Новости за 31.07.2020

A 48-year-old man died on Friday evening in Limassol by drowning after trying to save a young boy’s life. The man, only identified as Romanian, apparently realised that a young boy was drowning and went into the sea to save his life. Both were taken to Limassol general hospital but...

A Tampa teenager was charged with hacking Twitter Inc accounts of famous people including former President Barack Obama, billionaire Bill Gates and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, the Florida State Attorney’s Office said on Friday. The 17-year-old boy on July 15 posted messages under the profiles that solicited investments in...

Traffic violations are set to become steeper and tougher starting October 1, after deputies voted on Friday a set of bills into law and approved regulations aimed at tackling irresponsible driving. With an overwhelming majority, plenum voted in favour with two against, the laws and regulations aiming for road safety...

British filmmaker Alan Parker, director of movies ranging from “Bugsy Malone”, a gangster comedy featuring children armed with machineguns that fired cream, to the tense prison drama “Midnight Express”, died on Friday aged 76. Parker, who also directed “Fame”, “Mississippi Burning”, “Evita”, “The Commitments” and other successful movies, died after...

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Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Friday said there are thorough checks at entry points to the Republic after two persons arriving at the Limassol Marina by boat and who had to self-isolate were caught moving around in public. The incident occurred on Thursday early afternoon when a guard saw two...

Parliament on Friday voted into law two bills and approved regulations aimed at tightening Cyprus’ citizenship by investment programme. One of the laws was passed unanimously, while the other was passed with an overwhelming majority, 51 votes in favour and three who abstained. The regulations were approved with 29 votes...

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Everyone will have to wear masks in indoor crowded spaces from midnight Friday, and those failing to do so will be fined €300, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou announced. The announcement followed a meeting at the Presidential Palace between President Nicos Anastasiades and his advisory team after 13 new Covid-19 cases were announced...

The government on Friday announced that it would accept negative coronavirus test certificates issued by the British NHS from passengers arriving from the UK. Following days of confusion, the transport ministry issued a statement clarifying that if passengers from the UK hold an ‘NHS Covid-19 notification’ they need to submit...

Apollon press officer Fanourios Konstantinou has said it is not yet confirmed whether the Limassol team’s friendly with AEK will be allowed to go ahead with fans present. Speaking to local radio station Sport FM on Friday, Konstantinou touched on a number of topics concerning the Limassol club such as...

The health ministry on Friday announced 25 new cases of the coronavirus bringing the total 1,114. Of the 25 cases, 20 were found as a result of contact tracing. Two were tested as they belonged to special groups, one was a test from arrivals to the country, one from private...

Americans across the political spectrum have widespread concerns that November’s U.S. election will be marred by fraud, interference or efforts to suppress the vote, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday. About half of the registered voters in the United States, including some 80% of Republicans surveyed, say they...

Despite a slight improvement from the previous year, Cyprus remained the first among EU member states for number of infringement cases concerning EU directives at the end 2019. Over half of all infringement proceedings across the bloc in 2019 were related to the late transposition of directives. Bulgaria, Belgium, Greece...

The Nicosia criminal court on Friday dropped all charges against former central bank governor Christodoulos Christodoulou and three others, including his daughter, in a corruption trial that has gone on for several years. Charges were also dropped against two other key defendants – Michalis Zolotas and Michalis Fole who were...

Congressional Republicans and Democrats clashed about whether the Trump administration had a national strategy to respond to the coronavirus pandemic at the start of a hearing featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States’ top infectious disease expert. Fauci’s testimony comes at the end of a month when U.S. coronavirus deaths...