Новости за 05.01.2020

Most of the top 10 viewed stories of 2019 on the Cyprus Mail website were predictable: you would expect the reports of Cyprus first known serial killer and the use of Cyprus as a location for a Hollywood film to be on the list. But it was man of the...

He’s a musician that has been very active over the last couple of years, popping up not only on the radio but also on our screens. Amid the TV and film projects, Panos Mouzourakis holds live performances of both his own songs and popular covers and this January he will...

By Christos Panayiotides Many people ask me why I occasionally visit the occupied part of Cyprus. There are many reasons. Most importantly, I go because I believe that I cannot have an opinion on the Cyprus problem without acquiring a detailed understanding of what is happening in the north. I...

The Yermasoyia dam became the second in 24 hours to overflow at about 4pm on Sunday. Earlier in the day the mayor Kyriakos Xydias has said the water flows into the reservoir had indicated it would overflow on Sunday afternoon. Police and relevant authorities have taken measures at the site...

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday the U.S. military in the Middle East would pay the price for the killing of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, and U.S. soldiers and officers would return home in coffins. Nasrallah, speaking in a televised addressed marking Soleimani’s death in a targeted...

We are so lucky that there are many plants that grow well in our gardens during the winter months which started life in the southern hemisphere. This means that we have a lot of winter colour when many northern European gardens are frosted or covered in snow. Polygala, originally from...

Former finance minister Haris Georgiades will run for the position of vice president of Disy in the party’s elections in February, he said on Sunday. In an interview with Phileleftheros, he said he aims to reorganise the party and bring it back into contact with the people that have left...

Britain’s December election “blew away” the argument for a second Brexit referendum and the country must move on from its divide over whether or not to leave the European Union, the frontrunner to lead the opposition Labour Party said on Sunday. Keir Starmer, a former senior public prosecutor and Labour’s...

The Met office issued a yellow weather warning on Sunday against gale force winds. The warning is valid from 8am on Monday until 9pm. Winds measuring 7-8 on the Beaufort scale are expected to hit mainly the west and south coasts. Citizens are advised to be aware of debris being...

“The downtrodden man knows how to behave in society, on the contrary, the superficial man, who thinks he knows everything, does not know how to behave properly in society, only when he repents and is humiliated,” a statement issued by the Archbishopric on Sunday, ahead of Epiphany celebrations said. “If...

By Peter Apps In killing Iran’s Major-General Qassem Soleimani in an air strike near Baghdad’s international airport, Donald Trump has taken a geostrategic risk it is almost impossible to imagine from any other US president. Its hugely unpredictable impact is already being felt well beyond the Middle East – and right now,...

Britain’s foreign secretary on Sunday urged Cyprus to “do the right thing” over the case of the British teenager convicted this week of lying about being gang-raped in Ayia Napa. Dominic Raab said Cyprus was “sensitive” about interference, but added the woman’s sentencing on Tuesday was “firmly on my radar”....

Speaking in an interview with the Daily Mail, on the 12 Israelis initially accused of raping a British teenager in Ayia Napa in the summer has said he will take her to court for compensation. The Famagusta District court this week ruled the 19-year-old was guilty of public mischief after...

By Alper Ali Riza The British teenager convicted of knowingly making a false statement to police in Cyprus about being gang raped by a group of Israeli youths will be sentenced on Tuesday, and the hope is that the judge will be lenient and not impose an immediate custodial sentence....

A 56-year-old man was killed in a traffic accident on Saturday evening, while an autopsy on Sunday showed he died of a punctured liver caused by the crash. Traffic police chief of Larnaca Haris Hadjiyiasemi said as Michalis Polykarpou was driving his car along Faneromeni Avenue at 6.30 on Saturday...

The problems both of professional fishermen and the lack of infrastructure at harbours in Paphos need immediate intervention, the association of Paphos Fishermen has stressed. According to Pafosnet, the fishermen have identified the most serious problems as the autonomy of the office in Paphos, the dwindling number of fishermen, better...

I refer to the report by Nick Theodoulou which was published on your newspaper’s website on December 18. I wonder whether the decision to nominate the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for the Nobel Peace Prize was taken with complete awareness of: the problems which certain decisions of the...

From early Sunday morning visitors have streamed to the Asprokremmos dam in Paphos – the second largest in Cyprus – to watch as it overflows. This is the second time the water in the reservoir has exceeded 100 per cent in less than a year, after similar scenes were observed...

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is good enough friends with Carlo Ancelotti to consider inviting him to a party at his house but would not do so because of the difficulty it may cause the new Everton boss. Instead, Klopp is only interested in making things difficult on the pitch for...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States has targeted 52 Iranian sites that it would strike if Iran attacks Americans or U.S. assets in response to a U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq. Showing...

A dangerous fire flared up in southeastern Australia on Sunday even as cooler conditions elsewhere allowed authorities to begin assessing the damage from heatwave-spurred blazes that swept through two states on Saturday. Officials told residents and others in the New South Wales (NSW) state town of Eden to leave immediately...

THE POLITICAL celebrations that followed the signing of the agreement for the construction of the EastMed pipeline were understandable. Not only had the doubters of the project been silenced, but the government had shown that it was putting its plans into practice and that Cyprus was on the way to...

WHO WOULD have thought that our authorities’ monumental bungling of a rape claim case would have turned into a international PR disaster of nuclear proportions for poor old Kyproulla, exposing our dysfunctional judicial system, our antiquated police procedures and our contempt for the weak while straining relations with Britain and...

Proper procedures would have protected both suspect and police in Napa rape claim case By Evie Andreou The guilty verdict this week of a young British woman for causing public mischief over lying about being raped by 12 Israeli teens in Ayia Napa has cast a harsh spotlight on Cyprus’...

Paul Mullin’s late penalty clinched Tranmere an FA Cup third-round replay against Watford after the League One side fought back from 3-0 down. Goals from Tom Dele-Bashiru, Nathaniel Chalobah and Roberto Pereyra eased Watford into a 3-0 half-time lead at Vicarage Road before Tranmere responded through Connor Jennings’ header. Emmanuel...