Новости за 19.04.2018

Victor Moses struck a 69th-minute winner for Chelsea to give Antonio Conte’s side a 2-1 Premier League victory over Burnley at Turf Moor on Thursday. Chelsea had taken a 20th-minute lead through a Kevin Long own goal and were well in control of the game before Burnley drew level when Johann Berg Gudmundsson’s low drive went in off […]

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told President Donald Trump last week that he is not a target of any part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. Citing two unnamed sources, Bloomberg said Rosenstein brought up the matter and offered the reassurance in a meeting with Trump at the […]

Cyprus-based Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF) announced on Thursday they had been invited by the heath authorities of Iraq to provide their expertise on the prevention and clinical management of thalassaemia. TIF said in an announcement that its delegation is this week holding consulting meetings with the national committee on thalassemia of Iraq’s education ministry at […]

By Annette Chrysostomou Hotels in Larnaca are expected to fill with marksmen before the European Compak shooting championship which starts on May 3 in the town, the municipality announced at a press conference. So far, deputy head of the Cyprus shooting sport federation Tsiovanis Savvides said, 600 marksmen from 30 countries are registered, who will […]

By Evie Andreou CHILDREN’S Rights Commissioner, Leda Koursoumba said on Thursday that the government needs to adopt a comprehensive policy on children of undocumented migrants with a long stay in Cyprus that is consistent with international obligations. In a report, made public on Thursday, Koursoumba said that she has been receiving a large number of […]

Lawmakers on Thursday began discussion of a bill on e-health, where the medical records of patients will be entered into a database accessible via electronic health cards. Under the envisaged system, patients visiting their doctor will present their e-health card, which the physician will use to access a database. The database will contain all the […]

A four-year-old boy who has spent his entire life in hospital due to serious health problems since his birth is being cared for in the best possible manner, the Welfare Services said on Thursday. Daily Philefletheros featured an update about the boy, whose situation made the news almost two years ago when he was two […]

By Evie Andreou Health Minister, Constantinos Ioannou, told MPs on Thursday the government had referred the law on the creation of the organisation of state health services (Okyy) which was passed by the House plenum recently, due to inconsistencies. Ioannou, explained to the House health committee that the government referred the law, passed by the […]

A Russian billionaire has been ordered by a court in London to hand over a 350 million-pound ($500 million) superyacht to his wife as part of Britain’s biggest-ever divorce battle. Justice Haddon-Cave at the High Court ruled that Farkad Akhmedov, 62, had used evasive and underhand tactics to keep the yacht beyond the reach of […]

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) communique will include a reference to Cyprus with regard to the need for a settlement of the long-standing division of the island, said Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou. Speaking in London, Prodromou said following his presence at the opening ceremony in Buckingham Palace Thursday morning, President Nicos Anastasiades had […]

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah hopes to stay clear at the top of the scoring charts to claim this season’s Premier League Golden Boot award, the Egypt international adding that his team mates were eager to help him achieve the goal. The 25-year-old has scored 30 goals in 32 league appearances during a spectacular debut season […]

The Cypriot government is projected to post budget surpluses over the next six years through to 2023, according to the International Monetary Fund’s Spring 2018 Fiscal Monitor published on Thursday. Public debt, as a percentage of GDP, is meanwhile expected to drop to 97.0 per cent in 2018, gradually declining to 67.6 per cent by […]

By Annette Chrysostomou People who want to become volunteer ‘market observers’, consumers who keep and eye out for discrepancies and rip-offs, need to register with the Cyprus consumer association, its Nicosia head, Marios Droushiotis said. The organisation has announced that it is implementing a new scheme, whereby consumers observe the market and report to the […]

The European Commission’s competition watchdog will be looking at the government’s recent action to deposit €2.5bn to the co-op bank through the issuance of bonds, it emerged on Thursday. “The Commission is in touch with the Cypriot authorities about the issue,” a spokesman told the Cyprus News Agency. The Directorate-General for Competition will decide whether […]

Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a spirit of compromise on reforming the eurozone at a meeting on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron, who pressed for solidarity among members of the currency union. Before starting talks, the two leaders said they would present a united front at June’s meeting of European Union leaders on reforming […]

By Bejay Browne PREPARATIONS are underway in Latchi for the fifth annual fish festival which will take place at the harbour on Saturday. The festival is a popular event with the number of visitors expected to exceed last year’s total, which reached around one and a half to two thousand, according to local mayor Giotis […]

Spectators at World Cup matches will be able to see replays of incidents which are reviewed by the video assistant referee (VAR) on the stadium screen once a decision has been made, FIFA said on Wednesday. FIFA, responding to criticism that fans are often in the dark over the use of the VAR system, said […]

President Nicos Anastasiades has sent a message of condolences to former US Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush on the passing of former First Lady Barbara Bush, wife and mother of the two former US leaders respectively. In his message, Anastasiades said: “It is with deep sorrow that I received the news about […]

US assessments following the US, British and French missile strikes on Syria show they had only a limited impact on President Bashar al-Assad’s ability to carry out chemical weapons attacks, four US officials told Reuters. The conclusion contrasts with the Trump administration’s assertion that the strikes on Saturday hit at the heart of Assad’s chemical weapons programme, […]

By Evie Andreou The community council of Achna in the Famagusta district has given the green light for the creation of a crocodile park within its boundaries, community leader Nicos Vasilas said on Thursday. The decision was taken by the community council with six of the nine members ruling in favour of the project. But […]

Turkey’s ruling AK Party taunted the main opposition party on Thursday to name a candidate to challenge Tayyip Erdogan for June elections which are expected to tighten the president’s 15-year hold on power. Government spokesman Bekir Bozdag said the secularist opposition People’s Republican Party (CHP) was reluctant to put its leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, forward for […]

The Europa League is Arsenal’s priority as the club aim to seal qualification for next season’s Champions League by winning the tournament, manager Arsene Wenger said as he referred to Sunday’s West Ham United domestic fixture as “preparation”. Europe’s second tier competition is Arsenal’s only real hope of securing Champions League football after a poor […]

Hans Asperger, the Austrian paediatrician who pioneered research into autism and after whom Asperger syndrome is named, “actively cooperated” with a Nazi programme under which disabled children were killed, an academic paper published on Thursday says. The article by medical historian Herwig Czech published in the journal Molecular Autism says that Asperger referred severely disabled children to […]

The US Federal Aviation Administration said it will order inspection of about 220 aircraft engines as investigators have found that a broken fan blade touched off an engine explosion this week on a Southwest flight, killing a passenger. The regulator said late on Wednesday it plans to finalize the air-worthiness directive within the next two weeks. The […]

Cuban Communist Party stalwart Miguel Diaz-Canel replaced Raul Castro as president on Thursday, a new chapter for the island after nearly sixty years of rule by the Castro brothers but a change that is aimed at preserving Cuban socialism. The National Assembly swore in Diaz-Canel, with 603 out of 604 lawmakers present voting for the 57-year […]