Новости за 01.01.2017

ARSENAL 2 CRYSTAL PALACE 0 Olivier Giroud scored with a superb, improvised backheeled volley as Arsenal eased past struggling Crystal Palace with a 2-0 win that moved them into third spot in the Premier League on Sunday. The France international produced a flying scorpion-like flick with his left heel to convert Alexis Sanchez’s cross while […]

WATFORD 1 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 4 Tottenham Hotspur steamed into the top four as Harry Kane marked his 100th Premier League appearance with a double in a 4-1 thrashing of a woeful Watford on Sunday. Kane pounced in the 27th and 33rd minutes, both from Kieran Trippier assists, and Dele Alli also struck twice for the […]

A gunman stormed a house party and killed at least 11 people and himself during New Year celebrations in the southeastern Brazilian city of Campinas late on Saturday. Police in the state of São Paulo said the shooter is believed to have been angry over a separation from his former wife, who was among those […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May pledged in a New Year message on Sunday to seek a Brexit deal that would work for all Britons, not just those who voted to leave the European Union in a referendum she said had laid bare the nation’s divisions. Britons voted by 52 to 48 percent last June to […]

Pope Francis urged leaders to work together to fight the “plague of terrorism”, saying in his New Year’s address on Sunday that a bloodstain was covering the world as it started 2017. Speaking to some 50,000 people in St. Peter’s Square for his traditional noon address, Francis departed from his prepared text to condemn the […]

Syrian government warplanes carried out several air strikes and low-level clashes persisted in some areas on Sunday, but a Russian and Turkish-backed ceasefire largely held in other areas on its third day, a monitoring group and rebels said. Jets bombed the villages of Kafr Kar, Mintar and around the town of Banan in the southern […]

Armed men attacked a prison in Bahrain on Sunday, freeing several convicts and killing a policeman, the interior ministry said. “An armed attack on the Jau reform and rehabilitation centre resulted in the death of policeman Abdul Salam Saif and the escape of a number of inmates convicted of terrorist crimes,” the ministry said in […]

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will miss a New Year’s Day church service on Sunday due to a heavy cold, Buckingham Palace said, a week after the 90-year-old monarch missed a Christmas Day service for the first time in decades. Elizabeth, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, became unwell before Christmas and has been staying indoors at her Sandringham […]

Islamic State militants attacked a police checkpoint near the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on Sunday, killing seven policemen and wounding 17 others including civilians, local police sources said. The assailants were travelling through the desert in two vehicles around al-Qadisiya town west of Najaf. When police stopped the first vehicle for inspection, the driver […]

Twenty three people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday after a fire ripped through a boat carrying nearly 250 people to islands north of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, the city’s search and rescue agency said. The Zahro Express caught fire shortly after leaving Muara Angke port in North Jakarta. The cause of the fire […]

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Nissan Motor Corporation, says the disruptive triangle of electrification, autonomous drive and connectivity technology is forcing the global auto industry to rethink how our cars will operate in the future, and how we will use them. “If we get it right”, he says, “the technology being developed and tested […]

The Cyprus Mail, with its expert writers and extensive archive material, has compiled this special background briefing on efforts to reunify the island since 1974. There are profiles of the main players in the current negotiations and of those involved in previous settlement attempts. There are concise, factual guides to earlier peace plans, a useful […]

PRESIDENT Anastasiades will brief the people and political parties before leaving for Geneva, his spokesman has said. Nobody cares what he will tell the party leaders, most of whom have said they will be accompanying him to Geneva anyway, but the people need to be given a general idea of what will be discussed because […]

Twenty sixteen was the year the Cyprus problem reclaimed its crown as the most talked about issue after three years where most of the focus was on the economy. What remains to be seen is whether 2017 will become the year when nothing else will be talked about. The last time there was this much […]

It’s not yet clear whether Demetris Christofias’ presidential term was the worst overall in the young republic’s history, but the battle for the single most disappointing one, relative to the hope it inspired at its outset, is no contest. The harder they fall, as they say. And yet, almost four years after he left office, […]

I should just admit here and now that the weekly profiles I write for the ‘Living’ section of the Sunday Mail (I spoke to 43 people in 2016) are a kind of emotional vampirism. I can feel it in my bones post-interview, walking to my car or driving to the office after an hour or […]

Fake news: as old as apple pie. It can be traced back to at least the 1898 sinking of the USS Maine battleship off Havana harbour, erroneously and deliberately blamed on the Spanish. What’s this have to do with affairs closer to home? The ongoing ‘fake news’ histrionics in the US, spreading to the EU, […]

It’s that time again, where we are asked to write our top story of the year. Although a couple deserve mentioning, my top story had the greatest effect on me. The actions of Dikla Smith and Mikka Heaney, organisers of a ‘Gift of Love’, which ensure children of needy families in Paphos get a present […]

It’s not that I get bored with writing about cars destroyed by arson every second day, or the environment or education. Don’t get me wrong, as a journalist I know all these issues need to be pointed out and investigated, and most days I like to help enlighten the public on what is going on […]

By Patricia Jordan Hopefully, we will have yet more rain this month to fill the wells and dams, which have been at an all time low. Although this is one of the coldest months of the year, you will be surprised just which plants are putting on growth. Some bulbs that were dormant last winter […]

By John Lloyd A heavy cold and a nation shivers. The cold is that attributed, this week, to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II (her formal titles would take much of the rest of this column). The shivers are those of the political establishment. Everything of moment in the United Kingdom depends, formally, on the 90-year-old Queen. […]

AN OPINION poll published earlier in the week by Turkish Cypriot newspaper Dialogue found that 89 per cent of Turkish Cypriots wants a number of Turkish soldiers to remain in Cyprus after a settlement. The same percentage considers that guarantees should remain as they are. In fact, to a question of whether the status of […]

IN APRIL 2004 an unknown Englishman by the name of Ashley Revell wrote world gambling history. Unbelievable as it may sound, he cashed in all his assets, amounting to $135,000 and went to a casino in Las Vegas with the aim of either doubling his money or losing it all by betting on one of […]

By Tahsin Eroglu AS THE Switzerland meetings draw closer, it appears that hardliners on both sides of the divide are intensifying their efforts to turn people against a solution, before the leaders even agree on a plan. What is most astonishing however, is the similarity of the arguments and actions of the so-called rejectionist camps. […]

This past year has been one where the limits and failings of democracy became more visible than at any time since World War Two enshrined the view that representative government was best.  After that vast and hideous conflict, democracies defeated the tyrannies of Germany, Italy and Japan – ironically, a victory made certain by the […]