A Jamie Vardy hat-trick and a superb James Maddison goal steered Leicester City to a stunning 5-2 win at Manchester City on Sunday and kept them top of the Premier League with a maximum nine points from three games. City looked to be in cruise control after a sublime volley from Riyad Mahrez against his former...
Valtteri Bottas won the Russian Grand Prix for Mercedes on Sunday after team mate and Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton picked up time penalties for infringements before the race had even started. Hamilton, who had started on pole position in Sochi hoping for a 91st victory to equal Ferrari...
The health ministry on Sunday announced 12 new coronavirus cases among them two more footballers and a high school pupil. In total 3,338 lab tests were carried out. One of the footballers, who plays for second division club Asil Lysis, was found positive after getting tested as part of the...
By Bejay Browne Holiday bookings for Paphos next year look promising but remain heavily dependent on too many variables, according to the Paphos Hotel Association spokesperson. “Many customers have moved their bookings from this year until next and there are new bookings as well,” Euripides Loizides told the Cyprus...
Police on Sunday said they filed 59 reports for various traffic violations in the Paphos district during a campaign on road safety. In total 180 vehicles were stopped between 7pm Saturday and 7am Sunday in Polis Chrysochous, Tsada, Stroumbi, Kathikas, Peyia and the town of Paphos resulting in 59 reports...
The foreign ministry on Sunday expressed its deep concern over the escalation of tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and condemns the violation of the ceasefire by Azerbaijan that led to casualties also among civilians. “We call on all sides to show restraint and end hostilities so that tensions deescalate as...
By Erol Riza Whilst the Cypriot private sector with government support has in the past managed to adapt and recover in former crises, a new approach is needed this time as government will be more important than ever before. For the second time in a decade, the government has...
Britain’s NHS has ordered 5.8 million of Chris Toumazou’s DnaNudge kits for speedy virus testing By Nick Theodoulou A breakthrough in the battle against Covid-19 has been achieved by a British Cypriot tech entrepreneur and professor, who has pioneered a much-heralded lab-free test that delivers accurate results within 90 minutes....
Linking Belarus and Turkey was understandable, but did Cyprus go too far? By Elias Hazou Nicosia tried to bite off more than it could chew by linking mooted EU punitive measures against Turkey to sanctions on Belarus, and after this coming week’s European Council the government here will likely need...
Greece on Sunday called on Turkey to condemn and investigate what it said was an “insult” to its national flag on the Greek island of Kastellorizo. Greek media have reported that the blue and white Greek flag painted on a rocky hillside on Saturday appeared stained with red paint. Kastellorizo...
A low-key milestone anniversary of Cyprus’ independence By Evie Andreou Cyprus turns a milestone 60 years old this coming Thursday, October 1: there will be the usual military parade but no audience, no president, and no birthday party. The stated reasons for the tepid celebration of the end of British...
UN Secretary-general’s special envoy, Jane Holl Lute, is expected to launch contacts with the two leaders and guarantors end of next month as part of preparations for a new round of consultations on the Cyprus problem, reports said on Sunday. According to daily Simerini, this is the first step of...
A second division match was rescheduled on Sunday after one coronavirus case was detected in one of the football clubs. The Cyprus Football Association postponed the match between Asil Lysis and Omonia Aradippou after one coronavirus case was detected among the Asil players and staff. The match has been rescheduled...
We are coming up with lame excuses to avoid negotiations By Christos Panayiotides The forced segregation of the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots over the past 50 years, combined with the systematic propaganda of certain mass media on both sides, have inevitably generated a communication gap between the two communities....
By George Koumoullis ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos’ demand for the sacking of head-teacher George Gavriel for his ‘sacrilegious’ paintings proves once more that Orthodoxy, in contrast to Protestant-Catholic Christianity, is incompatible with modernity, democracy and the ideals and values of the European Union. Merely the fact that a disciplinary investigation was ordered...
EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, said on Sunday she was self-isolating after a close contact of hers tested positive to coronavirus. The commissioner made the announcement on social media. “Yesterday I was informed that a close contact has tested positive for #COVID19. In line with public...
By Deborah Bloom and Andrew Hay Police clashed with anti-racism protesters and pushed back members of the press in downtown Portland, Oregon into early Sunday morning, making more than 20 arrests. The violence followed a relatively peaceful rally by the right-wing Proud Boys group and counter protests by anti-fascist and...
Linking Belarus and Turkey was understandable, but did Cyprus go too far? By Elias Hazou Nicosia tried to bite off more than it could chew by linking mooted EU punitive measures against Turkey to sanctions on Belarus, and after this coming week’s European Council the government here will likely need...
Tourism has been hit the hardest by the pandemic, with developments unravelling in line with the worst-case scenario, President of the Cyprus Hotel Association (Pasyxe) Harris Loizides said in a statement on the occasion of World Tourism Day, marked on September 27. “Under these circumstances, state support for employees of...
Hermes airports launched a video on the meaning of happiness with all that Cyprus has to offer to mark this year’s World Tourism Day celebrated on September 27. According to the company that runs the island’s two international airports in Larnaca and Paphos, as everyone count their losses due to...
By Nvard Hovhannisyan and Nailia Bagirova Armenia declared martial law and mobilised its male population on Sunday after clashes with Azerbaijan over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region in which sources on both sides reported fatalities. Authorities in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mainly ethnic Armenian region inside Azerbaijan which declared independence in 1991, also...
Six businesses and 16 individuals were booked during the past 24 hours over failure to implement the measures against the spread of coronavirus, police said on Sunday. In total 688 checks were carried out between 6am Saturday and 6am Sunday in all districts. In Nicosia one business and six individuals...
South Africa’s president has reprimanded defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and docked her pay for three months for taking a delegation to Zimbabwe on an air force plane, his office said. The opposition Democratic Alliance had accused Mapisa-Nqakula of misusing state resources by letting the group from the ruling African National...
