The programme of free rapid coronavirus tests continues and has been expanded in the Paphos district, along with PCR testing of employees and others that are exempt from the ban on travel to and from Paphos. Following the completion of the rapid tests in Polis Chrysochous, the next phase will...
Northern Ireland suffered relegation in the Nations League even before their final group game kicked off as UEFA awarded Romania the points from their cancelled match against Norway on Sunday. Norway, who were told not to travel to Bucharest by their government after a positive test for coronavirus within their...
A 26-year-old defendant from India was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after he was found guilty of the murder of a 33-year-old Romanian, Andrei Popa. Popa, 33, who had been missing from July 22 until late August, was found buried in a field behind a petrol station...
Ethiopia predicted swift victory but northern rebels promised them “hell” on Wednesday in a two-week war threatening the vast nation’s unity and further destabilising the Horn of Africa. The war has killed hundreds, sent 30,000 refugees into Sudan, and called into question whether Africa’s youngest leader can hold together Ethiopia‘s myriad fractious...
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The health ministry on Wednesday announced 198 new positive cases for coronavirus out of 7,049 PCR tests, and the death of a man, aged 74, who had underlying health conditions. The health ministry said that the ultimate cause of the man’s death is attributed to Covid-19, raising the total number...
Thai police have water cannon and teargas to fire at protesters. The answer: inflatable yellow pool ducks. The giant ducks starred on Wednesday as thousands of protesters massed outside police headquarters in Bangkok. They had first made an appearance on Tuesday outside parliament in the most violent day of months...
The SupportCY Network takes a stand in making people more sensitive in following the health measures against the pandemic. Who would you think of first if an SMS on your mobile phone confirmed your Covid-19 lab test was positive? And with how many of those people, when you met them,...
Local media reported that two people working as administrative staff for the president have tested positive for the coronavirus, prompting special protocols to be enacted. First reports stated the two have their offices outside of the premises presidential palace and were identified via random sampling. President Nicos Anastasiades had no...
The BBC said on Wednesday it had appointed a former senior judge to head an inquiry into how the broadcaster secured a famous 1995 interview with the late Princess Diana, after accusations from her brother that she had been tricked into taking part. This month, her brother Charles Spencer said the...
Police on Wednesday said it had investigated 181 complaints concerning the treatment of 206 children so far this year. In a written statement on the occasion of the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse marked on November 18, police said the number of...
On the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, Cyprus’ Foni council has called for the urgent introduction of sex education in schools, especially at primary level Foni has been advocating for years the implementation of a national strategy to fight sexual abuse and...
The former leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, will not be restored as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) after he undermined efforts to tackle anti-Semitism, the current Labour leader Keir Starmer said on Wednesday. The decision is likely to deepen divisions in the main opposition party, some of whom...
The Cyprus national team’s 4-0 defeat in Montenegro in their final Nations League match of the campaign means they finish bottom of League C’s Group One and must now win a playoff in order to avoid relegation to Group D. While the Cyprus Football Association and coach Johan Walem have...
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Wednesday urged the public to test for coronavirus through the rapid tests programme since this will help acquire a better epidemiological picture. Rapid antigen tests are available now in all districts as two testing centres were also set up in Nicosia on Wednesday. There is...
A drastic reduction in asylum applications filed by international students has been recorded since early October, following the introduction of tougher entry rules for foreign students at private colleges by the government. The decision to clamp down on foreign students’ asylum applications was taken to discourage potential migrants and asylum...
Democratic Republic of Congo announced the end of an almost six-month Ebola outbreak in the west of the country on Wednesday as health authorities looked to apply lessons from the successful response to the fight against Covid-19 in Africa. The outbreak, which infected 130 people and killed 55, emerged in June, weeks...
A post-mortem on a 42-year-old whose family claimed there was negligence on the part of Larnaca general hospital doctors was inconclusive as regards the cause of death, police said Wednesday. Police said the procedure was carried out by three pathologists, two for the state and one representing the family, but...
Possible recognition of the north by Turkey’s satellite states or close allies would violate UN Security Council resolutions and international law, a law expert said on Wednesday after reports that Ankara is working towards recognition of the breakaway regime. According to Aristoteles Constantinides, associate professor of international law at the...
Germany coach Joachim Loew was at a loss to explain his side’s humiliating 6-0 loss to Spain in the UEFA Nations League on Tuesday which caused them to miss out on a place in the competition’s final four. “I really don’t know what happened to the team,” Loew told reporters...
West Ham United are losing 2 million pounds ($2.7 million) a match with spectators barred from attending games amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Premier League club’s vice-chair Karren Brady has said. Fans have not been allowed to attend matches since England’s professional game restarted in June, leaving clubs in the...
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The owners of Cypra and A&A slaughterhouses in Nicosia and some of their workers were arrested on Wednesday as part of checks that were carried out at the facilities. The arrests were made as members from the immigration service and labour ministry carried out renewed checks at the businesses in...
Dolly Parton feels “very honoured and proud” about the part she’s played in coronavirus vaccine research after donating $1 million earlier this year. Dolly Parton feels “very honoured and proud” about the part she’s played in coronavirus vaccine research. The ‘9 to 5’ hitmaker donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University...
Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou welcomed Wednesday the disbursal of €250 million through the European Commission’s SURE programme, which she said proved that the government’s handling of the fallout from the virus crisis was correct. The temporary Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency, or SURE, was made available for...
