Новости за 10.11.2018

Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton handed Mercedes their 100th pole position at the Brazilian Grand Prix on Saturday while Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel qualified second but faced a stewards’ investigation for a weighbridge incident. The pole was a record-extending 82nd of Hamilton’s career and his 10th of a season that has already seen the Briton clinch […]

England fell agonisingly short of toppling New Zealand after a late try by Sam Underhill was controversially ruled out in a 16-15 defeat at Twickenham. Courtney Lawes charged down TJ Perenara’s 76th-minute box kick and the ball fell to Underhill, who weaved full-back Damian McKenzie inside out to touch down in the left corner. After […]

Massimiliano Allegri admits Juventus are still reeling from their dramatic defeat to Manchester United. The Bianconeri had not lost or conceded a goal in this season’s Champions League until Premier League club United arrived in Turin on Wednesday. Despite the fact Cristiano Ronaldo put the Italian champions ahead with an exquisite volley, Juan Mata’s late […]

TRANSPORT Minister Vasiliki Anastasiadou had to intervene on Saturday to avert escalation of a work dispute that prompted dock workers in Limassol port to down tools for a few hours in the morning. Dockers stopped working over a jurisdictional dispute with DP World, the private company that handles general cargo. The company insists that dockers […]

An Italian judge on Saturday acquitted Rome mayor Virginia Raggi of false testimony in a trial over a senior job appointment within city hall, defusing a possible crisis for her party, the ruling 5-Star movement. Raggi was elected mayor in 2016 in a vote that was seen at the time as a major breakthrough for […]

Twelve people died in heavy rains and flooding in parts of Jordan on Friday and authorities evacuated foreign tourists from the ancient city of Petra and other popular destinations, officials said on Saturday. The country has recently been hit by flash floods and heavy downpours. In the worst incident, 21 people – mostly school children […]

Turkey has given recordings related to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, the United States, Germany, France and Britain, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. Turkish sources have said previously that authorities have an audio recording purportedly documenting the murder. “We gave the tapes. We gave them to Saudi Arabia, to […]

Former minister Jo Johnson said some colleagues were “reflecting hard” on whether to quit over Theresa May’s Brexit plan after his dramatic resignation threw the British prime minister’s deal into jeopardy. The junior transport minister, who is the younger brother of former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, issued a searing critique of May’s Brexit deal on […]

THE Cyprus government issued a navigational telex (navtex) notification to seafarers on Saturday ahead of the arrival next week of Stena IceMax, a drilling ship commissioned by Exxon Mobil to explore for hydrocarbons in block 10 of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone. The drillship is expected to arrive within the next two days in the port […]

U.S. President Donald Trump and France’s Emmanuel Macron agreed on Saturday on the need for more European defence spending, papering over an earlier Trump tweet that had described Macron’s call for a European army as “very insulting”. Meeting for talks at the Elysee a day before commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War […]

THE Limassol District Court renewed the remand of a 53-year-old man for a further seven days, arrested last week when police found 63 kg and 700 g of cannabis in toy cranes at a warehouse he managed, police said late on Friday. Police arrested the man on October 31, after they searched the warehouse on […]

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron have sought to diffuse tensions over comments by both leaders that threatened to cast a shadow over a weekend marking 100 years since the end of World War One. The American and French leaders, who have had somewhat of an up-and-down relationship, worked to project unity of […]

Lewis Hamilton is celebrating his fifth Formula One world championship already and Sunday should see Mercedes catch up with their driver by securing a fifth successive constructors’ title in Brazil. Only Ferrari have enjoyed such a previous run, with six in succession between 1999 and 2004, and Sebastian Vettel and team mate Kimi Raikkonen are […]

A restaurant owner in Paphos caught a man who had allegedly burgled his business in the early hours of Saturday. Police said the restaurant’s alarm went off at around 12.50am, alerting the owner who rushed to his business. There, he found that the cash machine’s drawer was missing, along with an undisclosed amount of cash. […]

Where do you live? If you ask the people closest to me, they’d tell you that I live in my workshop because that’s where I spend most of my time and nights, but the truth is that I live with my family and my wife in Lakatamia. Best childhood memory? The first time I held […]

A 63-year-old man from Famagusta was fined €2,000 on Friday after he was caught in possession of 36 dead wild birds. The birds were found in plastic containers by police and Game Fund officers during a search of the man’s house at 8.20am on Friday. A Game Fund expert determined they were wild birds and […]

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international – in audio form. Presented by Rosie Charalambous Our guests this week were all panelists at the recent Economist ‘Cyprus Summit’ on hydrocarbons, regional stability and financial policy: the US […]

Limassol police arrested a 27-year-old man early on Saturday after he crashed his car while driving under the influence of alcohol. The man was travelling on Amathounda Avenue at around 3am when he apparently lost control of the vehicle, climbed over the median and into the opposite side of the road, and crashed into the […]

US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Francis Fannon will travel to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Nicosia, and Cairo starting Monday, November 11 to 20, the State Department announced on Friday. During his trip, Fannon will be meeting with government officials and private sector representatives to discuss energy security and regional cooperation on energy […]

The EU-funded and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) implemented road works in Lefka and Dherynia are now completed, UNDP announced. According to a press release, the European Union as part of its Aid Programme for the Turkish Cypriot community funded the road works for the section in the buffer zone and its northern part. The […]

The Limassol derby between leaders AEL and third-placed Apollon is by far the most intriguing tie of the weekend in Cyprus, with the Famagusta derby between Anorthosis and Nea Salamina playing second fiddle. In the past few seasons the big Limassol derby would attract more than 5,000 supporters but with the boycott imposed by the […]

A world class development  Limassol Del Mar is a fully licensed, pioneering and luxurious project, which constitutes a developmental milestone of high standards, not only for Cyprus but also worldwide. The construction works continue in full swing, following the schedule closely and uninterruptedly throughout the day and night. An impressive online timelapse video records the […]

Wildfires burned out of control on Friday across California, killing at least nine people in a mountain town and forcing residents to flee the upscale beach community of Malibu in the face of a monster fire storm. All nine victims were found in and around the Northern California town of Paradise, where more than 6,700 […]

DEPUTIES regularly often embrace irrationality in their tireless efforts to pose as the defenders of the little people. They do not mind making fools of themselves as long as they can persuade the more gullible sections of the population that they are fighting for their rights and interests. Few do this better than Diko deputy, […]

The Church of Cyprus on Friday said that it has excellent relations with all Christian Orthodox churches, after reports that the Russian ambassador to Nicosia said that Archbishop Chrysostomos has sided with Russia in its ongoing religious dispute with Ukraine. The announcement comes after Russian ambassador to Cyprus, Stanislav Osadchiy, said that if the Church […]