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Walk, don’t run, when you play football in Paphos Cyprus

Walk, don’t run, when you play football in Paphos

March 24th, 2019800 A relatively new sport aimed at the over 50s is already gaining momentum in Paphos following the recent creation of a ‘walking football’ group. “Twenty-four players aged from 50 to those approaching 80 have already registered with us and we are hoping to attract even more,” Ian Charlesworth (Charlie) told the Sunday...
The next central bank governor should be a foreigner CM Regular Columnist

The next central bank governor should be a foreigner

March 24th, 2019936 By George Koumoullis WHEN I was doing my GCE A level in economics to get a place at university in the UK, many decades ago, I was reading the book Economics by renowned economist Paul Samuelson and the following quote stayed in my mind: “In the history of man there are three big inventions, fire, the wheel and central banks.” I...
Brexit up in the air as May faces possible plot (updated) Brexit

Brexit up in the air as May faces possible plot (updated)

March 24th, 2019702   By Guy Faulconbridge and Paul Sandle The United Kingdom's exit from the European Union was in disarray on Sunday as Prime Minister Theresa May faced a possible plot by ministers to topple her and parliament prepared to grab control of Brexit from the government. At one of the most important junctures for the country since...
Our View: More seriousness needed in approach to foreign policy Our View

Our View: More seriousness needed in approach to foreign policy

March 24th, 20191321 THE MUCH-TOUTED tripartite meeting with the ad hoc participation of the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did not live up to the big expectations created by the government and media. At the “landmark gathering” the US “would show in practice its special interest in energy and security of the region and send messages to Turkey...
Coffeeshop: Naughty Turkey’s big incentive to behave Tales from the Coffeeshop

Coffeeshop: Naughty Turkey’s big incentive to behave

March 24th, 20192644 THE WAY the tripartite summit, with the ad hoc participation of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, was reported by some you would have thought the Yanks were on the verge of bringing the US Sixth Fleet to the eastern Mediterranean to provide security for the Cypriot EEZ and see off any threats by the Turks. Phil, which has a policy of...
A general election is the obvious way out for Britain Opinion

A general election is the obvious way out for Britain

March 24th, 20191687 By Alper Ali Riza THE penny has finally dropped in the EU that you cannot disrespect the constitutional arrangements of member states and get away with it all the time. You can probably get away with it in the case of a country desperate to join, but not with one that voted to leave the EU. The timetable the EU devised for Brexit...
The travesty of ‘refugee-ism’ glorifies victimhood Guest Columnist

The travesty of ‘refugee-ism’ glorifies victimhood

March 24th, 20191378 By Alan Waring The Cyprus Mail ‘Our View’ opinion article (March 17, 2019) on the plight of Greek Cypriot refugees from the 1974 invasion, together with most of the readers’ comments that support the Mail’s article, has highlighted a ghastly travesty. On the one hand, genuine refugees who lost their homes and property when...
Cyprus says it arrested Kurd facing prosecution for terrorism in Germany Cyprus

Cyprus says it arrested Kurd facing prosecution for terrorism in Germany

March 23rd, 20192617 Cyprus said on Saturday it had arrested, on the basis of a European arrest and extradition warrant, a Kurd with Turkish citizenship who faces prosecution in Germany on terrorism charges, a brief statement from the presidential palace said. Announcements from the palace of arrests are highly unusual. According to the statement, the...
Clashes break out in latest French 'yellow vest' protests Europe

Clashes break out in latest French 'yellow vest' protests

March 23rd, 2019757 Police and demonstrators clashed sporadically in Paris and other French cities on Saturday as "yellow vest" protests against President Emmanuel Macron's government took place for a 19th consecutive weekend. The demonstration in the capital was largely peaceful for most of the day, but later in the afternoon police fired tear gas on...
Passengers airlifted from cruise ship stranded off Norway FRONT PAGE

Passengers airlifted from cruise ship stranded off Norway

March 23rd, 2019842 Rescue helicopters were evacuating people from a cruise ship which suffered engine failure on Saturday in stormy weather off the west coast of Norway, police and rescue workers said. The maritime rescue service said the Viking Sky, with about 1,300 passengers and crew on board, had sent out a mayday signal as it had been drifting...
Hundreds of thousands march in London to demand new Brexit referendum Brexit

Hundreds of thousands march in London to demand new Brexit referendum

March 23rd, 20191121 Hundreds of thousands of people opposed to Britain's withdrawal from the European Union marched through central London on Saturday to demand a new referendum as the deepening Brexit crisis risked sinking Prime Minister Theresa May's premiership. Marchers set off in central London with banners proclaiming "the best deal is no Brexit"...
The rise and fall of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria World

The rise and fall of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

March 23rd, 2019652 March 23 (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters have been defeated at the final shred of territory they held in eastern Syria, marking the end of jihadist rule that once spanned a third of Iraq and Syria, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Saturday. This timeline chronicles the lightning rise, cruel reign and gradual...
Our View: Education ministry must end knee-jerk reactions prompted by others   Our View

