Liverpool scored a stunning 3-2 win over Queens Park Rangers with four of the five goals coming in the last seven minutes of their Premier League match at Loftus Road on Sunday.
Liverpool needed the help of two own goals for the win that lifted them to fifth in the table and left QPR bottom after a mesmerising finale with Liverpool’s winning goal coming in the fifth minute of added time after Steven Caulker scored an own goal with virtually…
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By Humeyra Pamuk
The fiercest fighting in days shook the Syrian border town of Kobani overnight, sources inside the town and a monitoring group said on Sunday, as Islamic State attacked Kurdish militants with mortars and car bombs.
Islamic State, which controls much of Syria and Iraq, fired 44 mortars at Kurdish parts of the town on Saturday, some of which fell inside Turkey, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It said four more were fired on…
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By Niklas Pollard
Sweden beefed up its military presence in the Stockholm archipelago on Saturday to scour its waters for “foreign underwater activity”, a mobilisation of Swedish ships, troops and helicopters unseen since the Cold War.
The search in the Baltic Sea less than 30 miles (50 km) from Stockholm began on Friday and reawakened memories of the final years of the Cold War when Sweden repeatedly hunted suspected Soviet submarines along its coast with depth charges.
There is now…
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By James Pomfret and Elzio Barreto
Violent clashes erupted in Hong Kong early on Sunday for a second night, deepening a sense of impasse between a government with limited options and a pro-democracy movement increasingly willing to confront police.
The worst political crisis in Hong Kong since Britain handed the free-wheeling capitalist city back to China in 1997 entered its fourth week with no sign of a resolution despite talks scheduled for two hours on Tuesday between the government and…
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By Bejay Browne
A DREAM holiday in Paphos turned into a nightmare for a British man and his wheelchair-bound, disabled girlfriend after access issues left her vowing never to return.
Ill equipped public transport, uneven pavements, a lack of dropped kerbs and vehicles parked on pavements were just a few of the problems the couple encountered.
John Hughes, 29, spent eight years living in Paphos before moving back to the UK in October last year. He started a relationship with…
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CYPRUS’ politicians have never showed the slightest inclination for long-term planning and strategic thinking. They are much happier improvising policy and taking spur of the moment decisions if and when the need arises, avoiding thinking anything through or properly studying the consequences of their decisions. Most of the country’s woes are a direct result of this slapdash approach which never looks more than a few days, or perhaps a week, ahead and is motivated by shameless populism.
The Christofias government…
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By Patroclos
THE BIG news from Milan that everyone in Kyproulla was anxiously waiting for was announced on Friday morning by government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides – Prez Nik finally had his eagerly-sought meeting with President Vladimir Putin.
For a whole week, Nicosia had been begging the Russian government for Putin to grant Nik an audience on the sidelines of the Asian Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Milan, which both would be attending, but without any success. The initial request for a…
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By Evie Andreou
REMEMBERING the dead to mend relations among the living is the novel idea of two young men who were among the recipients of the Stelios Award for Business Co-operation this week.
Greek Cypriot Constantinos Constantinou and Turkish Cypriot Hakki Emir were one of ten enterprises to receive €10,000 from businessman Sir Stelios Hadji-Ioannou in his annual bi-communal business award scheme for their project to clean up cemeteries and restore gravestones on both sides of the divide.
Desolate,…
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Convent’s challenges never cease
By Alexia Evripidou
THIS month marks 170 years since four French nuns set foot in Larnaca to offer their young lives serving the sick and poor in October 1844.
By the time the island’s first hospital, plus a school and the convent of St Joseph de l’Apparition were completed two years later, the four nuns were dead. They had fallen victim to the typhus, cholera and dysentery outbreaks they had come to a desperately poor Cyprus…
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By Stefanos Evripidou
CHINA is a big country with a lot of people. Apologies for stating the obvious, but I don’t think people get just how big it is, and how many people there really are. It covers an area of 9.6 million km² and is home to around 1.35 billion people, give or take the population of Poland. To bring it home, China’s second largest city, Beijing, has a population of around 21 million people in an area less…
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By Constantinos Psillides
THE FACT that Cyprus is lagging in areas where other EU countries are advancing rapidly is hardly newsworthy. So it comes as absolutely nobody’s surprise that Cypriots pay too much on their internet connection, at the same time putting up with slower speeds than their EU counterparts.
