Новости за 03.01.2020

Liverpool’s unbeaten Premier League run was extended into a second year as a 2-0 victory over Sheffield United restored their 13-point lead at the top of the table. The Reds’ last league defeat came at Manchester City 364 days ago and United, for all their honest endeavour, never looked like...

Cypriots reported they suffered from more noisy neighbours or streets outside their home in 2018 then most EU member states, Eurostat has reported. Across the EU, over a quarter of the population reported experiencing problems with noise from their neighbours or the street, with the highest amount in Malta (28.2...

Flights were suspended until further notice at the only functioning airport in Libya’s capital Tripoli on Friday due to rockets falling nearby, an airport official said. The closure of Mitiga Airport comes a day after Turkey’s parliament voted to allow a troop deployment to Libya, deepening fears of an escalation...

A wooden house in the village of Xyliatos in the Nicosia region was badly damaged by a fire which raged for more than two hours on Friday morning. The fire, which broke out at 3.55am, was brought under control with the help of three fire trucks by 6.22am, the fire...

A British teenager found guilty of lying about being gang-raped in Ayia Napa has asked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to “Please bring me home”. The 19-year-old alleged she was raped by up to 12 Israeli tourists in a hotel room in the resort on July 17, but she has...

A year has passed since the first Runite Nicosia, when runners ran around the whole town, symbolically uniting it. Next week, on Saturday, January 11, it’s time for the next edition of the event and the organisers are inviting everyone to leave physical and mental barriers behind and experience Nicosia...

With more rain and thunderstorms forecast for Friday, the met office has issued a new yellow weather warning. The alert was issued in the early hours of Friday and it is valid until 6pm. According to the met office, the total rain accumulation may reach 50 millimetres in a six-hour...

The Australian navy on Friday began evacuating around 1,000 people stranded on the east coast of the fire-ravaged country as a searing weather front was set to whip up more blazes across the states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW). At the peak of the summer holiday period, tens of...

Late on Thursday the leaders of Cyprus, Greece and Israel called Turkey’s bill allowing troop deployment in Libya a dangerous escalation in the North African country’s civil war and severely threatens stability in the region. “This decision constitutes a gross violation of the UNSC resolution… imposing an arms embargo in...

The United States killed Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force and architect of Iran‘s spreading military influence in the Middle East, in an air strike on Friday at Baghdad airport, the Pentagon and Iran said. Top Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an adviser to Soleimani, was also killed in...

The transport ministry has launched plans for two new projects to expand and upgrade cycle paths in Nicosia which will link the capital’s universities with the city centre. The first project will connect Engomi and the University of Nicosia with Grammiko Park, near Pedieos river. The second will go along...

Both Cyprus leaders in their New Year messages spoke of their desire for a political solution as the island ended 45 years of fruitless negotiations that look set to continue at the start of a new decade. President Nicos Anastasiades talked again of his “unceasing commitment to seeking a settlement”...

Police are asking the public for assistance in locating a teenager who has gone missing from her place of residence in Limassol since Wednesday. Grace Muakana, 16, a Congolese national, was last seen at 9.45am on Wednesday. She is described as being slim, approximately 1.7m tall, with short black curly...