Новости за 04.06.2020

U.S. protests over the death of a black man in custody dwindled overnight into early Thursday after prosecutors leveled new charges against four Minneapolis policemen implicated in the killing. Huge crowds have defied curfews and taken to the streets of cities across the country for nine nights in sometimes violent...

The University of Nicosia Medical School is proud to announce its participation in a research project conducted by the Shriners Hospitals for Children (SHC), a network of 22 non-profit medical facilities across North America and many outreach clinics. The ‘SHC Genomics and Precision Medicine Project’ (GPMP) is a critical step...

The government said Thursday it fully respected the supreme court decisions on three bills referred to it by the president, including one that has an impact on the foreclosure framework and could cause problems to banks. Government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said it was known that the government respected the supreme...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) will celebrate the best of television broadcast in the United Kingdom during 2019 in a live show at the end of July – though with stars and studio audience absent. ‘Chernobyl’, HBO’s critically acclaimed dramatisation of events surrounding the world’s worst...

Two bishops and three priests who held services during lockdown will not be prosecuted as there is no evidence of them violating movement restrictions, it was reported on Thursday. Citing information from the attorney-general’s office, Phileleftheros said there was no question of the clergymen violating movement restrictions since they could...

English Football League clubs will decide how to end the season on Tuesday, June 9, with Lincoln chief executive Liam Scully conceding they were now seeking “the fairest of the unfair solutions”. With the Championship aiming for a June 20 restart and League Two having already coalesced around an early...

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Fifteen police officers facing prosecution over the way they handled the disappearance of several foreign women who turned out to be the victims of a serial killer have been charged and authorities were now preparing to submit the case in court, it emerged on Thursday. The head of the independent...

Libya’s internationally recognised leader will meet President Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on Thursday as the allies seek to lock in recent gains on the battlefield near Tripoli ahead of a new round of talks on a potential ceasefire. Turkey began providing military support to Fayez al Serraj’s Government of National...

Name: Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis) Otherwise known as: Yellow Root Habitat: A perennial member of the Ranunculaceae family, growing to about 30cm in temperate woodland. Originally native to North America, it can now be found growing in any of the temperate regions. It has a thick yellow rhizome which throws up...

A pay dispute between state doctors and the organisation of state health services (Okypy) appears to have been resolved after it was agreed to grant them a €1,850 monthly rise. Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said the organisation’s proposal will be sent to unions in writing on Thursday “and we expect...

THE European Central Bank (ECB) has bought Cypriot bonds amounting to €481 million as part of the €750 billion Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) launched as a response to the coronavirus outbreak. The PEPP is the ECB’s emergency bond-buying programme intended to support the market through the turmoil caused by...

A 35-year-old man was remanded in custody for two days on Thursday after he allegedly tried to sell card reading machines online. The case was reported to police by card processing company JCC. Police said the suspect posted online in May that he was selling JCC point of sales (POS)...

The parents of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, said on Thursday that the announcement of a new suspect was a potentially very significant development in the 13-year worldwide hunt for their daughter. McCann disappeared from her bedroom on May 3 during a family holiday...

Interior minister Nicos Nourris will on Thursday start two days of intense talks and consultations with other European interior ministers on the new European policy of asylum and immigration, with Cyprus demanding solidarity and a fair redistribution of migration flows. The talks start with teleconferences between the five frontline countries...

Hong Kong’s Legislative Council started voting on a controversial bill on Thursday that would make disrespecting China’s national anthem a criminal offence, amid heightened fears over Beijing’s tightening grip on the city. The voting came just as people in Hong Kong were set to commemorate the bloody 1989 crackdown by...

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday in the California desert about 150 miles (241 km) northeast of Los Angeles, but there were no reports of damage or injuries in the sparsely populated area. The temblor hit in a sparsely populated area near the Mojave Desert community of Searles Valley but was...

Recent incidents of mostly young Cypriot men in Chlorakas taking the law into their own hands, apparently against members of the Syrian community, have led the police to intervene, warning individuals that their behaviour is unlawful and racist. The two hot spots where the groups are operating are in Yeroskippou...

This charade of the courts overturning promotions and appointments in the public sector is a regular reminder of our state’s and political system’s commitment to nepotism. While some of the decisions might be overturned for technical reasons – the number of members sitting on the evaluation committee, the absence of...