Новости за 25.02.2018

Pep Guardiola claimed his maiden English silverware as goals by Sergio Aguero, Vincent Kompany and David Silva gave his Manchester City side an easy 3-0 victory over Arsenal in the League Cup final on Sunday. The first ever domestic final clash between the sides was a largely disappointing affair at a freezing Wembley Stadium but […]

By Bejay Browne   LETYMBOU village in Paphos is experiencing a reawakening as plans to improve infrastructure, create a more inclusive community, promote agro tourism and encourage artistic expression get underway. The push for change is being spearheaded by the local mukhtar, Costas Hadjisolomou and his American wife, popular singer, Melissa Williams. He told the […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will promote her most prominent critic from within her conservative party, Jens Spahn, to her coalition cabinet, a party source said on Sunday, in a sign she is heeding calls for renewal. Although she has agreed a deal with the leaders of the Social Democrats (SPD) for a new “grand coalition”, […]

MANCHESTER UNITED 2 CHELSEA 1 Former Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku scored and then created the winning goal against his old team at Old Trafford on Sunday. The win put United back in second place in the Premier League, still 13 points behind neighbours Manchester City, while Chelsea drop below Tottenham into fifth place. Chelsea were […]

Harry Kane headed a late winner to give Tottenham Hotspur a deserved 1-0 victory at Crystal Palace that lifted them into fourth place in the Premier League on Sunday. Kane headed home from Christian Eriksen’s corner in the 89th minute to make up for two glaring misses earlier in the match at Selhurst Park. He […]

By Andria Kades WITH some fanfare earlier this month, and a visit from President Nicos Anastasiades, two wards at the Athalassa Psychiatric Hospital in Nicosia were renovated, but the same problems that have plagued the mental health sector for decades are still bubbling under the ‘shiny, new’ surface. Although the renovation, with more to come, […]

An Iraqi court sentenced 16 Turkish woman to death by hanging for joining Islamic State, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday. The central criminal court issued the sentences “after it was proven they belong to the Daesh terrorist group and after they confessed to marrying Daesh elements or providing members of the group with logistical […]

Thousands marched through central Moscow on Sunday to commemorate murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, calling for President Vladimir Putin to be ousted just three weeks before a presidential election. Nemtsov, one of Putin’s most vocal critics, was shot dead on Feb. 27, 2015 as he walked across a bridge near the Kremlin. Aged 55, […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Syrian crisis with his French and German counterparts, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, on Sunday, the Kremlin said. The leaders, who spoke by phone, highlighted the importance of common efforts to implement a ceasefire called by the United Nations, the Kremlin said.

The Nicosia District Court on Sunday issued a two-day remand against a 17-year-old from Nicosia who was arrested for allegedly causing damage to a football stadium in the capital. According to police, the teen was arrested on Saturday on the basis of witness testimony that he had caused malicious damage to the stadium after the […]

The Turkish Cypriot leadership seems to be willing to sacrifice not just their rights but also their future to Ankara, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Sunday. He was responding to statements by Turkish Cypriot ‘energy minster’ Ozdil Nami saying the island’s hydrocarbons programme should be co-managed or frozen until a Cyprus solution was reached. […]

Greek self-proclaimed anarchists threw paint and smashed windows at the entrance of the Athens headquarters of Swiss drugmaker Novartis on Sunday, police said. About 30 people were involved in the attack at 0515 local time (0315 GMT), a police official said. There were no injuries. In a statement published on the Internet, the Rouvikonas group […]

Church leaders in Jerusalem shut the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday in protest at a new Israeli tax policy and a proposed land expropriation law which they called a “systematic and unprecedented attack against Christians in the Holy Land”. Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian church leaders said the holy site, a popular […]

Britain’s opposition Labour party will back a new customs union with the EU, its Brexit policy chief said – a move that would facilitate trade with the bloc but limit Britain’s ability to strike deals with other countries. Keir Starmer said on Sunday his party had agreed that if it wins power it should negotiate […]

By Annette Chrysostomou   ‘Profile’, a film directed by genre specialist Timur Bekmambetov currently playing at the Berlin Film Festival has partly been filmed and co-produced in Cyprus. The thriller, in which a reckless British journalist goes undercover as a radicalised Muslim convert, was mainly filmed in the UK but for three days the action […]

Iran said on Sunday that attacks will continue on Damascus suburbs held by “terrorists”, but elsewhere Iran and Syria will respect a U.N. resolution demanding a 30-day truce to allow aid access and medical evacuation, Iranian news agencies reported. “We will adhere to the ceasefire resolution, Syria will also adhere. Parts of the suburbs of Damascus, which are held […]

ENGLAND fans bemoaning the fact that so few English players are given opportunities for their respective Premier League sides, should spare a thought for the continuing travails of the Cypriot national team. Incredibly, more than 80 per cent of players plying their trade in the Cyprus football league in 2017 were foreign, a huge 15 […]

Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign minister’ Ozdil Nami has said that there should be co-management of the island’s natural reserves right now or Greek Cypriot energy plans should be frozen until a Cyprus settlement is reached. In comments to Phileleftheros, published on Sunday, Nami made it clear that Turkey was in a position to block planed drilling […]

North Korea on Sunday condemned the latest round of sanctions imposed by the United States, accusing it of trying to undermine an improvement in inter-Korean relations during the Winter Olympics, state media said in a statement. “The two Koreas have cooperated together and the Olympics was held successfully,” the North’s KCNA news agency said, citing […]

China’s ruling Communist Party on Sunday set the stage for President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely, with a proposal to remove a constitutional clause limiting presidential service to just two terms in office. Since taking office more than five years ago, Xi has overseen a radical shake-up of the party, including taking down […]

China’s Central Committee proposed on Sunday to remove a limit of two consecutive terms for the president and vice president, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The committee proposed removing the clause “shall serve no more than two consecutive terms” from the constitution, Xinhua reported. The Central Committee also proposed inserting “Xi Jinping Thought on […]

PEP Guardiola’s trophy gathering was put on hold last season but the Spaniard gets the chance to resume populating his mantelpiece when his Manchester City side face Arsenal in the League Cup final on Sunday. The Spaniard won 11 major trophies with Barcelona and seven more with Bayern Munich so his failure to mark his debut […]

Two men were arrested at the Ledra Street crossing on Saturday afternoon after customs officers said they found one of the pair to be in possession of 304 grammes of cannabis. During a check on a 28-year-old who was coming from the north, customs officers said they found the drugs on him and he was […]

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) will feature two debuts at the 88th Geneva International Motor Show, which will be held from March 6-18: the European premiere of the Mitsubishi e-Evolution Concept, and the global premiere of the new 2019 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, which will be introduced to the European market towards the end of the year. […]

Once again, the Cyprus Rally and Cyprus Automobile Association (CAA) have made Cyprus proud, this time with high praise from the International Automobile Federation (FIA). Specifically, the organising committee of the 2017 Rally was awarded the title of ‘best organising committee in the world’. “At the FIA we believe that it is very important to […]