Новости за 19.08.2018

Manchester United’s troubled start to the season took another unexpected twist as they lost limply 3-2 at Brighton & Hove Albion on Sunday. Woeful defending led to two Brighton goals in two first-half minutes as Glenn Murray and Shane Duffy outsmarted United’s 117 million pound ($149.21 million) back four to demonstrate why manager Jose Mourinho […]

The Egyptian national, who hijacked an airliner in Cyprus in 2016 using a fake explosive belt, was handed over to Egyptian authorities on Saturday. Seif Eldin Mustafa, 61, was handed over on Saturday after a court ruling cleared the way for his extradition. Egypt’s state prosecutor had said in a statement that Mustafa was handed […]

Manchester City 6 Huddersfield Town 1 Sergio Aguero netted his 13th hat-trick for Manchester City as the champions made light of the absence of the injured Kevin De Bruyne to thrash Huddersfield Town 6-1 and move joint top of the Premier League. The prolific Argentine scored on 25, 35 and 75 minutes, also hitting the […]

Teaching unions on Sunday asked Education Minister, Costas Hambiaouris, to delay their meeting next week a few days to give them time to study the proposals, regarding the measures for the streamlining of state schools, he included in a letter sent last week. The unions also said the data the education ministry included in its […]

By Bejay Browne A local dive company promoting disabled diving in Cyprus has started a crowd funding page to raise the thousands needed to purchase new specialist equipment, including a hoist and trailer. Sean Flynn, of Freedom Divers, is a professional diver and a qualified disabled diving instructor and told the Sunday Mail that the […]

By Antonis Loizou FRICS After the issue of Brexit first raised its head we have been closely following the reactions of businesses and individuals regarding over whether Cyprus will win or lose from such an event in terms of the real estate market. It is unfortunate that the UK will leave the EU and we […]

Italian Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli on Sunday called for sanctions against Malta, accusing it of not rescuing migrant boats in the Mediterranean and leaving the burden to Italy, in the latest row between the two countries over the issue. Toninelli said on Twitter the European Union had to open “its ports to solidarity” and take […]

By Desmond Smith What do Donald Trump and Lord Palmerston have in common? They both believe in gun boat diplomacy and wielding the Big Stick in the interests of their respective countries. Due to the cyclical nature of history, we can place the current dispute between Turkey and the US in a context we’ve seen […]

Prime Minister Theresa May could face trouble getting her Brexit deal approved by the British parliament before exit day unless she changes her proposals, the head of an influential group of pro-Brexit lawmakers said in an interview published on Sunday. Jacob Rees-Mogg, chair of the European Research Group, a faction within May’s Conservative Party, is […]

By Christos Panayiotides Turkey’s relations with the United States have unquestionably deteriorated to an extent which does not rule out the possibility of substantial further deterioration or even a definitive rupture, although the latter possibility still appears to be rather unlikely. Of course, the worsening of relations was not a bolt out of the blue. […]

Two men aged 38 and 80 from Limassol were given on the spot fines amounting to a little under €6,000 for poaching, police said on Sunday. They were arrested on Sunday after being spotted by officers of the game and fauna service hunting in a game reserve area in the Kouklia forest. The 38-year-old was […]

The committee investigating the collapse of the Cyprus Cooperative Bank’s (CCB) resumes work this week after a 10-day break. Made up of former Supreme Court judge Georgios Arestis, economist and former banker Georgios Charalambous and Georgios Georgiou, another former banker, the committee will on Thursday hear the testimonies of Auditor-general, Odysseas Michaelides and financial ombudsman, […]

By Stelios Orphanides FOLLOWING a prolonged fiscal slippage, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades became a valuable asset for the government in the months and years after the chaotic bailout of 2013 as Cyprus struggled to restore its severely damaged credibility. Now, five years after he took office, the economy is growing at the highest rate in […]

By Ezgi Erkoyun and Humeyra Pamuk When Andrew Brunson saw a police summons on his door in late summer 2016, the U.S. evangelical pastor thought it was a routine appointment to sort out his residency papers in Turkey, his home for nearly a quarter of a century. He went to the police station on Oct. […]

The judgment issued by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on September 20, 2017 indicates the outcome of cases pending before the Cyprus courts regarding disputes between borrowers and banks in relation to loan agreements in foreign currency. The issue was examined in the framework a Directive for the protection of consumers from unfair terms […]

By Gavin Jones The 1940s and 1950s saw the heyday of American musicals which produced classics like Oklahoma!, Porgy and Bess, Annie Get Your Gun, West Side Story and Kiss Me, Kate. Most came from the stable of Rodgers and Hammerstein, two giants of the American entertainment industry. One of the most popular was South […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said on Sunday that a new Iran Action Group in the U.S. State Department aimed to overthrow the Islamic Republic, but would fail. He was speaking on the 65th anniversary of a U.S.-backed coup that overthrew a democratically elected Iranian prime minister, an occasion when anti-American sentiment runs particularly high in the […]

Cyprus has handed over to Cairo an Egyptian man who hijacked an airliner to the island in 2016 using a fake explosive belt, Egypt’s state prosecutor said on Saturday, after a court ruling cleared the way for his extradition. The prosecutor said in a statement that Seif Eldin Mustafa was handed over to an Egyptian Interpol […]

China has arrested 26 suspects and retrieved almost 650 cultural relics stolen from an ancient burial site in northwestern Qinghai province, the Ministry of Public Security said on Sunday. China’s official Xinhua news agency said experts believe many of the items recovered are of “tremendous historical value” as they show cultural interactions between the East […]

Our complex has been informed by our administrators that we now need certificates and lifeguards during the operation of our communal pool. Our complex consists of three blocks with a total of 51 private apartments. The area is all fenced and the entry and exit is gated. There are also signs to say that it […]

By Gwynne Dyer It sounds like a tempest in a teapot, but it could bring down Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party – and that could end up meaning that Britain doesn’t leave the European Union after all. It started last Saturday with a photograph in the Daily Mail (a newspaper that regards […]

Paphos police arrested in the early hours of Sunday a 42-year-old bride after being caught driving drunk and for assaulting officers. The woman was stopped by officers at around 2.50am at the Tombs of the Kings Avenue after failing to stop at a red traffic light. Police said that the woman, who appeared to be […]

A 44-year-old man from Peyia, Paphos was slapped with a €2,300-fine for poaching, police said on Sunday. The man was caught hunting in a game reserve area in Polis Chrysochous. Officers of the game and fauna service also discovered that he had no permit to carry a hunting gun and that his hunter licence had […]

Passenger traffic to and from the airports of Larnaca and Paphos will peak on Sunday as 329 inbound and outbound flights are scheduled for the day, Hermes airports has said. August is the busiest month of the year as regards passenger traffic at the two airports, but the peak will be this Sunday as 329 […]

This September’s inaugural Grand Basel show for automotive masterpieces will play host to a fascinating motor car design debut, as the 1953 ‘Linea Diamante’ car by legendary architect and industrial designer Gio Ponti is finally brought to life, 65 years after it was penned. Gio Ponti (1891-1979) created numerous icons, such as the 32-storey Pirelli […]