Новости за 10.08.2019

A CROWDFUNDING appeal to raise money to cover the legal fees of a 19- year-old British girl who claims she was forced by Cypriot police to withdraw a gang-rape complaint, has raised over £19,000 (€20,200), exceeding its £15,000 target, all within two days of being launched. As of Saturday afternoon,...

A no-deal Brexit would hurt Britain more than the rest of Europe no matter how much Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government pretends otherwise, outgoing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in remarks published on Saturday. Britain has been pressing the European Union to amend the terms of Britain’s withdrawal agreement,...

An own goal by Watford midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure and second-half strikes by forwards Florin Andone and Neal Maupay gave Brighton & Hove Albion a superb 3-0 victory in their Premier League opener at Vicarage Road on Saturday. Brighton went ahead in the 28th minute after pouncing on a weak headed...

Jose Mourinho has taken up a role as an analyst with Sky Sports before a potential return to management and his first assignment during the Premier League season will be Sunday’s clash between former teams Manchester United and Chelsea. The Portuguese, who has been out of a job since being...

President Nicos Anastasiades is expected to send a non-paper to Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, containing his counterproposals on the issue of natural gas, the main sticking point during the informal meeting held on Friday. “We are talking about a non-paper, we are not talking about a proposal,” a government...

US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was found dead early on Saturday after an apparent suicide in the New York jail cell where he was being held without bail on federal sex-trafficking charges, and a source said the FBI was investigating his death. Epstein, 66, was found unresponsive in his cell in...

Raheem Sterling scored a hat-trick as champions Manchester City made a convincing start to their title defence with a 5-0 win over West Ham United, in a game which saw heavy use of video review, at the London Stadium on Saturday. Brazilian Gabriel Jesus, preferred by Pep Guardiola to Sergio...

A 45-year-old was remanded for four days by the Limassol district court on Saturday in connection with a car arson. According to the police, a car belonging to a 73-year-old Limassol resident which was parked in the yard of his home was set on fire at 2.30am on Saturday. The...

Yeroskipou council hopes to persuade the authorities to swap a piece of land earmarked for development for another nearby to protect the site which is of significant archaeological interest. Protests against the planned two tower blocks and a hotel have been whipped up after important finds were announced in the area, according to the local...

“Boundaries and conceptual borders that are set – exist to be broken,” says Christina Skarpari, founder of Xarkis Festival. In this year’s festival, on August 16,17 and 18, the organisers hope to question, disrupt and re-evaluate the theme of ‘borders’ through a series of international cultural experiences, amid a backdrop...

A 23-year-old British tourist was attacked and beaten by an unknown person in Ayia Napa in the early hours of Saturday. According to the police, in his statement, the 23-year-old said that at around 2.30am, while he was in the centre of Ayia Napa, an unknown person attacked and beat...

The Animal Party on Saturday called for a thorough investigation by the airline responsible for losing a cat, Sakis, belonging to one of its passengers while it was being transferred to an aircraft at Larnaca. A call for help in locating the cat was posted on social media by the...

Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac, who escaped unhurt after an attempted carjacking last month, are not in the squad for the team’s Premier League opener at Newcastle United due to “further security incidents”, the club said on Friday. “Ozil and Kolasinac will not be part of the squad for...

A second post-mortem conducted in Athens on the body of 35-year-old Natalie Christopher ruled out the possibility of foul play in her fall from a height on the island on Ikaria. The preliminary post-mortem conducted on the body on-site at the bottom of a ravine in Ikaria on Thursday by...

Energy regulators on Saturday demanded an urgent report from the operator of Britain‘s electricity grid into what caused a power cut that led to chaos across the country, with trains brought to a standstill and traffic lights knocked out. The hour-long outage on Friday evening left almost 1 million homes without...

Dimitra Themistocleous is waiting for us at the side of the road, with an armful of flowers. Wild orchids. Aren’t they protected? “Well, the goats eat them as well.” Dimitra has a herd of around two hundred goats. The kids are just a few weeks old, so it’s not really...

A 63-year-old Georgian man with Greek nationality, Charalambos Sahpatzidis, died in the early hours of Saturday two days after he was injured on a building site in Paphos, police said. Sahpatzidis died at 3am in the intensive care unit at Paphos general hospital where he was taken late Thursday after...

A 76-year-old man from Nicosia died in Larnaca Friday in an apparent drowning. The man and his wife were in the water off Kastella beach in the afternoon when they were hit by a big wave, which dragged them under. Lifeguards managed to reach them by boat and gave then...

After a very successful event in July, local band Macumba is returning for one more concert at the Technopolis 20 garden, on Saturday, August 17. Their sound incorporates a different approach to Latin music, creating an explosive cocktail of Brazilian funk, samba, rumba and guaguanco afro-Cuban blended through a modern...

COPENHAGEN, Aug 10 (Reuters) – An explosion damaged a police station in Copenhagen early on Saturday, in the second blast to hit the Danish capital in four days. No one was injured in the blast, which happened outside a station in the Norrebro, just outside the city centre, police said...

By Ju-min Park SEOUL, Aug 10 (Reuters) – North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range missiles on Saturday, SouthKorea said, in a “show of force” against U.S.-S.Korea joint military exercises. More missile launches are highly probable, as the North Korean military is conducting its own summer drills, South Korea‘s Joint Chiefs of Staff said...

THERE is a new model in place to catch traffic offenders, both on the motorways and in the towns, head of the traffic department Yiannakis Georgiou said on Friday. Speed control on the motorway is changing, with triple checks replacing the single check which has been in place so far....

EVERYONE who saw the capital statements released by the politicians made sarcastic comments on social media. Nobody seemed to believe that these declarations of assets were accurate, although it would be wrong to claim that all the politicians had lied about their wealth. What it would be correct to say...

European champions Liverpool made an emphatic start to the new Premier League season by handing promoted Norwich City a 4-1 thrashing at Anfield on Friday. Liverpool, who finished a point behind champions Manchester City last season, grabbed a seventh minute lead when Norwich captain Grant Hanley, attempting to clear a...