefteros on Sunday. Asked […]

  THE BISHOP of Constantia Vasilios sent a letter to mayors of the Famagusta district informing them that his bishopric decided to ban photo-shoots of couples outside churches and chapels after civil weddings. The reason was a photo published in the British press recently and circulated on social media, showing a newly-wed couple from the […]

By Francesca Landini   Two wealthy regions of northern Italy began voting on Sunday in referendums for autonomy, ballots that could fan regional tensions in Europe at a time when neighbouring Spain is striving to prevent Catalonia from breaking away. Lombardy and Veneto, regions that are both run by the once openly secessionist Lega Nord […]

  Britain can only come up with a figure for a financial settlement with the European Union when Brexit has been agreed, trade minister Liam Fox said on Sunday, warning leaders not to believe London is bluffing over a no deal. Prime Minister Theresa May won a reprieve last week in the talks to unravel […]

Britain can only come up with a figure for a financial settlement with the European Union when a Brexit deal has been agreed, trade minister Liam Fox said on Sunday, warning leaders not to believe London is bluffing over a no deal. Fox, speaking on ITV’s Peston on Sunday television programme, said Britain would offer […]

The Cooperative Cyprus Bank (CCB) is exploring “more radical solutions” in a bid to achieve a swifter reduction of the non-performing loans (NPLs) weighing on its balance sheet, the CCB’s Chief Executive Officer Nicolas Hadjiyiannis said in an interview with the Cyprus News Agency (CNA). Hadjiyiannis acknowledged that the tool of loan restructurings alone, given […]

Sixty of Russia’s top entrepreneurs will be briefed tomorrow evening by President Anastasiades on investment opportunities in Cyprus.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said he would be willing to travel to North Korea on behalf of the Trump administration to help diffuse rising tensions, The New York Times reported on its website on Sunday. “I would go, yes,” Carter, 93, told the Times when he was asked in an interview at his ranch […]

Forty-seven-year-old Kyriacos Hadjisavvas is in critical condition in the Nicosia general hospital after being shot in the early hours of Sunday outside an Ayia Napa apartment building. Police, who are investigating a case of attempted murder, found Hadjisavvas wounded by gun shots in the parking lot of the building. According to the Famagusta police spokesman, […]

Forty-seven-year-old Kyriacos Hadjisavvas is in critical condition in the Nicosia general hospital after being shot in the early hours of Sunday outside an Ayia Napa apartment building. Police, who are investigating a case of attempted murder, found Hadjisavvas wounded by gun shots in the parking lot of the building. According to the Famagusta police spokesman, […]

  A 47-year-old man is in critical condition in the Nicosia general hospital after being shot in the early hours of Sunday outside an Ayia Napa apartment building. Police, who are investigating a case of attempted murder, found the man wounded by gun shots in the parking lot of the building. He was taken to […]

Tens of thousands across Japan were advised to evacuate, hundreds of flights were cancelled and rail services disrupted as heavy rain and wind lashed a wide swathe of Japan on Sunday, a national election day, as a powerful typhoon neared. Typhoon Lan, classified as an intense Category 4 storm by the Tropical Storm Risk monitoring […]

Kia has entered Europe’s fastest-growing market sector, B-segment SUVs, and expects to sell 70,000 versions of its new Stonic model in Europe in 2018, rising steadily to 100,000 a year. The B-SUV market in Europe is expected to double to more than two million vehicles a year by 2020. Stonic is based on the latest […]

EVERY once in a while politicians and newspapers bring up the criminal investigation into the collapse of the economy and vociferously complain that it is taking far too long and accusing the attorney-general’s office of being ineffective. The president has also complained in the past about the slowness of proceedings, pointing out that the state […]

WELCOME back Dr Panicos Demetriades. His book about the economic meltdown, A Diary of the Euro Crisis in Cyprus, which could have been more appropriately titled ‘Don’t blame me, I was just a visiting professor,’ breathed some passion into political debate that has been lifeless since the death of the Cyprob. Sadly, it only lasted […]

President Nicos Anastasiades has cheated everyone who voted for him on the promise of a solution to the Cyprus problem and has instead delivered permanent partition, a former minister in the Clerides administration has said. In an interview with the Sunday Mail, Costas Themistocleous, who was agriculture minister from 1998 to 2003, said the collapse […]

PEYIA municipality is challenging the government’s decision to issue a planning permit for a massive development on a hillside overlooking Peyia and is taking the town planning department in Nicosia to court. This is the first time that the local authority has taken such a step. In the last 18 months, Peyia council has raised […]