Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday called for the north’s higher education accreditation authority (Yodak)’s chairman Turgay Avci to resign. Scandal has engulfed the north’s higher education sector in recent weeks, with allegations surfacing that fake diplomas were being handed out and that bribes were being offered and taken...
Two people aged 33 and 27 were arrested on Tuesday to facilitate police investigations into a case involving the attempted illegal entry of a total of 458 irregular migrants into the territory of the Republic of Cyprus. The latest arrests came after two other people, aged 41 and 23, were...
The crypto market took a break from people investing in BTC ETFs after Solana posted a new record. On March 9, 2024, Solana’s (SOL) price rose to $150, buoyed by the increase in DeFi trading volume. The last time Solana traded at this price level was back in January 2022....
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In a roving oncologist, THEO PANAYIDES finds a socially conscious doctor who believes a positive mindset can help fight the bad vibes and worse of his days “I had a patient in the UK who was on his deathbed,” recalls Dr George Astras. It was Saturday morning, and George was...
A suspected gas leak caused a blast at a restaurant in China’s northern province of Hebei that ripped facades from buildings, damaged cars and scattered debris to kill two people and injure 26, state media and authorities said on Wednesday. The blast happened at about 8 a.m. in the county...
Orthodoxou Aviation Ltd has been appointed as the General Sales Agent (GSA) of Air India in Cyprus to manage the marketing and sales activities of the airline in the Cypriot market. Air India is India’s leading global carrier and a member of Star Alliance. Air India connects 39 cities across...
Police on Wednesday are investigating a car fire in a residential area of Pissouri in Limassol, which completely destroyed the vehicle. According to the police press office spokesman, the fire broke out at 2.20am on Tuesday morning and police and firefighters sped to the scene. The scene was cordoned off...
Motivational stories, inspiring speeches and a world of ideas are coming to Limassol this month as a new event takes place. Set against the backdrop of the old port of Limassol, TEDxMolos will present an evening of thought-provoking talks and connections on March 27. Following in the footsteps of TEDx...
Tesla’s, opens new tab Autopilot and Full Self Driving technology and nine other assisted-driving systems marketed by major automakers received “poor” ratings from the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in a new study released on Tuesday. The IIHS, a safety research arm of the insurance industry, also said there...
In today’s episode, the humanitarian aid ship Open Arms finally set sail from Larnaca for Gaza. Meanwhile, President Nikos Christodoulides will meet the UN Secretary-general’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin on Saturday. Elsewhere, a teenager has contracted measles and is in hospital. All this and more in the Cyprus Beat...
Paphos police proceeded to arrest a person for a case of arson set in the early hours of Tuesday in a vehicle parked in a garage in the industrial area of Agia Varvara in the district of Paphos. According to the deputy police chief Michalis Nikolaou, the man arrested is...
Police and fire fighters in Paphos attributed a fire that broke out in a vehicle owned by a 46-year-old man on Tuesday night to arson, which spread to a second vehicle. According to the deputy police chief Michalis Nikolaou, in the evening a fire broke out in a car parked...
A teleconference of all partners in the initiative for the maritime humanitarian corridor to Gaza is taking place on Wednesday. President Nikos Christodoulides announced the meeting, to be attended by foreign ministers of all involved states and added that Cyprus will host technocrats from all participating countries, so that the...
Police on Tuesday arrested a 33-year-old man for an investigated case of illegal stay in the Republic and working without a permit. According to police, the man was allegedly in possession of a fake identity card and was arrested in connection with a case of forgery, circulation of a forged...
A fire broke out shortly after 5am on Wednesday morning in two cars parked at a petrol station in Nicosia. According to police reports, the cars were parked on Makarios Avenue and the fire was extinguished by the fire service, while police have carried out preliminary investigations on the scene....
Wednesday will be mostly clear with temporarily increased clouds. Temperatures will rise to 24C in the interior, 23C on the southeast coast, 21C on the west coast, 22C on the remaining coasts and around 16C on the higher mountains. Winds will blow north- to south-easterly and in the west south-...
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both clinched their parties’ nomination on Tuesday, kicking off the first U.S. presidential election rematch in nearly 70 years. Biden needed 1,968 delegates to win the nomination, and he passed that number on Tuesday night as results began to come in from...
The US may urge partners and allies to fund a privately run operation to send aid by sea to Gaza that could begin before a much larger US military effort, said three people familiar with the planning and a US official. If funding is secured, the plan could bring ashore...
As bad news on the bird trapping front made the headlines again recently, angry calls for nature lovers to “Boycott Cyprus!” flooded social media. Speaking as a veteran of the anti-trapping campaign, I want to say that this might just be the worst thing birdwatchers and other visitors could do,...
Speaking about her plans for the next school year, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou set as a ministry priority “the transition to a modern, human-centred and inclusive school that will cultivate abilities, skills and knowledge.” Was she implying that public schools, until now, had not been ‘human-centred’? What have they been...
Raya saves twice in shootout to send Arsenal through to quarters David Raya proved the hero as Arsenal survived a penalty shootout to scrape past Porto and reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time in 14 years after a tense last-16 duel had ended 1-1 on...
The United Nations used a new land route on Tuesday to deliver food to northern Gaza for the first time in three weeks as global pressure grows on Israel to allow more access to the coastal enclave amid a looming famine. Jamie McGoldrick, U.N. aid coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian...
John Barnett, a former Boeing BA.N employee who had reportedly raised concerns about the company’s production issues, was found dead of an apparent suicide, according to authorities in South Carolina. Barnett had worked at Boeing for 32 years before leaving the company in 2017, according to the BBC, which previously...
Everything that needs to be done regarding the ongoing church scandal involving the Osios Avakoum monastery is being done, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters after an event on Tuesday evening, Christodoulides reminded that the Church and the State have different roles. Asked if he will have...
