Новости за 18.04.2018

BOURNEMOUTH 0 MANCHESTER UNITED 2 Manchester United tightened their grip on second place in the Premier League after goals in each half by defender Chris Smalling and substitute Romelu Lukaku gave them a clinical 2-0 win at Bournemouth on Wednesday. The result left United, who suffered a shock 1-0 home defeat by bottom team West […]

Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone is still hopeful of keeping striker Antoine Griezmann at the club next season. The French forward has a 100 million euro release fee clause in his contract and told French media he wants his future to be decided before the World Cup amid reports in Spain that he will move […]

Undersubscribed old city schools face closure Four schools in the old part of Nicosia are facing closure in the coming years due to the small number of pupils and lack of incentives to attract more children, MPs heard on Wednesday. The House education committee were told that the number of pupils at Ayios Kasianos, Ayios […]

The European Central Bank (ECB) seems to favour merging the performing operations of the Cyprus Cooperative Bank (CCB) with another Cypriot lender, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Thursday. He was responding to questions by MPs during a joint meeting of the House finance and watchdog committees on the future of the troubled Co-ops. Responding to […]

Cuba’s Raul Castro moved closer to retiring as president on Wednesday as the country’s parliament proposed Miguel Diaz-Canel to replace him, in a shift that will usher in the island’s first non-Castro leader since the 1959 revolution. Castro, 86, is stepping down after 10 years in office but his departure – which he had announced […]

Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou presented a new bill on Wednesday to establish a new court to decide appeals of third-country nationals who have not been granted international protection status. Nicolaou, who presented the bill to the House legal affairs committee, said that an international protection court would meet European obligations in relation to the handling […]

Britain’s upper house of parliament inflicted an embarrassing defeat on Theresa May’s government on Wednesday, challenging her refusal to remain in a customs union with the European Union after Brexit. The Prime Minister, who has struggled to unite her Conservative party over Brexit, has said Britain will leave the EU’s single market and customs union […]

Holders Apollon will take a big advantage into the second leg of their Cyprus Cup semi-final after a 4-0 home win over Pafos FC in the first leg in Limassol on Wednesday evening. The second semi-final first leg, which kicked-off an hour later, saw ten-man Apoel beaten 2-0 by AEK in Larnaca

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini urged Albania on Wednesday to deepen a reform drive so that it can persuade member states it deserves to join the bloc after 2025. The European Commission recommended on Tuesday that the Balkan country should start accession talks following a series of steps including to combat corruption and improve […]

Volunteer groups have accused church committees of preventing charities from collecting donations at funerals unless they are paid 40 per cent of the proceeds. Stelios Mnasonos, a member of the district volunteerism coordinating board, said a lot of people have experienced or knew of incidents involving church officials who prevented charities from collecting donations, as […]

Jean-Claude Juncker mounted what looked like a “coup” in naming his top aide to run the European Union’s civil service, EU lawmakers said on Wednesday in a vote to reprimand Juncker, the Union’s chief executive. The resolution, which said appointing Martin Selmayr secretary-general of the European Commission “could be seen as a coup-like action”, is […]

Whatever is going to happen with the resumption of Cyprus talks, should happen quickly, outgoing British High Commissioner in Nicosia, Mathew Kidd, said on Wednesday. The challenge of making progress only gets harder, not easier, Kidd said in an interview with the Cyprus News Agency that also covered Brexit, hydrocarbons, and the British bases in […]

Parents representing primary school pupils announced on Wednesday that they are accepting applications for the first camping site accessible to children with disabilities, located in Dymes village near Kyperounda. The Nicosia primary school parents’ federation said that this is “perhaps the biggest and most important goal” they have achieved the last few years. The group […]

Britain’s media regulator opened seven investigations into Russian news channel RT, saying it had found an increase in programmes which may have breached impartiality rules since a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy last month. The poisoning, which Britain blamed on Russia, prompted the biggest Western expulsions of diplomats since the height of […]

This year’s annual travel exhibition Taxidi opens in Nicosia on Friday and will run until Sunday, it was announced on Wednesday. The exhibition, held at the beginning of every summer, aims to bring together the public and tourism professionals such as operators and airlines both from Cyprus and Greece. Visitors can find information about different destinations […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel backs the idea of a European Monetary Fund, provided national governments have sufficient oversight, sources close to her said before a visit by the French president. President Emmanuel Macron, who will meet Merkel in Berlin on Thursday, is pushing hard for bold euro zone reforms to defend the 19-member currency bloc […]

Watch the children’s fairy tale Snow White and support children with special needs as successful theatrical group from Greece, Patari Project stage Hionanoi (Snow dwarves) not only for children but also for adults. The Cypriot co-op band and the University of Cyprus present the theatrical performance on April 21 and 22 at the Pallas Theatre […]

A top Greek court has ruled that asylum-seekers newly arriving on Greek islands from Turkey should no longer be held there while their applications are assessed, court officials said on Wednesday. Asylum-seekers have been prohibited from travelling beyond five islands since March 2016, when the European Union agreed a deal with Turkey to seal the […]

Lewis Hamilton’s Formula One rivals should beware the backlash because the four-times world champion’s dip in form will not last long, his former Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg has warned. Speaking on his YouTube channel, the 2016 world champion said last Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix showed the Briton, who finished fourth, was struggling. The German, […]

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections will be brought forward to June 24, more than a year earlier than planned, saying the country urgently needed to make the switch to an executive presidency. Erdogan said he made the decision after speaking to the head of the nationalist MHP party, Devlet […]

The Nicosia criminal court ruled on Wednesday that destroyed evidence in a waste management corruption trial will be replaced by copies held by the court, rejecting the defence’s request to reexamine witnesses. The documents relating to the corruption trial involving the Koshi and Paphos landfills were destroyed during a blaze in February that damaged the […]

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Mike Pompeo, the current CIA director and his nominee to be the top U.S. diplomat, formed a good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un when they met in secret. Pompeo became the most senior U.S. official known to have met Kim when he visited Pyongyang […]

The Church Holy Synod on Wednesday defrocked a priest who did prison time for sexually assaulting a girl he had fostered and who later took her own life. The case had been referred to the Synod’s five-member court at the request of Bishop Isaias, who oversees the Tamasos diocese, where father Stylianos Savvas served. According […]

The Church Holy Synod on Wednesday defrocked a priest who sexually abused a girl he had fostered and who later took her own life. According to a Synod announcement, the case had been referred to its five-member court at the request of Bishop Isaias. The “court unanimously decided to defrock father Stylianos Savvas,” the statement […]

Abu Dhabi hopes the opening of a $1bn Warner Bros theme park in July will help it in its bid to nearly double the number of tourists visiting the emirate over the next few years. Oil-rich Abu Dhabi is investing billions of dollars in tourism, industry and infrastructure to diversify its economy away from oil. […]