Новости за 26.05.2018

Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale scored a jaw-dropping overhead kick and a long distance strike to give them a 3-1 win over Liverpool in the Champions League final on Saturday, delivering a remarkable third consecutive title for the Spaniards. Substitute Bale, who also scored in Real’s 2014 final win over Atletico Madrid, had only been […]

Next week Paphos, Limassol and Nicosia will round the month off with masterpieces by Mozart and Beethoven with three performances by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra under the name Musical Titans. The concerts, which will take place in Paphos on Wednesday, in Limassol on Thursday and in Nicosia on Friday, will be under the baton of […]

Britain’s top diplomat in Cyprus did much to reassure expats this week that Brexit will not affect their lives – but many remain confused about the precise paperwork they need to confirm their residency and rights on the island. UK nationals “will be able to carry on living, working or studying in Cyprus for as […]

Intense action and high-speed highlights await all the spectators who will gather for the 13 Special Stages of the Cyprus Rally 2018. Spectacular passes and huge top speeds will be the main ingredients of this year’s route which has a total length of 763.32km, 208,22 of which will comprise the stages. As with every year, […]

Water quality at Paphos beaches is excellent, according to the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) and Cymepa, with the area this week set to receive 16 Blue Flags. President of the Winter Swimmers Matthaios Ierokypiotis said this year all 16 of the town’s beaches will be given the flags on Thursday. The beaches to be awarded […]

The nine migrants whose bodies were found washed up on shore in the north earlier this month were on Saturday buried there. The ceremony took place at the cemetery in Lefka. The funeral was attended by ‘Foreign Minister’ in the north Kudret Ozersay, mayor of Lefka Aziz Kaya and relatives of the deceased from the […]

Australian Daniel Ricciardo dominated every stage of qualifying to put Red Bull on pole position for Formula One’s showcase Monaco Grand Prix in track record time on Saturday. Ricciardo, in blistering form since Thursday practice around the streets of the tiny Mediterranean principality, made sure of the top slot for his team’s 250th race start […]

Women in Hollywood expressed relief, hope and vindication as movie producer Harvey Weinstein was charged with rape after decades of alleged sexual misconduct. Weinstein was met by dozens of photographers and camera crews as he walked into a New York City police station on Friday to be charged with two counts of rape and one […]

Primary education teachers blamed the minister on Saturday for a bitter public spat that broke out between them and him after the death of a 10-year-old boy who suffered a head injury while playing basketball at school in Larnaca and later died. In a written statement, their union Poed, said Education Minister Costas Hambiaouris was […]

South Korean President Moon Jae-in held a surprise meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday to ensure a summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump goes off successfully, South Korean officials said. It was the clearest sign yet that the on-again off-again summit between Trump and Kim is likely to be […]

Cyprus wants to be part of the space development and benefit from the space systems that are essential for the wellbeing and security of the European citizens, Minister of Transport, Vassiliki Anastasiadou said on Saturday. She was addressing the local European Space Agency`s space start-ups competition `Act In Space` that is taking place in Cyprus […]

Two men, 40 and 23, were remanded in custody for three days on Saturday in connection with possession of drugs and illegal possession of property after police found crystal meth, cannabis, and a host of electronic equipment in a flat in Paphos. Police told the court they had seized five grammes of crystal meth and […]

The fire service had to rescue two people in Dherynia early on Saturday after a blaze broke out in their house apparently from a household appliance. Firefighters got the call some 30 minutes after midnight that a fire had broken out at a two-storey residence located in a housing block. The blaze was raging on […]

After the success of the performance of the ancient Greek play The Persians all over the island last year, The Cyprus Theatre Organisation (THOC) is preparing to give everyone who didn’t catch it – and to all those who want to live through the drama once more – a chance to do so in Nicosia […]

EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier warned Britain on Saturday that failing to agree a deal on the governance of a withdrawal treaty which preserves the primacy of the EU court would mean no treaty and no transition period. In remarks prepared for delivery in Portugal, Barnier also described British delays in spelling out what kind […]

Ireland has voted by a landslide to liberalise some of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws in what its prime minister described as the culmination of a “quiet revolution” in what was one of Europe’s most socially conservative countries. Voters in the once deeply Catholic nation were estimated to have backed the change by more […]

Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp says forward Mohamed Salah will be at peak fitness for Saturday’s Champions League final regardless of whether or not he is observing the fasting rules of Ramadan. The question of whether devout Muslim Salah has chosen to fast in the build-up to the encounter with Real Madrid in Kiev has attracted […]

Former European football chief Michel Platini has said he has been cleared by Swiss authorities of any criminal wrongdoing over payments he received from FIFA that resulted in a ban for ethics violations and that he now plans to return to the game. The Frenchman was banned from all soccer-related activities over a two million […]

Where do you live? Paphos, with my two daughters Bella (13) and Georgy (9) Best childhood memory? Singing on the stage! Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? This is a hard question! It depends on my mood!! I love pasta and chicken dishes. I dislike offal – liver and kidney. What did you have […]

Billed as ‘the Greatest Spectacle in Racing’, the Indianapolis 500 is poised to deliver on that hype on Sunday with a hometown boy on the pole, a trail-blazing woman taking a final bow and the Brickyard’s most exclusive club ready to welcome a new member. There is rarely a shortage of high-octane drama on the […]

Acting on a tip-off, police on Friday evening found and seized arms and munitions, as well as steroids, at an open area in Nicosia. According to police, officers dispatched to the scene in Tseri found an improvised device containing a small quantity of explosive, a Flobert gun with a silencer, an air pistol with a […]

Two firefighters have been hospitalised as a precaution after their vehicle overturned on Friday evening during an exercise at Larnaca airport. The fire service said the incident took place at around 8.15pm. The water tanker truck had been taking part in a practise crash which is designed to test response times to incidents at any […]

DBRS Ratings Limited has upgraded Cyprus’ long-term foreign and local currency – issuer ratings from BB (low) to BB and maintained the positive trend. DBRS also confirmed the short-term foreign and local currency – issuer ratings at R-4 and changed the trend to positive from stable. According to the agency, the upgrade is driven by […]

Some of the best-known works by American composer and pianist George Jacob Gershwin – from the opera Porgy and Bess and the musical Rhapsody in Blue – should lure sunbathers from the Paphos beaches for a while on Tuesday. The performance, by Tatiana Stupak on piano and Victoria Lanskaya Pastella on the violin, will be […]

As Europe’s new privacy law took effect on Friday, one activist wasted no time in asserting the additional rights it gives people over the data that companies want to collect about them. Austrian Max Schrems filed complaints against Google , Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, arguing they were acting illegally by forcing users to accept intrusive […]