In today’s episode, outdoor jobs in the mountains were banned on Wednesday afternoon, the labour inspection department announced, after the mountain regions recorded the highest temperatures in over 25 years. In other news, most of the property being sold to foreigners in the north is on Greek Cypriot land, reports said on Wednesday, citing data released at the end of July. And human trafficker arrests are increasing in Cyprus, but the sentences imposed by the courts are very low, state broadcaster CYBC reported on Wednesday.

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