Archive for 2018

Real Madrid ease past Al Ain for fourth Club World Cup title

ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Real Madrid lifted the FIFA Club World Cup for a record fourth time on Saturday after thrashing local side Al Ain 4-1 in the final in Abu Dhabi with the help of impressive distance strikes in …

Premier League round up

Manchester City stumbled to the most unexpected defeat of the Premier League season on Saturday before neighbours Manchester United began their brave new world under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with a glorious reminder of long-forgotten attacking swagger.

Manchester United’s Anthony Martial …

Beer Sheva Declaration stresses support for resumption of Cyprus talks 

A Joint Declaration adopted on Thursday after the Cyprus-Greece-Israel Trilateral Summit, in Beer Sheva, expresses full support to the resumption of settlement talks in Cyprus.

“We express our full support to the ongoing efforts for the resumption of the negotiation …

Woman rescued from Haringey house fire

Firefighters rescued an elderly woman from a house fire on Lordsmead Road in Tottenham.

Fire crews wearing breathing apparatus rescued the woman from a first floor bedroom.

The fire damaged a very small amount of the kitchen.

The Brigade was …

Police arrest man and woman over Gatwick drone disruption

LONDON (Reuters) – Police have arrested a man and a woman after rogue drone operators crippled London’s Gatwick Airport for three days by repeatedly flying onto the airfield, sparking a major security response.

Britain’s second-largest airport was back in operation …

Flat fire – Belsize Park

Six fire engines and around 40 firefighters were called to a fire at a flat in Lawn Road in Belsize Park.

Most of a flat on the 10th floor of the building was damaged by fire.

Three people were led …

Cypriot Government celebrations are creating misleading impressions on East MED

Mutually beneficial and based on International Law of the states of the region cooperations are welcome and positive. AKEL supports their development for the benefit of the states and their peoples, as well as of peace and cooperation in the …

The struggle against the ultra-right im Cyprus demands consistency and steadfastness

 

Confronting fascism and the ultra-right cannot be done in an unprincipled way. It cannot be that when elections are approaching one’s stand towards the ultra-right is decided depending on what suits electoral and petty-party considerations.

The day before yesterday, …

AKEL on the funeral of Turkish Cypriot victims of fascist EOKA B

This weeks funeral of 15 Turkish Cypriot victims of the atrocities committed by EOKA B in the villages of Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda in 1974 reminds us that chauvinism has been one of the main causes of our country’s tragedy.…

Eureka: St Paul spreads the word

In the ancient Christian village of Malula, in Syria, the old men still speak the language that Jesus spoke – Aramaic. In his time this was the common language of the Middle East. It remained so for centuries, until Arabic …