https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/teen-gets-eight-years-for-raping-girlfriend-s-granny
A 17-year-old teenager from Nicosia was sentenced to eight years for raping his girlfriend’s 81-year-old grandmother, after she had told him off during an earlier incident...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/kammenos-says-will-call-on-pm-to-seek-supermajority-for-name-deal
The head of Greece's junior coalition partner and Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said on Wednesday he will ask Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to seek a supermajority of 180 MPs in the country's 300-seat House for the ratification of the name deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), instead of a regular majority of 151, given the importance of the issue....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/malfunction-terrifies-air-passengers-en-route-to-larnaca
Terrified passengers on a British Airways flight en route to Larnaca were horrified when they saw pressurized air jet-streaming inside the cabin in front of their eyes, causing ear pain and panic attacks...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/friends-will-say-goodbye-to-ioannis-at-limassol-pier
Friends of 18-year-old Ioannis Asikkis, who died Thursday from a drug overdose, were to meet Friday evening at Limassol’s pier to say goodbye on what would have been his 18th birthday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-in-coma-dies-one-day-shy-of-18th-birthday
A young man from Mouttayiaka died in hospital Thursday, four days after he reportedly overdosed on drugs and just one day short of his 18th birthday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/judge-s-family-blames-death-on-ambulance-delay
A private forensic pathologist is calling for an investigation into the death of judge Costas Satolias, saying state medics were late and ill-equipped to handle the emergency...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ankara-issue-of-turkish-officers-a-thorn-in-relations
Turkey has escalated its rhetoric with regard to the eight Turkish servicemen it wants extradited, insisting that the issue will remain at the core of its differences with Greece....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/parents-of-ayia-napa-murdered-victim-blame-cyprus
The parents of George Low, the 22-year-old Briton who was stabbed to death in Ayia Napa two years ago, say the killers of their son walk free because north and south in divided Cyprus don’t cooperate...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/erdogan-ally-says-‘cyprus-is-turkish-and-will-remain-so
The leader of Turkey’s nationalist MHP opposition party Devlet Bahceli, an ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, attacked Greece and Cyprus during an election rally in Izmir on Sunday, claiming “Cyprus is Turkish.”...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/refusing-breathalyzer-test-lands-man-in-jail
Paphos traffic police arrested a driver for refusing to comply with a secondary Breathalyzer test and attacking a police officer...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/paphos-mayor-sticks-to-his-guns-in-turkish-cypriot-property-saga
Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos is dismissing a response issued by the Interior Ministry regarding the latest Turkish Cypriot property saga, while reiterating allegations he made about favouritism and criminal activity in his town...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greece-prison-employees-condemn-attacks-on-colleagues
Greece’s Federation of Prison Employees has condemned what it said was another instance of violence against colleagues at the Diavata penitentiary near Thessaloniki....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/new-horrific-details-emerge-in-kioneli-murder
New horrific details emerge in the Kioneli murder, with a Turkish Cypriot mother in police custody admitting that she killed her young son after seeing a social media comment posted by the boy’s father...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-kills-passerby-and-two-police-officers-in-belgium
A gunman killed two police officers and a passer-by on Tuesday before being shot dead in the center of the Belgian city of Liege, public broadcaster RTBF said on its website and authorities said terrorism could not be ruled out as a motive...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/mother-kills-son-in-north-nicosia
A woman in north Nicosia is in police custody and on suicide watch, after stabbing her young son to death, with Turkish Cypriot media saying she got upset over an imminent custody battle...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspects-in-paphos-mayor-mother-s-car-bombing-head-to-trial
Three suspects will appear before the Paphos criminal court next month to face charges in connection with the car bombing that belonged to the mother of the town’s mayor...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-men-set-off-bomb-in-canada-restaurant-wounding-15
Two unidentified men walked into a restaurant in the Canadian city of Mississauga and set off a bomb, wounding more than a dozen people, and then fleeing,...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/north-korea-still-wants-to-talk-after-trump-nuked-summit
North Korea responded on Friday with measured tones to US President Donald Trump’s decision to call off a historic summit with leader Kim Jong Un scheduled for next month, saying Pyongyang hoped for a “Trump formula” to resolve the standoff over its nuclear weapons programme...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/politicsblog-healthy-s-thunder-and-a-warning
Get the inside scoop on political gossip and other happenings right here, including the ‘Healthy one’ landing on the unions like a sumo wrestler...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/paphos-mayor-says-property-pillage-still-rages-on
Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos believes the “pillage” of Turkish Cypriot properties in the south is still alive and well, just as the government says it is taking action to ensure fairness for all involved...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/yulia-skripal-attempted-assassination-turned-my-world-upside-down
Yulia Skripal survived an assassination attempt that UK authorities blame on Russia. But the daughter of one of Russia’s most famous spies says she wants to return to her country “in the longer term”, despite the poisoning...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/turkey-s-muslim-friendly-holidays-find-a-modest-place-in-the-sun
Turkey’s $26 billion tourism industry has been battered by security fears and political disputes in recent years but one corner of the market is quietly growing - beach holidays for conservative Muslims...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/three-anarchist-groups-claim-responsibility-for-court-paint-attack
Three anarchist groups claimed responsibility on Monday night for the paint attack against the Council of State earlier in the evening, saying it was a protest against the court's decision to rubber-stamp the so-called Katrougalos law which allowed pension cuts....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/toxic-patriotism
The lynch mob attack on Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris – the only way the incident can be described – during a gathering to commemorate the so-called Pontic Genocide, the killing of ethnic Greeks by the Turks during World War I, and while the national anthem was playing in the background, should give us pause...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/russian-dirty-money-flowing-through-london-damages-uk
Russian money hidden in British assets and laundered through City of London financial institutions damages the government’s efforts to take a tough stance against Moscow’s aggressive foreign policy, a committee of lawmakers said...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/the-first-modern-islamist-fundamentalist-conquest-of-the-west
New revelations expose Turkey stealthily positioning itself to attempt to permanently possess the northern third of Cyprus which is rich in hydrocarbons...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eight-to-ten-dead-in-texas-high-school-shooting
At least eight people were killed on Friday in a shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, and officers had taken into custody a student who was suspected of carrying out the attack...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-brits-get-into-a-fist-fight-over-a-dog
A British man was sent to the hospital with a head injury after getting involved in an ugly fight with another man over an argument because of a dog that was barking...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ex-russian-spy-sergei-skripal-discharged-from-hospital
Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy who was poisoned by a nerve agent in Britain more than two months ago, has been discharged from hospital, England’s health service said on Friday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/europe-s-walls-and-italy
A coalition government between two Italian parties that are ready to challenge core European Union rules and practices will show whether the Union still has reserves of strength or whether decay and fragmentation are inevitable...
