Новости за 23.11.2017

Details of which wells ENI will be drilling next, and when, could emerge from Friday’s scheduled meeting between the company’s CEO Claudio Descalzi and President Nicos Anastasiades. Media reports suggested ENI’s next target will be located in block 6, followed by another drill in either block 8 or 2. Anastasiades and Descalzi are also set […]

An Italian court sentenced former AC Milan and Brazil forward Robinho in absentia to nine years in prison on Thursday after convicting him of taking part in a gang rape of an Albanian woman in 2013. A Milan court ruled that Robinho and five other Brazilians assaulted the woman, who was 22 at the time, […]

A family of four has been living in the covered parking lot of an abandoned bread factory in Limassol since March, but the state’s social welfare service claims they have not cooperated constructively in its efforts to support them, it said in a statement on Thursday. Responding to a report in daily Politis, according to […]

  A Paphos initiative which ensures hundreds of children of needy families in the district receive presents at Christmas is underway and is appealing for gifts and food vouchers. ‘Gift of love Paphos’ started five years ago and this year is headed up by volunteer Mikka Heaney, who said she is now collecting gifts for […]

Conservation works at the mosques of Ayios Nicolaos and Ayios Ioannis in the Paphos district were presented on Thursday, by the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, the European Commission and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Ayios Nicolaos mosque is situated in the centre of the village of Ayios Nicolaos, 47km from Paphos, and next to […]

The size of Russia’s military force in Syria is likely to be significantly reduced and a drawdown could start before the end of the year, the chief of the Russian military general staff said on Thursday. Russia’s military support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, notably through air strikes, has been crucial in defeating Islamic State […]

A 35-year-old man was remanded for eight days on Thursday in connection with smuggling some five kilos of cannabis through the post. The suspect was arrested after Greek customs found the Cyprus-bound package at Athens airport containing 5.4 kilos of cannabis. After informing police on the island, the package was sent to Cyprus where the […]

A significant percentage of motor vehicles in Cyprus are running on tyres that are either not pressurised correctly or are worn, leading to an increased risk of accidents, a nationwide survey has shown. Forty-six per cent of passenger cards examined had at least one tyre that was not properly pressurised. This also applied to 42 […]

The week tends to come in waves. We normally don’t like Mondays, then we manage to get through the week until it is Friday and we are in love. Next week, however, the loving part will come as early as Tuesday, as the second day of the week is set to rock us all with […]

A 37-year-old man on Thursday lost both his hands in a horrific work-related accident. According to the police, around 10.30am the man was working in a field in the village of Frenaros, Famagusta district, when his hands got caught in the axle of a tractor. He was rushed to Famagusta general hospital in Paralimni, where […]

Syria’s main opposition stuck by its demand on Thursday that President Bashar al-Assad play no role in an interim period under any UN-sponsored peace deal, despite speculation it could soften its stance because of Assad’s battlefield strength. A gathering in Saudi Arabia of more than 140 participants from a broad spectrum of Syria’s mainstream opposition […]

Costantinos Emilianides, the husband of labour minister Zeta Emilianidou, has passed away. He was 70 years old. Emilianides was a prominent lawyer, practicing in Cyprus since 1977. Among others, he specialised in contractual, corporate, copyright and family law, and was a former chairman of the Nicosia bar association. In a statement conveying his sincere condolences […]

Cypriots’ health is good in spite of an overloaded public health system that does not provide universal coverage and spending less than most other EU countries, said a survey published by the European Commission on Thursday. Life expectancy at birth was 81.8 years in 2015, up from 77.7 years in 2000 and above the EU […]

Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) should reconsider their opposition to joining a new “grand coalition” with Angela Merkel’s conservatives because Europe needs a stable government in Berlin, a senior ally of the chancellor said on Thursday. Germany is facing the worst political crisis of its modern history after Merkel’s efforts to forge a three-way coalition with […]

Superyacht Sailing Yacht A, owned by Belarusian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko was captured off the Larnaca coast on Wednesday. The sail-assisted motor yacht was designed by Phillipe Stark and build by luxury yacht builder Nobiskrug of Germany. It was delivered earlier this year. The yacht is 150m in length, weighs 2,500 tonnes, has eight floors, 54 […]

The Argentine navy raised the possibility on Thursday that a navy submarine missing in the South Atlantic suffered an explosion, heightening concerns over the fate of the 44 crew members. An abnormal sound detected underwater by an international agency on the morning of Nov. 15, around the time that the ARA San Juan sent its […]

An abnormal sound detected in the South Atlantic ocean around the time that an Argentine navy submarine sent its last signal last week was “consistent with an explosion,” a navy spokesman said on Thursday. Spokesman Enrique Balbi described the blast in the morning of Nov. 15 as “abnormal, singular, short, violent” and “non-nuclear.” The navy […]

Doubles specialists Nicolas Mahut and Julien Benneteau were omitted from the France team to play Belgium in the Davis Cup final starting on Friday. In Thursday’s draw, captain Yannick Noah named Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Lucas Pouille, Richard Gasquet and Pierre-Hugues Herbert for the three-day event in Lille. Mahut, who has taken part in five of six […]

An English study into whether heading a football can cause brain trauma will begin in January, investigating an issue that has been widely debated since the activity was blamed for contributing to a former star striker’s dementia. A BBC documentary presented by former England captain Alan Shearer this month highlighted the case of Jeff Astle, […]

The government is seeking to regulate the game of bingo, which has an estimated annual turnover of over €100m, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Thursday. Speaking at the first annual meeting of the betting authority, the minister said the legislation being prepared will enable continuation of the activity but in a way that will […]

An object detected by a US Navy plane near the area where a missing Argentine navy submarine sent its last signal last week turned out not to be the missing vessel, a US embassy spokeswoman said on Thursday. The object was spotted during a flight by the P-8A Poseidon, taking part in a the huge sea and […]

Myanmar and Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday, a senior Myanmar official told Reuters, for the return home of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled to the neighbouring country to escape a Myanmar army crackdown. “We are ready to take them back as soon as possible after Bangladesh sends the forms back to us,” said Myint […]

By Lefteris Papadimas Several hundred elderly Greeks marched through Athens on Thursday, protesting against a government they say “took everything” with a new round of cuts to pensions and crumbling health care benefits. Greece’s three bailouts since 2010 have repeatedly taken aim at the pension system. Cuts have pushed nearly half its elderly below the […]

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Claude Puel says his Leicester City side must be wary of a reaction from West Ham United in Friday’s Premier League clash following the appointment of David Moyes as manager. Moyes replaced the sacked Slaven Bilic this month and his first match in charge was a 2-0 defeat at Watford last weekend. Puel is concerned […]