Joe Biden will reach into America’s living rooms on Thursday as he accepts the Democratic nomination to challenge President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 U.S. election and lays out his plan to unite a country battered by pandemic and economic misery. Biden’s speech on the fourth and final night...
An Italian think tank is appealing to Cypriot businessmen to help save the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta), signed by the EU and Canada, the ratification of which was rejected last month by the House of Representatives. The agreement, provisionally, entered into force in September 2017, but had to...
An ambulance aircraft with a team specialised in treating coma patients is due to leave Germany to pick up Russian dissident Alexei Navalny on Thursday evening, Berlin-based human rights activist Jaka Bizilj told Bild newspaper. Navalny was taken ill earlier on Thursday with suspected poisoning and currently lies in a...
Britain removed Portugal from its COVID-19 quarantine list on Thursday, but said rising infections elsewhere meant travellers arriving from Croatia, Austria and Trinidad and Tobago would have to quarantine themselves for two weeks. Transport minister Grant Shapps announced the changes on Twitter – the latest in a series of adjustments...
Cyprus has relayed to the EU its proposals for economic and trade sanctions on Turkey over the latter’s maritime provocations, the government said Thursday. Government spokesman Kyriacos Kousios told the state broadcaster that Nicosia has communicated in writing the proposals to Josep Borrell, the EU’s High-Representative of the Union for...
The health minister on Thursday renewed a decree making face masks mandatory in certain indoor spaces, while also setting a ceiling of €75 on the price of PCR tests for the coronavirus. The decree did not specify a cutoff date for mandatory masks, as the previous one had done. The...
Johnson & Johnson aims to test its experimental coronavirus vaccine in up to 60,000 volunteers in a late-stage trial scheduled to start in September, according https://bit.ly/3iWRuic to a U.S. government database of clinical trials. The trial would be conducted in nearly 180 sites across the United States and other countries...
No more parties and events in homes listed on Airbnb, the short-term home rental company said on Thursday as it tries to enforce strict social-distancing norms to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The new rules include a cap on occupancy at 16, with hosts or guests who try to skirt the rules...
A 79-year-old woman pulled out of the sea unconscious on Thursday morning was pronounced dead at Limassol hospital. The woman was spotted by a lifeguard at around 7.30am off the Olympion coast. With the help of other beachgoers, the woman was brought to shore unconscious and given CPR. She was...
Turkey is preparing a third drillship that will be dispatched to Cyprus’ EEZ as soon as the necessary support ships are found, reports said on Thursday. The third drillship, Sertao, has been renamed Kanouni, daily Phileleftheros said and will be supported by two vessels procured by Turkey. According to Phileleftheros,...
The health ministry on Thursday announced ten new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total to 1,395. The cases were found from 3,202 tests. Two cases were found from 1,549 tests processed from passengers and repatriated individuals. The first case involved a Czech woman, who arrived through Vienna on August 19...
Famagusta Mayor Simos Ioannou on Thursday called for the restart of Cyprus talks as soon as possible in order to avoid Turkish plans to open Varosha. He said the government needed to have a plan A and B for Famagusta so that if Turkish plans could not be averted, there...
Steve Bannon, an architect of President Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, has been charged with fundraising fraud in a campaign to help Trump build his signature wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. As a top adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign who later served as chief...
Motorcyclists on Friday will protest the latest state decree banning certain bikes from the roads during the holidays as they were dissatisfied with a government rollback on some of the measures it initially imposed. The Cyprus Motorcycle Federation (CMF) said the protest will begin at 7pm on Friday in various...
“You’ve got to tell your story,” says Aris Aristidou, co-founder (with his wife Marianna) of Aristides Distilling. That was his philosophy when he worked in the US, trying to get big chains to stock the liquor he made at a company called Copper Run just outside Branson, Missouri; that’s his...
Hunting season is set to begin on Sunday without any expected changes to numbers of people going out due to coronavirus, the head of the Cyprus Hunting Federation, Elias Pekris said on Thursday. He added the hunting season would start on August 23 and last until the end of February....
South Korea‘s intelligence agency believes that Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is serving as his “de facto second-in-command” but has not necessarily been designated his successor, a South Korean lawmaker said on Thursday. Believed to be in her early 30s, Kim Yo Jong is the leader’s...
Belarus launched a criminal case on Thursday against a new opposition body, accusing it of an illegal attempt to seize power, a day after President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to sweep the streets of protesters who reject his re-election. Belarus has been facing its biggest political crisis since the breakup of the Soviet...
By Liz Connor So much is said about losing weight that it’s hard to know what advice you can trust. Between crash diets, Instagram fads and demonised food groups, there’s a lot of conflicting information. Weight loss myths prevail – and they’re particularly rife at the moment, with many people...
A 30-year-old man was remanded in custody for 24 hours in Limassol on suspicion of beating a 50-year-old female friend because she refused to give him money. Police were told that the suspect had violently dragged a woman into his car and took off at an unknown direction. Officers called...
Many years ago, I was asked to review Pralina, where the management claimed they were departing from their burger/pizza cuisine and introducing an international menu. Obviously one expected English to appear somewhere on the carte – alas no. The waiter was disappointed that I had not mastered Greek and when...
Formula One managing director Ross Brawn has defended a controversial algorithm-based fastest driver ranking as a fascinating exercise that stands up to scrutiny, despite some social media scorn. The sport published a top 20 this week using machine learning technology from Formula One’s official partner Amazon Web Services (AWS) and...
The Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre suspended radiotherapy sessions for Thursday and Friday after the detection of a positive case of the coronavirus. The centre announced that it was forced to suspend treatments, which will resume on Monday, after it was informed that a patient who had visited the outpatient...
