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Harry Kane and Dele Alli scored two goals apiece as a rampant Tottenham Hotspur thumped Stoke City 4-0 to slice Premier League leaders Leicester City’s lead to five points on Monday. The visitors produced a scintillating display of attacking football and took the lead after nine minutes when Kane curled a shot past Stoke keeper […]

The United States announced its long-standing support for a Cypriot-led, UN-facilitated process to reunify the island ahead of a visit by Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland. “As a bizonal, bicommunal federation, Cyprus would be a beacon of stability and a model of reconciliation in this volatile region,” a press […]

By Giulia Segreti Three late 15th century paintings missing since they were looted by Nazi troops from a Tuscan villa over 70 years ago have been recovered and two people have been accused of receiving stolen goods, police announced on Monday. The works, of religious themes, seized in two private homes in Milan last July, were […]

An Emirates flight made an emergency landing at Larnaca airport on Monday after a passenger fell ill. The A380 aircraft was headed to the UK from Dubai when it asked for permission to land at Larnaca airport at around 6pm due to a medical emergency before departing for Manchester at 8pm. This was the first […]

Pledging that there would not be a haircut on deposits was probably his biggest mistake so far as president, Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday, but he emphasised that his administration was the only one who went after corrupt officials and put them in jail. “The pledge about the haircut was probably my biggest mistake simply […]

By Seyhmus Cakan and Orhan Coskun Rockets crashed in the south-eastern Turkish town of Kilis near the Syrian border on Monday, one of them hitting a teachers’ dormitory, and four people were killed, hospital and security sources said. Kilis, just across the border from an area of Syria controlled by Islamic State militants, has been […]

By Jonathan Allen US Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is throwing a concert in a park with a dramatic view of Manhattan’s skyscrapers. At the northern end of New York state, Republican front-runner Donald Trump will hold a rally in Buffalo, a Rust Belt city recovering from economic decline. The Democratic front-runner, former US Secretary […]

Watches worth € 60,000 were stolen from a car in Limassol between 12am and 8am on Monday. A leather bag containing 16 pocket and wrist watches with a total value of € 60,000 was stolen from the vehicle owned by a resident of Limassol. At the time of the theft the car was reportedly parked […]

By Evie Andreou Cyprus’ request to access the archives of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) in the hopes it would shed more light over missing persons, has been granted 15 years after it was submitted, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou said on Monday. Speaking at the press conference to announce the 31st Love […]

An explosion aboard a bus in Jerusalem caused around 20 casualties on Monday, Israeli media said, and police said it may have been a militant attack or the result of a fire from other causes. Television images showed smoke billowing from two burned-out buses, one of which apparently set fire to the other, on Derech […]

Two former Greek bankers whose arrest was sought after they failed to appear before a Cypriot court, said on Monday they will be present at the May 11 hearing after Greece’s authorities ordered their extradition last week. Former Laiki Bank board members Efthymios Bouloutas and Markos Foros, will be extradited to Cyprus where they face […]

It seems that Larnaca has made quite an impression on soulful house DJ, producer and remixer Dennis Ferrer, who will be at Ammos Beach Bar again on Sunday. Last year the DJ from New York celebrated Labour Day with us, and this year he is turning up the volume just before we enter Holy Week. […]

Police have assigned special teams to prevent rowdy incidents and the lighting of bonfires in dangerous areas in the lead up to Easter, the Nicosia police chief Demetris Demetriou said on Monday. With Easter approaching, teens are collecting firecrackers and gathering wood for the traditional lampratzia or bonfires which are lit after midnight on Easter […]

By Julia Symmes Cobb and Ana Isabel Martinez The death toll from Ecuador’s worst earthquake in decades rose to 350 on Monday as traumatised survivors rested amid the rubble of their homes and rescuers dug for survivors in the Andean nation’s shattered coastal region. At least 2,068 people were also injured in Saturday’s 7.8 magnitude […]

Cyprus has made tremendous progress in terms of LGBT rights and so far 16 couples have had civil partnerships since December 2015 when parliament passed the law allowing the union, activists heard on Monday. During a conference organised by the interior ministry, the Ombudswoman’s office and the Cyprus Academy of Public Administration aimed at avoiding […]

Marcus Rashford’s emergence at Manchester United has convinced goalkeeper David de Gea that the 18-year-old can go on to etch his name into the club history. The teenager has impressed since being promoted from the club’s academy this season, scoring seven goals in 12 appearances, including the winner in Saturday’s Premier League win over relegated […]

Egyptian, Italian and Greek officials were unable to confirm a BBC report on Monday that up to 400 people, most of them Somali, had capsized near the Egyptian coast after setting off for Italy in boats. Officials in Egypt did not immediately respond to inquiries and Italy’s coast guard, which coordinates all rescues in the […]

Limassol police arrested a 22-year-old man on Sunday in connection with numerous cases of burglary. The suspect, who was arrested in the evening, was on Monday remanded in custody for eight days. The 22-year-old was detained in connection with burglary and theft from a building, but in his statement to police he admitted to 20 […]

In what increasingly looked like a damage-control exercise, main opposition AKEL on Monday strived to dispel the notion that it got a €25,000 kickback to sign off on a contract for a public project back in 2010, sticking to their guns that the cash ended up in party coffers as a donation, not a sweetener. […]

The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) congress representing 150,000 local authorities from 41 countries congress is meeting at the Filoxenia conference centre in Nicosia from April 20 to 22. “It’s a double symbol, as Cyprus is a European island at the doors of the east, in the Mediterranean Sea, which is a place […]

Claudio Ranieri’s tactics, Riyad Mahrez’s creativity and Jamie Vardy’s goals have all played a part in Leicester City’s remarkable run but good karma is what will land them their first English Premier League title, according to a Thai monk. With only four games remaining, the Thai-owned club that looked set for relegation last year are […]

By Evie Andreou New car purchases in Cyprus lag behind much of the rest of Europe with almost half of all cars over 10 years old, a new report on car safety has shown. According to a survey by the European Transport Safety Council – PIN Flash Report 30 – while Cyprus ranks high in […]

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Time moves on, legends lose their lustre. Kevin Costner hasn’t been a box-office draw since the one-two punch of Waterworld and The Postman in the late 90s, indeed much of the multiplex audience for Criminal will surely be enticed by Ryan Reynolds rather than Kev – but Reynolds, best known as Deadpool, is just plain […]