Новости за 03.11.2018

CUSTOMS officers have arrested a man who was found to be in possession of 7.5 tonnes of grain and a piece of farming equipment from the north, the department said on Saturday. According to customs, after receiving a tip, agents went to the man’s property in a Nicosia village and found 149 sacks of grain […]

On a day fraught with emotion, Leicester City beat Cardiff City 1-0 in their first Premier League game since the death of the club’s owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others in a helicopter crash last weekend. The tragedy ensured that Saturday’s result at the Cardiff City Stadium was always going to be secondary to the […]

US congressional candidates hammered into the homestretch of a bruising campaign season on Saturday, with Democrats focused on protecting a 2010 healthcare law while President Donald Trump touted economic growth and sounded dire warnings on immigration. Control of both houses of the US Congress, currently dominated by Republicans, and 36 governors’ offices will be at […]

LIMASSOL court issued a three day remand on Saturday to a young man arrested on Friday, the third suspect so far, in connection with a child pornography case, police said. The man, whose age was not confirmed by authorities, was arrested on Friday, after another 24-year-old, who was arrested on Thursday, appeared in court and […]

US federal authorities have awarded a 145 million US dollar contract to a company to build six miles of wall along the US-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley. US Customs and Border Patrol said Friday that SLSCO, based in Texas, will begin construction of an 18-foot reinforced concrete levee wall in February in the […]

Want to feel part of the European film world? Europa Cinemas the LUX Prize will set up a simultaneous screening in 28 European Countries. The film to be screened will be a German-Austrian film Styx by Wolfgang Fischer, one of the three finalists of the LUX Prize and Europa Cinemas Label at the Berlinale in […]

Karen Khachanov showed why he is one of the finest young talents in tennis as he powered into the final of the Paris Masters with a thunderous 6-4 6-1 victory over Dominic Thiem on Saturday. The 22-year-old, 6ft 6in Russian, already the owner of two indoor hard court titles this year, moved one step away […]

Manchester United substitute Marcus Rashford scored in stoppage time as they came from behind to beat Bournemouth 2-1 away and close the gap on the top four in an exciting Premier League clash on Saturday. Callum Wilson had fired Bournemouth ahead in the 11th minute but they were on the back foot after in-form Anthony […]

REFORMS to the justice system are underway, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday at the inauguration of the new Paphos district court buildings, announcing a series of works to take place at other court houses across the island. He said that the new buildings of the Paphos court cost the state €6m and that a […]

A 73-year-old man was arrested by British sovereign bases police in Ypsonas on Friday night, following a raid on a building housing computers used for electronic gambling, police said on Saturday. Bases police raided the building in cooperation with Cyprus police at approximately 9pm, and found nine individuals there. Eight were taken into custody and […]

Tributes have been paid to two teenagers who were fatally stabbed on the streets of London within 24 hours. Flowers were laid near Clapham South Tube station in memory of a 17-year-old killed there on Friday. Less than a day earlier, 15-year-old Jay Hughes was pounced on in a “premeditated attack” near a chicken shop […]

The funeral of Thai billionaire and Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, killed in a helicopter crash a week ago, got underway at a Bangkok temple on Saturday with a Buddhist bathing rite using water bestowed by the Thai King. Vichai, 60, founder of Thai duty-free giant King Power International, was killed last Saturday along with […]

That time of the year has come again where Cypriots head to the traditional villages of Alona and Pelendri to celebrate the island’s proudest spirit: Zivania. The annual festival with the strong alcoholic beverage as a protagonist takes place on November 4, 10 and 11 this year and invites not only Zivania lovers but also […]

A 46-year-old man was arrested early Saturday morning, after he crashed into parked cars in Limassol and police found him to be driving nine times over the limit. According to police, the man was driving down Mytilinis Street in Limassol at 1.30am when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into two parked cars. […]

TEACHING unions will sue the Education Ministry over pay cuts from a two-day strike held in September, the general-secretary of the teachers’ union Poed Charis Charalambous said on Saturday. In a post on social media, Charalambous said that the parents’ organisations called on the ministry to make-up the two days lost due to the strike […]

POLICE are searching for two men, suspected of stealing €8,140 from an exchange bureau in Paphos on Friday, authorities said on Saturday. The two men are described as being between 50 and 60-years-old and between 1.70 and 1.75 metres tall.  One of the men has white hair and the other black, police said in an […]

Iran’s top leader said on Saturday U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies face opposition across the world as Washington prepared to reimpose sanctions on Iran’s vital oil-exporting and financial sectors, state television reported. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also said Iran’s arch-adversary the United States had failed to reassert its domination over Iran since the country’s 1979 Islamic […]

DUST levels are higher than normal the Labour Ministry announced on Saturday, with levels as of 7am having reached between 40 μg/m3 and 417 μg/m3. It said that the average levels of dust are expected to be higher than the 50 μg/m3 limit throughout the day. On Friday, dust levels were measured between 23 μg/m3 […]

US fighter jets darted over the Western Pacific on Saturday as the nuclear powered USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier joined Japanese destroyers and a Canadian warship for the biggest combat readiness war game ever staged in and around Japan. Japan and the United States have mobilised 57,000 sailors, marines and airmen for the biennial Keen […]

A second string All Blacks side featuring eight debutants crushed Japan 69-31 in a thriller of a point-fest in Tokyo on Saturday with centre Ngani Laumape running in a hat-trick for the world champions. New Zealand scored 10 tries with flyhalf Richie Mo’unga contributing 22 points as New Zealand taught next year’s World Cup hosts […]

Where do you live? In Nicosia with my husband and 2 children-cats. Best childhood memory? We were leaving the beach with my family, we were in the car, when I decided that I had forgotten my imaginary friend and wanted to turn the car back. My father stopped the car, came down, opened my door […]

Can love be subjected to any power? In a universe where wiping out love is counted as a deadly sin, passions torture people with even greater brutality. When the human need for freedom collides with tyranny, the masks fall and the characters go through the toughest test. Fantastiko Theatre presents William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, […]

After tackling non-performing loans, the volume of which he believes will go down very fast in the next year, unions are “the only stone not upturned”, Hellenic Bank CEO Yiannis Matsis told the 14th Economist Conference in Nicosia on Friday. He predicted the unions will be the next matter to be tackled. Matsis said banks […]

Plans for a breakaway European Super League, involving top clubs such as Real Madrid and Manchester United, are back on the agenda, German magazine Der Spiegel and European Investigative Collaborations, a network of international media, reported on Friday citing leaked documents. The magazine reported that talks between some of Europe’s leading clubs on a breakaway […]

Unai Emery’s Arsenal have come a long way since losing their first two Premier League games of the season and they face a major test of their credentials with the visit of unbeaten Liverpool on Saturday. Juergen Klopp’s side, second in the league standings on goal difference behind Manchester City, have only dropped points against […]