Новости за 30.05.2018

Multiple Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt is training with Norwegian top-flight football side Stromsgodset as he pursues his dream of becoming a professional footballer, newspaper Verdens Gang reported on Wednesday. The 31-year-old Jamaican, who retired from athletics after winning eight Olympic gold medals, is a football fanatic and trained with the club in Drammen, some […]

Egypt are hopeful that forward Mohamed Salah will have recovered from his shoulder injury in three weeks which would allow him to play in their final group game at the World Cup in Russia. The 25-year-old suffered a heavy fall in a challenge with Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos while playing for Liverpool in the […]

The Akamas master plan will be ready by the end of the year, while consultations to reach a consensus on the sustainable management of the Akamas National Park are to be completed in September, it was announced on Wednesday. Following a meeting between the interior and agriculture ministers, it was announced experts will be called […]

A 30-year-old man who had been wanted by the police for a number of cases was arrested on Wednesday in Mandria in Paphos following a coordinated operation. According to the Paphos police spokesman, Michalis Ioannou, the 30-year-old is believed to be a member of a crime ring and had nine arrest warrants against him. The […]

Adidas can declare itself the winner over arch rival Nike in the upcoming football World Cup even before the first match kicks off as it is kitting out the most teams. However, the German sportswear brand, which is also the official sponsor of the tournament, expects only a limited financial impact, partly because this year’s […]

Clay court tennis has never come easy for silky Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and his struggle to master the dirt was evident again in a four-hour dogfight with Jared Donaldson in the French Open second round on Wednesday. Try as he could on a sun-baked Court 18, fourth seed Dimitrov could never tame the 57th-ranked American […]

Police on Wednesday said they had caught three different underage drivers in Troodos and Paphos in just one day. Officers early in the day discovered that a 14-year-old boy was behind the wheel of a rented car that crashed into a ditch in Chlorakas after evading officers who had signalled the driver to stop. The […]

Police on Wednesday said they had caught three different underage drivers in Troodos and Paphos in just one day. Officers early in the day discovered that a 14-year-old boy was behind the wheel of a rented car that crashed into a ditch in Chlorakas after evading officers who had signalled the driver to stop. The […]

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos accused Edek chairman Marinos Sizopoulos of tax evasion on Wednesday, continuing a public spat for the second day running. Phedonos claimed that Sizopoulos and his partner in a company had sold a piece of land in Nicosia and told the land registry they had received 650,000 Cyprus pounds less than they […]

A 28-year-old man from Nicosia was sentenced on Wednesday to a suspended three-year sentence after being found guilty of possessing child pornography. The man was arrested after 4,576 photos and three videos with child pornographic material was found in his possession. The court said that such offences are on the rise and it has become […]

Get ready to take to the mountains in your running shoes on June 10 for the Dro.Me.A racing in Troodos events. The races will include the second Garmin Cyprus Troodos Mountain Marathon – 2018, the ninth Quantum Energy Troodos Green Race 2018 – 15km race, the Amazonia 5km charity run and the KPMG children’s 600 metre […]

Larnaca honoured Israeli businessman Moshe Mano, for his contribution to the town as his cruise ship Golden Iris has carried thousands of passengers from Haifa over the past eight years. According to a statement by the Larnaca Tourism Board, Mano Maritime’s Golden Iris will carry out 35 arrivals this year from Haifa until mid-November. The […]

The United States on Wednesday condemned Syria’s decision to recognize two breakaway regions in Georgia and create diplomatic ties, saying it fully backed Georgia’s independence and reiterating its call for Russia to withdraw from the area. “The United States strongly condemns the Syrian regime’s intention to establish diplomatic relations with the Russian-occupied Georgian regions of […]

Novak Djokovic’s target practice often failed to hit the bullseye but that did not prevent the Serbian eking out a 7-6(1) 6-4 6-4 second round win over Spanish qualifier Jaume Munar at the French Open on Wednesday. The Serb started off by serving a fault, ended the opening game with a double fault and fired […]

Wildlife troopers shot dead three armed men in Kenya’s Mount Elgon National Park on Wednesday while two other suspected poachers were injured but escaped, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said. “The officers were on routine patrol inside the park when they encountered five poachers, two of whom were armed,” KWS said in a statement. Poaching […]

  President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday sent twin messages to public servants, saying on the one hand that reforms and meritocracy were badly needed, and on the other, heaping praise on them for their “sacrifices” during the financial crisis. Addressing the annual congress of public service union Pasydy in Nicosia, Anastasiades said it would be […]

New drugs for multiple sclerosis patients are urgently needed and should be supplied by the government regardless of the cost, the multiple sclerosis association said on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion of World Multiple Sclerosis Day, the head of the association Savvas Christodoulou said that around 2,000 people suffer from the degenerative disease of the […]

Police on Wednesday afternoon urged motorists to be alert as the heavy rainfall and hail caused dangerous driving conditions in several areas. Landslides and rock slides took place in the Gourri-Lazanias-Macheras road as well in those between Kambos-Kykkos, Kykkos-Pedoulas, Ayios Demetrios -Lemythou, Kannavia-Spilia, and Pedoulas-Moutoullas. Ayios Georgios street in Meniko, in the Nicosia district, was […]

Household electricity prices in the second half of 2017 went up by 12.6 per cent, the biggest price increase in the EU at the time, figures released by Eurostat showed on Wednesday. Including all taxes and levies, the price in Cyprus stood at €18.30 per 100 kWh, a hike of 12.6 per cent over the same […]

  The Fiscal Council said on Wednesday that the current favourable macroeconomic environment should not become an excuse for reversing recent or halting structural changes as the economy is still facing risks and challenges. This environment which allowed the economy to expand 3.9 per cent last year and the government to generate a fiscal surplus […]

Sweden will close a deal in the next few weeks with U.S. arms maker Raytheon Co to buy the Patriot air defence missile system as it modernises its armed forces amid heightened tensions with Russia. Moscow’s brief war with Georgia in 2008 and its annexation of the Crimea Peninsula six years later has pushed Sweden, […]

Denmark will force children in residential areas containing large numbers of immigrants to be educated about democracy, equality and major Danish holidays such as Christmas, the government said. The Nordic country has for decades struggled with how to integrate immigrants, primarily from the Middle East, into its ethnically and religiously homogeneous welfare society. The new […]

No water cuts to domestic users are likely this year or next but water for irrigation purposes will be reduced by around 30 per cent during the summer months as Cyprus faces a protracted drought, Agriculture Minister Costas Kades said on Wednesday. With water supply in the reservoirs dwindling and no sight of an end […]

Lucky, an unwanted Paphos dog, has found a new home in the UK with a TV producer thanks to well-known actor Martin Clunes and the determination of a British expat resident and his wife. Paphos resident Martyn Jones fostered the dog, aptly named ‘Lucky’, ahead of her trip to the UK. He told the Cyprus […]

Turkey will buy jets elsewhere if the United States stops it buying Lockheed Martin F-35s, Ankara’s foreign minister was quoted as saying amid tensions between the allies over defence and the fate of a jailed U.S. pastor. NATO member Turkey has caused unease in Washington with its decision to buy S-400 surface-to-air missiles from Russia […]