Our View: Education ministry must end knee-jerk reactions prompted by others  

March 23rd, 2019991 DECISIONS being taken by the education ministry for public schools are increasingly the product of knee-jerk reactions rather than studies and research. This is partly because too big a say in decisions is being given to parents’ associations and students groups. Once the ministry had given teaching unions such a big say in how state...
The cardinal error committed by the Greek Cypriots CM Regular Columnist

The cardinal error committed by the Greek Cypriots

March 23rd, 20195612 LAST Monday, I attended the presentation of the newly published book written by Ioannis N. Gregoriades, under the title “Sisyphus going East”.  The presentation was organised by the Secretariat for Intercommunity Cooperation and the Association of Young Scientists of the Democratic Rally (Disy), at Journalists’ House, in...
World’s Leading Demagogue CM Regular Columnist

World’s Leading Demagogue

March 23rd, 20191496 YOU can keep your Orban, your Netanyahu, your pathetic Boris Johnson. As for Donald Trump, he’s really an icon of democracy, just slightly shop-soiled. The coveted title of World’s Leading Demagogue has just gone to the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan may look like an ageing, disappointed post office clerk, passed...
Minister assures that private reservoir poses no danger Cyprus

Minister assures that private reservoir poses no danger

March 22nd, 20192579 Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis assured on Friday there was no cause for concern over a private reservoir in Ha Potami, Paphos, whose embankment looks like it has partially collapsed. Kadis said the private company is drafting an action plan and has put measures in place. “There does not seem to be any problem at the moment,”...
Archbishop called out for ‘callous’ cancer remark Cyprus

Archbishop called out for ‘callous’ cancer remark

March 22nd, 20192739 Archbishop Chrysostomos sparked public ire this week after a comment he made about his battle with cancer. Commenting on his condition, the Church primate said with the help of God, his cancer was gone. “God bless, I’m clean. Cancer did not match my character,” he said. Netizens took to social media to protest what they...
‘Break their bones’, ex Disy MP urges in Facebook rant against bird activists Cyprus

‘Break their bones’, ex Disy MP urges in Facebook rant against bird activists

March 22nd, 20192965 One-time Disy MP Evgenios Hamboullas sparked outrage on Friday after he urged people in Famagusta to attack and beat up foreign activists fighting the illegal hunting of songbirds. His outburst came after a statement by the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) said 29 of its volunteers had collected 2,596 limesticks and 53 nets in...
Firecracker explosion on school bus causes consternation Cyprus

Firecracker explosion on school bus causes consternation

March 22nd, 20191269 Paphos public transport company Osypa said on Friday it would not run one of its school routes next week until further notice after a firecracker went off in a bus full of pupils. According to the police, a firecracker exploded in one of the company’s buses on Friday when it was running the school route between Yeroskipou and the...
Returning to UK, PM faces mammoth task to change minds on Brexit Britain

Returning to UK, PM faces mammoth task to change minds on Brexit

March 22nd, 2019624 British Prime Minister Theresa May returned on Friday to her mammoth struggle of persuading a deeply divided parliament to back her Brexit deal after an EU summit granted her more time but little to help change minds in London. After a bruising day in Brussels, May secured a two-week reprieve to try to get the deal she negotiated in...
Colourful migrating butterflies on their way Cyprus

Colourful migrating butterflies on their way

March 22nd, 20194135 Painted lady butterflies are moving from Israel to Cyprus at the rate of 25,000 per hour Israeli TV Channel 12 news reported. According to the Jerusalem Post, millions of the colourful butterflies were spotted in Israel during the holiday of Purim on Thursday. They are migrating en masse north from Africa and passing through Cyprus...
Thrones star Emilia Clarke reveals close brushes with death Showbiz

Thrones star Emilia Clarke reveals close brushes with death

March 22nd, 2019573 Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke on Thursday revealed she suffered two brain aneurysms during her early years with the hit television show that left her convinced she would die. Clarke, 32, who plays Mother of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen in the medieval fantasy series, spoke of her two brushes with death for the first time in a...
Hunger, disease stalk Africa cyclone survivors, ‘1.7m affected’ Africa

Hunger, disease stalk Africa cyclone survivors, ‘1.7m affected’

March 22nd, 2019479 Hundreds of thousands of people scrambled for shelter, food and water across a swathe of southern Africa on Friday after a cyclone killed hundreds and swept away homes and roads, testing relief efforts for survivors facing a growing risk of cholera. Cyclone Idai battered Beira, a low-lying port city of 500,000 residents, with strong...
News podcast: New groundbreaking research revealed at CING Cyprus

News podcast: New groundbreaking research revealed at CING

March 22nd, 201920096 The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international – in audio form. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this week: Groundbreaking new research revealed at the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics. how can a...
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