By Jan Strupczewski, John Chalmers and Elizabeth Piper The European Union and Britain both said a post-Brexit deal was still some way off and differences persisted on Monday over putting in place their earlier divorce deal as they began a decisive week of talks in Brussels. Britain left the EU...
Texas has stepped up efforts to counter the threat posed by a brain-eating amoeba detected in the water supply of a coastal county that led to the death of a 6-year-old boy earlier this month. Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday issued a disaster declaration for Brazoria County after Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic amoeba,...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday that Facebook could not stop him from promoting the objectives of his government, telling the social media giant that they should talk about its purpose in his country. “Facebook, listen to me,” Duterte said in a late-night televised address. “We allow you to...
Clay court master Rafael Nadal started his quest for a record-extending 13th French Open title with a straightforward 6-4 6-4 6-2 first-round win against Belarusian Egor Gerasimov on Monday. The Spaniard, looking to equal Roger Federer’s record of 20 Grand Slam men’s singles titles, is used to slow starts at...
State doctors and nurses on Monday said they were on board with an idea pitched by their union, Pasydy, on expanding the working hours of public hospitals but made clear that workers’ rights should be respected. Civil servants’ union Pasydy last week sent parliament a note suggesting the extension of...
Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides on Monday, accompanied by India’s High Commissioner to Cyprus, Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat, opened a photo exhibition on the life of Mahatma Gandhi as part of events organised to mark 150 years since his birth. The exhibition, hosted at the foreign ministry, consists of around 100 photos...
U.N. rights experts asked Nigeria on Monday to release a 22-year-old singer who was condemned to death over an allegedly blasphemous song, and said the sentence broke international law. Yahaya Aminu Sharif was sentenced last month by a sharia court in Kano, in Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north, after he performed...
An ad hoc parliamentary committee looking into bank loans made to Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) was on Monday still stuck in second gear, sorting out the precise parameters of its investigation. House Speaker Demetris Syllouris told MPs that on Tuesday he would be addressing another letter to the banks, asking...
Interior Minister Nicos Nouris faced a barrage of questions from MPs on Monday as he strove to defend the government’s handling of the controversial citizenship-by-investment scheme. The House interior affairs committee was discussing the recent reveals by Qatar-based Al Jazeera network, which released the so-called ‘Cyprus Papers’ alleging that a...
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday called on the Cyprus Medical Association to investigate a complaint that a private hospital interrupted surgery on a Gesy beneficiary on the operating table because they needed the room. The hospital then allegedly dressed the patient and sent him home, asking him to return another...
Over a thousand dinosaur species once roamed the Earth. Learn which ones were the largest and the smallest, what dinosaurs ate and how they behaved, as well as surprising facts about their extinction.
Jiu Jitsu, the first Hollywood film entirely shot in Cyprus under its new cash rebate programme, has been selected for distribution by Paramount Home Entertainment and will be released in the US and Canada on November 20, it was announced on Monday. Directed by Dimitri Logothetis, the film stars Nicolas...
Sixth seed Serena Williams battled sluggish conditions to defeat fellow American Kristie Ahn 7-6(2) 6-0 to open her campaign at the French Open on Monday. Playing against an opponent she defeated at the same stage at the U.S. Open less than a month ago, Williams found herself trailing twice in...
Seventeen new cases of Covid-19 were detected on Monday, the health ministry said, calling on people to stay alert citing small clusters in all districts. The new cases were detected among 2,465 lab tests. Four of the new cases were people tested as part of the government testing programme in...
House President Demetris Syllouris said on Monday he would speak on the phone on Tuesday with the President of the National Assembly of Armenia – the Armenian parliament – Ararat Mirzoyan over the escalation of tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. In an official statement Monday, Syllouris expressed his solidarity with...
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden square off on Tuesday in their first presidential debate. With five weeks to go until the Nov. 3 general election, the stakes are high. Here are five things to watch for during the 90-minute televised debate in Cleveland: FLASHPOINTS The face-to-face match-up comes...
By Richard Boxall The last group matches in the 2020 CCA #BAOFinancial T20 Cup produced high-scoring wins for Nicosia Fighters and Limassol Sri Lanka Lions on Sunday at the Ypsonas cricket ground. In the first match Nicosia Fighters and Limassol Gladiators were both looking for their first win, but this...
An Iranian dissident who fled his country fearing arrest has fallen foul of politics and COVID-19 restrictions in ethnically split Cyprus. Since mid-September, Omid Tootian has been living in a small tent in Cyprus’s buffer zone, a United Nations-controlled slice of territory carved out after a war split Cyprus in...
The creator of a series of controversial works that caused a storm in Cyprus last week tells AGNIESZKA RAKOCZY that they reflect the culture of the country One Cypriot painter’s decision to post his art work portraying some of the island’s leading public figures in less than complimentary situations on...
A 35-year-old man working at Limassol general hospital has been remanded in custody for seven days on suspicion of stealing €4,000 from a 77-year old ICU patient who later died. The Cyprus News Agency said the 35-year-old suspect worked at the hospital, which gave him access to the patient. The...
Economic sentiment in Cyprus deteriorated slightly in September over the previous month, driven by weaker business confidence in services, construction and services, the Economic Research Centre of the University of Cyprus said on Monday. The centre’s Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI-CypERC) decreased by 1.0 point compared with August 2020. The marginal...
Nearly 28 million counterfeit and illegal goods, including 27 million facemasks, were seized as part of Europe-wide operation Aphrodite involving 21 countries, including Cyprus, Europol has announced. The eight-month operation targeting counterfeit goods trafficking was co-led by the Italian Finance Corps (Guardia di Finanza) and the Irish National Police (An...
