Новости за 25.02.2020

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has widened his lead for the Democratic presidential nomination and overtaken Joe Biden in support among African Americans – a voting bloc that until now has largely favored the former vice president, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national poll released on Tuesday. The result could spell trouble...

International Francophone Month will kick off on March 3 including contests, lectures, discussions, dance, concerts, exhibitions, films and film festivals, and even food tasting, education minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Tuesday presenting the programme of events. The events will start with a comic book exhibition at the French Institute and...

Drinking alcohol on the street, plastic chairs and laughing gas will all be banned under the planned national tourism strategy, the fight for the introduction of which will begin soon, tourism minister Savvas Perdios said on Tuesday. Speaking at the Cyprus Hotel Association (Pasyxe)’s AGM, the minister spoke about the...

A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples contains one million varieties with the addition on Tuesday of specimens grown by Cherokee Indians and the estate of Britain’s Prince Charles. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built on a mountainside in 2008, was...

Nicosia District court on Tuesday denied the attorney general’s request for the government to delay paying plaintiffs who successfully sued a shoe factory for causing them health issues, pending an appeal to the supreme court. The court awarded damages to 22 plaintiffs and found Astrasol shoe sole factory in Latsia...

Game wardens on Tuesday highlighted the dangers they face carrying out their job, which pits them against the mafia underworld. “Problems have been around for decades and the game wardens don’t have the power to stop it,” United Hunters Association spokesman Aristos Aristidou told CyBC on Tuesday morning. “They (the...

Iran’s coronavirus death toll rose to 16 on Tuesday, the most outside China, increasing its international isolation as countries as far apart as South Korea and Italy stepped up emergency measures to curb the epidemic’s global spread. Believed to have come from wildlife in Wuhan city late last year, the...

MPs on Tuesday gave the government until May to table a bill on a minimum national wage, warning that after the deadline expires, they would discuss the proposals submitted by the Greens, the Citizens Alliance and Elam instead. The issue was discussed at the House labour committee with MPs calling...

One of the most important Greek contemporary artists, with a worldwide career, has come to THOC to take on the dual role of stage director and protagonist. Lydia Koniordou presents a great Greek drama focused on a tough woman and mother who does not hesitate to clash with anyone to...

Justice Minister Giorgos Savvides announced a serious of measures aimed at tackling match-fixing and corruption in football on Tuesday after a meeting with several party leaders, members of the ethics and sports protection committee and police chief Kypros Michaelides. Among the main decisions at the meeting were the establishment of...

More than a dozen people have been killed and hundreds injured in clashes between opposing groups of protesters in New Delhi, hospital officials said on Tuesday, as riots overshadowed U.S. President Donald Trump’s first visit to India. The clashes, the worst in the capital since unrest over a new citizenship...

The Animal Party on Tuesday called on the government to up measures on tackling the population of stray cats, arguing that only around 1,430 cats are being spayed and neutered annually with the money paid by the state. In a written statement, the party welcomed a government announcement it would...

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg met Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai at Britain’s University of Oxford on Tuesday and posed for a photo together. Yousafzai, widely known by her first name, Malala, is a student at the University of Oxford. The 22-year-old posted a photo on Instagram of herself...

Cyprus Casinos (C2) has opened a further satellite casino in Geroskipou, Paphos, it’s fourth on the island. The other three satellite casinos are located in Nicosia, at Larnaca airport and in Ayia Napa. C2 also operates another temporary casino located in Limassol, which opened in June 2018. The C2 Paphos...

A 36-year-old motorcyclist was fined €1,500 and had his licence suspended for three months by a Paphos court for reckless driving, police said on Tuesday. The man also received four penalty points. He was arrested on Monday after he was seen by the Paphos police director Nicos Pentaras speeding and...

Every day hundreds of people gather on the banks of the Tigris river in southeast Turkey to watch a 12,000-year-old town disappearing before their eyes. Rising water levels from the giant Ilisu Dam further downstream are slowly submerging the town of Hasankeyf and flooding an area which was settled by...

The government assured parliament on Tuesday that no Greek Cypriots would be left without protection against legal processes initiated by Turkish Cypriots demanding restitution of their property in the government-controlled areas that was used to construct refugee estates, among others, after 1974. Speaking after a meeting of the House refugee...

Brexit will not unduly affect Cypriot shipping, deputy minister of shipping Natasa Pilides said on Tuesday at the opening of the 4th Annual Capital Link Cyprus Shipping Forum in Limassol. “On a broader level [due to Brexit] shipping is affected in terms of corporate earnings and trade, but beyond that...

Cyprus is number four on the list of EU countries with a high number of enterprises using social media, newly published Eurostat figures show. In 2019, the use of social media was most popular among enterprises in Malta (84 per cent), followed by Denmark (75 per cent), the Netherlands (74...

Health Minister, Constantinos Ioannou, on Tuesday announced that authorities would extend checks on passengers arriving to the island from four more countries where the coronavirus (Covid 19) has spread. He also said his ministry had found two facilities to operate as quarantine areas for people with no symptoms of the...

Women make up just about half of the world’s workforce: 47 per cent according to statistical service Catalyst. Public relations, social and community services, optical services and pharmaceuticals are all female-dominated sectors across much of the globe. Here in Cyprus, where the female workforce hovers around the 45 per cent...

The European Union is ready for talks on future ties with Brexit Britain ranging from trade to security but the process will be “very hard” and could fail if London does not secure the Irish border as earlier agreed, ministers said on Tuesday. Britain left the EU on Jan. 31...

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will undertake an official visit to Cyprus from Wednesday March 18 to Saturday March 21, it was announced on Tuesday by the British High Commission (BHC). The visit to Cyprus will be the first Royal visit to the island outside of...

The state’s anti-money laundering unit (Mokas) on Tuesday requested assets worth €372,600 to be seized from four defendants — including former Larnaca mayor Andreas Louroudjiatis — who had been found guilty of corruption relating to the operation of two waste management plants in Larnaca and Paphos. Louroudjiatis, the financial controller...

Savvas Christodoulou and Manolis Neophytou will meet for the first time on the Technopolis 20 stage next month. The two talented Cypriot musicians have held numerous concerts individually in the past and they now promise to surprise and satisfy audiences one more time. Taking place on Wednesday, March 4 at...