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61. Prigozhin meets Putin after failed mercenary march on Moscow

The Kremlin has said the Wagner group head, Yevgeny Prigozhin, met Vladimir Putin on 29 June, five days after his mercenary fighters marched towards Moscow in an aborted rebellion....

62. President of OEB shares his cat's survival story

The President of OEB (Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation), Michalis Antoniou, recently took to social media to share the remarkable story of his cat's journey to recovery....

63. Manhunt in Cyprus after detainees escape

Three detainees managed to escape during their transfer from the court in Nicosia to the central prisons, prompting a manhunt by the so-called "police authorities" of the pseudo-state....

64. Nicosia silent as Iran questions terror plot story

The Cypriot government remains silent over an alleged thwarted attack orchestrated by Tehran on Israeli targets on the island, with the Iranian embassy dismissing the news story and calling it a 'Zionist conspiracy' aimed at driving a wedge between Nicosia and Tehran...

65. Plot unthickens in thwarted attack against Israelis in Cyprus

Cyprus Police were kept out of the loop in an alleged thwarted terrorist plot against Jewish targets on the island, even as the case emerged in local media after a bomb had gone off at the home of an Israeli businessman in Limassol...

66. British military intelligence reveals Russian navy's use of combat dolphins

British military spies on Friday said Russia appears to be training combat dolphins in the annexed Crimean peninsula to counter Ukrainian forces....

67. AUB Mediterraneo Paphos: Shaping the future of education in the Mediterranean

As the anticipation builds for the opening of the American University of Beirut - Mediterraneo in Paphos scheduled for September 2023, Kathimerini had the privilege of sitting down with Philip S. Khoury,...

68. Deadly Mediterranean shipwreck exposes desperate migrant journeys

Wednesday’s deadly shipwreck off southern Greece, involving a large boat carrying migrants that capsized after apparently rebuffing offers of help, is just the latest case of smugglers packing vessels full of desperate people willing to risk their lives to reach continental Europe....

69. Hooters in divided island's buffer zone root out poison

BirdLife says light wooden boxes for owls are to encourage farmers to abandon using poison and to help repopulate the barn owl population of Cyprus, which has been in decline across Europe...

70. Deaths confirmed after Kherson dam collapse

Rescue teams have been working round the clock in Kherson and the surrounding districts searching for survivors stranded by the flooding....

71. Neither crime nor accident ruled out in Russian fire in Cyprus

Cypriot media reported this week that a fire at the Russian Cultural Center in Nicosia was not the result of a criminal act, but police headquarters on Thursday clarified that while no evidence of arson had been found in their investigation, neither crime nor accident have been ruled out by the department...

72. Vanished whistleblower in Cyprus gets attention

The unknown whereabouts in Cyprus of an American-Israeli whistleblower wanted by US authorities has raised questions in Washington, where Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says Biden whistleblowers want to come forward but they fear for their lives...

73. Uncle says Little Hacker was scouting for burial sites

The disappearance of a Limassol man feared murdered has become more complicated after the uncle of the main suspect, known as Little Hacker, offered to point investigators to possible burial sites claiming they were picked by his nephew...

74. More details and questions emerge in disappearance case

New developments and more questions emerged on Tuesday in the disappearance of a Limassol man after police re-arrested the main suspect hours before his remand expired, with reports saying the judge heard about new incriminating statements from other jailed suspects...

75. Police build disappearance case but no breakthrough

The disappearance of a Limassol man said to be implicated in a convoluted cryptocurrency case continues to baffle Cypriot authorities, following additional arrests and search parties expected to continue after an unsuccessful holiday weekend...

76. EU lawmakers pass proposals to address migration crisis

European Union lawmakers on Thursday approved a series of proposals aimed at ending the yearslong standoff over how best to manage migration, a conundrum that has provoked one of the bloc’s biggest political crises....

77. Bunny with a badge: Rabbit joins police force in California

The Yuba City Police Department in northern California includes a SWAT team, an anti-gang unit, a canine unit with three active dogs — and a rabbit....

78. Greek and Turk connect over tombstone in Istanbul

Kerem Soyyilmaz knew very little about the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey but felt such a strong urge to investigate after discovering in the summer of 2017 a marble slab with an inscription in Greek...

79. Clocks in Cyprus spring forward this weekend

Residents in Cyprus will lose an hour of sleep after Daylight Saving Time goes into effect Sunday morning, with European officials and public opinion still divided on whether there is value in switching back and forth at all...

80. Charred body in Nicosia home still a mystery

Police say they are still investigating a house fire in Nicosia that took place on Tuesday night, when fire fighters discovered a charred body inside an abandoned property while another man was at the door gasping for air...

81. Homes are getting harder to find for Ukraine's animals

LVIV, Ukraine – The first thing you hear after entering the animal sanctuary in Znesinnya Park near the center of Lviv are the dogs. There are scores of them barking and howling, members of a raucous makeshift orchestra sounding out a discordant opera....

82. Political storm brewing in Cyprus over Biden whistleblower

An Israeli professor facing US extradition in Cyprus, where he is currently under house arrest, is calling on his native country to 'rescue' him from Biden, giving rise to speculation that his court case in Larnaca could become a hot potato for the island’s new government that maintains strong ties with both Tel Aviv and Washington...

83. Turkish daily Hurriyet's front page: 'Efharisto poli file'

Kathimerini and SKAI correspondent, Manolis Kostidis, reports that the earthquake victims are grateful to the Greeks for the assistance provided through the EMAK, while anger at the Turkish government is at an all-time high....

84. Miracle rescues continue in quake-stricken Turkey

Rescuers have pulled a seven-month-old baby from the rubble of a building in Hatay, southern Turkey, 139 hours after Monday's deadly earthquake...

85. Wronged worker slams Cyprus over migration crisis

Thousands of asylum seekers in Cyprus were sent back to their countries last year but one foreign worker, who feels he has no good options following a dispute with his employer, says many people who come to work on the island are forced to seek asylum because the system is not in their favor...

86. Senator links Burisma to Biden classified documents

A newly revealed email from Hunter Biden’s laptop regarding Ukraine is raising eyebrows, with critics pushing a theory that the first son had access to classified information at a time when he maneuvered for a seat on Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company based in Cyprus...

87. Suspect in murder of teen girl handed over to north

A male suspect in the death of a teenage girl in the north was handed over to Turkish Cypriot authorities on Wednesday, after he crossed south and identified himself to Greek Cypriot law enforcement...

88. Riyadh wants to acquire Formula 1

Whereas we used to say that the Chinese were buying everything, it appears that the Saudis are now following suit. According to well-informed sources cited by the news agency Bloomberg, ...

89. King Constantine, former king of Greece - His relationship with Makarios and his involvement in Cyprus

90. Frontline’s Cyprus move fails to impress rival

Plans by a shipping tycoon to redomicile his company to Cyprus became unclear after Frontline announced a merger with a rival oil tanker operator fell through...