Новости за 02.08.2020

Take a guided tour through the city of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. Visit Khao San road, the grand palace and temples and take a sneak peek in one of the red light districts: Soi Cowboy.

Greece will be moved from Thursday to category B countries, the health ministry announced on Sunday after several people who arrived from Greek destinations tested positive to coronavirus. According to the ministry, from Thursday, August 6, Greece, which is currently in category A will be moved to category B. This...

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By Joey Roulette U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon, were riding the capsule home for a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after a two-month voyage that was NASA’s first crewed mission from home soil...

As many as 5,000 of the 7,000 organisations could get scrubbed By Elias Hazou It appears the government is finally getting serious about tidying up the so-called ‘third sector’ here, following Interior Minister Nicos Nouris’ warning two weeks ago that some 5,000 of the 7,000 NGOs could get scrubbed from...

A 34-year-old man was arrested on Sunday after being reported by a woman, 31, that he had abducted her while she was walking along a Limassol street. The incident took place at around 3 am on Sunday. The woman told police that while she was walking along a street in...

By Nicholas Karides Never before have the media, that is the civically useful type that produce independent quality journalism, come under such relentless pressure and criticism. The gatekeepers, those tasked to speak truth to power, are increasingly being questioned by authorities and snubbed by the public whom they are meant...

A 37-year-old man was remanded on Sunday by the Famagusta criminal court for seven days in connection with the discovery of 16 kilos of drugs in 2017. The suspect had been sought by the police since February 2017 when 16kg of drugs were discovered in the businesses he was running....

The Mexican Army and state security forces have captured Jose Antonio Yepez, a prominent drug gang leader blamed for helping to fuel a major surge in violence in the country in recent years, authorities said on Sunday. Widely known as “El Marro” (The Mallet), Yepez was captured in an operation...

Seven U.S. Marines and a Navy sailor missing since a training accident off the Southern California coast were presumed dead on Sunday after the military concluded an extensive 40-hour search. The service members had been missing since their amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) sank during an exercise on Thursday. Seven other...

By Andrea Busfield Five years ago, Alex Patsan thought she was going to die – another victim of an illness the Australian government barely recognises. Unable to walk or talk properly and lacking the strength to even cut up an apple for her children’s lunchboxes, the mum-of-two began the heartbreaking...

By George Koumoullis Last Monday the Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou announced he wanted to make the coronavirus vaccine mandatory once it is available, sparking a storm of reaction. A respected doctor from Larnaca posted the following statement on his Facebook wall: “With boundless grief and disappointment I see the health...

Ireland is considering additional measures to limit non-essential travel in the wake of an uptick in COVID-19 infections in recent days both in Ireland and other European countries, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said on Sunday. Ireland already advises against all non-essential international travel and requires people arriving from all but...

By Erbay Akansoy I am a citizen of a country In which people were slaughtered solely for their ideological leanings by so-called patriots in the name of protecting the state and nation, Where young children were murdered, women raped, Where those who trampled on human dignity were declared heroes, their...

We must beware the pseudo-arguments of the maximalist positions of the crypto-partitionists By Christos P Panayiotides It is a well-known fact that the crypto-partitionists do not have the guts to openly support the division of Cyprus into a Turkish North Cyprus and an allegedly “thoroughbred” Greek South Cyprus and that...

A highly evening-perfumed plant that immediately comes to mind is Cestrum nocturnum, known in Cyprus as ‘Pakistani Nights’, but originally from the West Indies. It is sometimes known as the ‘Night-flowering Jessamine’, although it is not related to that family, but is a member of the Solanaceae family, so take...

A 63-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Sunday morning after allegedly threatening two women at gunpoint on Saturday evening. The man, according to the police, walked into a pharmacy with his hunting gun at around 10 pm on Saturday and threatened a woman working there. He then went into...

The health ministry on Sunday announced that 26 coronavirus cases were detected, including the 15 announced earlier in the day. Eleven of the new cases were detected on Sunday among 1,977 lab tests. They concern one person who arrived from Athens on Saturday and three passengers arriving from Thessaloniki on...

The health ministry on Sunday announced that 15 more coronavirus cases were detected late Saturday evening, the majority in Limassol. According to the health ministry, the results were among 947 lab tests. Ten of these cases are people from the Limassol district who got tested as part of the 3,000...

By Gwynne Dyer “Assessing the people of America’s past by today’s standards would compel us to cast the majority of our heroes as villains.” That seemed to be the line taken by Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas last week in his opinion piece for the New York Times. It caused great...

Indian police raided rural hamlets and made arrests to break up a bootlegging cartel on Sunday, after 86 people died from consuming illegally-produced alcohol this week in the northwestern state of Punjab, officials said. “We have conducted raids at more than 30 places today and we have detained six more...

Twenty-nine-year-old Yiannis Kolonas died on Sunday morning after losing control of the motorcycle he was riding on the Limassol to Paphos road and crashing into a metal road barrier. Kolonas, according to the head of Limassol’s traffic police Michalis Michail, under conditions that are being investigated, lost control of his...

‘I saw nature through an idea that I created by observing the Greeks’ – Nikos Nikolaou Nikos Nikolaou studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts having as his teachers Umvertos Argyros and Konstantinos Parthenis. It was there that he met the painter Yannis Moralis with whom he created...

By Lidia Kelly Australia’s second-most populous state of Victoria declared a state of disaster on Sunday and imposed a nightly curfew for the capital Melbourne as part of its harshest movement restrictions to date to contain a resurgent COVID-19. Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city already under a reimposed six-week stay-home order,...

A 43-year-old man from Limassol was arrested early on Sunday after admitting he bought fireworks for a teenager’s birthday party while the woman whose house the party took place, was fined for violating the measures against the spread of coronavirus. According to the police,  the explosion of fireworks at around...