Новости за 19.10.2019

Tottenham Hotspur snatched a 1-1 draw at home to Premier League basement club Watford on Saturday thanks to a fiercely contested late strike from Dele Alli that was awarded after a VAR review. Alli pounced on a lapse from Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster and used his shoulder to control the...

The feature film Pause directed by Tonia Misialis, is coming to cinemas all over Cyprus as of Thursday. Trapped in the misery of an oppressive marriage, Elpida faces a huge biological and psychological change. Her monotonous life is disturbed when in her perception, reality and imagination begin to get confused,...

Barcelona defender Clement Lenglet has backed the decision to postpone the ‘Clasico’ between Barca and Real Madrid due to political unrest in Catalonia, while coach Ernesto Valverde said he hoped the authorities were able to reschedule the game soon. The Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) on Friday approved a request from La Liga...

Around 60 properties islandwide will go under the virtual hammer next Wednesday in Cyprus’ first-ever digital online auction. Everything from plots of land to huge commercial properties, offices, homes and apartments are up for grabs through the auction site BidX1. Registration for the auction on October 23 is now open....

A charity fundraiser will see novice crews paddle against each other next month to raise funds for cancer charities in Paphos. There are still a couple of vacancies for crew members and training sessions are currently underway, said Maxine O’Daly of the ‘Breast of Friends’, a cancer support group and...

Where do you live? I live in Norwich, Norfolk, in the UK with my partner Annie and our dog Gus the collie Best childhood memory? When I was 9 I started taking lessons from a local artist in the village I grew up in. I would go weekly and paint...

New Zealand will face England in next Saturday’s Rugby World Cup semi-finals after the All Blacks pummelled a flat Ireland 46-14 in Saturday’s last-eight clash in Tokyo. The three-times champions had lost two of their last three matches against the Irish but Saturday’s performance better reflected the All Black’s overall...

Police on Saturday issued a missing person bulletin for 17-year-old Maria Andreou who has been missing from her home in Ayios Ioannis, Limassol, since Thursday. The teenager is described as being 1,70 metres tall, with long black hair. When last seen she was wearing black jeans and a black T-shirt....

  By Andrew MacAskill, Zandi Shabalala and James Davey Hundreds of thousands of Britons marched through London on Saturday to demand a new Brexit referendum, saying their views were being ignored as lawmakers in parliament decided the fate of Britain’s departure from the European Union. The protesters, some having travelled...

A 50-year-old Paphos man was remanded in custody for eight days on Saturday in connection with cultivating  cannabis, after police found 47 plants in his home. The suspect was arrested on Friday after police, acting on a tip-off, raided his house located in a village in the Paphos district. During...

A fragile ceasefire was holding along Turkey’s border with Syria on Saturday, two days after President Tayyip Erdogan agreed the truce to allow Kurdish forces time to pull back from Ankara’s cross-border assault. Erdogan agreed the truce during talks in Ankara on Thursday with U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence on stemming...

Artist Anna Vassiliou returns with a solo exhibition in Nicosia where she will present a new series of work and sculptures. In her paintings, Vassiliou continues to focus on the female figures involved in everyday stories. These faces are set on a pale or white background with bold patterns and...

The Foreign Ministry on Saturday issued a travel advisory for Lebanon following widespread protests in the neighbouring country. The Ministry points out that because of the protests many roads have been closed or are partially blocked, including the road to Rafic Hariri Airport. Protests broke out in Lebanon over the...

Europol’s new campaign “Crime has no gender” has revealed 19 female fugitives out of the 22 most wanted criminals chosen by different EU member states. The new campaign launched this week to promote Europol’s EU Most Wanted website focuses on the story behind the crime while the suspects’ faces are...

A 43-year-old woman died on Saturday after falling from a balcony in Paphos in the early morning hours. According to police, the woman, a Russian national, had visited the apartment of a friend and while she was standing on the balcony, under conditions that are being investigated, part of the...

Winger Jonny May scored two tries in three first-half minutes as England underlined their World Cup credentials with a dominant 40-16 win over Australia on Saturday to set up a semi-final against New Zealand or Ireland. Four years after the Wallabies sent England packing out of their own tournament, Eddie...

The Paphos district court on Friday remanded a 21-year-old for three days on suspicion of possession of stolen goods, police said. The suspect was arrested at 2am on Friday after police stopped and searched a car with two men. In the possession of the suspect, who was a passenger, officers...

By Kathy Gray A landmark trial over the US opioid epidemic is on track to begin on Monday after drug companies and local governments failed to agree on a settlement on Friday that had been expected to be valued at around $50 billion. Top executives of the largest US drug...

Turkey’s human rights violations in Cyprus cannot be normalised just because they have been in place for a long time, permanent representative at the UN Andreas Mavroyiannis said on Friday. Addressing the third committee of the UN General Assembly on the protection and promotion of human rights in New York,...

By David Kirton and Ryan Woo Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said on Saturday that China will work with the United States to address each other’s core concerns on the basis of equality and mutual respect, and that stopping the trade war would be good for both sides and the...

  By William James and Michael Holden Prime Minister Boris Johnson puts his last-minute Brexit deal to a vote in an extraordinary sitting of the British parliament on Saturday, a day of reckoning that could decide the course of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union. More than three...

By Claire Spreadbury I’m not sure I’ve ever eaten cake at 9.45am before. But when former Great British Bake Off winner John Whaite passes you a slice of his freshly baked spiced pumpkin and whisky loaf, suggesting you slather it in damson jam, it’s not something you say no to....

By Robin Emmott, Francesco Guarascio and Marine Pennetier BRUSSELS, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Senior European Union officials, worried by growing Chinese and Russian influence in the Balkans, accused France on Friday of making a “historic error” by refusing to let North Macedonia and Albania start talks on joining the EU. North Macedonia, Albania and...

Kimonos Art Center, in collaboration with the Municipality of Paphos, presents the third edition of Animattikon, the international animation festival of Paphos. After two successful editions and after the completion of a special summer edition, the Animattikon Project returns to its place of origin, the Attikon theatre, with a series...

The Cyprus football championship resumes this weekend following the international break with the top of the table clash between Anorthosis and Omonia taking centre stage. Elsewhere, Apoel take on Doxa Katokopias while Apollon have a tricky tie away to Ethnikos Achnas. In the other games Enosis and Nea Salamina meet...