A fire was burning out of control near Kouris dam outside Limassol on Friday evening, fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said. The fire broke out at approximately 7:20pm northeast of the dam, necessitating the intervention of five fire trucks, according to Kettis. It is burning wild brush and is in...
The patients’ association (Osak) on Friday described the treatment they receive from state hospital doctors ‘shameful’, a day after a house health committee heard that doctors’ behaviours were putting people’s lives in danger. The association said doctors and staff were doing whatever they want at state hospitals without answering to...
Israel tightened COVID-19 lockdown measures on Friday and critics accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to curb protests against his handling of the health and economic crises. Netanyahu’s government decided on Thursday to tighten a three-week lockdown imposed on Sept. 18, forcing Israelis to stay mostly at home, shutting...
The state needs to provide escorts for all students with disabilities at all grade levels, while meeting their specific needs, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides said on Friday in a new report. In a report on providing escorts to disabled students in private schools, Lottides said the state should pay for the...
Three people have been found dead after a fire at a facility belonging to Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies in the southern city of Dongguan on Friday, local authorities said. The building, which was close to a Huawei research lab, was a steel structure that was under construction and was...
The health ministry on Friday issued an urgent plea to the public for blood donations even over the weekend if possible, citing very low reserves. “We invite new and regular blood donors to come to our blood donation stations and our organised blood drives,” the ministry said. It added that...
The health ministry on Friday announced eight new cases of coronavirus from 2,615 tests. Two cases were identified through testing on passengers over the past two days. One is an Omonia player, who tested positive at the airport after arriving from Greece on Thursday, September 24. The other is an...
Turkey on Friday ordered the arrest of 82 people including members of a pro-Kurdish opposition party over violent protests in 2014 against an attack on the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani. Protesters flooded streets in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast that October, accusing the Turkish army of standing by as the...
A new exhibition is coming to Nicosia’s Garage Art Space this week presented by the L. Economou Foundation. Loukia Nikolaidou: stories focuses on the agency and visibility of female artists in Greek Cypriot modernity. Opening on September 25, the exhibition brings to the public a selection of works by pioneer...
More than one third of people who tested positive for coronavirus in Cyprus were asymptomatic while the majority of cases were local, according to the latest epidemiology report released on Friday. As of September 22, a total of 1,620 Covid-19 cases and 29 deaths – 22 with a direct link...
The health ministry on Friday announced coronavirus tests for the residents of Achna community and people working and residing at care homes. According to the ministry, following a cabinet decision, a series of testing programmes will be carried out. Five hundred Achna residents will be tested in cooperation with the...
This is a dish that’s almost onomatopoeic. “Here you go,” you can imagine your Azerbaijani granny saying, standing over you with a steaming cooking pot, ladle in hand. “Have some more.” And, as she plops a spoonful onto your plate, it makes just the sound you expect – ‘plov’! There...
The possibility of banks extending a moratorium on loan repayment beyond the end of the year is not likely, a senior banker said on Friday. Hellenic Bank’s acting executive director Fivos Stasopoulos said it would be difficult for lenders to extend a moratorium on monthly loan payments, introduced in March...
British bases police have made a number of arrests after officers at the Pergamos and Strovilia crossing points realised that some people had presented fake or invalid Covid-19 test certificates, it emerged on Friday. According to an announcement from the bases, SBA customs and immigration officials found on three occasions...
Western powers called on China on Friday to restore basic legal rights in Hong Kong and open up to scrutiny its remote Xinjiang region where more than one million ethnic Uighurs are held. The rare rebuke of China came at the U.N. Human Rights Council where the European Union, Britain,...
The section of the Nicosia medieval walls at Quirini Bastion, which collapsed last year has been fully restored, the two co-chairs of the Technical Committee of Cultural Heritage, said on Friday. Turkish Cypriot co-chair of the committee, Ali Tuncay said in a post on social media that after problems encountered...
The Spanish government has recommended reimposing a partial lockdown on all of Madrid city to curb the spread of coronavirus after local authorities imposed restrictions on just some areas of the wider region, the health minister said on Friday. “These are the minimum measures we have to take to control...
