Новости за 10.08.2020

Paphos aims to become the first town in Cyprus to implement ‘Smart’ parking and a tender for the project was launched at the weekend, according to municipal officials. “The municipality of Paphos announced the tender for the supply of a “smart” parking management system, with an estimated cost of €1.2...

Turkey dispatched a vessel to conduct a seismic survey in a disputed area in the eastern Mediterranean, a move which Greece said was illegal and is likely to heighten tensions between the two NATO allies. The advisory issued by the Turkish navy said the Oruc Reis vessel would operate in...

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Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho left with his team for a pre-season training camp in Switzerland on Monday with the German club saying the talented player would stay after a contract extension to 2023. Sancho has been the target of several top clubs with ongoing speculation of a possible transfer...

The seismic vessel Oruc Reis’ arrival on Monday in a disputed area of the eastern Mediterranean, following Turkey’s announcement it was resuming energy exploration work, reignites tensions between two NATO allies with a long history of discord. Greece and Turkey almost went to war in 1974 over Cyprus, which has since...

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Α 78-year-old Paphos man denied charges of possession and distribution of child pornography on Monday and will face trial early next year. The man was arrested after police allegedly found child pornography on his computer on July 27. He also faces separate charges relating to exploiting a minor. He is...

Recently-appointed attorney-general Giorgos Savvides has inherited a mountain of delayed bills to review as his office seeks to help ministries get back on track, as the latter have been rendered – in some cases – impotent by the backlog. The council of ministers’ secretary, Theodosis Tsiolas, wrote to the attorney-general...

Chicago police exchanged gunfire with looters and arrested more than 100 people after crowds swarmed Chicago’s luxury commercial district early Monday, looting stores, smashing windows and clashing with officers for hours, police said. Police Superintendent David Brown called the outbreak “pure criminality,” and Mayor Lori Lightfoot sought to distance the...

The health ministry on Monday announced 10  new coronavirus cases from 2,619   tests.  This brings the total number of cases to  1,252  Five people are being treated in hospital but none  in the ICU. Six of the cases concern passengers tested at the airport. Four were Polish tourists – three...

The health ministry called on young people on Monday to avoid large gatherings so as to stop the spread of the coronavirus. In a statement, it pleaded with members of the public to be particularly careful, avoid gatherings as much as possible and said anyone that attends them should maintain...

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New vehicle registrations fell by 22.6 per cent in the first six months of this year, data published on Monday by the Cyprus Statistical Service showed. The total number of newly-registered vehicles came to 21,752 in the first six months of 2020 compared with 28,088 for the same period of 2019. Privately...

The search and rescue team Cyprus sent to Beirut last week returned on Monday after Lebanon called off all operations. One helicopter from the police force and one from the army brought back the teams from the police unit Mmad and the emergency response unit Emak which left the island...

Centre-right Diko party saw another mass exodus from its ranks on Monday after another 30 people announced their resignation. In a joint statement, they said they were joining the ranks with the three MPs, and two senior officials who left Diko only two weeks ago to create a political platform....

A Cypriot man has died in flash flooding that hit the Greek island of Evia over the weekend, it emerged on Monday. Giorgos Liveras, 72, had been missing for eight hours. His body was found in a sea area some five kilometres from the home he was staying in when...

By Katie Wright Not that long ago, the idea of wearing more than one nail polish colour at any one time was deeply unfashionable. While nail lengths and shapes may have evolved, one uniform shade across your fingertips was the norm, and anything else was seen as, well, a bit...

The items which have been collected by individuals and companies in aid of Lebanon will be taken to Limassol on Tuesday, where they will be loaded on the Greek naval vessel Ikaria, the volunteer commissioner’s office said on Monday. The vessel will then depart for Lebanon. The dry food items...

With a low pressure system in the area, isolated rain may fall in the afternoon, the met office announced on Monday. The possibility of stormy weather in the mountains and inland has not been ruled out. Temperatures will rise to 36C in the Nicosia area, 33C on the south and...

Analysts say China’s industrial output is steadily returning to levels seen before the pandemic paralysed huge swathes of the economy, as pent-up demand, government stimulus and surprisingly resilient exports propel a recovery. “A further ramp-up in fiscal stimulus should continue to shore up infrastructure spending in the coming months, supporting...

Asian stocks held tight ranges on Monday as worries over flaring tensions between the United States and China weighed on sentiment although signs of a recovery in industrial activity in the world’s second-largest economy capped losses. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan see-sawed between red and green but...

For Iwona, single mother of a nine-year-old, it was supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime. In late June, over coffee with friends, she had listened eagerly to their chat about plans to spend a week in August in a northern Cyprus hotel and thought how it would be...