https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/limassol-s-mediterranean-hospital-put-off-sample-testing-duty-after-contamination
Limassol’s Mediterranean Hospital of Cyprus has been temporarily put off Covid-19 sample testing duty after its lab was found responsible for a number of false positive results as a result of sample contamination.
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https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/apollo-ceo-investigated-over-epstein-ties
The CEO of Apollo Global Management, whose affiliates acquired billions of bad debt in Cyprus, is being investigated over alleged financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nigerian-students-urged-to-avoid-north
Nigeria is warning its citizens not to send their children to study in the northern part of Cyprus, citing lack of “conclusive investigations” in a number of student killings who were enrolled in Turkish Cypriot universities...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/crowded-migrant-camp-running-out-of-options
Officials at Pournara migrant camp are scrambling to find more space to host asylum seekers, after it emerged that more than half of detainees at the Nicosia facility are under quarantine due to coronavirus measures...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/foreign-dwellers-cramped-in-5x5-units-in-paphos
Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos has pointed the finger at white collar crimes after a “shocking experience” Monday night when he saw first-hand foreign nationals living in poor conditions in violation of city ordinances...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/face-masks-mandatory-age-12-and-above
Face masks in some locations are now mandatory for all persons aged 12 and above in the Republic of Cyprus, while the government has revised rules for elementary school students following protests...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/30-new-coronavirus-cases-detected-at-cyprus-airports
The health ministry announced Monday that it received information late on Sunday from laboratories processing samples at Cyprus airports, which said that 30 new coronavirus cases emerged from a total of 346 lab tests conducted to check samples collected from arriving passengers....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/russia-considering-to-resume-flights-to-cyprus
Russian authorities are considering to allow the resumption of international flights to Cyprus and six other countries, the Russian daily Izvetsia said Monday, citing unnamed airport and airline sources....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-golden-passports-under-more-scrutiny
A foreign investigative report says leaked documents from the Republic of Cyprus suggest the island’s government violated its own rules in granting “golden passport” citizenships, with Cypriot officials denying the accusations and raising credibility issues over the report...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/potential-witness-in-alexoui-case-arrested
A drug case suspect and potential key witness in an ongoing attempted murder trial is in police custody, after serving time in the north before being handed over on Friday to authorities in the south...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-mayor-weighs-in-on-migrant-housing
Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis has suggested asylum applicants be barred from residing downtown until their applications are adjudicated, while also calling on the government for a 'clearer housing policy'...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspect-arrested-in-college-email-probe
Law enforcement authorities have arrested a man in connection with online payment requests made to a number of international students who were registered at a private college in Nicosia...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/organ-donor-preference-in-new-driver-permits
New driver’s permits in the Republic of Cyprus will include organ donor information and other features, including security enhancements, a far cry from current licences printed on a piece of paper...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/new-measures-as-clusters-appear-to-be-growing
Another dozen of new cases of the coronavirus included secondary contacts such as a person who got infected at a party earlier this month, with government agencies coordinating further measures by week’s end...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-starts-fingerprinting-id-card-applicants
The Republic of Cyprus has stepped up its fight against document fraud and identity theft by launching new identification cards, which require citizens to submit fingerprints and other biometric data to the government...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/mackenzie-beach-closed-off-after-sewage-spill
The strip of sea at Larnaca’s Mackenzie Beach was closed off to the public on Thursday after a damaged sewer pipe led to sewage spilling into the sea there, with local authorities expressing hope that the water could be made safe for swimming by the weekend....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/limassol-cop-accused-of-sexually-abusing-girl
A male police officer and his wife have been arrested in Limassol following a complaint alleging sexual abuse of a young girl...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/farmer-refuses-to-return-worker-s-passport
A story has emerged involving alleged mistreatment of a foreign worker, after a post shared on Facebook by a local NGO pointed to an old practice by employers unlawfully retaining foreign workers’ passports for leverage...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/baby-girl-dies-after-paralimni-pool-incident
A baby girl died in hospital on Tuesday, five days after she was pulled out of the water at a private swimming pool in Paralimni, where her family from Britain was vacationing on the island...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-aid-for-lebanon-en-route-to-beirut
The first batch of dry and canned foodstuffs collected in Cyprus in response to a campaign launched by national authorities for the provision of immediate relief to the Lebanese public was loaded on Tuesday on-board a Greek military ship docked at the Limassol port....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-detects-10-new-cases-but-nine-asymptomatic
The Cyprus health ministry announced 10 new cases on Monday, when a bulk of 2,619 laboratory tests were conducted to check samples for the virus. Nine of the 10 new cases were asymptomatic carriers of the virus....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/covid-19-safety-measures-must-become-way-of-life-expert-says
The additional coronavirus protection measures that the Cyprus government re-instated some ten days ago will constitute the island’s new normal for at least the next six months, member of the government’s coronavirus advisory committee Leondios Kostrikis said Monday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/through-traffic-banned-on-forest-roads
Dozens of fires broke out on Saturday in Cyprus, prompting state authorities to ban private vehicles on forest roads after a pattern of arson emerged linked to suspicious cars in the area...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-cypriots-commemorate-tylliria-bombing
Busloads of Turkish Cypriots crossed into Cyprus’ “other ghost town” on Saturday to commemorate Turkish bombing in Tylliria during intercommunal clashes on the island in 1964, but the gathering was not without political controversy...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-offers-neutral-stadium-for-uefa-qualifiers
Cyprus, Greece, Hungary and Poland, have offered stadiums and facilities to host UEFA European football matches as "neutral destinations" if travel restrictions related to Covid-19 prevent European Cup games from being held in the originally scheduled countries....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ankara-slams-greece-egypt-maritime-deal
Ankara was caught off guard Thursday when a secret partial maritime agreement emerged between Athens and Cairo, with the Turkish foreign ministry calling the deal 'null and void'...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-police-question-russian-businessman-linked-with-beirut-deadly-cargo
Cyprus police said Thursday that they located and brought in for questioning the Limassol-based Russian who has been identified as the former owner of the company that managed the vessel from which the 2,700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that caused Beirut’s deadly blast late on Tuesday were unloaded....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/beirut-blast-has-eerie-connections-to-cyprus
Following Tuesday’s deadly explosion in Lebanon, some eerie connections began to emerge in Cyprus, including a Russian national based in Limassol and a Hezbollah-related arrest on the island back in 2015...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/male-cypriots-urged-to-negotiate-postponement-of-higher-fees-with-uk-universities
Male Cyprus high school graduates considering going on to a UK university but who must first complete a 14-month military service, by which time the UK is set to enforce its decision to scrap home fee status for EU students, are urged to directly contact their university of interest to negotiate a postponement of the fee increase, allowing them to enrol next under current fee status....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-president-expresses-condolences-to-lebanon-readiness-to-provide-assistance
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has expressed his deep condolences to the government and people of Lebanon, stressing the island’s readiness to provide any assistance necessary, following the two explosions which shook Beirut on Tuesday....
