Cyprus prepares for first home T20 cricket internationals
The Cyprus squad for the upcoming T20 international cricket matches against Estonia and Isle of Man has been announced by the selectors.
The team will be led by Michalis (Mike) ...
Second arrest in €30,000 car theft case
Police on Tuesday arrested a second suspect, aged 21, on suspicion of stealing a €30,000 car in Paphos eight months ago, while a third man is also wanted in connection with the ...
Watford choose former Premier League winner Ranieri as new boss
Watford have appointed Claudio Ranieri as their new head coach following the sacking of Xisco Munoz.
The Premier League club have announced the Italian former Chelsea and Leicester boss has ...
Forestry Department chief pilot praises working relationship with Bases
Captain Stelios Kotzikas, the Republic of Cyprus Forestry Department’s Aerial Fire Fighting Unit Chief Pilot, has paid tribute to a working relationship with the Bases that dates back to 1983.
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Adele and Dolly Parton among stars reacting to Facebook and Instagram outages
By Keiran Southern
Adele, Dolly Parton and Reese Witherspoon were among the stars reacting to widespread outages for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.The online giants went offline for some users ...
Cyprus Public Transport 2021-2022 school routes have already started & top-up is required
The school bus services of the school year 2021-2022 have been assigned to Cyprus Public Transport, for both Nicosia and Larnaca and the route network operation has already began. This ...
UNSG in contact with Security Council on Cyprus, says his deputy spokesperson
The Secretary General remains in regular contact with the members of the Security Council about Cyprus, and he and the other officials of the system will keep the Security Council ...
Cyprus Beat daily news briefing
In today’s episode, the Cyprus presidency has said that there is nothing objectionable attributed to Anastasiades in the Pandora Papers.
In other news, hundreds of people attended the funeral ...
Woman with fake travel documents arrested
A 26-year-old asylum seeker was arrested after trying to depart the island using fake documents, police said on Tuesday.
The suspect went to Paphos airport around 4pm on Monday to ...
Lebanon’s former PM Diab says he gave up shares in company mentioned in ‘Pandora Papers’
Lebanon’s former prime minister Hassan Diab said on Monday he had given up shares in a company he was linked to in a leak of financial documents, and denied ...
Tesla ordered to pay over $130 mln to Black former worker over racism
A federal jury has ordered Tesla Inc to pay more than $130 million in damages to a Black former worker, finding he was subjected to a racially hostile work environment, the ...
Coronavirus: Five businesses booked after 2,714 checks
Five businesses in Nicosia and Paphos were booked for violating coronavirus measures as part of the daily checks, police said on Tuesday.
Three Nicosia-based establishments were fined, including one where ...
Woman dies after traffic accident
Police on Tuesday announced the death of a 70-year-old woman who was hospitalised after she was injured during a traffic collision over the weekend.
According to police, the accident took ...
Cryptocurrencies post inflows for 7 straight weeks, led by bitcoin
Cryptocurrency investment products and funds recorded inflows for a seventh straight week, as institutional investors warmed to more supportive statements from regulators, data from digital asset manager CoinShares showed on ...
UK finance minister: Fix public finances before cutting taxes
British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday that tax cuts could only come once public finances had been put on a sustainable footing.
Last month the government set out ...
Taiwan warns it needs to be on alert to ‘over the top’ China
Taiwan needs to be on alert for China‘s “over the top” military activities, the premier said on Tuesday, after a record 56 Chinese aircraft flew into Taiwan’s air defence ...
UK tells EU again it may take unilateral steps to protect Northern Ireland trade
Britain told the European Union on Monday it would trigger safeguard measures in their divorce deal if the bloc failed to agree to changes to smooth trade with Northern Ireland, ...
‘No Time to Die’ opens with $121 million in international box office sales
The latest James Bond movie took a mighty $121 million at the international box office over its opening weekend, Universal Pictures said on Monday.
The British and Irish box office led ...
State revenue from gambling triples in five years
State revenues from gambling jumped to 3.44 per cent of GDP in 2019, while in 2020, despite the contraction due to the pandemic, the percentage of revenues amounted to 2.98 per cent.
The figures ...
Pandora Papers: Rich and powerful deny wrongdoing after dump of purported secrets
The Czech prime minister, the king of Jordan and the chairman of a well-known Indian conglomerate were among global figures denying wrongdoing on Monday after the leak of what major ...
Coronavirus: One death, 117 new cases on Monday (updated)
The health ministry on Monday announced one death and 117 new Covid-19 cases out of 63,823 PCR and rapid tests, with a positivity rate of 0.18 per cent.
There are 65 patients with Covid-19 ...
Facebook blames “faulty configuration change” for nearly six-hour outage (Update)
Facebook Inc blamed a “faulty configuration change” for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such ...
France, Spain urge pan-European response to energy price surge
France and Spain called on Monday for a coordinated European response to the surge in global energy prices to protect the poorest citizens and the competitiveness of companies, and to ...
‘Captain Kirk’ on board for Blue Origin rocket launch
William Shatner, the “Star Trek” actor who found fame by pretending a Hollywood soundstage was a spaceship exploring the galaxy, will be launched to the edge of space for real ...