Новости за 02.06.2020

Polis camp site looks set to be full for the upcoming weekend, according to the facility’s operator. Next Monday usually sees people flock to coastal towns to celebrate Katakylsmos, festival of the flood, however due to Covid-19 restrictions all of the island’s festivities have been cancelled. This move has been...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said U.S. troops should take to the streets of New York City, while elsewhere five officers were shot and wounded, as police clashed with crowds nationwide protesting the killing of an unarmed black man. Demonstrators smashed windows and looted stores late on Monday in New...

New York City will remain under curfew through Sunday after another night of looting that marred largely peaceful protests over an African-American man’s death in police custody in Minneapolis. Shopkeepers and cleaning crews swept glass from shattered windows and boarded up storefronts in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, one of...

A 31-year-old man was sentenced to nine years in prison by the Limassol Criminal Court on Tuesday for an attempted murder in 2017. On November 2, 2017, the man and four other people attacked a 21-year-old and 27-year-old. The man injured one of the individuals in the stomach with a...

State health services organisation Okypy and state doctors’ unions failed to reach an agreement, after over five hours of talk on Tuesday, the organisation said. Okypy’s meeting with doctors’ union Pasyki and the public sector union Pasydy’s branch of medical professionals was held to discuss the organisation’s financial proposal to...

Lawmakers are planning a big push to pass three bills relating to local government reform by October, though a number of tricky issues remain to be resolved. The government is keen to see the ambitious legislation passed by early autumn, envisioning that the process of local government reform will take...

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi got an invitation from U.S. President Donald Trump to attend the next Group of Seven summit, India’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Tuesday. Over a telephone call, Modi told Trump that New Delhi would be happy to work with the United States and other countries...

Pets should be allowed on public transport, the Animal Party said on Tuesday, urging the relevant ministry to issue detailed directions to private public transport companies. “It is important to allow animals on buses,” party leader Kyriakos Kyriakou told the Cyprus Mail. He explained that those who do not drive...

A European Union lawmaker on Tuesday was reminded of the perils of videoconferencing when he appeared to be wearing no trousers as he discussed policy matters with his peers. The European Parliament’s official live broadcast showed Ireland’s Luke Ming Flanagan wearing a shirt and sitting on the edge of an...

Ankara’s overexposure of the vandalism at Koprulu mosque in Limassol raises the question of how the Christian religious monuments are being treated in the north, Government Spokesman Kyriacos Kousios said on Tuesday. The spokesman was responding to the widespread condemnation, including by Turkey, of the vandalism at the mosque on...

If the agreement for the development of the port and marina is not signed within 15 days, the municipality of Larnaca will protest by closing the entrance to the port, it warned on Tuesday. On May 26 the municipality issued a statement declaring its dissatisfaction with the delay, and after...

A fire near the Yermasoyia dam was extinguished on Tuesday approximately two hours after it broke out, the forestry department said. The fire broke out at approximately 5pm and was extinguished at around 7pm. The forestry department said houses were endangered by the blaze, but fire fighters managed to protect...

The transport ministry announced that as of June 9, buses will be able to operate with full capacity, but all passengers must wear protective masks. The ministry revised instructions that currently allow only 50 per cent of passenger capacity as part of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus. From...

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Tuesday he will not take a step on the Cyprus problem unless his mandate is renewed, reports said. During an interview with Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris, Akinci said no developments are expected on the Cyprus problem for the moment, citing the coronavirus pandemic....

Cyprus Sports Organisation President, Andreas Michaelides, took part in a teleconference of EU sports ministers on Tuesday and spoke, among other things, of the key steps which need to be taken in order to reduce the pandemic`s negative impact, restore damage and reactivate sports economic activity. Michaelides took part in...

First Lady Andri Anastasiades, former Lord Speaker and scientist Baroness D’Souza, Panamanian Senator Ana Irene Delgado, writer Ella Windsor among many other speakers will discover the power of creativity in the upcoming Creative Women International Conference on Friday and Saturday. Nearly 40 international speakers will come together online to share...

Austrian authorities have presented the winning plan to redesign the house where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, turning it into a police station. They are trying to make it unattractive as a pilgrimage site for people who glorify the Nazi dictator. A design by Austrian architects Marte.Marte beat 11...

Three new coronavirus cases were announced by the health ministry on Tuesday, bringing the total recorded so far to 952. One case was found among 430 tests processed at schools. The ministry said it was a gymnasium student. The education ministry said the school is being disinfected and will operate...

A total of 16 NGOs will hold a demo outside Aglandjia municipality on Friday to protest plans by the municipality to build a road through Athalassa forest. The protest has the slogan ‘Hands off the parks – cut the cars, not the forests’. In a joint statement, the NGOs said...

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By Prudence Wade As summer approaches, we tend to put our winter clothes away and bring out our warm weather outfits. The same ethos is often applied to our beauty bags: when the sun comes out, we pack up our dark lipsticks and eyeshadows in favour of brighter colours. However,...

A joint teleconference organised on Tuesday on the occasion of the completion of the ‘’AWARE’’ campaign was held between representatives of refugees and asylum seekers with the participation of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (Unhcr) Representative in Cyprus Katja Saha to highlight the difficulties migrants face in integrating into...

The message that we are entering the phase of recovery was given on Tuesday by the Minister of Finance, Konstantinos Petridis. He said the first signs after the partial lifting of restrictions were very positive for the market, and expressed confidence that “we will emerge victorious from this uncertain battle.”...

EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell said Tuesday Turkey needed to respect the sovereignty of Cyprus and Greece and their territorial waters. Commenting on a recent announcement by Ankara they would be conducting natural gas exploration activities near Crete and other Greek islands, Borrell said the bloc was...