https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/anastasiades-the-protection-of-employees-rights-is-a-priority
President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday listed a number of government policies and strategies as well as decisions in favor of laborers, as he addressed an event organized by trade union SEK in honor of Labor Day at the village of Amiantos....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/‘i-will-visit-athens-when-we-win-the-war-ukraine-s-president-tells-kathimerini
Volodymyr Zelenskyy looked worn, he was probably sleepless, but he spoke passionately in his signature husky, nasal voice, stopping often to take a sip of coffee from the cup next to him....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-energy-hub-hopes-hanging-by-a-thread
Nicosia is eagerly awaiting news any day now that could potentially revive the island’s hopes in the energy game, with all eyes on whether a UK-based company with contracts in Israel could find enough gas to bypass red tape and send some of it to a friendly neighbor’s hub...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/dozens-evacuated-from-azovstal-after-un-chief-s-visits
Groups of dozens of unarmed civilians left the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol over the weekend, after the Secretary General Antonio Guterres visited both Moscow and Kiev to coordinate a UN-backed evacuation from the sheltered underground...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-expands-usage-of-mir-to-circumvent-payment-problems-for-russian-tourists
Turkey is trying to attract more Russian tourists by expanding the usage of the Russian Mir payment system in Turkey as it seeks to bypass the payment bottleneck created by Western sanctions....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/op-ed-societies-want-politicians-to-listen-and-change
French President Emmanuel Macron may have won the presidential election, but the message from the electorate is loud and clear: Leaders need to be closer to the societies whose fate they decide....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/putin-and-parkinson-s-what-do-experts-say
From US Senator Marco Rubio to political science university professors to the UK tabloids, many people appear to have an intimate understanding of Russian President Vladimir Putin's health....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/athens-puts-cbms-with-turkey-on-ice
Greece has frozen plans for the next round of confidence-building measures (CBMs) with Turkey at the level of defense ministries, following a barrage of Turkish overflights in the eastern Aegean. The talks have been postponed for the future, government sources said....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/boris-becker-faces-jail-term-for-failing-to-declare-his-millions
Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker could be sent to jail today as he faces a sentence for flouting the terms of his 2017 bankruptcy....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-house-passes-bill-urging-biden-to-sell-off-seized-russian-yachts-and-jets
The US House of Representatives yesterday passed legislation calling on President Joe Biden to sell the seized yachts, private jets and other assets owned by sanctioned Russian oligarchs....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/europe-scrambles-for-natural-gas-solution-as-putin-squeezes-supply
The European Union is racing to find alternative suppliers of natural gas after Russia's Gazprom cut flows to two EU nations, sparking fears that others will soon follow....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/op-ed-realpolitik-in-ukraine
The Western objectives in the Ukraine war are far from clear. This is perhaps because there are significant disagreements between the United States and Europe. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/more-‘golden-passports-revoked
The Council of Ministers decided last week to revoke the citizenship of four more Russians, including their family members, who obtained ‘Golden Passports’ under the island’s disgraced Citizenship by Investment scheme that was brought to an abrupt end in November 2020....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/putin-warns-west-of-lightning-retaliation
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned of lightning-fast retaliation if countries interfere in Ukraine as European leaders accused Russia of 'blackmail' over its cuts to gas supplies...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/un-chief-and-putin-concur-on-azovstal-evacuation
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Russian President Vladimir Putin have reportedly agreed on arranging evacuations from a besieged steel plant in the battered city of Mariupol...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/erdogan-critic-in-cyprus-sentenced-by-turkish-court
Turkish Cypriot journalist Sener Levent says he does not recognize a sentence handed down by a court in Turkey, where prosecutors accused him in absentia of insulting the country’s president with an offensive cartoon as well as offending the state’s military...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sba-land-run-rules-in-foreign-investors
More opportunities and fewer restrictions for land development on SBA land went into effect on Monday in Cyprus, where foreign nationals will be allowed to invest along with locals who now have to review details and move quickly with any possible objections...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/zelensky-gets-face-to-face-pledge-from-us
Washington's top diplomat and defense secretary both visited Kyiv on Sunday, and used the first official US visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded two months ago to announce a gradual return of US diplomats to the country and the nomination of a new ambassador...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/putin-orders-troops-at-azovstal-to-hold-fire
President Vladimir Putin called off plans for the Russian military to storm the sprawling Azovstal steel plant in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and said on Thursday he wanted Ukrainian forces there to be hermetically sealed in instead...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-layers-relaxations-ahead-of-greek-easter
The President’s Cabinet in Nicosia has approved a further relaxation of measures, starting on Good Friday as people in Cyprus get ready for Orthodox Easter and going bolder next month...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/clock-ticking-for-mariupol-on-holy-thursday
A top ally of President Vladimir Putin said Russian forces will seize the last main stronghold of resistance in the besieged city of Mariupol on Thursday, after Ukraine proposed talks on evacuating troops and civilians there...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-doubles-down-on-immigration-policy
The government in the Republic of Cyprus has renewed its response to migration flows to the island, tasking authorities and lawmakers with tightening measures in a number of areas...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/bloodbath-warnings-as-ukraine-awaits-orthodox-easter
Moscow says Kiev is 'completing preparations for monstrous provocations' against Orthodox churches to blame it on Russians, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vows to push back the offensive in the Donbas region...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/captured-britons-appeal-to-uk-prime-minister
Two British fighters captured in Ukraine by Russian forces appeared on Russian state TV on Monday and asked to be exchanged for a Ukrainian ally of President Vladimir Putin who is being held by the Ukrainian authorities...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/russia-to-offer-consular-services-in-the-north
Russians living in the northern part of divided Cyprus will soon be able to receive consular services, with Greek Cypriot media reporting that the development had been kept quiet for about a year...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greeks-halt-weapons-to-ukraine-as-russia-warns-us
Athens signaled this week there would be no more weapons shipments to Ukraine, as reports emerged that Moscow has also warned Washington that US and NATO weaponry sent to Kiev could bring 'unpredictable consequences'...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/urgency-and-skepticism-clash-as-west-probes-chems-in-ukraine
Moscow says claims by American officials about the possibility of Russia using chemical weapons in Ukraine were 'baseless' as politicians and experts were becoming more skeptical about Kiev’s allegations...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/russian-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine-could-see-nato-troops-deployed
The UK's under-secretary for the armed forces, James Heappey, has revealed that "all possible options are on the table in terms of how the west might respond" if it is confirmed Russia used chemical weapons on Ukraine....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/president-ready-to-resume-cyprus-talks
The readiness and the will of the Greek Cypriot side to resume negotiations for the resolution of the Cyprus problem was conveyed by President Nicos Anastasiades to the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Asia and the Americas, Miroslav Jenča, during a meeting that took place on Tuesday morning at the Presidential Palace....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/a-deal-‘everybody-will-hate-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine
The most likely solution that will bring an end to the war in Ukraine is an agreement that “everybody will hate,” James Stavridis, NATO’s Greek-American former commander for Europe tells Kathimerini....
