Новости за 11.01.2020

Manchester United kept alive their hopes of finishing in the Premier League’s top four, with two goals from Marcus Rashford and one each from Anthony Martial and Mason Greenwood giving them a 4-0 home win over Norwich City on Saturday. The result left United fifth in the standings on 34...

Works are in progress, but there’s a long way to go Paphos municipality is working hard to breathe new life and more visitors into the city centre with a wide range of new initiatives, including the restoration and reuse of old buildings. Municipal officer Doxa Economidou-Bardatold the Sunday Mail that the municipality...

The Queen has sent a message of condolence to the Governor-General of Canada following the Ukrainian International Airlines disaster. Iran has admitted unintentionally shooting down the aircraft which crashed near Tehran, killing all 176 people on board. There were 57 Canadians killed, with the oldest born in 1945 and the...

Rafael Nadal secured a come-back victory against Australia’s Alex De Minaur at the ATP Cup in Sydney on Saturday, propelling Spain into the final of the inaugural event to play the Novak Djokovic-led Serbian team. The world’s top ranked player was ambushed early by the young Australian, who threatened to...

More than 3,000 residents of Ayia Napa are eligible to vote on Sunday to elect the holiday resort’s new mayor following the appointment of Yiannis Karousos as transport minister. The two candidates hoping to replace Karousos are deputy mayor Christos Zannetou and councillor Emilia Evangelou Xydia. Famagusta district returns officer...

Where do you live? Nicosia Best childhood memory? Camping holidays in Latsi with all the family. I remember my parents basically packing all the house and we used to spend two weeks in a camping site with friends, family members, fishing, and staying at the beach 24/7. Most frequented restaurant...

Jose Mourinho said it will take several transfer windows for him to get his Tottenham squad into shape and accepts his big-spending days are behind him. Mourinho replaced Mauricio Pochettino in November knowing he would never have the spending power that he has enjoyed at Chelsea and Manchester United in...

Limassol police arrested one man for drugs possession and two others for theft during a crackdown on illegal activity overnight that also saw hundreds of drivers booked for drink driving and night clubs for code violations. Overall, police said they checked 121 individuals, 80 vehicles, and 49 night clubs and...

Oman‘s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, one of the Middle East’s longest serving rulers who maintained the country’s neutrality in regional struggles, died on Friday and his cousin Haitham bin Tariq al-Said was named as his successor in a smooth transition. With his death, the region loses a trusted and seasoned...

Beat the winter by dreaming yourself off to a place where tall palms wave in the wind, crystal seas lap golden sands, and a cocktail can be had with a click of the fingers; an archipelago of 137 Pacific islands where we’ll be free and easy and – most importantly...

The tax department has started sending letters to individuals and companies who owe large sums of money in VAT, including 100 with debts of over a million euros each, asking them to settle their dues or face sanctions, it emerged on Saturday. The department warned that failure to settle the...

At least twelve people drowned and 21 were rescued when their boat sank off an island in western Greece on Saturday, Greek authorities said. Helicopters and ships were searching the area south-west of the island of Paxos for more survivors, the Greek coastguard said. Authorities said they had accounts of...

We asked a random selection of people in Nicosia for their thoughts on the case of the British teenager who claimed to have been raped by 12 Israeli men in Ayia Napa, later retracted her allegation, and was convicted of public mischief as a result.

Police in Paphos were seeking two women on Saturday after a third woman, 27, claimed they had assaulted and injured her with a pocketknife the previous evening. She was treated in hospital for superficial wounds to the back and abdomen and her condition is not life-threatening. The woman, a Greek...

The US and South Korea are “dreaming” if they think that Donald Trump birthday’s message to Kim Jong Un will lead the North Korean leader back to the negotiating table, an official in Pyongyang has said. North Korean foreign ministry adviser Kim Kye Gwan repeated the North’s deep frustrations over...

Spurs manager Jose Mourinho would love to be the one who ends Liverpool’s year-long unbeaten run in the Premier League, and Saturday’s game could be closer than the standings suggest. The late match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will be the first between Jurgen Klopp’s men and a Mourinho side...

Cyprus football’s reputation took a battering on Friday as one of the most successful and best-supported clubs on the island Omonia, accused the Cyprus Football Association and several teams (without actually naming them) of corruption and has even asked both UEFA and FIFA to intervene and investigate. However this will...

A Ukrainian aircraft which crashed earlier this week in Iran had flown close to a sensitive military site belonging to the elite Revolutionary Guards and was shot down unintentionally due to human error, the Iranian military said in a statement read on state TV on Saturday. The responsible parties would be referred to...

REPRESENTATIVES of public sector unions met on Friday to discuss the issue of pensions. Although one of the teaching unions, Oelmek, proposed the staging of a march to the finance ministry to protest against the government’s failure to address the issue of public employees’ pensions, the meeting decided against such...

Τhe Cyprus Hunters’ Party have called on the police to reinstate its anti-poaching unit saying its work was vital. In a written statement on Friday, the party said the unit had provided an important service not only in catching poaching but in stopping non-hunting criminal activity in areas such as...