Новости за 11.11.2017

Valtteri Bottas took pole position for the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday after Mercedes team mate and newly-crowned four-times world champion Lewis Hamilton crashed without setting a lap time. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel will join the Finn on the front row of the starting grid with his Finnish team mate Kimi Raikkonen third and Red Bull’s […]

The Pharos Arts Foundation, in collaboration with The Keyboard Charitable Trust in London, will present a recital by pianist Artem Yasynskyy on Thursday in Nicosia. Yasynskyy, who is a prize winner in a number of important piano competitions, will perform a spectacular programme with works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Karol Szymanowski, Sergei Prokofiev […]

  PAPHOS will be awash with new Christmas decorations this year which will reflect the ‘new face’ of the city, according to the municipality. The council has awarded the tender for new lights and decorations to a Greek company, totalling one 130,000 euros, according to Paphos councillor, Andreas Chrysanthou. “The old decorations are unusable and […]

LEBANON’S president called on Saudi Arabia on Saturday to clarify why Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri could not leave the kingdom and return home. A senior Lebanese official said President Michel Aoun told foreign ambassadors that Hariri, who resigned suddenly while in Saudi Arabia a week ago, had been “kidnapped” and should benefit from immunity […]

  President Nicos Anastasiades remains certain to comfortably lead the way into the second round of next year’s presidential election, opposite Diko leader Nicolas Papadopoulos, according to a poll presented by Antenna TV on Friday night. The poll was conducted via 1,021 personal interviews with randomly selected subjects by CMRC Cypronetwork between October 19 and […]

Classic plays by well-known international playwrights are popping-up in theatres around the island at the moment including A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller, which will take the audience to 1950s America once again this weekend. Set in an Italian American neighbourhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, this two-act drama premiered in […]

Armed robbers held up a Mercedes Formula One team minibus outside the Brazilian Grand Prix circuit in Sao Paulo on Friday night but nobody was hurt, a spokesman said. “We can confirm that a team minibus was robbed at gunpoint last night leaving the circuit,” he said. “Valuables were stolen but most importantly everybody is […]

Concrete company Athinodorou Beton blocked access to the Kings Avenue Mall in Paphos on Saturday, protesting non-payment of concrete supplied in the construction of the mall. According to director Christos Athinodorou, the company is owed €1.4 million for concrete supplied, in addition to €1.5 million relating to capital the company sunk into the mall as […]

Concrete company Athinodorou Beton blocked access to the Kings Avenue Mall in Paphos on Saturday, protesting non-payment of concrete supplied in the construction of the mall. According to director Christos Athinodorou, the company is owed €1.4 million for concrete supplied, in addition to €1.5 million relating to capital the company sunk into the mall as […]

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Syria would save many lives after the two met at a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders. “We agreed very quickly,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he flew from the APEC meeting in the resort city of Danang […]

By Raya Jalabi Iraqi forces launched an offensive on Saturday to capture Rawa, the last remaining town under Islamic-State control, leaving the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate on the verge of complete defeat. The capture of the town would mark the end of Islamic State’s era of territorial rule over a so-called caliphate that it proclaimed in […]

Three individuals were arrested on Friday night in connection with the possession of stolen property, a police report said. According to the report, shortly before midnight Friday, Paphos traffic police cut off a car with three people on board, aged 27, 18 and 16, for a routine check. During a search, a cardboard box containing […]

Israel shot down a Russian-made spy drone over the Golan Heights on Saturday, the Israeli military said. “It is apparently Russian-manufactured and belongs to the Syrian regime,” military spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus, told Reuters. “It was a reconnaissance UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) and not an attack UAV and we are checking whether there is any […]

A 28-year-old man was arrested by Paphos police on Saturday morning in connection with theft from a 37-year-old female tourist, a police report said. According to the report, around 3:30pm Friday, she was visited in her hotel room by the man, whom she had met a few days previously. She claimed that, as soon as […]

A home in Tala, Paphos, owned by a 53-year-old businessman, was heavily damaged by arson on Friday night, a police report said. According to the report, the fire was set around 10:30pm Friday, while the tenants were away. The arsonists broke into the home and spread flammable liquid, which they set alight. At the scene, […]

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday warned other countries and groups against using Lebanon as vehicle for a larger proxy fight in the Middle East, saying the United States strongly backed Lebanon’s independence. Tillerson said he recognized Saad al-Hariri as Lebanon’s prime minister and called him a “strong partner of the United States.” […]

Comedian Louis C.K. admitted on Friday to engaging in sexual misconduct as recounted by several women, three of whom said he had masturbated in front of them, and television and film companies moved quickly to sever ties. “These stories are true,” C.K. said in a statement. Five women detailed incidents of sexually inappropriate behavior by […]

Here’s hoping the weather is sunny today, as the Coop Kids Festival invites all to the University of Cyprus where there is much fun to be had – and all for a good cause. From 10am until 4pm the university will be transformed from a place of academic stature to a place where children will […]

Cyprus’ role in the Eastern Mediterranean and the European Union has been enhanced in the last five years through bilateral co-operation and other initiatives, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on at a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday. Looking back at what has been achieved by the ministry since he took […]

Is there any other country in the world in which lawmakers are ambiguous about the laws and try to reduce the cost of law breaking? This phenomenon was evident again at the legislature this week when deputies of the House environment committee discussed amendments to a law on poaching and unlicensed hunting approved four months […]

A second-half goal by Sweden substitute Jakob Johansson was enough to beat Italy 1-0 and put his side in the driving seat after their World Cup playoff first leg on a chilly night. Italy’s Andrea Belotti sent an early header just wide but after that the visitors showed little ambition, seemingly hoping for a draw […]

A second-half goal by Sweden substitute Jakob Johansson was enough to beat Italy 1-0 and put his side in the driving seat after their World Cup playoff first leg on a chilly night. Italy’s Andrea Belotti sent an early header just wide but after that the visitors showed little ambition, seemingly hoping for a draw […]