Новости за 11.12.2017

A football game in Limassol was interrupted for close to two hours on Monday evening after clashes between rival fans, which followed the injury of a ball boy by a firecracker. The game between Limassol’s AEL and Nicosia side Apoel was initially interrupted in the 39th minute after visiting fans hurled a fire cracker, which […]

AEK and Anorthosis, the two teams leading the Cyprus football championship, both came back from a goal down to defeat Olympiakos and Alki respectively over the weekend, while Apoel’s match at AEL on Monday night was interrupted in the 39th minute due to crowd trouble, but restarted later. The final score was 0-0. There was […]

AEK and Anorthosis, the two teams leading the Cyprus football championship, both came back from a goal down to defeat Olympiakos and Alki respectively over the weekend, while Apoel’s match at AEL on Monday night was abandoned in the 39th minute due to crowd trouble, with the game goalless. There was also drama in Nicosia […]

Turkish and Russian officials will meet to finalise Turkey’s S-400 surface-to-air missile systems deal in the coming week, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Erdogan said that Ankara and Moscow were on the same page regarding the US move on Jerusalem and added that […]

The AG Leventis Gallery in Nicosia will expand on its temporary exhibition The Venus Paradox with a special screening of the documentary Venus Uncovered on Thursday. The documentary by historian, author and broadcaster Professor Bettany Hughes investigates the archaeological approach of the goddess’ birthplace in Cyprus. Through ancient art, evocative myth, archaeological revelation and philosophical […]

Twenty-five European Union member states, including Cyprus, on Monday moved closer towards establishing a defence union, after the European Council adopted the creation of a new European defence and security cooperation network known as Pesco. Signing for Cyprus was foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides. The Permanent Structured Cooperation (Pesco), first set out in the Lisbon Treaty, will allow members […]

The parliamentary debate on the 2018 state budget got underway on Monday, as once again passage of the bill hung in the balance with only ruling Disy and opposition Diko sure to vote for it. The state budget bill requires 29 ‘yeas’ in the 56-seat House. The combined votes of Disy (18) and Diko (nine) […]

Iran will treat a British-Iranian aid worker as an Iranian citizen and she will serve her sentence as determined by the judiciary, Iran‘s foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson discussed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s case with Iranian officials after flying to Tehran over the weekend to try to seek her release. “One of the issues that […]

  An 86-year-old man who was killed in Limassol on Sunday was apparently hit on the head multiple times with a table lamp, a court heard on Monday. Police arrested a 29-year-old man in connection with the killing who was remanded in custody for six days. Widower Kleanthous was found dead on Sunday morning by […]

Greek lyricist and singer Dionysis Savvopoulos, who has recently celebrated 50 years in the music business, will once again be in a festive mood when he performs this week in Nicosia to help celebrate 55 years of The Grammar School Nicosia. The school is well-known for putting on cultural events and will celebrate its 55th […]

Transport Minister Marios Demetriades on Monday tried out the new smart ticket system that is being currently installed on public buses. Demetriades received his smart card from the bus station outside the Nicosia general hospital, boarded bus 158 and arrived at the bus terminal in Solomou square in the city centre. The minister said that […]

A 22-year-old on trial in Paphos for allegedly raping his ex-girlfriend, aged 29, was ordered on Monday to be held in prison until the end of his court case after he tried influencing the main witness. The man had been free on bail however during Monday’s session at the Paphos criminal court, the prosecution said […]

Around 62 per cent of people aged between 18 and 35 do not want to vote in the upcoming presidential elections because they don’t trust political parties and ‘lying politicians’, according to the findings of a survey made public on Monday. The survey, conducted by the institute of statisticians between November 28 and 30, found […]

Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister responsible for Cyprus Affairs Recep Akdag, called on ‘prosecutors’ in the north to bring to the justice Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika for publishing an ‘insulting’ cartoon depicting a Greek statue urinating on the head of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it was reported on Monday. Afrika found itself in hot water […]

Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has asked his players to put thoughts of facing Barcelona in the Champions League out of their minds and concentrate on getting a result at Huddersfield Town in the Premier League on Tuesday. Chelsea face Barcelona in the last 16 of Europe’s elite club competition in February, but the Italian said […]

The quality of patient care in Cyprus has improved over the past two years, general secretary of the health ministry Christina Yiannaki said on Monday, as waiting lists have shortened and better services are available. In a press conference giving an overview of the measures undertaken by the ministry, Yiannaki highlighted two programmes which were […]

Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson believes winger Wilfried Zaha is not a cheat, insisting that the Ivorian did not dive to win two penalties during Saturday’s 2-2 Premier League draw with Bournemouth. After Bournemouth took the lead, midfielder Luka Milivojevic equalised for Palace from the spot before halftime, while striker Christian Benteke failed to convert […]

President Nicos Anastasiades tested his vocal skills in public on Sunday after picking up the microphone and singing to entertain his guests – members of the press – at a meet and greet event organised by his election camp, in Nicosia. A short video posted on Anastasiades’ official Facebook page on Monday, shows the president […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday emphasised the positive steps Cyprus has taken to improve human rights in the past five years despite the economic crisis. He was speaking on the occasion on World Human Rights Day, which is commemorated every year on December 10. The economic crisis, he said, threatened many social rights. “But I’m […]

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took his case to Europe to ask allies to join the United States in recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but was met by a firm rebuff from EU foreign ministers who saw the move as a blow against the peace process. Making his first ever visit to EU headquarters in Brussels, […]

  By Nick Zieminski and Daniel Trotta A Bangladeshi man with a homemade bomb strapped to his body set off an explosion at a New York commuter hub during rush hour on Monday, wounding himself and three others in what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called an attempted terrorist attack. The suspect in the […]

A man with a homemade bomb strapped to his body set off an explosion at a New York commuter hub during rush hour on Monday, injuring himself and three others in what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called an attempted terrorist attack. The suspect in the incident at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, a block from Times Square, was identified […]

A man with a bomb-like device strapped to his body set off an explosion at one of New York‘s busiest commuter hubs at rush hour on Monday, injuring himself and three others in what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called an attempted terrorist attack. The suspect in the incident at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, a block from Times […]

An explosion rocked New York’s Port Authority, one of the city’s busiest commuter hubs in midtown Manhattan, during Monday morning’s rush hour, injuring several people. Police confirmed one person is in custody but were not yet identifying the device used. Local news channel WABC cited police sources as saying a possible pipe bomb detonated in […]