Новости за 03.03.2024

Phil Foden kept Manchester City’s Premier League title challenge on track with a superb second-half double as his side hit back to clinch a 3-1 home victory over Manchester United on Sunday. Marcus Rashford’s eighth-minute thunderbolt gave United the lead against the run of play and it looked like the...

This is the month when we see great changes in the garden. There are swathes of bright yellow in the countryside, a foretaste of the sunny weather to come. Not everyone likes the early yellow flowers of oxalis, which can take over your borders and flower beds given half a...

A 32-year-old man appeared in court on Sunday accused of causing actual bodily harm and “using a weapon to incite terror” in Xylotymbou. He is being investigated for a total of nine offences including violence against women, domestic violence, stalking, harassment, carrying a weapon, and breaching the peace. He was...

One in three Cypriots is overweight, the Cyprus Association of Dietitians and Nutritionists said on Sunday. Ahead of Monday’s World Obesity Day, the association released a set of statistics which show that 36.1 per cent of Cypriots aged between 20 and 80 years old are overweight. A total of 27.8...

Cyprus inability to benefit from LNG because of the Vasilikos debacle is proving to be costly   European gas prices have tumbled down to levels last seen before the crisis. The benchmark price at the Dutch TTF gas trading hub is $8.2/mmBTU (per about 1,000 cubic feet). This is due...

Archbishop Georgios said on Sunday that Turkey is planning a “complete occupation of Cyprus”. Speaking at a memorial for Eoka fighter Grigoris Afxentiou, who was killed on March 3, 1957, he said “the Turks’ plans are very clear. They are calling not for a consolidation of what has been done,...

Opposition party says not given adequate information before a vote on airport’s contested future The protocol between the north Cyprus and Turkey regarding the handing over of Lefkoniko airport to the Turkish army is being kept secret on the grounds that it constitutes classified military information. The protocol, backed unexpectedly...

The government on Sunday issued an “anti-navtex” in response to a Turkish navtex message regarding maritime research in the sea off Cyprus’ northern coast. Turkey had earlier issued a navtex, a message used to transmit information to seaborne vessels, to authorise a research boat by the name of Bilim 2,...

By Chris Parry The retirement age will need to rise to 71 for UK workers in future, according to a recent report looking at the effect of increasing life expectancy and falling birthrates on the state pension. The current pension age of 66 is set to rise to 67 by...

Upcoming performance in English invites audience to get involved in what is happening on stage finds ELENI PHILIPPOU   Have you ever been to a theatre performance that is built around audience interaction? One such event is coming up in Nicosia shortly and it will engage with audience members directly...

A poll released on Sunday showed Nikos Christodoulides’ popularity to have been greatly diminished since his election as President a year ago. The poll, commissioned by newspaper Phileleftheros and carried out by Pulse Market Research during the last week of February, showed just 26 per cent of Cypriots to be...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou and Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis travelled to Brussels ahead of European Union summits which are set to take place this week. Ioannou will attend the EU’s internal affairs council alongside interior ministers from the bloc’s 26 other member states, where matters such as immigration are expected...

Around 170 people were “executed” in attacks on three villages in northern Burkina Faso a week ago, a regional prosecutor said in a statement seen on Sunday. The attacks by unknown assailants were carried out on the villages of Komsilga, Nodin and Soro in the Yatenga province, the statement dated...

Neutrality used to be a European thing, but it is now in steep decline. If it were an animal, we’d have to declare it an endangered species. For hundreds of years Europe was the ‘cockpit of war’, but if a country got sick of the unending great-power game it was...

Does the upward trend in coffee prices alter consumption habits or the very essence of our coffee culture? By Rony Junior El Daccache   That Cyprus is renowned for its vibrant coffee culture that has long been a cornerstone of its social fabric isn’t exactly news. The high streets have...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party TDP Leader Zeki Celer said on Sunday he would “close all these university-looking places” in the north if he came to power. He was speaking to Kuzey Kibris TV in light of investigations and arrests made regarding the “fake diploma scandal” in recent weeks, decrying how...

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President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday the government is “ready for negotiations to start tomorrow”. He was speaking at a memorial for Eoka fighter Grigoris Afxentiou, who was killed on March 3, 1957, when British forces were informed of his location and poured petrol into his hideout before lighting it....

Police have made two arrests in Berlin during their search for individuals wanted for their suspected involvement in Germany’s notorious Red Army Faction militant group, they said on Sunday. A police spokesperson from the German state of Lower Saxony, which was participating in the effort, confirmed that two arrests had...

The Israeli military said on Sunday it intensified operations in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, destroying dozens of targets in a blitz of air and artillery strikes. The air force and artillery hit about 50 targets within six minutes, it said, in a bid to “intensify operational achievements...

In the third part of his series of articles on the Cyprus problem, Leontios Ierodiakonou looks at how Makarios’ refusal to heed the advice of the Greek government led to Britain bringing Turkey into the issue In Greece, the first strong and stable government was that of Alexandros Papagos, which...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Saturday evening met with Tatarstan head Rustam Minnikhanov. The pair met at the Antalya diplomatic forum in Turkey, with Tatar and Minnikhanov emphasising “historical ties” between the Turkish Cypriots and the Tatars and discussing the “development of relations and cooperation opportunities”. The Republic of...

Seven men, some chunks of concrete, and wooden bats were found by police in a car in Paphos in the early hours of the morning. Police stopped the car at around 2am and said they had found “various offensive instruments” in the car. All seven men were arrested on suspicion...

A 42-year-old man from Larnaca is in a critical condition after being involved in a motorcycle crash on Saturday evening. The man was riding on the road between Agros and Palaichori when he lost control of his motorcycle, it overturned, and he was dragged up the road. He was eventually...

Sunday’s weather is expected to be partly cloudy, with the possibility of isolated rain or storms in the afternoon in the eastern half of the island. Temperatures are expected to rise to a high of 19 degrees Celsius inland and on the coasts, and 10 degrees Celsius in the mountains....