Новости за 20.07.2019

If you want to know more about contemporary Cypriot dance don’t miss this year’s 16th Summer Dance Festival starting on Sunday in Limassol. Taking place at public venues in the heart of Limassol until July 27, the festival aims to reach audiences by staging works in locations and conditions that...

Teenage forward Mason Greenwood rifled home in the 75th minute to give a dominant Manchester United a 1-0 victory against Inter Milan in the International Champions Cup on Saturday. The 17-year-old turned sharply inside the box before firing into the far corner after Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic was only able...

Iraqi Kurdistan’s security services said on Saturday they had arrested a man for assassinating a Turkish diplomat in the regional capital Erbil, and believed the suspect was the brother of a lawmaker in the Turkish parliament. “The Kurdistan Region announced on Saturday the arrest of the man who planned the...

Cyprus on Saturday marked the 45th anniversary of the Turkish invasion on July 20, 1974 with sombre memorials and the eerie sound of war sirens as Turkey made fresh threats saying its armies would not hesitate to do the same as in the past. “What is always our priority is...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has discussed by telephone with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo the Russian S-400 missile defence system and the U.S. F-35 fighter jet programme, a foreign ministry source said on Saturday. The source did not say when the conversation took place. Ankara’s purchase of the S-400 system has infuriated the...

Main opposition Akel said on Saturday the Greek Cypriot side should come up with a counter-proposal to Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci’s suggestion on hydrocarbons, instead of just rejecting it. In a letter to President Nicos Anastasiades, Akel leader Andros Kyprianou said he was aware he signed on to the...

A free sports event aimed at children in Paphos will be held at a popular local beach on Tuesday, according to Paphos municipality. ‘Games on the Beach’ will be held at Faros beach (the lighthouse beach) on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 from 9am to 11am. “This is particularly good for...

Forensic experts extracted bones from two ossuaries within the walls of the Vatican on Saturday as part of an investigation aimed at resolving the case of a girl who vanished in 1983. Following an anonymous tip-off, the Vatican earlier this month opened two tombs to see if the body of...

New Juventus coach Maurizio Sarri said on Saturday he was a fan of Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba but he did not know if the Frenchman would be leaving England to join the Seria A champions. Pogba’s agent recently told The Times that the 26-year-old intends to leave the Premier...

A 17-year-old girl is in critical condition at Nicosia General Hospital after she crashed a family car in Kornos in the Larnaca district early Saturday, police said. According to the police traffic spokesman for Larnaca, Charis Chadjiyiasemi, authorities were notified at approximately 6am by a man who said that he...

The Great Ballets 2019 production brings a Euro-Mediterranean flavour to the annual event with the hosting of two dance groups from Cyprus and Israel. The opening will feature nine distinguished Cypriot dancers led by choreographers Daphne Mouyassi and Eleni O’Keef in a tribute to Manos Hadjidakis, the great Greek composer...

Togo is a country known, officially, as the Togolese Republic. At just 57,000 square kilometres it’s one of the smallest nations on the continent – though still six times the size of the island of Cyprus. Interestingly, both nations gained independence in the same year, though Togo broke from France,...

UN Special Representative and Unficyp Chief of Mission Elizabeth Spehar hopes the two leaders meet soon after they both expressed a willingness to do so. Following a briefing of the UN Security Council in New York on Friday night, Spehar said: “We knows that the two leaders have decided that...

Manny Pacquiao plans to teach WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman a painful lesson when the two face off in Las Vegas on Saturday. “I want to teach him, like a professor,” the 40-year-old Pacquiao, who is 10 years Thurman’s senior, told Fox Business on Friday. Pacquiao said he was in...

A lorry transferring hay bales was completely destroyed on Friday night after it caught fire, police said on Saturday. According to authorities, at approximately 8:30pm the fire broke out as the vehicle was moving in the Ayia Varvara area of Paphos, and the driver noticed it on time.  He exited...

British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that he was worried that Iran had taken a “dangerous path” after it seized a British-flagged tanker on Friday in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Fars news agency reported that the Stena Impero had been taken to the port of Bander Abbas,...

Police in Ayia Napa found over 90g of cocaine in a storage area belonging to a 32-year-old man in the early hours of Saturday morning, authorities said. According to police, after receiving a court-ordered search warrant they searched the area around 12.30am and found 96g of cocaine and a scale....

Where do you live? I live in Nicosia. Best childhood memory? We used to travel a lot with my family so best memory is when we visited Maui and of course California during summer vacation. Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? What food would you really turn your nose...

It has been a good year for Cyprus film but the Pantheon Cinema takes a wider view with the continuing Tribute to Cypriot Cinema this month, with a choice of three films, all locally produced, all very different from each other and all well worth watching. The first is Rosemary...

By Kate Holton and Parisa Hafezi LONDON/DUBAI, July 19 (Reuters) – Britain said Iran seized two oil tankers in the Gulf on Friday and told Tehran to return the vessels or face consequences in the latest confrontation to ratchet up tension along a vital international oil shipping route. Iran’s Revolutionary...

Cypriots woke up Saturday to the sound of sirens, marking the 45th anniversary of the Turkish invasion. The invasion of Cyprus came only five days after the coup engineered by the military junta, then ruling Greece, that toppled the democratically-elected president of Cyprus, the late Archbishop Makarios III. Air-raid sirens...

The first-ever report from the island’s competitiveness council presents ‘mixed picture’ CYPRUS’ competitiveness suffers from a weak business sector, low entrepreneurship and firm dynamism, relatively low rates of business innovation and adoption of digital technologies, limited access to alternative forms of financing and, despite a highly-educated workforce, skill mismatches, a...

THE CYPRUS problem theatre was given a new twist thanks to the publication of Mustafa Akinci’s letter to the UN Secretary-General, requesting the holding of an informal five-party conference on Cyprus to establish whether all sides were still committed to a bizonal, bicommunal federation (BBF). This, he wrote in his...

Algeria won the Africa Cup of Nations for the second time on Friday when a fortuitous second-minute goal gave them a 1-0 win over Senegal in the final. Baghdad Bounedjah stunned Senegal with a shot which took a wicked deflection off a defender and looped over the bewildered goalkeeper Alfred...