Новости за 17.06.2020

By Rich McKay and Nathan Layne A Georgia county prosecutor on Wednesday announced that a fired Atlanta police officer has been charged with felony murder in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant last week. The death of the 27-year-old Brooks – another...

By Estelle Shirbon An Oxford University college said on Wednesday it wanted to remove from its facade a statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil Rhodes that has been a target of anti-racism protests, though the decision would be made independently. Oriel College has been under pressure for several years from...

By Humeyra Pamuk and David Brunnstrom U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi began talks in Hawaii on Wednesday, the State Department said, a crucial meeting as relations between the two countries have soured since the start of the year. The meeting in Honolulu started...

By Kate Kelland and Emma Farge A cheap steroid that can help save the lives of patients with severe COVID-19 should be reserved for serious cases in which it has been shown to provide benefits, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said research was...

France accused Turkey’s navy on Wednesday of acting in a hostile and unacceptable manner towards its NATO allies to prevent them from enforcing a United Nations arms embargo on Libya. NATO defence ministers are holding a virtual meeting this week amid growing tensions between Paris and Ankara. The two allies...

Aston Villa and Sheffield United drew 0-0 on Wednesday as the Premier League returned to action after a 100-day hiatus due to Covid-19 with strong anti-racism statements and immediate controversy. Technology was thrust back into the spotlight as the visitors appeared to be denied a goal at an empty Villa Park, when Villa goalkeeper Orjan Nyland...

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Wednesday called for bringing forward the date of the elections in the north to August instead of October as currently scheduled. During statements on BRT television station, Akinci said that it had been 61 days without any new coronavirus cases in the north and...

By Francois Murphy As anti-racism protesters topple statues of slave traders and colonisers worldwide, some nations are pondering how to mark their dark past. In Austria, debate over confronting one link to Adolf Hitler has taken decades, and it’s not over yet. Austria recently unveiled plans to convert the house...

Five suspects were remanded by Limassol district court for two days on Wednesday, after a drug bust late Tuesday night, police said. Police arrested three men (31, 27, and 26) and two women (35 and 23), after the police drug squad, Ykan, received a tipoff that the three men were...

The European Commission approved on Wednesday a €1.8 million Cypriot scheme to support farmers active in the primary agricultural production affected by the coronavirus outbreak. According to a press announcement from the EU Commission, the scheme was approved under the state aid temporary framework, adopted by the EU body on...

Bosnia’s largest Croat and Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) parties agreed on Wednesday, under international mediation, on the way the southern town of Mostar should be governed, paving the way for the first local vote there in 12 years. Mostar, famous for its Ottoman-era Old Bridge, has not held local elections since...

Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes says he is relishing the opportunity to play alongside record-signing Paul Pogba when they resume their Premier League campaign after a three-month pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 25-year-old Fernandes, who joined United from Sporting Lisbon in January, has settled in quickly at Old Trafford,...

In Brazil, home to the world’s second worst coronavirus outbreak, one thing seems to be spreading faster than the virus: the suspect, and sometimes strange, strategies to treat it. Suggestions for countless improvised remedies are transmitted by WhatsApp, Facebook or old-fashioned word of mouth. Sometimes, messages encourage the use of...

The deputy ministry for tourism on Wednesday said it had renewed the operation licence of Nava Seaside, the Protaras bar-restaurant that was temporarily closed last week for not having one. Although the operating licence has been renewed, the company’s offences in relation to breaking coronavirus health and safety protocols will...

The House legal affairs committee started discussion on Wednesday on a bill to modernise the definition of rape which has not been changed for the past 60 years. The bill was submitted by main opposition Akel that argued that a series of articles of the penal code needed modernisation including...

The brother of the late George Floyd called on the top UN human rights body on Wednesday to investigate police brutality and racial discrimination in the United States. “The way you saw my brother tortured and murdered on camera is the way black people are treated by police in America,” Philonise Floyd, speaking...

Simona Halep does not currently plan to play the U.S. Open with the health protocols put in place by the organisers for the Grand Slam due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Romanian women’s world number two told Reuters on Wednesday. The United States Tennis Association (USTA) received the green light...

A mysterious 68-million-year-old fossil found on Seymour Island off Antarctica‘s coast that looked like a deflated football has turned out to be a unique find – the second-largest egg on record and one that may have belonged to a huge marine reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The fossilized egg –...

Work to construct the largest bus terminal in Cyprus got underway in Paphos old town on Wednesday, Paphos municipality announced. “One of the most important projects in Paphos, that of the largest bus terminal in Cyprus, to be built in the municipal parking lot Karavella, started today,” the municipality said...

Lawmakers on Wednesday began discussions on a code of ethics for MPs, which had been shelved during the pandemic. The code was discussed at the House ethics committee with House president Demetris Syllouris, who drew up the 155-pages of rules that aim to enhance transparency among deputies. He said he...

Experts from both sides of the divide discussed on Wednesday the epidemiological outlook on the island but the Greek Cypriot side said the Turkish Cypriots have yet to submit an updated report on the situation in the north. The bicommunal Technical Committee on Health held another teleconference on Wednesday with...

A letter written by Vincent van Gogh and fellow artist Paul Gauguin describing visits to brothels and discussing the future of art has been sold at auction for €210,600 ($237,700). The letter was bought in Paris on Tuesday by the Vincent van Gogh Foundation which will display it in its museum in Amsterdam. The artists wrote...

By 2070, life expectancy at birth in Cyprus will be 86 years for men and 90 for women, according to a new report from the European Commission on Wednesday. The European Commission has adopted its first-ever report on the Impact of Demographic Change. It presents the drivers of this long-term...

By Andrew Rosenbaum and Kyriacos Iacovides Two new members have been elected to the board of Hellenic Bank at the AGM on Tuesday, and two key board members were not re-elected, according to a statement released by the bank on Wednesday. The former chairwoman of the Hellenic board, Irena Georgiades,...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson‘s car was shunted by a security vehicle outside parliament on Wednesday when Kurdish protesters ran into the road, two Reuters witnesses said. Johnson‘s office said no one had been injured. The vehicle was leaving the parliamentary estate with police outriders when a protester ran into the...