The Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO), has launched a bi-weekly series of live webinars titled “2030: SpaceWorks” with some of the leading scientists on space, astronomy, and cosmology. Tuesday’s premiere episode presents a legend of Cosmology – Sir Roger Penrose – the founding father of quantum gravity and a world-leading expert on black holes. He
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New Car sales dipped to a five-year low in Cyprus for the first eight months of the year after the impact of COVID-19 lockdown, official data indicated Tuesday. For the eight months to August, new car registrations reached 6,822, a 21.9% annual decline. The last time new car sales fell this low was in 2015
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Cyprus state health services organisation (OKYPY) has launched a probe into an incident involving a doctor who reportedly took five hours to respond to an emergency after being called to Nicosia General Hospital. The announcement was made Tuesday by OKYPY spokesperson Charalambos Charilaou while being interviewed by state TV CyBC about the incident, which involved
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The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics wants to draw a better picture of how the coronavirus has spread in the community and the degree of immunity that has built up. CING announced on Tuesday it has launched nationwide research to investigate the presence of antibodies in individuals who tested positive for Covid-19, those who
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Moscow is prepared to help ease tensions in the eastern Mediterranean where Cyprus and Greece are embroiled in a standoff with Turkey over maritime and energy rights, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “We are monitoring the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean in terms of your (Cyprus) relations with Turkey,” Lavrov said Tuesday after meeting
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Cyprus will send a team to Lebanon to help authorities stop boats with migrants including from war-torn Syria heading for the island after a wave of attempts in recent days. A task force from various services will visit Lebanon “to deal in the best and most effective way with this phenomenon,” Interior Minister Nicos Nouris
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Bounced cheques issued in August amounted to €75,840 marking an increase of 72% in value compared with the previous month, data released by the Central Bank of Cyprus show. According to the CBC, 39 bounced cheques were issued in August from 33 in the previous month while the value of bounced cheques rose to €75,840
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Turkish Cypriot authorities are contemplating reintroducing lockdown measures to control the coronavirus pandemic in the occupied north of Cyprus, where the spread of the coronavirus seems to be out of hand, with health officials reporting more than 100 cases in just a week. Between September 1 and 7, the 106 new COVID-19 cases were reported
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An elderly man with an underlying health condition died in Cyprus on Monday, the second death attributed to Covid-19 in a week. The 76-year-old man was being treated at the intensive care unit at Nicosia General Hospital and raises the number of deaths caused by the SARS-CoV-2 to 22, of whom 16 were men and
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Cyprus maintains lead position among European Investment Bank (EIB) shareholder countries in 2020 with agreements for projects worth 1.5% of GDP, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said. He made the comments on Monday after a meeting EIB President Werner Hoyer in Nicosia. Petrides said schemes amounting to €500 mln have been approved by the EIB while
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