Новости за 08.06.2020

The health ministry on Monday announced six new cases of the coronavirus bringing the total to 970. Five were from repatriated individuals and one was from a test carried out on private initiative. The latter was also a recently repatriated individual who tested negative upon arrival. After a few days...

By Prudence Wade Many of our holidays might be on hold, but that doesn’t mean summer is completely cancelled. One of the best parts of preparing for a summer holiday or beach season in general is buying a new swimsuit. Like any other year, the sunshine has brought with it...

Wide-scale lockdowns including shop and school closures have reduced COVID-19 transmission rates in Europe enough to control its spread and may have averted more than three million deaths, researchers said on Monday. In a modelling study of lockdown impact in 11 nations, Imperial College London scientists said the draconian steps,...

An 11-year-old boy rescued off a Limassol beach was in critical condition on Monday. Friends and relatives of the boy saw him floating in the waters at a Germasogia beach shortly after 10am and notified a lifeguard who was set to start working at 10:30. Chest compressions were carried out...

Dust levels are expected to decrease from Wednesday and the hot air is expected to gradually recede, the weather forecast on Tuesday said. Temperatures on Wednesday will be 36C inland, around 30C in the south and east coast, 27C in the remaining coasts and 24C in the mountains. Until Friday,...

The exhibition at Point Centre for Contemporary Art, part of an EU funded cooperation project, re-opens to the public later this month. Excavating Contemporary Archaeology opened in early March but was put on hold due to the lockdown. With the reopening of galleries and museums, the exhibition will pick up...

Cyprus has the cleanest bathing waters across Europe, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Monday after an EU-wide report showed 99.1 per cent of bathing waters on the island were excellent quality. The report by the European Environment Agency put Cyprus in first place for proportion of bathing waters with...

Tailors, carpenters and fishermen; priests, shepherds and bakers. Here a late-night lokmades seller under a streetlamp; there an EOKA fighter, eyes still brimming with fire. Scroll down to a grandmother clasping photos of her missing, a quiet round of pilota in a kafenion corner, a cobbler in his ancient workshop....

The toppling by anti-racism protesters of a statue of a slave trader in the English port city of Bristol has given new urgency to a debate about how Britain should confront some of the darkest chapters of its history. The statue of Edward Colston, who made a fortune in the...

A bar owner in Famagusta will be taken to court to have its operations suspended for violating coronavirus measures five times over the past three days, police said on Monday. Videos of people partying at the bar circulated on Sunday depicting dozens of people dancing, prompting the ire of both...

Eighteen funerals were carried out in the north over the weekend for Turkish Cypriots who died in Britain. Some of the deceased died with coronavirus. CNA quoted Kibris newspaper saying the coffins were transported by plane from London to Istanbul and from there, were shipped to Famagusta port. Upon arrival,...

No crossings had taken place by Monday afternoon as business groups from both sides of the divide called on the leaders to find a solution as soon as possible. CNA reported that the Republic had checkpoints fully staffed and ready to deal with any crossings from the north, belonging to...

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Investigations over the Byzantine flag that was placed on a mosque in Larnaca are ongoing, police said on Monday. Officers are trying to chase up leads over who placed the flag there, the conditions over which it happened and whether a criminal offence was committed. Police spokesman Christos Andreou told...

Police on Monday said eight people has been arrested the previous night after causing a ruckus in Paphos. According to a press bulletin, officers were informed there was a brawl of sorts and upon arriving at the scene, found a number of people having heated discussions, with some obviously drunk....

Police on Monday reported a 14-year-old boy has been missing from his Larnaca home. Lucian Cirpa, aged 14, has been missing since Saturday morning from the family home in Mazotos. Cirpa, from Moldavia, has been described as 1.60m tall, slim, with short blonde hair. He was last seen wearing beige...

In 2019, the expected average duration of working life for the European Union’s (EU) adult population aged 15 years and over was 35.9 years, 0.2 years longer than the average for 2018, and 3.6 years longer than in the year 2000, according to data released today by Eurostat, the statistical...

Larnaca and Paphos airports will reopen on Tuesday as part of the third phase of relaxation of the restrictive measures taken due to the pandemic . The airports were closed by a decree of the transport minister to ban flights to and from Cyprus, which took effect at 3am on...

Germany’s coordinator for transatlantic ties has criticised U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw thousands of troops from Germany. Trump has ordered the U.S. military to remove 9,500 troops from Germany, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. “This is completely unacceptable, especially since nobody in Washington thought about informing...

Ryanair believes Britain’s courts will either strike down a 14-day quarantine for international travellers this week or the government will drop the measure before the end of June, boss Michael O’Leary told Reuters on Monday. Britain introduced the 14-day quarantine on Monday in a bid to limit the spread of...

By Bejay Browne Paphos old town has come back to life with a vengeance during the evenings but remains dead during the day, in the wake of lockdown restrictions being eased, according to local business owners. Restaurants, cafes and bars in the old town are faring well, and in many...