Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 02-08-20

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CONTENTS

[01] UN protest violation of status quo near Pyla

[02] UN to be informed about &ampquotimprisonment" of T/C journalists

[03] Cyprus parliament expresses solidarity with flooded countries

[04] Turkish team must enter Cyprus legally for handball match

[05] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

[06] Cyprus Stock Exchange

[07] Cyprus Ambassador denounces &quotconviction" of T/C journalists

[01] UN protest violation of status quo near Pyla

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UN protest violation of status quo near Pyla

Nicosia, Aug 20 (CNA) -- The UN have protested a violation of the status quo by the Turkish occupation forces near the village of Pyla, south east of Nicosia, UN acting spokesman Major Dezso Kiss told CNA today.

[02] UN to be informed about &ampquotimprisonment" of T/C journalists

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UN to be informed about "imprisonment" of T/C journalists

Nicosia, Aug 20 (CNA) -- The case of two Turkish Cypriot journalists, "jailed" for their dissenting opinion in Turkish occupied Cyprus, will be notified today to the UN Secretariat by UN Acting Special Representative in Cyprus and Chief of Mission Zbigniew Wlosowicz.

[03] Cyprus parliament expresses solidarity with flooded countries

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Cyprus parliament expresses solidarity with flooded countries

Nicosia, Aug 20 (CNA) -- Cyprus House of Representatives President Demetris Christofias has conveyed to his counterparts of Russia, Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Austria the solidarity of all the members of the island's parliament and the people of Cyprus with the people of their countries, suffering as a result of the floods in central Europe.

[04] Turkish team must enter Cyprus legally for handball match

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Turkish team must enter Cyprus legally for handball match

Nicosia, Aug 20 (CNA) -- The Cyprus Handball Federation is categorical that unless a Turkish women's handball team enters the country through a legal port of entry, an international game for the European Championship, set for early September, will not take place.

The warning came after the Turkish team had informed the European Handball Federation (EHF) that it wishes to enter Cyprus via the Turkish-occupied northern part of the Republic, whose ports and airports have been declared illegal ports of entry since 1974 when Turkish troops invaded and occupied 37 per cent of the island territory.

[05] Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

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Weather and Temperatures for Cyprus

Nicosia, Aug 20 (CNA) - Today's weather and temperatures for Cyprus,
according to the Meteorological Service at Larnaca International
Airport are:

Temperatures (degrees Celcius)
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Station               Maximum     Minimum       Weather
(At 1200 UTC)
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Nicosia                  33          20          FAIR
Larnaca                  31          21          FINE
Limassol                 32          21          FINE
Paphos                   29          22          FINE

[06] Cyprus Stock Exchange

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Nicosia, Aug 20 (CNA) - The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) All Share
Index closed at today's stock exchange meeting as follows:

CSE General Index                               87,85   ( 2,13)

Traded Value                  CYP    806.169

FTSE/CYSE 20                  CYP    381.747   358,20   ( 0,76)

Sectoral Indices

Banks                         CYP    169.634    98,43   ( 0,80)
Approved Investment
Companies                 CYP    136.119    83,73   ( 1,59)
Insurance Companies           CYP      4.740    25,19   ( 9,14)
Manufacturing Companies       CYP     12.967    60,94   ( 2,21)
Tourism Companies             CYP     51.618   105,71   ( 2,60)
Trading Companies             CYP     26.941    19,02   ( 2,37)
Building and Cement Companies CYP     10.286    53,64   ( 2,70)
Énformation Technology
Companies                 CYP      9.171     3,42   ( 5,56)
Financial Services Companies  CYP     47.977    13,56   ( 5,53)
Fish Culture Companies        CYP      0        15,12   (-6,38)
Hotels                        CYP    174.384    50,06   ( 2,65)
Other Companies               CYP    123.312    85,68   ( 4,01)

* The third column presents the percentage variation of

[07] Cyprus Ambassador denounces &quotconviction" of T/C journalists

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Cyprus Ambassador denounces "conviction" of T/C journalists

Nicosia, Aug 20 (CNA) -- Cyprus' Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Ambassador Alexandros Vikis, has sent a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson and to the President of the UN Human Rights Committee, denouncing the recent "conviction" of two Turkish Cypriot journalists by the illegal regime in Cyprus northern territories, occupied by Turkey since 1974.

In his letter, that will circulate as an official document of the Human Rights Committee, Vikis said that the "conviction" of Sener Levent, Editor in Chief of the Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika (formerly Avrupa) and Memduh Ener, editor of the same paper was aiming to muzzle the freedoms of press and expression in the Turkish Cypriot community.

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