Новости за 12.05.2018

Apoel won the Cyprus football championship on Saturday night after a 2-1 win over Anorthosis at the GSP stadium in Nicosia. The result leaves Apoel four points clear of second-placed Apollon, who face Omonia in their final game on Sunday. Apoel knew anything other than a win over Anorthosis would have left the door open […]

Israel closed the Kerem Shalom border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, a day after the terminal was damaged during protests by Palestinians that turned violent. Dozens of Palestinian demonstrators on Friday broke into the Gaza side of the terminal – the main conduit for goods in and out of the territory – setting […]

British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn joined thousands of workers marching through central London on Saturday to demand a “new deal” on working conditions and an end to what the organisers called the worst pay squeeze in modern history. The Trades Union Congress used the march to call for a higher minimum wage, improved job security […]

Former European champions Hamburg SV were relegated for the first time on Saturday, their fans throwing flares on to the pitch as their team’s record uninterrupted top-flight run since the Bundesliga began in 1963 came to a controversial end. VfL Wolfsburg’s 4-1 win over bottom club Cologne meant Hamburg’s 2-1 home victory over Borussia Moenchengladbach, […]

Acclaimed young Greek-Cypriot Australian soprano Christiana Aloneftis and award-winning Cyprus-based Russian pianist Natalia Lezedova will present a recital of French, Czech and Russian romances under the name Le Parfum De L’Amour in Paphos on Tuesday. Aloneftis, currently based in Germany, holds a BMus and a DipLang (Adv. Italian) from The University of Melbourne and a […]

Ankara is blocking Jane Holl Lute’s arrival in Cyprus as the UN secretary general’s special envoy, it was reported on Saturday. According to information quoted by the Cyprus News Agency the UN is annoyed with this development. Greece and the UK have already given their confirmation of Lute who is meant to determine the prospects […]

Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton seized pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix on Saturday in a Mercedes one-two that ended Sebastian Vettel’s bid for a fourth in a row. The Briton, leading his Ferrari rival by four points after four races, put in two blistering final laps at an overcast Circuit de Catalunya […]

Arsenal have been charged by the English Football Association (FA) with failing to control their players during Wednesday’s 3-1 Premier League defeat at Leicester City. The incident occurred in the 75th minute of the game, when Leicester were awarded a penalty following a foul on Demarai Gray and Arsenal‘s players surrounded referee Graham Scott to protest against […]

Strong winds damaged and caused power outages in various villages in the Limassol region on Saturday, the mayor of Trimiklini, Andreas Orphanou said. The electricity authority (EAC) has been attempting to restore power to the area, since it received the first calls from customers at approximately 12pm. The winds hit the villages of Kalo Chorio, […]

By Andria Kades The future of everything around us it seems is linked to robotic technology and nowhere more so than in the field of surgery according to Dr Savvas Hirides. Though the development of medicine and its marriage with digital equipment has become a given – ranging from X-ray machines, to the devices that […]

The fire service put out a blaze at an oil storage unit in Larnaca on Saturday afternoon, inciting the mayor’s criticism of the company, whose negligence he claimed caused the fire. “I am tired of repeating the same things,” said Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras, adding that the fire occurred due to the company’s negligence. “This […]

President Nicos Anastasiades has reiterated that his present term in office will be his last and said his dream was to hand over to the next president a reunified country in 2023. “My dream, when I am succeeded in 2023, is to hand over a reunified country, a modern country that makes all of us […]

Foreign Ministers of Greece and Skopje met in the presence of a UN envoy on Saturday, in an attempt to bridge their differences in a decades-old dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav Republic before an EU summit next week. The row began in earnest in 1991, when Macedonia broke away peacefully from former […]

The 1962 World Cup in Chile was marred by violent play especially in the group stages. In the opening eight days alone it featured four red cards, three broken legs, a fractured ankle and cracked ribs.

 Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday called for unity among Muslims and efforts towards scientific advancement, saying this would make it impossible for “enemies” such as the United States to dominate Islamic countries. Shi’ite Iran faces off with Western-allied Sunni Saudi Arabia for influence in the Middle East. The two regional powers back opposing sides […]

Stavros Giorgallis, 10, died from a skull fracture, pathologist Marios Matsakis said on Saturday, following a post-mortem examination on the boy. Earlier, Larnaca district court remanded two doctors into custody for five days, following the boy’s death on Friday. The two men, 37 and 65, are a doctor from the emergency department of Larnaca general […]

Larnaca district court remanded two doctors into custody for five days on Saturday, following the death of a 10-year-old boy on Friday. The two men, 37 and 65, are a doctor from the emergency department of Larnaca general hospital and the department’s director. The 10-year-old, Stavros Giorgallis, was taken there after sustaining a head injury […]

Stephen Hawking’s family have invited time travellers to his memorial service, seeking to tackle one of the curiosities that eluded the British physicist during his extraordinary life. The world’s most recognisable scientist died in March aged 76 after a lifetime spent probing the origins of the universe, the mysteries of black holes and the nature […]

There are three plays coming up in Limassol and Nicosia which will do what theatre makes us do best: feel, think and reassess our way of being. The first, The Great Chimera by M Karagatsis – which has been sold-out since its very first show in 2014 – will be performed at the Rialto Theatre […]

Where do you live? I live in Nicosia and soon will be living in Tokyo, with my partner and daughter. Best childhood memory? Playing football and climbing trees at my grand mom’s neighbourhood. Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? What food would you really turn your nose up to? I love everything that is […]

Two US fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers in international airspace off the coast of Alaska on Friday. The Russian TU-95 “Bear” bombers flew into a so-called Air Defence Identification Zone located about 200 miles off Alaska’s west coast, at about 10am EST (1400 GMT), North American Aerospace Defence Command spokesman Canadian Army Major Andrew […]

The European Space Agency`s space start-ups competition ’Act in Space’ is coming to Cyprus over the weekend of May 26-27. The organiser of the event is the Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO). President of CSEO Giorgos Danos told the Cyprus News Agency that “it is an honour for Cyprus to host this competition in our […]

With betting agencies still placing Eleni Foureira as the sure favourite to win Saturday’s Eurovision song final, there was no doubt how Cypriots were planning to spend their evening: in front of the television. Bars will be hosting Eurovision parties to support the island’s bid for the win this year, with events set to take […]

By Michael Holden Britain’s Prince Harry weds American actress Meghan Markle next Saturday in a union of youthful royalty and Hollywood glamour expected to reinvigorate the venerable House of Windsor. Harry, grandson of Queen Elizabeth and sixth-in-line to the throne, and Markle, star of US TV drama Suits will tie the knot next Saturday at […]

  By Rozanna Latiff and Tom Allard Malaysian authorities barred ousted Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife from leaving the country on Saturday, amid reports that the government was reopening investigations into a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal at a state fund he founded. The order by immigration authorities came minutes after Najib announced in a […]