https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/the-greek-scientist-developing-6g
At the moment Greece is unveiling the 5G communications network, on the opposite end of Europe, a Greek professor, a communications engineer, is getting a grant from the European Research Council to develop 6G....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/biker-dies-in-violent-rural-road-collision
A biker was killed in a violent accident on Saturday after his motorcycle broke into two pieces following a collision with a pickup truck in rural Limassol...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/15-days-of-hell-in-varosha-in-the-summer-of-74
Varosha. August 19, 1974. Appartments, Block 10, apartment 2. There lived Michalakis Hadjipavlou, 30 years old, with his wife, Xenia Hadipavlou, aged 25, and two of their three children. Their firstborn, four-year-old Thomas, and two-year-old Marios, while their three-year-old daughter Maria was at a friend’s house in Larnaca....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/prosecution-against-working-mom-suspended
The state’s attorney general has suspended criminal prosecution against a mother in Limassol, after a citizen took the woman’s young daughter to a police station saying she was found alone at a local park...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/road-worker-dies-in-freak-accident
A road worker was killed on the Limassol-Paphos highway on Tuesday after a van slammed into a road construction safety light, pinning the man underneath a maintenance truck...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/pedestrian-killed-in-dangerous-road-accident
A man walking with his mother along a rural coastal road in Paphos district was killed after he was struck by a vehicle, with local representatives issuing urgent calls to expedite the construction of safety features in the area including a sidewalk...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/health-ministry-responds-to-questions-on-new-measures
The health ministry on Monday responded to five questions regarding the new restriction measures that are to affect the island until mid-December....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/new-measures-announced-9pm-curfew-imposed-islandwide
Health minister Constantinos Ioannou on Friday announced the Cabinet’s decisions on the new restrictions that will affect the Republic of Cyprus in December, with the starkest among them being an island-wide 9pm curfew....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/domestic-violence-maintain-concerning-climb
The police’s domestic violence unit received 180 complaints in September and October and made 29 arrests, justice minister Emily Yioliti said Wednesday. Meanwhile, the association for the prevention and handling of violence in the family (SPAVO) said it has marked an increase of 40% in calls received at the 1440 helpline....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/coronavirus-report-shows-nicosia-larnaca-situation-deteriorating
A new national surveillance report published and presented on Friday by the government’s health advisory committee showed Limassol and Paphos are making epidemiological progress, but Nicosia and Larnaca are presenting higher rates of coronavirus transmission.
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https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/council-of-europe-report-critical-of-greece-s-migrant-pushbacks-detention-conditions
A Council of Europe report, released Thursday, calls on Greece to stop pushbacks of migrants and calls out the country on the conditions in several migrant detention centers....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/prisoners-released-early-as-part-of-roc-60th-anniversary
Fourteen prisoners have been released early after President Nicos Anastasiades moved to reduce the sentence of a number of prisoners to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus, the Central Prisons announced Wednesday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-suspends-freedom-of-assembly
The health ministry in the Republic of Cyprus has issued a ban on public gatherings, including the right to a peaceful assembly, saying high risks of spreading the coronavirus could take a toll on the country’s healthcare system...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-feel-tricked-over-limassol-protest
Police say the main organizer of Saturday’s chaotic protest in Limassol “broke his promise” after he reassured officials the demonstration had been canceled, while members of the public landed hard on authorities for not doing enough to clamp down on violent protesters...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/coronavirus-case-fatality-risk-in-cyprus-stands-at-0-6
A national surveillance report published Friday showed that by November 8, the island’s pandemic had seen 33 coronavirus fatalities after 5,854 detected cases, indicating a case fatality rate of 0.6%....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/schools-told-to-take-‘rustic-measures
Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou drew criticism and humour on social media this week after he suggested young children in school could use throw blankets while doors and windows remained open for ventilation due to the pandemic...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/support-schemes-added-to-fight-lockdown-consequences
Alongside the tough restriction measures that came into effect on Thursday, additional support schemes were announced by the ministers of finance and labour in a bid to cushion the inevitable economic blow....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/partial-lockdowns-on-limassol-paphos-migrant-camps
The health minister Constantinos Ioannou announced stricter measures late on Wednesday night, with restrictions to be even harsher in the Limassol and Paphos districts that have developed into the epicentres of the island’s recent pandemic flare-up....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/pfizer-biontech-say-their-covid-19-vaccine-is-more-than-90-effective
Pfizer Inc on Monday said its experimental vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 based on initial data from a large study, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed over 1 million people, roiled the world’s economy and upended daily life....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-updates-travel-list
The Republic of Cyprus downgraded eight countries in its three-tier risk-based classification system and upgraded one, with the updated list coming into effect on November 9....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/experts-present-data-behind-coronavirus-flare-up
Cyprus’ coronavirus experts presented the data behind the pandemic’s recent flare-up in a news conference on Friday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-tightens-restrictions-imposes-11pm-curfew
In a national address on Wednesday night, the Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades said the government was obliged to take tough decisions for stricter measures as the island was no exception to Europe’s second coronavirus wave, before the health minister stepped in to outline the new measures that come into effect on Thursday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriots-await-new-covid-measures
The President’s Cabinet will convene on Wednesday evening to discuss a new package of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Cyprus, with announcements expected immediately after the session...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/four-shot-in-separate-hunting-incidents
Police are investigating three separate hunting incidents of accidental shootings, where two men and a father-son duo were shot on Sunday, with the teen being injured in the forehead...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/rare-show-of-solidarity-after-deadly-quake
The leaders of Turkey and Greece communicated a rare sense of solidarity to each other in the wake of a deadly earthquake in the Aegean, felt in both Athens and Istanbul...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/over-40-of-coronavirus-cases-detected-in-past-fortnight
In the last 14 days (11-24 October), 1,374 cases of coronavirus were diagnosed in Cyprus, which corresponds to 40.5% of the total cases (3,388) recorded until the October 24, according data published in the National Surveillance Report on Thursday, produced by the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit of the Ministry of Health....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/anti-maskers-wreak-havoc-in-limassol
A demonstration against coronavirus measures, corruption, and 5G technology turned ugly on Wednesday in Limassol, after some protesters became aggressive and started throwing rocks at police officers...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-tightens-restrictions-as-virus-flares
The health ministry tightened its grip on the island in a bid to slow down the recent extreme flare-up of the virus that has sent daily new cases into three-digit numbers....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/consumables-suspected-after-cataract-complications
Cypriot health officials are trying to find out what caused a serious infection to eight patients who had cataract surgery in Nicosia last week, with reports suggesting medical consumables may have introduced a dangerous bacterium that could cause loss of eyesight or worse...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ag-recent-revelations-shameful-for-cyprus
Everything we’ve witnessed, regardless of their legal dimensions, bring shame to Cyprus, attorney general George Savvides said Thursday....
