Новости за 04.01.2020

 Lazio will attempt to chalk up their ninth consecutive league win when they visit lowly Brescia on Sunday as they threaten to turn Serie A into a three-horse race. Third-placed Lazio have moved six points off the leading pair of Inter Milan and Juventus with a game in hand but, more importantly, have...

Besides New Year concerts and retro parties, January is filled with film screenings from Hollywood blockbusters to European treasures. The first month of the year has something for all movie tastes and genres. If there is one that perhaps overpowers the rest, it is musical films. Three legendary films with...

Cyprus’ tourism industry could take a real hit if a campaign urging holidaymakers to shun the island gains traction. The social media-driven #BoycottCyprus campaign comes as Cyprus reels from a week of highly critical British television, press and radio coverage of a rape trial. The case ends on Tuesday when...

Cyprus will send a proposal for the exploitation of the Aphrodite natural gas field in the coming weeks to Israel, government spokesman Kyriacos Koushios said on Saturday. Speaking on the sidelines of an event for a special needs schools in Alassa, Koushios commented on the signing of the EastMed pipeline...

Turkey is clearly enacting its expansionary policy in the wider Mediterranean, President Nicos Anastasiades told Greek newspaper ‘Ta Nea’ on Saturday. In an interview, Anastasiades said: “It is beyond obvious that Turkey is attempting in a dynamic manner to exercise its expansionary policy in the wider Mediterranean region, which is...

Jose Mourinho remembers watching one of Tottenham’s most famous FA Cup memories on television and will do everything he can to deliver some of his own. Mourinho was an 18-year-old in Portugal when he saw Ricky Villa score his famous goal in the 1981 final replay against Manchester City. Watching...

Clean Russian athletes should be allowed to compete in individual events at this year’s Tokyo Games under the banner of “Independent Olympic Participants,” historian Bill Mallon suggests. It is a designation used for athletes from Yugoslavia in 1992, and one that Mallon thinks offers a good road map of how to...

The government repeated on Saturday that it would not interfere in the case of the British teen who is due to be sentenced on Tuesday for public mischief after being found guilty of making a false rape claim. “It [involvement] would mean that we do not recognise and respect the...

It’s not very often that Korean cinema reaches our Cypriot screens and now it’s here with a killer film. Bong Joon-Hο’s critically acclaimed Parasite (winner of the Palme d’ Or at this year’s Cannes Festival) is an excellent blend of black comedy, satire and thriller and it’s coming to Rialto...

Britain‘s opposition Labour Party needs a new leader after veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn said he would step down following his party’s heavy election defeat at the hands of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives. Corbyn said he would remain leader temporarily, and a contest to select his replacement is expected to...

Two men, 38 and 50, were remanded for six days by the Limassol court on Saturday, on suspicion of committing robberies, police said. According to police, the 50-year-old was spotted driving a stolen vehicle in Limassol late on Friday night. He was stopped by police, who then proceeded to conduct...

Ten Syrian migrants seeking political asylum arrived in Athienou from the north on Friday night, police said on Saturday. According to authorities, the ten adults arrived at the Athienou police station at approximately 7.30pm on Friday. Following their arrival, officials from the migration department, the asylum services and the civil...

A 33-year-old man, suspected of stealing a teen’s ashes from a rental car, will appear in court on Tuesday, police said on Friday. A box containing the 19-year-old boy’s ashes was stolen from a car on Governor’s beach last Friday and was found in an open area on the Limassol...

Police in Paphos are investigating a robbery in the Ha-Potami area, where a woman reported €10,000 had been stolen from her safe, authorities said on Saturday. According to police, the 50-year-old woman said the home was broken into via a door to the house sometime between 4.30pm and 7.30pm on...

Thousands of mourners gathered in Baghdad on Saturday ahead of a funeral procession for Iran’s slain military commander Qassem Soleimani, Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and others killed in a US air strike in Iraq. Friday’s attack on Baghdad airport, authorised by US President Donald Trump, was a major...

Over the last years, interior design enthusiasts, who are looking for new ideas to decorate their place, started using old items in order to give a vintage touch to their home. Therefore, it is not a coincidence that Instagram hashtags #vintage and #retro are becoming more and more popular. Have...

The football championship resumes this weekend following the festive break with the huge clash in Limassol between third placed Apollon and table topping Omonia while champions Apoel take on relegation candidate Enosis in Nicosia. In the other games troubled AEK are at home to tough side Olympiakos who will be...

The martial arts world is a tale as old as time. When it comes to Brazilian jiu-jitsu, it dates back to 1925 when Geo Omori opened the first Jiu-Jitsu/judo school in Brazil. Since then, its ground-fighting techniques have taken over the world, including Cyprus. This non-violent self-defence martial art is...

Bushfires burned dangerously out of control on Australia’s east coast on Saturday, fuelled by soaring temperatures and strong winds that had firefighters battling to save lives and property. By mid-afternoon, Victoria had 19 fires rated at emergency or evacuate warning levels and New South Wales had 11 rated emergency, with...

ROAD works have become a safety hazard for some elderly residents of Ypsonas in Limassol who say that gaining access to their own homes has become a nightmare. Reconstruction of Archbishop Makarios III Avenue in Ypsonas, Limassol by the department of public works with the addition of new pavements and...

THE actions of the authorities in Cyprus, who seem to think they are still living in the middle of the last century, never cease to bring the island into disrepute, whether it be money laundering, golden passports, widespread corruption, animal abuse and now the Ayia Napa rape case, which is...