https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/hot-weather-still-a-cyprus-gold-mine
Inbound visitors drawn to the island spend more money than what outbound locals spend overseas, and a study says it is because of the warm climate...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/death-toll-from-deadly-attica-fires-rises-to-83
The death toll from the deadly blaze that ravaged the coastal town of Mati in east Attica on Monday rose to 85 on Thursday, after a 73-year-old man who was in intensive care in Athens' Evangelismos hospital died and two more bodies were discovered by rescue crews....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-offers-€10-million-to-greek-fire-victims
The government of the Republic of Cyprus is offering €10 million to the fire victims in Greece, calling on citizenry and local businesses to do their share as well...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-sends-help-in-greek-wildfire
The Republic of Cyprus is responding to calls for help in the Greek wildfire near Athens, sending 60 first responders to a tourist area where dozens of people perished...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/overall-retail-rise-not-overshadowed-by-slight-drop
Retail trade volume in Cyprus dropped by 0.8% in April 2018 compared to March, but rose by 5.8% since a year ago...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-jobless-drop-in-may-biggest-in-the-eu
Cyprus recorded the largest unemployment drop in the European Union for May 2018, dropping to 8.4% from 8.6% the previous month...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/spain-police-arrest-fund-manager-browder-on-russia-warrant
British businessman Bill Browder, a prominent Kremlin critic, was detained and then released by Spanish police on Wednesday, after a warrant for his arrest he said came from Russia was found to be no longer valid...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/imf-berlin-still-divided-over-greek-debt-but-progress-in-sight
A meeting of the so-called Washington Group – representatives of Greece’s creditors as well as the governments of Germany, France, Spain and Italy, the biggest eurozone economies – failed to break a deadlock over the Greek debt as the International Monetary Fund and Berlin remain divided on the length of an upfront extension on bailout loans....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/mediterranean-diet-is-falling-out-of-favour-with-southern-europeans
Recent data found that in Italy, Cyprus, Spain, Malta, Greece and San Marino, one in five boys were obese...
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/news/most-nicosians-say-their-town-is-clean
A Eurostat survey shows that most residents in Nicosia believe their city is clean, with the results being very subjective and ranging from 9 to 95 percent for 109 different cities...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/thomas-cook-buoyed-by-strong-demand-for-turkey-greece-egypt-holidays
British holiday company Thomas Cook said it was on track to meet annual forecasts helped by strong demand for holidays to Turkey, Greece and Egypt, and as part of its plan to shift capacity away from parts of Spain where margins are lower...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/cyprus-registers-biggest-dip-in-unemployment-in-eu
Cyprus recorded the EU's largest annual dip in unemployment in March, from 12.3% to 9.1% followed by Greece (23.2% to 20.6%, Croatia (11.8% to 9.4%) and Portugal (9.7% to 7.4%), according to Eurostat...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/uk-dogs-and-cats-catching-deadly-diseases-from-ticks-after-travelling-abroad
British pets are catching deadly diseases from foreign ticks after travelling to Europe on pet passports, vets have warned....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/cyprus-is-open-for-business-and-china-s-buying
As US President Donald Trump builds barriers to Chinese trade, Cyprus is throwing open the gates...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/britain-hotter-than-cyprus-as-temperatures-soar
Britain was warmer than popular holiday hotspots including the Costa Del Sol, parts of Cyprus and Greece as the mercury reached 27C - making it the hottest day so far...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/only-two-out-of-ten-babies-in-cyprus-born-outside-of-marriage
Cyprus has seen a huge rise in babies born outside of wedlock since the turn of the century with an eight-fold increase from 2.3% in 2000 to 19.1%...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/in-cyprus-cash-is-king
Cyprus and Greece top the list of eurozone countries where people still prefer to pay with cash, casting doubt over the claim that plastic is replacing paper in money transactions....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-naturalised-citizens-up-by-40
The biggest group of foreign nationals that obtained Cypriot citizenship in 2016 were Russians, followed by UK nationals, according to Eurostat data that show close to one million foreigners became EU citizens that year....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/a-majority-of-young-cypriots-work-weekends
Recession-hit Greece had the highest figure with almost half of young employed Greeks (47%) reported working on weekends...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/yulia-skripal-is-getting-better
British counter-terrorism police now believe Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia were poisoned with a nerve toxin...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/cyprus-has-fourth-lowest-fertility-rate-in-the-eu
The highest shares of births of a first child to teenage mothers were recorded in Romania (14.2%)...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/russian-spy-poisoned-by-nerve-agent-outside-home
Russia has denied any involvement in the attack and has said it suspects the British secret services of using the Novichok nerve agent...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/some-68-of-young-unemployed-cypriots-are-unwilling-to-move-for-a-job
Out of the employed population, aged 20-34, in Cyprus in 2016, 87% did not move at all to get a job...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/britain-and-russia-brace-for-showdown
England may also cut back participation in the World Cup which Russia is hosting in June - July...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/putin-faces-midnight-deadline-to-explain-nerve-attack-on-former-spy
The European Union also said it would stand by Britain, which is due to leave the bloc in just over a year’s time...
