Новости за 21.01.2018

WHEN hundreds of television sets in Cyprus went blank, people first wondered what it was that went wrong. Perhaps they checked their innocuous device that so cheaply allowed them to view hundreds of channels they technically hadn’t paid for. Others had already seen the news on January 9 that combined efforts between authorities in Cyprus, […]

Amazon.com Inc will open its checkout-free grocery store to the public on Monday after more than a year of testing, the company said, moving forward on an experiment that could dramatically alter brick-and-mortar retail. The Seattle store, known as Amazon Go, relies on cameras and sensors to track what shoppers remove from the shelves, and […]

EDT, an oil and gas services company operating out of Limassol port is suing the government for 150 million euros for damages suffered as a result of acts or omissions by the minister of transport and others in connection with the privatisation of the port, it was reported on Sunday. Citing an article in left-wing […]

A missile fired across the border from Syria hit the Turkish border town of Reyhanli on Sunday, killing a Syrian national and wounding 32 people, broadcaster NTV reported the town’s mayor as saying. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag also told reporters in Istanbul Reyhanli had been hit by a missile from across the Syrian […]

Disy leader Averof Neophytou said on Sunday he was envious of the ‘big love’ that President Nicos Anastasiades enjoys from the women of Cyprus. Neophytou was speaking at an event organised by Godisy, the women’s wing of the ruling party. “I would like to thank the women of Cyprus who have sent a clear message […]

Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov kept his cool in the Rod Laver Arena maelstrom to knock home favourite Nick Kyrgios out of the Australian Open in a fourth-round thriller on Sunday. Third seed Dimitrov absorbed 76 winners and struck 64 of his own to edge a scintillating duel 7-6(3) 7-6(4) 4-6 7-6(4). Kyrgios fought until the end, […]

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday his forces would crush the U.S.-backed Syrian-Kurdish YPG militia, saying it could not rely on Washington’s support to defeat Turkey. Speaking to a congress of his ruling AK Party in the northwestern city of Bursa, Erdogan also accused some of Turkey’s allies of providing 2,000 plane shipments and […]

      Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) voted on Sunday to begin formal coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, moving Europe’s economic powerhouse one step closer to a stable government after months of political deadlock. SPD delegates voted by 362 to 279, with one abstention, to press ahead with negotiations. The centre-left party’s leaders […]

The presence of a mission from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which has arrived in Cyprus to monitor the 2018 presidential elections, is “another opportunity for them to ascertain the impartial and transparent way we conduct elections in Cyprus” Demetris Demetriou, the Deputy Returning Officer  said on Sunday. Demetriou told the […]

A fourth person has died from injuries sustained in a fire on Saturday at a hotel in central Prague, a hospital spokesman said. The fire broke out on Saturday evening at the Eurostars David Hotel, situated on a narrow street a block away from the Vltava River. Two people died on Saturday and were identified […]

EARLIER this month, the world football player union FIFPro charged that it had received several complaints from members in Cyprus that they had not received copies of their contracts and had problems getting their full salary paid. According to the organisation, signing more than one contract for the same employment period is common practice on […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday they wanted to deepen Franco-German cooperation and give the European Union a fresh push towards closer integration. “We are doing that in order to bring the people in our countries even closer together. And we do it to give the whole of Europe a new […]

The use of seatbelts, in the front and the back will be the focus of the police force’s first road safety campaign of the year, which will start on Monday and run until January 28. According to a police statement, the campaign is part of efforts to reduce the number of fatal traffic accidents on […]

Seventeen people died after a fire broke out at a warehouse in an industrial area on the outskirts of India‘s capital on Saturday, a fire official said. The blaze happened in a building used to store firecrackers, an official in Delhi’s fire service department said, adding that rescue operations were underway. In December a fire swept […]

Greeks in the northern city of Thessaloniki gathered on Sunday for a protest against the use of the word “Macedonia” in any solution to a row between Athens and Skopje over the name of the former Yugoslav republic. It will be the first big protest in Greece since the two countries agreed this month to […]

Britain’s Kyle Edmund reached the quarter-finals of a grand slam for the first time after coming from a set down to oust Italian Andreas Seppi 6-7(4) 7-5 6-2 6-3 in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Sunday. The 23-year-old, the only Briton in the men’s draw in the absence of the injured Andy […]

Police said on Sunday that two women aged 31 and 32 had been arrested at Larnaca airport after allegedly being caught carrying a kilo of cocaine between them. A brief announcement said the women had arrived on the island from another European country. At passport control the women  were denied entry. Police did not say why. […]

Police said on Sunday that two women aged 31 and 32 had been arrested at Larnaca airport after allegedly being caught carrying a kilo of cocaine between them on their persons. A brief announcement said each of the women were carrying two bags with 250 grammes of the drug when they arrived on the island. […]

Independent presidential candidate Haris Aristidou was arrested, charged and released in Limassol on Sunday for allegedly causing a public disturbance and for littering. According to Politis, Aristidou was throwing leaflets into the yard of the Ayios Nicolaos church with his campaign slogan ‘Handcuff Thieving Politicians’. Aristidou was arrested and taken to a police station where […]

Seoul welcomed confirmation by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that 22 North Korean athletes would compete in next month’s Winter Olympics, saying on Sunday it would aid peace and the easing of tensions on the Korean peninsula. In the first of a series of preparatory visits, North Korean music and arts officials arrived in South […]

Turkish ground forces advanced into northern Syria’s Afrin region on Sunday, Ankara said after launching artillery and air strikes on a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border. The Syrian-Kurdish YPG militia, supported by the United States but seen as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, said it had repulsed the Turkish forces […]

Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria’s Afrin province on Sunday, Ankara said after launching artillery and air strikes on a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border. The Syrian-Kurdish YPG militia, supported by the United States but seen as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, said it had repulsed the Turkish forces […]

Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria’s Afrin province on Sunday, the army said, after Turkey launched artillery and air strikes on a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border. The Syrian-Kurdish YPG militia, supported by the United States but seen as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, said it had repulsed the […]

Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria’s Afrin province on Sunday, media cited the prime minister as saying, as Ankara stepped up artillery attacks on a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia it aims to sweep from its border. NATO’s second-largest army entered northern Syria shortly after 11:00 a.m. (0800 GMT), broadcaster HaberTurk cited Prime Minister Binali Yildirim […]

Over €85,000 in cash was stolen from a box safe at the Oroklini home of a British woman between January 17 and 20, police said on Sunday. According to Larnaca police, the 74-year-old reported the theft on Saturday evening saying the break-in happened when she was absent from the apartment. The thieves stole three envelopes […]