Новости за 30.12.2018

MANCHESTER UNITED 4 BOURNEMOUTH 1 The re-born Paul Pogba scored twice, for the second time since Jose Mourinho’s departure from the club, as Manchester United beat Bournemouth 4-1 to make it three wins in a row for caretaker boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. After emphatic wins over Cardiff City and Huddersfield Town, the manner of the […]

By Elias Hazou Never easy, settling on the ‘pick of the year’ requires not merely jarring one’s memory but also – maybe even harder – the process of eliminating many items that you’re aching to editorialise on while writing them up as a straightforward news story. This time, the ‘winner’ just manifested from somewhere in […]

Israel protested to Jordan on Sunday after the spokeswoman for the government in Amman was photographed stepping on the Israeli flag during a meeting with trade unionists. Jumana Ghunaimat, Jordan’s minister for media affairs and communications and the government spokeswoman, on Thursday walked over an Israeli flag painted on the floor of the headquarters of […]

SOUTHAMPTON 1 MANCHESTER CITY 3 Manchester City bounced back from two consecutive defeats to beat Southampton 3-1 on Sunday and cut the gap on Premier League leaders Liverpool to seven points before the top two meet on Thursday. Pep Guardiola’s champions needed to regain their footing after stumbling against Crystal Palace and Leicester, and did […]

One of the most interesting aspects of 2018 was watching the creeping U-turns made by President Nicos Anastasiades on the Cyprus issue, especially in the second half of the year. When Anastasiades was re-elected in February, the Cyprob was on ice in the wake of the Crans-Montana failure in 2017, and there was no whiff […]

Belgium will appeal against a judge’s order forcing it to repatriate two Belgian women convicted of being Islamic State militants and their six children from Syria, the migration minister said on Sunday. A judge said on Wednesday that Belgium had to bring back Tatiana Wielandt, 26, Bouchra Abouallal, 25, and the children they had with […]

As 2018 comes to a close and a new year lies ahead, it’s difficult to choose just one story that stands out from the rest this year. I have written many articles dealing with difficult or heart-breaking situations and inevitably they tend to resonate the most. One involves home owners in the Limnes area of […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro told him that it was a matter of “when, not if” he moves his country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. The far-right Bolsonaro, who takes office on Tuesday and is hosting Netanyahu and the leaders of other counties for his inauguration, has […]

By George Psyllides At the end of 2014, in a piece just like this one, I asked whether it had been the year when the political corruption abscess had finally burst. It wasn’t that the answer to the question was not known to me deep down, but rather that I wanted to voice hope that […]

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the new leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats, heads into 2019 more popular than Chancellor Angela Merkel, who supported her rise to the top of their party, an opinion poll showed on Sunday. The survey by pollster Emnid for weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag showed 45 percent of 507 voters surveyed wanted Kramp-Karrenbauer to […]

By Theo Panayides It was a good year for bar owners: Christos Koukkides (a.k.a. ‘Moulos’), who runs Savino Rock Bar in Larnaca, followed a few months later by Panayiotis Kyriakou, the soft-spoken chap who ran Romylos Pub in Nicosia for 39 years (we spoke in late September, just after the pub changed hands). It was […]

A woman plunged off a cliff in the Kykkos area on Sunday while taking photos, reports said. The 66-year-old lost her balance while trying to take the photos at around 12.30pm. She was rescued by police helicopter and taken to Limassol hospital. Her condition as yet is unknown.

An 18-year-old motorist was killed on the Limassol-Nicosia highway on Sunday after losing control of  his vehicle and hitting the centre barrier. No other vehicle was involved in the accident. The accident happened around  3pm near the Kofinou exit. Both lanes toward Nicosia were closed to traffic until 4.30pm and traffic diverted to the old […]

Another year has come to an end with no clear improvement on animal welfare issues. And of all the mistreated animals, hunting dogs all too often fare the worst. According to the Animal Party, 90 per cent of all stray and abandoned dogs in Cyprus are hunting breeds, not that we need statistics to realise […]

A top official at a Indian state-run university urged his students to “murder” fellow students if confronted instead of complaining to him, amid a wave of violence being reported from across the state where the school is based. “If you’re a student of this University, never come crying to me,” said Raja Ram Yadav, vice-chancellor […]

  By SM Farid Mirbagheri ‘Populism’ is on the rise, so they say. Elections in Brazil and Spain in October and December respectively are just the latest in the series of political developments demonstrating the allure of right-wing conservative politicians. The Brexit referendum of 2016 was also a triumph of ‘traditionalists’ in a European state. […]

Ten Syrian refugees were found inside a truck a cargo ship moored in the port of Famagusta in the north, reports said on Sunday. Turkish Cypriot press reports said the 10 were identified inside a truck with Turkish logos on the cargo ship ‘Via Famagusta’ a car ferry. Investigation are being conducted, a report said.

The proclamation of the Akamas National Park development plan by cabinet on November 2 set the stage for an arson-laden month, as individuals apparently took it upon themselves to erase what should be a protected area, making way for projects of private profit. In a period usually marking the end of the fire season, the […]

Bangladesh’s Election Commission is investigating allegations of vote rigging coming from across the country on Sunday, a spokesman told Reuters, as polling for a general election marred by violence drew to a close. Clashes between supporters of the ruling Awami League and its opponents have killed at least 10 and wounded more than 20, police […]

President Nicos Anastasiades is ready to return to the negotiations at any time, as long as it’s under the terms of reference of the UN Secretary-General in order for there to be results, he was quoted as saying on Sunday. In an interview with Phileleftheros, part of which was publish online, Anastasiades also said that […]

By Annette Chrysostomou Journalists too often have to deal with the negatives, so seeing something positive going on right in the heart of our capital came as a surprise. And it is also always a pleasure to learn more about a city feature that has been around for years but most people can offer little […]

A message from the Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO) will be sent by the NASA New Horizons spacecraft as it flies – by the frozen “Ultima Thule”, a celestial body in the Kuiper Zone, at the edge of the solar system, 6.6 billion kilometers from Earth. The message is “Keep on Exploring!” and will be […]

At least 22 people have died due to landslides and flooding triggered by a tropical cyclone that brought heavy rains to central Philippines, a disaster agency official said on Sunday. The people, including a three-year-old boy, were reported dead as of Sunday morning, said disaster agency spokesman Edgar Posadas, after a tropical cyclone barrelled through the […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a New Year letter to his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, said on Sunday that Moscow was ready for dialogue on a “wide-ranging agenda”, the Kremlin said in a statement. In a separate letter to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Putin pledged continuation of aid to the Syrian government and people in […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants to hold more summits with South Korea’s Moon Jae-in next year to achieve the goal of denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, Moon’s office said on Sunday. Kim sent a letter to Moon on Sunday to commemorate the dramatic detente they engineered this year, including three summits, […]