https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/new-turkey-s-hasty-birth
The way in which the snap elections were called is not normal, nor is the unsettled situation in the country and on its borders...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-fledgling-party-to-run-in-june-polls-after-membership-boost
A masterful campaigner, Erdogan has won nearly a dozen elections and dominated Turkey since his Islamist-rooted AK party swept to power in 2002...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/parliament-calls-on-international-community-to-recognise-armenian-genocide
According to Mahtesian, between 1915 and 1923 more than 1.5 million innocent Armenians suffered torture, were put to death, slaughtered or forced to walk to their death...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/millions-in-compensation-to-hermes-airports-under-review
A compensation agreement between the state and Hermes Airports is being challenged in parliament, echoing a public debate on how Larnaca and Paphos airports should receive government funds due to the operation of the illegal Ercan (Tymbou) airport in the north....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/austria-will-bar-turkish-politicians-from-campaigning-on-its-soil
Several hundred thousand people in Austria are Turkish or of Turkish origiin...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/kammenos-to-be-summoned-over-botched-saudi-arms-sale
Leftist deputies on Thursday blocked another request from New Democracy and other opposition parties for government ministers and other officials to appear before Parliament’s Institutions and Transparency Committee to respond to questions about the botched sale of ammunition to Saudi Arabia....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/lawmakers-shelve-novartis-bribe-probe
A day after a special parliamentary committee deemed that it was not competent to investigate allegations that several top-ranking Greek politicians took bribes from a Swiss drugs firm, Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis appeared confident that the judicial probe into the affair is “moving in the right direction.”...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-s-erdogan-declares-early-elections
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections will be brought forward to June 24, more than a year earlier than planned, saying the country urgently needed to make the switch to an executive presidency....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/politcsblog-loans-to-politicians
The Non-Performing Loans (NPL) associated with political public figures reach over €160 million just in the cooperative bank alone. New measures are welcome but can they deliver?...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-suggests-russia-syria-may-tamper-with-chemical-evidence
Syria and Russia deny unleashing poison gas on April 7 during their offensive on Douma...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/putin-predicts-global-chaos-if-west-hits-syria-again
The United States, France and Britain have said the missile strikes were limited to Syria’s chemical weapons capabilities and not aimed at toppling Assad...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-says-air-strikes-cripple-syria-chemical-weapons-programme
US President Donald Trump called the operation a success...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/may-says-uk-had-no-choice-but-to-conduct-missile-strikes-against-syria
More than 100 missiles fired from ships and manned aircraft, the allies struck three of Syria’s main chemical weapons facilities...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/may-gets-backing-for-action-against-syria
She told her senior ministers the Douma events showed a “deeply concerning” erosion of international legal norms barring the use of chemical weapons...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/georgiades-makes-the-good-case-for-ccb
Borrowers who default on a loan won’t be able to pick up the phone and ask a politician to intervene, according to Finance Minister Harris Georgiades, who insists that separating healthy banking from bad loans is the best way forward for the Cyprus Cooperative Bank....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/west-weighs-syria-attack-that-could-lead-to-confrontation-with-russia
Syria’s military has repositioned some air assets to avoid fallout from possible missile strikes...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-warns-the-missiles-are-coming-for-syria
The White House pushed back against suggestions that Trump had broadcast his plans for military strikes via Twitter...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/european-parliament-to-discuss-detention-of-greek-soldiers
The European Parliament will discuss the prolonged detention of two Greek soldiers who have been in a Turkish prison since early March in a series of plenary session meetings from April 16 to 19, SYRIZA announced on Wednesday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-to-protest-construction-of-akkuyu-nuclear-plant
Cyprus is more concerned than any other country since the power plant will be situated just a few dozen kilometres from its northern coast...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/a-solution-is-the-only-way-forward-for-cyprus
The Cyprus issue is not a dice roll, but the dilemma that Cypriots once had – either we solve it or we stay as is – is no longer valid...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/meps-will-get-sense-of-urgency-on-missing-persons
So far 856 missing persons from both communities have been identified and returned to the families for a dignified burial...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/kammenos-arrest-of-two-greek-servicemen-was-pre-planned
The arrest of the two Greek soldiers who inadvertently strayed into Turkish territory during a regular border patrol last month was "pre-planned," Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said on Monday during a briefing of journalists in parliament....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-decriminalises-early-term-abortion
A majority of MPs on Friday voted to decriminalise abortion by amending the island’s criminal code to make early-term pregnancy terminations risk-free. But more work is to be done in the House on additional legislation on a range of related issues....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nine-conservatives-demand-vote-on-britain-leaving-eu-customs-union
The changes drawn up include one giving parliament a vote on staying in a customs union “which is almost certain to pass”...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/famagusta-mayor-pushing-for-return-of-town
Famagusta Mayor Alexis Galanos receives reassurances by MEP Kati Piri that a call for the return of the town will be part of her annual report, due out later this year....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/guardian-criticized-over-greek-crisis-tour
The Guardian newspaper is arranging an “educational and informative tour of modern Greece, exploring the lessons learned from Greece’s financial crisis.”
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https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/a-year-away-from-brexit-britons-views-remain-as-entrenched-as-ever
17.4 million Britons who voted to quit the EU in a 2016 referendum, giving the Brexit campaign victory over the 16.1 million voters who wanted to stay...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/canadian-company-worked-on-software-to-find-republican-voters
Wylie previously disclosed how users’ data from Facebook was used by Cambridge Analytica to help elect Donald Trump...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/erdogan-s-parallel-universe
The EU, the United States and the international community as a whole have very little leverage with Erdogan...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-will-not-follow-eu-and-expel-russian
Cyprus is among the 14 EU countries that will not take such measures...