According to data from the EU Digital Agenda Scoreboard, Cypriots pay an average of €91 for fast and ultra-fast internet connections (this applies to speeds of 30Mbps to 100Mbps) and…
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By Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos
The statements by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexey Meshkov and the ministry’s spokesman Alexander Lukashevich concerning Turkey’s intention to carry out seismic studies in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) have been the subject of different interpretations.
Some were negative, viewing for instance Russia’s allusion to “unilateral actions” as referring to the Republic of Cyprus and the non-recognition of the Cyprus’ right to exploit the natural resources of its EEZ. The lack of a mention of Turkey…
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By John V Whitbeck
ON OCTOBER 12, at a donors’ conference in Cairo, participants pledged US$5.4 billion toward the reconstruction of Gaza. However, numerous participants noted that repeatedly paying to reconstruct what had been destroyed – and was likely to be destroyed again – was an insufficient response and that the core problem must be addressed. However, no original ideas for addressing it were offered.
The core problem is the occupation, now in its 48th year. It was addressed the…
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By Hermes Solomon
OIL, GAS and gold prices have tumbled on commodity markets as economies fall into yet another recession due, we are told, to persistent Middle East and Ukraine unrest combined with declining Asian and emerging market growth, which is predicted to worsen as the sick men of Europe fail to stem growing pessimism among their industrialists.
But governments have yet to blame the potential threat of a worldwide Ebola epidemic, which could well see the quarantining of countries…
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By Johan van den Kerkhof
Heck, even a broken clock is right twice a day. But count on Cypriot leaders to get it wrong, all the time.
In the 1960s and 70s they thought they were so damn smart playing off the West against the Soviets and vice versa, and we all saw how that panned out. Then, in the wake of 1974, the island is swept by anti-US and anti-NATO paranoia, sustained to some degree to this day by…
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By Loucas Charalambous
IF THERE IS anyone who has not yet understood why, as the Greek Cypriot community, we no longer have the support of anyone in the world – a cause of great grief to Phileleftheros, Simerini and DIKO – he only has to check what our political wizards and media pundits have been saying in the last week or so.
In these, any rational person will find the reasons we have become an international laughing stock. He will…
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By Martyn Herman
CHELSEA maintained their iron grip on top spot in the Premier League with a 2-1 win at Crystal Palace on Saturday and Sergio Aguero fired a four-goal warning that Manchester City will not relinquish their title without a fight.
Goals from Oscar and Cesc Fabregas made it seven wins from eight games for Chelsea, who overcame the sending-off of Cesar Azpilicueta before half-time to stay five points clear.
Aguero lit up the day’s early kick-off, scoring all…
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By Staff Reporter
THE NATIONAL Council will meet on Monday, the starting date Turkey has reserved in its NAVTEX (Navigational Telex), for the commencement of seismic surveys south of Cyprus in the island’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Saturday efforts were continuing to prevent Turkey carrying out its intentions now that Ankara’s starting date had almost arrived.
“There is a specific design and in the light of developments this will become concrete action,” Christodoulou said….
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FORMER Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades on Saturday responded to a story run by the New York Times saying that he had downplayed concerns raised over the granting of some €9bn in emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) to now-defunct Laiki Bank- by saying that his actions saved the bank and the whole of Cyprus’ economy by extension.
In a statement, Demetriades defended his actions while at the helm of the Central Bank, noting that if he cut the money flow to…
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Agriculture, farming and fisheries could become profitable and sustainable employment sectors, but need to adapt to new technologies to address high production cost, the water shortage and the domestic market, Agriculture Minister Nicos Kouyialis has said.
“We are working to support our farmers,” Koyyialis said in an interview with the Cyprus News Agency. The minister said a total of €47.7 million had been allocated to the agricultural sector, since 2013 to date, €37.6 million of which came from EU funds.
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