Новости за 26.06.2020

Police are searching for a 29-year-old man in connection with the murder which took place in Nicosia on Sunday. In a bulletin on Friday, police said they were searching for Pawan Singh, from India. On Sunday night, a group of about 15 people attacked a 21-year-old man who eventually died...

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Limassol police on Friday arrested the 63-year-old husband of an accountant, 49, suspected of stealing some €74,000 from a company and being behind millions of euros in fraudulent money transfers. Police said the woman, who is currently held in remand, is suspected of issuing forged cheques worth €4.5m. Both husband...

Fuel sales began to recover in May when coronavirus lockdown restrictions started lifting, showing a 57.9 per cent spike over the previous month. Total sales amounted to 89,120 tonnes, according to data published by the Statistical Service Cystat on Friday. All fuel sales rose except apart from kerosene and liquified...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday the United States was imposing visa restrictions on Chinese Communist Party officials believed responsible for restricting freedoms in Hong Kong. “Today, I am announcing visa restrictions on current and former CCP officials who are believed to be responsible for, or complicit...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday criticized states that reopened their economies before getting the novel coronavirus under control, saying there was “undeniable, irrefutable evidence” those states made a mistake. Cuomo told a briefing that states that followed guidance from the White House are now seeing a spike in...

UN special representative Elizabeth Spehar is expected to begin talks with both leaders in July, it emerged on Friday, ahead of the UN secretary general’s report on renewing Unficyp’s mandate. The talks are set to take place online on July 5 and 10 where Spehar is set to have separate talks...

One Day Express Lab (ODEL) is a research programme by Dance House Lemesos that started in 2010. ODEL has now launched an open call and invites people from various artistic, scientific and professional backgrounds to collaborate for one day, to work in duets and research on a topic of their...

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Limassol Court on Friday renewed a remand order for seven days for five individuals suspected of possessing drugs and raw materials that could be used to manufacture crystal meth. The suspects, three men aged 31, 26 and 27, and two women, 35 and 23, were arrested on June 16. The...

A woman who stabbed her seven-year-old son to death in the north last month was sentenced on Friday to life in prison. The tragic case at the time shocked society after it emerged Bilge Lord had stabbed her son after seeing a social media post from her separated husband that...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by phone on Friday, Athens and Ankara said – rare such contact for two neighbours at odds over a range of issues. Mitsotakis and Erdogan addressed ways of handling the effects of the...

Three men were remanded in custody for five days in Paphos on Friday on suspicion of possession and distribution of child pornography on the web. The men, 51, 31, and 27, were arrested on Thursday lunchtime. Police said they seized five mobile phones and two laptops during searches at their...

No new coronavirus cases were detected on Friday the health ministry said. The overall number of cases remains 992. In total 1,059 tests were carried out during the past 24 hours. Until Friday afternoon, two patients were admitted to Famagusta general hospital which is the country’s coronavirus reference hospital. One...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides said Friday that after her office had intervened, the central prisons were decongested as part of measures to battle the spread of coronavirus, a measure lauded by the Association for the Prevention of Torture. On Friday, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 2020, she...

The Met service has issued an extreme temperature warning for Saturday, expecting 40C in some areas. In a statement issued on Friday afternoon, the service said the warning will be in effect between 11am and 5pm. It said it expected inland temperatures to reach around 40C. The service warned that...

An man stabbed two people to death in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Friday before being shot dead by police, British media reported, in an attack that left a police officer critically injured. Police said they were not treating the incident as terrorism. “The incident in West George Street...

A EU study published on Friday revealed that, like most European countries, Cyprus needs to step up efforts across all sectors to make sure citizens can breathe clean air, preventing respiratory diseases and premature death. The study points out how Cyprus did not submit a national plan outlining its emissions...

President Nicos Anastasiades met with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Friday, to discuss dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, tourism relations between the two countries, and other bilateral issues. Szijjarto also met with the Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios at the presidential palace, and then met his Cypriot counterpart...

The smallest and least populated of the five main islands of Japan, Okinawa is one of the world’s most unusual places. Not for its size (roughly 1/8th the size of Cyprus), nor its scenery (tropical rainforest and turquoise seas), but for its population, who boast the highest life expectancy in...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international – in audio form. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this week The Interior Minister comes under pressure at the House Human Rights Committee to rectify the...

Black female 2 year old rottweiler walked out of house in Pera Pedi (Off Troodos road – Trimiklini) area. Please call 95511040 or 96 570465 if you see her. She is microchipped responds to name Ira.

The drug squad Ykan is at the forefront of operations against drug traffickers, a police announcement said to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, observed annually on June 26. “The day reminds us of the need for further public awareness of the effects of the use...

Outgoing attorney-general Costas Clerides announced his immediate resignation on Friday following the debacle over his retirement date while the state legal service employees staged an impromptu work stoppage in protest over the way he was treated. Clerides announced his resignation to President Nicos Anastasiades. His resignation is effective immediately. The...

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