Новости за 24.04.2019

Arsenal’s fragility on the road returned as a 3-1 defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Wednesday put a huge dent in their hopes of a top-four finish in the Premier League. Arsenal needed only a point to reclaim fourth spot from Chelsea but conceded three times before the break. Unai Emery’s side were stunned as Wolves […]

Britain’s Chancellor Philip Hammond began the search for a new governor of the Bank of England to help steer the world’s fifth-biggest economy, and its global financial centre, through the upheaval of Brexit. Mark Carney, a Canadian, twice extended his term in charge of the British central bank as Brexit approached. But he has ruled […]

A scaffolding firm that has worked on the roof of Notre-Dame said some of its workers had smoked on the site, but ruled out that a cigarette butt might have started the fire that destroyed the cathedral’s oak-framed roof last week. A spokesman for family-owned Le Bras Freres, confirming a report in French weekly Le […]

The U.N. human rights chief on Wednesday condemned the beheadings of 37 Saudi nationals across the kingdom this week, saying most were minority Shi’ite Muslims who may not have had fair trials and at least three were minors when sentenced. Saudi Arabia, which said on Tuesday it had carried out the executions over terrorism crimes, […]

Belgian police raided the offices of Anderlecht and the national football association on Wednesday in relation to a money laundering investigation involving agents and player transfers. A spokeswoman for the Brussels club told public broadcaster VRT that Anderlecht was cooperating fully with the probe and a spokesman for the Belgian FA told Reuters that police […]

Police said Wednesday they were investigating a third murder case against the 35-year-old suspect held in connection with killing two women whose bodies were found in an abandoned mine shaft. In a statement in the afternoon, police said Nicos Metaxas, an army officer, was being investigated in connection with premeditated murder and abduction with a […]

Members of the civil service union Pasydy working in the state environment department on Wednesday called on the government to exempt their service from a possible hiring freeze, saying they urgently need additional staff. Pasydy’s branch for environment department employees said in an announcement that despite a large number of studies since 2011, including by […]

A Kurdish man wanted in Germany on terrorism charges had been granted asylum by Cyprus due to his political action in Turkey, a Larnaca court heard on Wednesday. Korkmaz Cerkez, 60, was arrested on March 21 at Larnaca airport, just before boarding a flight to Athens. He has been detained on a European arrest warrant […]

Children aged two to four should not be allowed more than one hour of “sedentary screen time” per day and infants less than one year old should not be exposed to electronic screens at all, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. The United Nations agency, issuing its first such guidelines, said under-fives should […]

A 41-year-old police officer was remanded in custody for five days on Wednesday in connection with corruption and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. The hearing was held behind closed doors. The officer was arrested by the force’s internal affairs department on Tuesday. He is being investigated for dereliction of duty, disobedience, conspiracy to […]

Heavy equipment drivers who work at Eurogate at the Limassol port went on an impromptu work stoppage on Wednesday morning claiming they’ve been discriminated against by their employer who gave a bonus to some of their co-workers but not them. The workers went back to work at around noon after their union reps received reassurances […]

Preservation works on the ‘Resolution’ monument located in front of the Ledra street checkpoint have been completed, the Nicosia municipality said on Wednesday. The reservation work was done by the creator of the monument, sculptor Theodoulos. The monument commemorates human rights and describes in Greek the first articles of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. […]

Turkish authorities have arrested a suspected Islamic State member they believe was planning to attack a World War One commemoration at Gallipoli attended by hundreds of Australians and New Zealanders, local police said on Wednesday. The suspect, a Syrian national, was detained in Tekirdag, a northwestern province close to the Gallipoli peninsula, a Tekirdag police […]

Limassol police arrested 16 youngsters overnight in their latest attempt to combat juvenile delinquency in the run-up to Easter. Areas in the Limassol district where teenagers gather, especially near churches, were targeted. Following a complaint, officers inspected the area around the church of Profitis Ilias in Germasoyia on Tuesday evening, where they carried out 12 […]

A €1 commemorative postage stamp depicting former President Glafcos Clerides was presented on Wednesday by the Press and Information Office, the Cyprus Post Office and the Glafcos Clerides Institute to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth. “The stamp honours the memory of President Clerides, but also honours the contemporary history of Cyprus,” director of […]

  The early Sunday bombings shattered the relative calm that has existed in Buddhist-majoritySri Lanka since a civil war against mostly Hindu, ethnic Tamil separatists ended 10 years ago, and raised fears of a return to sectarian violence. Sri Lanka‘s 22 million people include minority Christians, Muslims and Hindus. Until now, Christians had largely managed to avoid the […]

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has challenged nations who label the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide, saying they should inspect Turkey’s Ottoman-era archives and “we have nothing to hide”. Marking April 24 1915, considered the start of the massacre of the Armenians, Mr Erdogan said nations who accuse Turkey of genocide […]

Gerhard Berger has always rated former team-mate Ayrton Senna in a league of his own but he says Lewis Hamilton now ranks alongside the late Brazilian Formula One champion in his estimation. Speaking ahead of the 25th anniversary of Senna’s death at Imola on May 1, Berger told reporters his friend still led as a […]

A white supremacist convicted of killing James Byrd Jr. in 1998 by dragging the 49-year-old black man behind a truck in one of the most notorious hate crimes in modern times is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Wednesday. John William “Bill” King, 44, is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. (2300 GMT) by […]

Arsenal’s hopes of finishing in the Premier League’s top four and qualifying for the Champions League are still in their own hands despite losing ground over the weekend, manager Unai Emery said on Tuesday. Arsenal, who were looking to move up to third over the weekend, now find themselves fifth in the table after Crystal […]

Cyprus’ first 30-year bond sale was overloaded with orders on Wednesday, with high demand for such long maturities showing just how much Europe’s bond market is adjusting to expectations of persistently low interest rates and central bank stimulus. Cyprus began marketing five-year and 30-year bonds on Wednesday, its first-ever in the latter category, and demand […]

Risk. Monopoly. Trivial Pursuit. Chess. Go. You’ve definitely played at least one of these in your life – and probably enjoyed it! Because that’s the thing about board games, they’re fun. But they’re also a wonderful medium for learning: for building or maintaining all sorts of abilities, from cooperation to coordination, from strategy to patience, […]

The head of Britain’s cyber centre said governments in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance had not always been aligned over Huawei, downplaying any threat of a rift as the UK prepares to give the Chinese company access to 5G networks. A security source has told Reuters that Britain will allow Huawei access to non-core parts […]

The body of a woman has been found on the roof of a building in central Nicosia, reports said on Wednesday. According to the reports, police are at the scene on Pindarou Street. The building where the woman was found houses ruling Disy’s youth wing Nedisy, and is adjacent to the main headquarters of main […]

Registration for the 10th Nicosia solar car challenge has kicked off for the event slated for June 23, it was announced on Wednesday. “Ten years ago, the Solar Car Challenge, organised by the Cyprus Institute aimed to raise awareness in Cypriot society, especially of the new generation, about the use of alternative energy sources,” an […]