Новости за 30.05.2020

SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans toward orbit from Florida on Saturday in a mission that marks the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22...

After a near three-month shutdown, all competitive sport in Britain can resume from June 1 behind closed doors provided strict conditions are met, the government said on Saturday. The first major live event is expected to be the 2000 Guineas Stakes horse race at Newmarket on June 6. No competitive...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is so nervous about the position of the Communist Party that he is risking a new Cold War and imperilling Hong Kong’s position as Asia’s pre-eminent financial hub, the last British governor of the territory told Reuters. Chris Patten said Xi’s ‘thuggish’ crackdown in Hong Kong...

Violent protests flared overnight in several U.S. cities as demonstrators vented their anger over the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis this week after a white police officer knelt on his neck. From Minneapolis to New York City, Atlanta and Washington, protesters clashed with police...

The European Union has urged US President Donald Trump to rethink his decision to cut American funding for the World Health Organisation (WHO) amid global criticism of the move. Spiking coronavirus infection rates in some countries served as a reminder the global pandemic is far from contained, as Trump charged...

President Nicos Anastasiades said that the EU was at a critical crossroad regarding its relations with Turkey. In an interview with the Greek newspaper “Ta Nea”, he said the EU would damage its own credibility if it succumbed to Turkey’s blackmail. Anastasiades said the escalation of Turkey’s illegal behaviour – not only...

Health authorities on Saturday announced one new case of coronavirus, bringing the total to 943. The positive case was among 115 samples collected from the contacts of a previously confirmed case. In total, authorities conducted 2,061 with just the one positive. By 3pm on Saturday, three patients were being treated...

Monday will usher in the second phase of one of the biggest social reforms seen in Cyprus, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said, as the national health system (Gesy) enters the final stretch of implementation with the introduction of secondary healthcare. “Despite the many problems we were asked to face because...

Roger Federer has become the first tennis player to top Forbes’ list of the best-paid athletes in world sport as overall earnings dropped amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Swiss star was ranked first with earnings of $106 million thanks to an extensive portfolio of investments which brought in £81m –...

Where do you live? I live in Nicosia for now! What did you have for breakfast? Porridge oats with almond milk – banana and cinnamon. Describe your perfect day A perfect day is doing things that will contribute to me being better in all aspects of life, such as exercise,...

Anorthosis Famagusta’s relationship with Spanish forward Ruben Rayos appears to have reached a breaking point. There have been claims and counterclaims from both sides regarding his contract. From the outside, it appears that the current situation is the result of circumstance, bad luck and a failure to reach an agreement...

England risks losing control of the coronavirus pandemic again because it is starting to lift its lockdown without a fully operational track and trace programme in place, three senior scientific advisers warned on Saturday. rime Minister Boris Johnson has said England’s lockdown measures will be eased cautiously from Monday, aided...

Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers has revealed he had coronavirus. The Foxes manager was ill in March and April, soon after the season was halted following Leicester’s 4-0 win over Aston Villa. Wife Charlotte was also unwell but both are now fine, with Rodgers taking training ahead of the Premier League’s...

More than 10,000 free hot meals have been cooked and delivered by volunteers to those in need in Paphos during the Covid-19 pandemic. They have now decided to wrap up the service next Friday. Chalkies Bar in Coral Bay in Peyia is currently closed due to the pandemic and has...

India reported a record daily jump of 7,964 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday, with a recent surge in cases as lockdown restrictions start to ease raising the possibility that Prime Minister Narendra Modi could extend curbs beyond May 31. In an open letter marking one year into his second term,...

Elon Musk’s private rocket company SpaceX was set for a repeat attempt at launching two Americans into orbit on Saturday from Florida for a mission that would mark the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. The mission’s first launch try on Wednesday was called off...

Spanish football’s top-flight will resume after a three-month pause due to the coronavirus pandemic on June 11 with the local derby between Sevilla and Real Betis, the government’s department for sport (CSD) said in a statement on Friday. Meanwhile, president Javier Tebas has outlined La Liga’ plans to offer viewers...

Police on Saturday issued a missing person bulletin for a 16-year-old male from Nicosia who was last seen the previous day. Constantinos Savvides is about 1.70m metres tall, average built with blond hair. He wears a ring on his nose. When last seen he was wearing black shorts and black...

Getting ready to launch a new summer production of Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town to be followed by Aristophanes’ Acharnians, the Cyprus Theatre Organisation (Thoc) is restarting its life on stage, albeit within the confines of coronavirus regulations. In staging the two outdoor shows, Thoc said “we are positive that,...

By Ella Walker Author of new cookbook Bitter Honey, Letitia Clark has lived in Sardinia for almost three years. Her initial plan was to become a writer, but she got to university and realised she spent all her time “procrastinating and cooking, instead of doing my research and working”. After...

Switzerland, on Thursday, said it is the first country to begin general usage of a contact-tracing app that enables location fixing for those infected with the novel coronavirus. The Swiss are launching the app in a pilot programme that includes a hospital workers, civil servants, and Swiss army personnel. After...

An early morning fire in Pissouri caused extensive damage to a restaurant, the fire service said on Saturday. The fire was reported at 4am and it was put out a couple of hours later after causing extensive damage to the restaurant’s interior. Two engines from Limassol and one from the...

As the Cyprus Cabinet ratified the EastMed gas pipeline project, which is intended to transport natural gas from the Levantine Basin in Israel and gas fields in Cypriot waters to Greece and Italy, the price of LNG was at about US$1.7 per million British thermal units (mmBtu), down from about...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides denied Saturday that he interfered in politics a day after President Nicos Anastasiades censured him over his statements concerning a bill on government-backed borrowing that became the bone of contention with the opposition before it was withdrawn. Michaelides told the Cyprus News Agency that he never interfered...

Police in Paphos arrested a community leader in connection with theft after he allegedly took some €3,400 from the coffers, it emerged on Saturday. An unknown whistle-blower reported to police through the public hotline that the suspect had been forcing the two cashiers to hand over cash and in return...