Новости за 04.07.2019

A 75-year-old woman from Sweden drowned on Thursday at a beach in Protaras. According to the police, the woman lost consciousness while swimming. She was spotted by bathers who managed to drag her ashore. The woman was rushed to Paralimni hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead on arrival. A preliminary...

A 43-year-old man was Thursday sentenced to eight years in jail after being found guilty of causing his mother’s death over a year ago. Limassol criminal court passed sentence on the defendant, who initially had denied the charges of assault and battery against his mother, 73-year-old Litsa Antoniou, now deceased....

A brown quartzite head of young king Tutankhamen sold at auction in London for more than 4.7 million pounds on Thursday, in the face of Egyptian demands for its return. The more than 3,000-year-old sculpture, displayed at Christie’s London auction house, shows the boy king taking the form of the ancient Egyptian...

The Cyprus banking system continues to post the second highest Non-Performing Loan (NPL) ratio in the European Union, following Greece, according data published by the European Banking Authority (EBA) on Thursday. The EBA issued its risk dashboard for the first quarter of 2019 showing that the NPLs (90 days past...

Police are asking the public to assist them in locating 39-year-old Thi Dung Duong, a Vietnamese woman who since Tuesday has been missing from her residence in the village of Pachna, Limassol district. The woman is described as being of slight build, tall, with long black hair. Anyone with information...

Police are asking the public for assistance in locating 77-year-old Andreas Agathangelou, who has gone missing from his home in the village of Ayii Anargyri, Larnaca. Agathangelou was last seen on Thursday morning. He is described as being of medium build, with short gray hair and gray stubble. He was...

Marcos Baghdatis’ retirement was confirmed by a 6-1 7-6 (4) 6-3 defeat to Matteo Berrettini. The 34-year-old Cypriot announced his plans to call time on his career when his Wimbledon campaign ended, which came in round two at the hands of the Italian. Baghdatis treated the crowd after the match...

Defending champion Angelique Kerber was dumped out of Wimbledon on Thursday as she suffered a stunning 2-6 6-2 6-1 second-round defeat by American world number 95 Lauren Davis. German Kerber, a three-time Grand Slam champion, raced through the first set before the match turned wildly on its head and Davis,...

A powerful quake of magnitude 6.4 on Thursday struck Southern California near the city of Ridgecrest, some 200 miles (320 km) northeast of Los Angeles, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The USGS said the quake, initially reported as a magnitude 6.6, was very shallow – only 5.4 miles (8.7 km)...

Venezuelan security forces are sending death squads to murder young men and stage the scenes to make it look like the victims resisted arrest, the United Nations said in a report issued by its human rights chief on Thursday. Government figures showed that deaths ascribed to criminals resisting arrest numbered...

Since Gesy kicked off on June 1, there have been 130,584 visits to GPs, 30,254 to specialists and 87,618 prescriptions have been issued out of the total 621,000 people who signed up to the national health scheme, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Thursday. The news conference held by the...

Young Jewish Europeans experience more anti-Semitism than their parents, with a rise in abuse coming in emails, text messages and social media postings, according to a European Union study released on Thursday. Around 44% of respondents aged 16-34 said they had suffered harassment, more than double the proportion for over-60s,...

Global conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) warned on Thursday of the risks from new faster-spreading “superfires” in the wake of heatwaves and droughts that have been afflicting Europe in what many see as a symptom of climate change. Although the Mediterranean is the area most affected by wildfires, traditionally...

Roger Federer dashed home hopes of an outlandish upset at Wimbledon by easing into the third round with a 6-1 7-6(3) 6-2 win over Britain’s world number 169 Jay Clarke on Thursday to reach the third round. Federer had never lost a Grand Slam match to somebody as low as...

European Union states opened the way to competing technologies for internet connected cars on Thursday, rejecting a European Commission push for a wifi-based standard backed by Volkswagen. The result represents a win for BMW and Qualcomm which support a rival 5G telecoms system. Germany, France and Italy, with powerful car...

The creation of a new museum to honour legendary Cypriot marathon runner, Stelios Kyriakides, will get underway in Paphos. The decision to create the ‘Stelios Kyriakides Museum,’ was taken at a meeting between the mayor of Paphos, Phedonas Phedonos, at the town hall on Thursday. Also present, among others were,...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday Cyprus could not do anything to stop Turkey from drilling for natural gas, and if it tried it would get a response like in the past. Ankara’s top diplomat also said that their drilling activity inside the island’s exclusive economic was in response...

The Larnaca Tourism Board (Etap) on Thursday announced the arrival of another renowned hotel chain, Indigo of the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). Indigo is one of the biggest boutique hotel chains in the world, the organisation said in an announcement. “Hotel Indigo® Cyprus-Larnaca is the first unit this hotel colossus...

By Jayson Mansaray and Marie-Louise Gumuchian Racial diversity in fashion has improved in recent years, but the industry must not treat it like a catwalk trend, British model Naomi Campbell told Reuters in an interview. One of fashion’s most recognisable faces, Campbell has long spoken of discrimination in the industry...

A draft bill to regulate blockchain technology in Cyprus is expected to be ready before the end of the year, as part of the National Strategy of Cyprus for blockchain that has been prepared, Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Thursday. The National Strategy was presented by the House President...

The first “Cyprus-Ireland Blue Growth Initiative” which has taken place in Ireland and Cyprus was successfully concluded, the Irish embassy announced. it said that following the visit of Ireland’s Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney to Cyprus in June 2018, it was agreed, with Foreign...

Top seed Ash Barty hurried into the Wimbledon third round on Thursday, dispatching Alison van Uytvanck 6-1 6-3 in 54 minutes on the All England Club’s distant showcourt Two. Barty is the woman of the moment having just won her first Grand Slam at the French Open but she and...

Jordan has joined the ranks of police-contributing countries to the UN peace-keeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp). Mutaz Hayajneh, the first United Nations Police (Unpol) officer representing Jordan in the Mission raised the Jordanian flag at Unficyp headquarters in Nicosia, while two additional officers from Jordan are expected to join the...

The (Pissouri) landslide article was featured as a double page spread across the centre pages of the Daily Mail’s ‘MoneyMail’ supplement yesterday – as well as featuring in its website and social media platforms. The Daily Mail is the UK’s second largest selling newspaper. It has twice the readership of...

Dutch crime boss Willem Holleeder was convicted by an Amsterdam court on Thursday for his involvement in five gangland killings, including of his own brother-in-law, and sentenced to life in prison. Holleeder, 61, nicknamed “The Nose” in Dutch media, is best known for his earlier conviction in the 1983 kidnapping of beer tycoon...