Cyprus has been downgraded by the US for its non-effective action to prevent and punish people trafficking. The US has downgraded Cyprus’ efforts to Tier 2 from Tier 1 in the State Department 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report. It said for the third consecutive year, Cypriot courts did not convict any perpetrators under the trafficking law. And
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League winners Omonia are without a home after British Bases (SBA) authorities rejected the club’s request to police games at Achna Dasaki stadium in Famagusta. The Nicosia club declared the Achna’s stadium as their home ground for domestic fixtures after falling out with management at the GSP, where Omonia will still be playing their Champions
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Hospitals have been instructed to free up beds to accommodate a rise in COVID-19 patients and postpone non-emergency operations. Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas on Thursday issued a decree to all hospitals in the public and private sector to postpone all routine operations; private hospitals have been told to limit their capacity to 70% and ICUs
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Walk-in vaccination centres saw a brisk take-up, as within their first hour of operation on Thursday, 270 people had already received their first COVID-19 shot. Five walk-in centres in all districts started offering COVID-19 jabs without needing to book an online appointment. Health Ministry spokesperson Margarita Kyriacou said each station was supplied with 100 vaccines,
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Cyprus on Thursday honoured all those who sacrificed their lives to defend democracy during the Greek-engineered military coup in Nicosia on 15 July 1974, which led to the Turkish invasion five days later. Exactly 47 years ago, the Greek military junta, then ruling Greece, and its Greek Cypriot collaborators- EOKA-B, toppled the democratically elected President
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The UK has kept Cyprus on its amber travel list, allowing fully vaccinated Britons to fly to the island for a summer getaway without having to quarantine on their return, rekindling hopes of salvaging a blighted coronavirus summer. There were fears a record spike in COVID-19 infections would see the UK put Cyprus in the
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Fourteen US Senators have asked US President Joe Biden to prevent Turkey from opening the coastline of Varosha by threatening sanctions if Ankara does so. US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Bob Menendez, Senators Chris Van Hollen and Marco Rubio, joined by 11 of their colleagues in a bipartisan letter to Biden, urged the administration
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On Thursday, people were able to walk into a Cyprus vaccination centre and get a COVID-19 jab without needing to book an online appointment. For now, only beneficiaries of the General Healthcare System will be able to get vaccinated, as currently, only the GHS system is connected to the centres. It will be extended in
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Last year, the Covid-19 pandemic dramatically impacted global energy markets, with primary energy and carbon emissions falling at their fastest rates since the end of WWII, according to BP’s annual Statistical Review of World Energy. Nevertheless, during the same period, renewable energy continued to grow, with solar power recording its largest-ever increase. The data collected
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Cyprus reported one coronavirus death on Wednesday, a new record 1,120 daily infections and a spike in hospitalisations to 165, as health authorities warn that the spread of the virus is getting out of control. The worsening COVID-19 landscape is past the point where it can be reversed with a new lockdown, as experts stressed
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