https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/bill-to-update-definition-of-rape-tighten-penalty-to-life
A bill tightening the penalty for rape to life in prison is set to be tabled before Parliament next week....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/elderly-man-dies-at-popular-larnaca-beach
A senior citizen died on Monday following an apparent drowning incident at a popular Larnaca beach...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/wealthy-britons-turn-to-cypriot-citizenship
Interest in additional citizenships by British entrepreneurs is rising even as the European Commission examines possible steps to curb EU states selling passports and visas to wealthy foreigners, due to concerns it can help organized crime groups...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/bad-blood-continues-over-golden-passport-probe
A prolonged and bitter dispute between the interior minister and auditor general, over probing Cyprus’ golden passports scheme, was renewed this week following a mini report with details on a number of applications through citizenship by investment...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/minister-favours-alternatives-for-paralimni-offenders
Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis has weighed in on reported incidents of animal abuse during a shocking Paralimni school prank, saying she is in favour of juvenile offenders doing community service at an animal shelter...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-prisons-stoked-about-netflix-series
Nicosia Central Prisons could be featured on NETFLIX series 'Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons' if a deal goes through, with local authorities hoping to showcase an alternative penitentiary model...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/driver-dies-after-wreck-that-went-unnoticed
A young man from Larnaca district died in hospital on Monday, a day after he was involved in a road accident when his car veered off the road and was not discovered until hours later...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/commission-signs-vaccine-contract-with-sanofi-gsk
A contract between the European Commission and pharmaceutical company Sanofi-GSK came into force on Friday, allowing for EU member states to purchase up to 300 million doses of the vaccine being developed....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/multiple-offences-in-paralimni-school-prank
Police have launched an investigation into a high school prank in Paralimni where animals were abused and/or slaughtered in front of cheering teens but also teachers and shocked schoolmates who were reduced to tears...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-probe-brit-s-courthouse-daring-escape
Escape from lawful custody could be added to the list of charges against an elderly man who jumped out of courthouse window, with reports saying this will depend on whether he was trying to run away or end his life...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-crushed-to-death-in-boom-crane-mishap
The owner of a building supplies store was killed in an accident on Tuesday afternoon, after he was crushed to death by his truck’s boom crane during a delivery...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/death-by-kin-trial-focuses-on-gun-condition
Gun experts testified on Monday in the Larnaca death by kin trial, where a young man says he killed his sister after firing his military rifle accidentally...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/22-year-old-confesses-to-igniting-seven-forest-fires
A 22-year-old who was arrested on August 31 in connection with a forest fire that broke out in a Nicosia suburb the same day later confessed to being behind six other forest fires....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspected-shooter-wanted-in-limassol
One man is in custody and his brother is wanted by Limassol police in connection with an altercation at a barber shop that ended with shots being fired and another man injured...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nigerian-students-say-north-is-safe
Following danger warnings and criticism against Turkish Cypriot colleges, Nigerian student representatives in the north have refuted reports of mysterious and unsolved killings of fellow countrymen on the island...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nigerian-students-urged-to-avoid-north
Nigeria is warning its citizens not to send their children to study in the northern part of Cyprus, citing lack of “conclusive investigations” in a number of student killings who were enrolled in Turkish Cypriot universities...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/another-elderly-swimmer-dies-in-limassol
An elderly woman who had gone swimming in Limassol died on Monday, with reports saying she was spotted unconscious in the water at a popular beach...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/son-arrested-in-father-s-death-in-larnaca
The decomposed body of an elderly man was discovered in rural Larnaca on Sunday, with reports saying his son has confessed to killing his own father...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-probe-fatal-jet-ski-incident-in-limassol
A man believed to have been involved in a Jet Ski fatal incident has identified himself to police, a day after his passenger was found dead in the water in Limassol...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/elderly-woman-drowns-in-limassol
An elderly woman was found dead Thursday morning at a Limassol beach, with reports saying she was spotted unconscious in the water...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/buyer-s-market-and-herd-immunity
The most unhappy property buyers are the ones who believe that the real estate market is a Buyer’s Market and discover that in the end the market is anything but a buyer’s market...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/farmer-refuses-to-return-worker-s-passport
A story has emerged involving alleged mistreatment of a foreign worker, after a post shared on Facebook by a local NGO pointed to an old practice by employers unlawfully retaining foreign workers’ passports for leverage...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/justice-ministry-looking-into-life-sentence-penalty-for-forest-arsonists
The Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis has proposed to the Ministry of Justice that the maximum penalty for forest arsonists gets hiked up to a life sentence, which, Kadis said, is the only move that can act as a deterring factor in a country where most forests fires are deliberately set....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-detects-10-new-cases-but-nine-asymptomatic
The Cyprus health ministry announced 10 new cases on Monday, when a bulk of 2,619 laboratory tests were conducted to check samples for the virus. Nine of the 10 new cases were asymptomatic carriers of the virus....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/covid-19-safety-measures-must-become-way-of-life-expert-says
The additional coronavirus protection measures that the Cyprus government re-instated some ten days ago will constitute the island’s new normal for at least the next six months, member of the government’s coronavirus advisory committee Leondios Kostrikis said Monday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-rescuers-sift-through-beirut-rubble
Members of the Cypriot rescue team in Lebanon were seen on video along with sniffing dogs searching through the rubble in Beirut, as approximately 60 people were still missing following Tuesday’s deadly blast...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-and-qatar-team-up-in-beirut-rescue
Cypriot emergency rescuers are teaming up with their Qatari counterparts in Beirut, in an effort to find more victims as time is running out in the devastated town...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-golden-passports-get-popular-amid-pandemic
The Republic of Cyprus’ investment-for-citizenship program proved to be the second most popular scheme of the sorts amid the global pandemic, with new citizenship applications during the first quarter of 2020 marking a 75% increase compared to the same period last year....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/minthis-property-collection-and-the-design-diversity
Pafilia is always at the forefront of innovation in the real estate market thanks to its visionary approach and determination to push boundaries. With the recent launch of a new collection of residential designs at Minthis, collectively called Topos, they have once again set new industry benchmarks and further diversify the product range at this holistic lifestyle destination....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/killer-mom-not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity
A woman who killed her son in south Nicosia last year has been found not guilty by reason of insanity, after a doctor who testified in court presented new evidence during a manslaughter trial...
