Новости за 17.03.2018

The Pharos Arts Foundation will join forces with the Embassy of Iran in Cyprus on Friday to celebrate the Iranian New Year, Nowruz, with a concert of Persian classical music by the Miras Ensemble on traditional instruments (oud, setar, tombak, daf, dayereh, kamancheh and santur). Persian classical music has evolved as a fluid expression of […]

Ireland secured their third Six Nations grand slam in emphatic style on Saturday when, on a St Patrick’s Day to remember, they overwhelmed defending champions England 24-15 to join the men of 1948 and 2009 in the country’s rugby hall of fame. The Irish made light of sleet and biting wind and an England team […]

Data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users in developing techniques to support President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, the New York Times and London’s Observer reported on Saturday. The newspapers, which cited former Cambridge Analytica employees, associates and documents, said the data breach was one of the […]

Scotland narrowly avoided a nightmare end to their Six Nations campaign on Saturday, beating Italy 29-27 after trailing the perennial wooden-spooners for most of the game. Scotland scored four tries and clinched the win with a late penalty but the result could well have gone the other way, with the expectant home crowd of 60,000 […]

Tottenham Hotspur’s Christian Eriksen scored twice in a 3-0 victory at Swansea City as the north London club breezed into the FA Cup semi-finals on Saturday. The Dane’s exquisite left-foot strike put Spurs in front after 11 minutes in a one-sided tie at the Liberty Stadium. Erik Lamela buried a right-foot shot past Swansea’s Swedish keeper […]

Thousands of civilians streamed out of their towns to escape battles in the north and south of Syria on Saturday, where two different offensives have prompted an exodus in recent days. A new wave of at least 10,000 people fled a rebel pocket to army lines in eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus in the […]

  FINANCIAL Ombudsman Pavlos Ioannou has urged borrowers and banks alike to continue honouring their obligations, and refrain from rushing to make any changes that could harm their interests, as this week’s agreement between the government and political parties on how to tackle the issue of non-performing loans will not see any result for several […]

Greek painter and sculptor Erietta Vordoni will present her latest work under the name About Felicity in Nicosia on Wednesday. About Felicity is a continuation of a series of successful presentations over the last two years in galleries in Athens and London. The art work within these exhibitions spoke to the viewers’ visual interpretation and […]

The Paphos district court on Saturday ordered the detention until Tuesday of a 17-year-old teenager wanted by German authorities, to give time for the case file to arrive from Interpol Germany. The 17-year-old boy was arrested on Friday at Paphos airport after it emerged that a European arrest warrant issued against him by German authorities […]

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired the FBI’s former No.2 official Andrew McCabe Friday, prompting McCabe to say he is being targeted because he is a crucial witness into whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct the Russia investigation. Sessions, in a statement on Friday, said he felt justified in firing McCabe after the Justice […]

Fifteen people, including at least five children, drowned on Saturday when the small boat they were travelling on capsized in the Aegean Sea, Greek coast guard officials said. The incident occurred off Greece’s Agathonisi island, which is close to the Turkish coast. The identity and nationality of the victims was not immediately known. “At least […]

President Nicos Anastasiades on Saturday kicked off the 12th Opap Limassol Marathon GSO which aims at collecting funds to support the Karaiskakio Foundation and other charities. Around 15,000 runners are expected to participate in the two-day event which includes a corporate race, a youth race, a five-kilometre city race, a half marathon and a full […]

The education ministry has launched a probe into a male high school teacher who allegedly advised girls in one of his classes to go on diet as their bottoms were getting too big, it was reported on Saturday. According to daily Phileleftheros, the incident was reported by the federation of secondary education parents. The education […]

A 76-year-old woman is in serious condition at the Nicosia general hospital after she was hit by a car late on Friday afternoon while trying to cross a street. The accident occurred at around 7.30pm, police said, on Athalassa Avenue when the 76-year-old who was trying to cross the street was hit by a car […]

  By Evie Andreou and Stelios Orphanides IT’S just a matter of time before the Cypriot economy is upgraded to ‘investment grade’, government spokesman Prodromos Prodromos said on Saturday, after Standard & Poor’s affirmed Cyprus’s BB+ sovereign credit rating and kept its outlook on ‘positive’, yet still a notch below the critical benchmark for ‘junk’ […]

  Standard & Poor’s has affirmed Cyprus’s BB+ sovereign credit rating and kept its outlook on positive citing the risks the economy faces from the banks’ non-performing loans whose reduction is not “discernible”. “Cyprus’ economic recovery continues unabated, allowing for a reduction in general government debt,” the rating company said in a statement on its […]

  By Philip Wen and Ben Blanchard China’s largely rubber-stamp parliament chose former top graft-buster Wang Qishan, a key ally of President Xi Jinping, as vice president on Saturday, a widely expected move that nonetheless breaks with convention and underlines Xi’s dominant authority. Xi was also re-elected president by parliament, with no votes cast against […]

All Sondheim fans will be singing of how they are still here when Thoc screens a performance of Follies from the National Theatre on Tuesday. The scene is set in New York, 1971 on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. It is the evening before the building will be torn down. Determined to get a […]

  By Polina Devitt and Andrew Osborn Russia expelled 23 British diplomats on Saturday in a retaliatory move over British accusations that the Kremlin orchestrated a nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter in southern England. Escalating a crisis in relations, Russia said it was also shutting down the activities […]

IT DID not take long after the elections for the new government to start hiring new public employees. One of the first decisions of the new council of ministers was to open 740 positions in the public sector. Of these 436 are in the civil service, 211 in the broader public sector and 93 relating […]

IT DID not take long after the elections for the new government to start hiring new public employees. One of the first decisions of the new council of ministers was to open 740 positions in the public sector. Of these 436 are in the civil service, 211 in the broader public sector and 93 relating […]

With dreams of European glory in tatters, Manchester United, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur turn their attention to the FA Cup quarter-finals this weekend clinging to their last chance of silverware this season. The competition’s lustre may have dulled in recent years as managers prioritise so-called bigger prizes, but Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte and Mauricio Pochettino […]

Stoke have not finished lower than 14th in their nine seasons in the Premier League, never failing to reach the 40-point mark usually associated with guaranteed survival. Those marks look an awfully long way away as they prepare to host Everton on Saturday in a slimmed down weekend Premier League programme – due to the […]

Three games, two from the top group and one from the relegation group, will take place on Saturday in the third round of the Cyprus football championship playoffs. The most important clash of the day will take place in Limassol between AEL and Anorthosis, where the fifth-placed hosts need the three points to close the […]

Cypriot volunteer Klitos Papastylianou, long known in Cyprus as ‘Birdman’, has been honoured by Queen Elizabeth with the Commonwealth Points of Light award in recognition of his long-standing campaign to protect birds on the island. The award was presented by Deputy British High Commissioner to Cyprus Ian Whitting. Papastylianou, 35, is the 32rd volunteer to […]