Новости за 07.12.2019

Manchester City’s Premier League title hopes were in tatters after suffering a 2-1 derby defeat at home to Manchester United on Saturday, leaving Pep Guardiola’s champions 14 points behind leaders Liverpool. Goals from Marcus Rashford (penalty) and Anthony Martial put Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side 2-0 up at the break and...

Paphos patients submitted almost 2,000 complaints between 2013 and 2018 concerning state and private hospitals and labs, the head of the district’s committee for patient complaints, Savvakis Georgiou, said on Saturday. Georgiou told the Cyprus News Agency that between 2013 and 2018, the committee received 1,945 complaints from patients concerning...

Liverpool chalked up another routine win, 3-0 at Bournemouth, to open a daunting 11-point lead in the Premier League on a day when Everton finally had something to cheer as caretaker manager Duncan Ferguson inspired a 3-1 victory over Chelsea. The individual honours, however, were taken by Tottenham Hotspur’s Son...

Truckers blocked roads in about 10 regions around France on Saturday to protest against a planned reduction in tax breaks on diesel for road transport, while train and metro services remained heavily disrupted by a strike against pension reform. In Paris there were scuffles with police in the Denfert Rochereau...

The United States and Iran each freed a prisoner on Saturday in a rare swap, an act of cooperation between two longtime foes whose ties have worsened since President Donald Trump took office. Trump said Xiyue Wang, a U.S. citizen held in Iran for three years on spying charges, was...

Apart from the Christmas markets that are on every weekend this month, live music nights are also taking over the cultural agenda. Singers from Greece, Cyprus and abroad are heading to the island this December with back to back performances. One event not to miss is all about blues as...

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will spend the weekend on Capitol Hill preparing for what could be the final week of their months-old impeachment inquiry that has imperiled Donald Trump’s presidency. The House Judiciary Committee’s Democratic lawmakers are due to meet on Saturday and Sunday behind closed doors...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday his country does not wish conflict with anyone but would protect its vessels in the eastern Mediterranean by any means necessary if it came to it. In response to a question from the press after his speech at an event organised by...

Residents of Ayia Fyla in Limassol symbolically blocked the avenue bearing the same name on Saturday morning in protest over the daily traffic congestion they are faced with due to the inactivity of authorities to address the situation. Protesters also handed out flyers to drivers highlighting the problem and calling...

Everton caretaker manager Duncan Ferguson inspired a performance straight from the traditional Goodison Park playbook as his side bristled with intent to beat Chelsea 3-1 and move out of the Premier League relegation zone on Saturday. Two goals from Dominic Calvert-Lewin after Richarlison’s early opener justified Ferguson’s decision to shake...

Ayia Napa deputy mayor Christos Zannetos announced on Saturday he was running as an independent candidate in the coastal resort’s mayoral elections. The municipality will soon have elections for a new mayor after the incumbent, Yiannis Karousos, left his post to assume duties this week as the new transport minister....

Where do you live? Athens, down town, with my girlfriend Best childhood memory? When I learned how to ride a bicycle. I felt free as a bird. Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? What food would you really turn your nose up to? Wherever they know how to make...

A 15-year-old boy was remanded for three days on Saturday in Limassol after being caught with drugs in his possession with intent to sell, police said. The teenager was arrested in the early hours, at around 1.30am, near a car wash in Limassol after patrolling officers saw him wandering in...

If there’s something we all do a lot of over the Christmas period it is to eat. Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas day lunch, Boxing day, the list goes on. And not to forget parties and Christmas markets. Stuffing our selves with turkey, sausages and roast potatoes is a reoccurring practice...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn clashed over Brexit on Friday in the last televised debate before next week’s election that will determine the path for Britain’s departure from the European Union. Six days before Britain votes in its second national election in less than three...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis on Saturday attended the sinking of ‘Elpida’ boat off Larnaca, a move aimed at creating protected areas of artificial reefs around the island. Elpida, a 63-metre long boat, brought from Greece, is the biggest of the five vessels sunk so far off the coast of Cyprus...

By Ella Walker You think you know potatoes, and then you discover what The Quality Chop House does to them. Chef Shaun Searley began putting confit potatoes on the London restaurant’s menu back in 2013 but they weren’t a guarantee to begin with – you might have been in luck...

Excavations by the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) are ongoing near the Tekke Bahcesi in the northern part of old Nicosia, with excavation teams having so far recovered the remains of three people, believed to belong to Greek Cypriots who went missing in 1964. The CMP is searching for a...

World heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr has said he fulfilled a lifelong dream when he triumphed over Britain’s Anthony Joshua in June and he would “die trying” to defend his belts in the title rematch in Saudi Arabia on Saturday. Mexican-American Ruiz produced one of boxing’s biggest upsets when he dethroned the previously undefeated world champion Joshua with...

Anorthosis head into the first game of the regular season’s second round with a two-point lead over second-placed Omonia, who have payed one game more than the league leaders. Temur Ketsbaia’s men, who lead the way with 24 points, will host AEL at Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium in Larnaca, hoping to...

“The walled city of Nicosia is filled with structures and monuments that stand in time as remnants of the lives of people who existed in this place,” say the organisers of an upcoming cycling tour across old Nicosia. “These monuments stand as silent narrators, waiting for passersby to take a...

A week ago there was little about Saturday’s Manchester derby to whet the appetite but after statement performances from both teams it suddenly has the feel of ‘must watch’ football again. Manchester City had lost their mojo, their draw at Newcastle United the latest in a series of below-par performances which suggested not only...

Jiu Jitsu, the first international movie shot in Cyprus and which starred Nicolas Cage will premiere next February, while the production of a new film will begin in January, it emerged on Friday. According to the chairman of Invest Cyprus Michalis Michael, foreign producers have expressed interest in taking advantage...

IT WOULD BE very interesting to find out whether public tenders in other countries turn into farce as frequently as they do in Cyprus. There is rarely a tender for a public project that goes smoothly and is awarded without it being referred to the Tenders’ Review Authority or becoming...

Cyprus customs department said on Friday they seized thousands of cigarettes and tobacco products along with cash, cars, and fuel in the month of November. Customs said that during the month agents dealt with a total of 306 cases in total, and most of them were settled out of court....