Новости за 23.02.2020

Sakis Dovolis is a Blues/Rock guitar player, singer and songwriter, born and raised in Greece who is heading to Cyprus this month for two live shows, on February 27 at New Division and February 28 at Moondog’s Bar & Grill. “Undoubtedly,” say the gigs’ organisers, “his name belongs to the...

England roared back into the Six Nations mix with another comprehensive demolition of Ireland on Sunday as tries by George Ford, Elliot Daly and Luke Cowan-Dickie helped them to a 24-12 Twickenham victory in their best performance of the year. Ford and Daly cashed in on Irish hesitancy when dealing...

Manchester United kept alive their hopes of finishing in the Premier League’s top four after goals from Bruno Fernandes, Anthony Martial and Mason Greenwood secured a 3-0 home win over Watford on Sunday. Portugal midfielder Fernandes scored his first goal for United with a 42nd-minute penalty before Martial and Greenwood...

Granting unproductive loans results in a systematic transfer of wealth from the many to the few By Savvakis C Savvides The word collateral is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “property [..] pledged by a borrower to protect the interests of the lender”. The essence of collateral in lending is...

By Davide Barbuscia and Marwa Rashad Finance leaders of the world’s top 20 economies expect economic growth to pick up modestly this year and next thanks to loose monetary policy and an easing of trade tensions and vowed to monitor the effects of the coronavirus outbreak. The Group of 20...

One man’s obsession with the weather has proved both useful and popular with the public during a winter of heavy rains and cold temperatures   To say Eric Kitas is obsessed with the weather is almost an understatement. The young man who has single-handedly challenged the state meteorology department for...

Edek’s founder and Honorary President Vassos Lyssarides, 99, was admitted to a private clinic with respiratory problems. According to reports he was taken to the clinic on Saturday evening after feeling unwell. His condition is not considered serious but was kept for monitoring as a precaution, reports said.

The Animal Party on Sunday condemned the shooting of a pet pig in the Lefkara area calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. The animal was found dead by the person who was taking care of it. According to the party, during the past six months, the pig...

Germany and Japan are finally winning a war together. Unfortunately, it is the War on Rationality. Coal, as everybody knows, is by far the most damaging source of energy we use, in terms of both the harm to human beings and the impact on the climate. It’s twice as bad...

France is ready to support Lebanon financially — bilaterally or multilaterally — its finance minister said on Sunday, warning against mixing economic recovery in the small Mediterranean state with U.S.-led efforts to counter Iran in the region. “France always stands ready to help Lebanon. It has always been the case...

A 40-year-old man was remanded on Sunday for eight days in connection with the disappearance of a 31-year-old man from Syria. The suspect, who is from Jordan, is being investigated for the alleged abduction and possible murder of 31-year-old Ahmed Zaidan who was reported as missing from his Limassol home...

The education ministry on Sunday refuted accusations of gender discrimination after allegedly opting to send only the boys’ volleyball champions team to an international tournament and not the girls’ too. In a written statement, the ministry said that it has yet to decide who will participate at the World Schools Championship in volleyball, taking...

Aglandjia on Sunday welcomed thousands of visitors at its annual carnival parade, the highlight of a week full of events. The parade, organised by Aglandzia municipality and STS Events, took place on Kyrenia Avenue. After the parade visitors could take part in activities organised at the Carnival Tent for children...

Heavy metals were recently discovered in the Kalavasos reservoir, and reports suggested they stem from an abandoned mine in the area. The issue raises the question of what to do with Cyprus’ 37 disused mines. Each of them needs to be treated differently: some are a health hazard; others are...

By Kevin Buckland A third passenger from the coronavirus-infected Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan died on Sunday, authorities said, as the government promised to introduce fresh steps to contain the outbreak. The latest death was a Japanese man in his 80s, the health ministry said on its website, days...

Corruption in football? We can hardly be surprised   THE latest scandal involving football match-fixing must have secured us the enviable title of “street card-sharks of Europe”. What an embarrassment! What a fall! But what exactly is a street card-shark (known in Greek as ‘papadzis’)? It is the street con-man...

The number of cases of coronavirus in Italy continued to rise on Sunday after the government passed a series of emergency measures to limit the spread of the outbreak in Europe’s most affected country. The governor of Italy’s northern Lombardy region Attilio Fontana said certified cases of the illness in...

Britain’s Tyson Fury delivered a dominant performance in his heavyweight championship bout with Deontay Wilder on Saturday, overwhelming his opponent to earn a seventh round TKO victory in Las Vegas. In the highly-anticipated super fight rematch between the two titans, Fury took control late in the first round and never...

Police are searching for the whereabouts of a man who abandoned a road accident scene in  Ayia Varvara in Paphos on Saturday, where a British couple was injured. The man, believed to be the one who caused the accident, left his car at the scene and fled on foot. He...

By Tracy Phillips LAST weekend was stressful. Desperate to get away before the bad weather prevented me from leaving London, I got to Heathrow about five hours early. Sheer force of optimism, and a desire for some sun, was going to get my plane off the ground and en route...

A 74-year-old woman admitted to hospital in occupied Famagusta with fever and pneumonia was placed in quarantine pending test results for coronavirus. According to reports in the north, the woman, who had visited Dubai recently, went to the hospital with fever and pneumonia and was kept there for further tests....

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit team has been ordered to come up with plans to “get around” the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit withdrawal agreement, the Sunday Times newspaper reported. Officials in Taskforce Europe, which is run by David Frost, the prime minister’s European Union negotiator, are seeking...

The government must accept the moratorium proposed by Turkey It is abundantly clear that the government’s strategy to resolve the Cyprus problem is totally ineffective and fruitless. In fact, the strategy pursued has led to results that are diametrically opposite to those at which it was aimed. The developments on...

England coach Eddie Jones has shuffled his back three again for Sunday’s Six Nations game against Ireland at Twickenham, with Elliot Daly restored as fullback and Jonathan Joseph winning his 50th cap in an unfamiliar outing on the left wing. Ben Youngs will start at scrumhalf and Manu Tuilagi returns...

Seven people died while others were trapped under collapsed buildings the Turkish interior minister said on Sunday after an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck the Turkey-Iran border region earlier in the day. The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said the quake had a depth of 5 kilometres. Turkish public broadcaster...