Новости за 18.05.2020

The bodies of 18 Turkish Cypriots including a 26-year-old care worker who died of Covid-19 lie in a mosque in Hackney, London after authorities in the north refused to repatriate them for burial, it was reported Monday. According to the London Times, they had all requested to be buried in...

By Nick Brown The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans a nationwide study of up to 325,000 people to track how the new coronavirus is spreading across the country into next year and beyond, a CDC spokeswoman and researchers conducting the effort told Reuters. The CDC study,...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said his recommendation to President Donald Trump that the inspector general of the State Department be fired was not an act of retaliation as he was unaware of any investigations the employee was carrying out, he told the Washington Post in an interview. “It...

Forces aligned with Libya’s internationally recognised government took control of an air base south-west of Tripoli on Monday after a sustained assault, in what could be their most significant advance for nearly a year. Watiya air base, 125 km (80 miles) from the capital, has been an important strategic foothold...

Larnaca’s public transport company, Zenon, launched a protest on Monday against a tender for the town’s public transport given to another company, calling the transport ministry’s ruling ‘unjust’ and ‘unlawful’. The company said they will park their buses along the Finikoudes promenade until Wednesday May 20 as part of their...

Opposition parties looked poised last night to change a key government bill that provides for state-backed borrowing despite a presidential appeal to approve it as is and not risk making it unenforceable. House finance committee chairman, Diko MP Angelos Votsis, said the committee had finished discussion of the bill and...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that a four-day lockdown starting on May 23 would be imposed nationwide as part of efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus during the Eid al-Fitr religious holiday. The holiday marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan and...

France and Germany agreed on Monday to propose creating a 500 billion euro ($543 billion) Recovery Fund that would offer grants to European member states and regions hit hardest by the new coronavirus crisis. In what French President Emmanuel Macron said was a “major step forward”, the two countries said...

One of the leaders of the Maronite community living in Kormakitis in the north called on the Republic on Monday to help farmers who lost their crops and trees during Sunday’s wildfires. Kormakitis was one of the villages in the north to have been badly affected by the fire that...

A recent poll found that 77 per cent of the people trust scientists over the government, which scraped only 9 per cent of the vote. The poll, published by daily Politis last week, found that 79 per cent of respondents said they agreed with the government measures against the spread...

Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides on Monday presented Cyprus’ strategy to restart its tourism industry during a teleconference with nine of his EU counterparts, saying the island’s plans, which he did not publicly reveal, were based on the positive epidemiological picture that was emerging. Cyprus has recorded just over 900 coronavirus...

One new case of coronavirus was announced on Monday by the health ministry, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 917. Announcing the new case, virologist Leontios Kostrikis said the individual was among a total of 583 tests processed on retail and construction workers. A total of 1,287 tests...

Another orange warning was issued by the met office on Monday afternoon as temperatures are expected to hit a maximum of 43 degrees Celsius on Tuesday. Southern coastal areas will record temperatures around 39 degrees, western coastal areas around 37 degrees and mountain areas around 33 degrees. The announcement follows...

Cyprus on Monday received two additional aircraft as the risk of forest fires has spiked due to abnormally high temperatures, which are expected to continue for the rest of this week. Two US-made air tractors arrived at Larnaca airport around lunchtime Monday following a leasing agreement with a Spanish company....

Police are investigating an armed robbery outside an Ayios Dhometios bakery, where €50,000 was stolen from a security van on Monday. According to reports, at approximately 2pm three individuals, one carrying a meat cleaver, assaulted a security van driver, as he exited a bakery in the area. The three individuals...

President Nicos Anastasiades told opposition leaders on Monday that the government will not be making further changes to a state-backed borrowing scheme to help businesses and urged them not to make amendments themselves. Anastasiades on Monday met with party leaders to discuss the scheme, which has been hit by delays...

Premier League clubs will return to training on Tuesday after agreeing to allow “small group” sessions to begin. The league held a conference call for all 20 clubs on Monday where the move was given unanimous backing. It is the first step in the league’s ‘Project Restart’ plans to restart...

The Bundesliga’s return to action on Saturday was the best news clubs have had for weeks but with no fans in the stands due to conoravirus restrictions the atmosphere took some getting used to. “It is very strange,” Dortmund coach Lucien Favre said. “You have no noise, you take a...

The United Kingdom has added the loss of smell and taste to its official list of COVID-19 symptoms including fever and new continuous cough – a step that it hopes could help pick up more cases of the novel coronavirus. “From today, all individuals should self-isolate if they develop a...

The labour inspection department outlined on Monday the regulations regarding work in high temperatures and high humidity levels. Heavy outdoor work such as drilling or demolition on construction sites is forbidden when the temperature is above 42C and humidity levels are above 28 percent. For moderate work such as carpentry...

The Pancyprian pilots’ union (Pasypi) said the government should seriously consider founding a national air carrier. In a statement release on Monday, Pasypi claimed that the situation posed by the coronavirus pandemic in Cyprus has underlined the necessity of having a reliable national airline in place “Following recent developments related...

Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios said on Monday he is in serious and constant talks with Cyprus’ tourism partners abroad to get a clear picture of tourism sector by the end of May. Perdios told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) he will hold the first phase of the consultations...

The heatwave is an ally against the coronavirus, a government epidemiology adviser said on Monday since high temperatures help slow down the spread of the virus. Member of the committee of experts on coronavirus and professor at the University of Nicosia Medical School, Dr Petros Karayiannis said that in the...

With the usual routes to Europe closed by the coronavirus pandemic, Moroccan drug traffickers are making a circuitous journey involving food trucks and fishing boats to smuggle locally grown cannabis to market, police say. Morocco has since March imposed an internal lockdown that has stopped most movement between cities and...

A 37-year-old suspect facing attempted murder charges for incidents in Larnaca and Ayia Napa will be appear in criminal court on June 1 to answer the charges against him. The 37-year-old suspect in the shootings, Charalambos Chrysanthou, aka Hamburger, from Paphos, is the suspected shooter in the case, while a...