https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/mother-blames-driver-fatigue-in-limassol-fatal-accident
The driver in the latest rollover accident, where her daughter and another girl were killed on the highway outside Limassol, says she hadn’t slept for 30 hours before getting behind the wheel and losing control of her vehicle...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/bulgarian-driver-pleads-guilty-to-involuntary-manslaughter
The driver who caused a fatal accident in Larnaca killing a 5-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to charges including involuntary manslaughter and will be sentenced next week...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-court-stunned-in-interpol-media-leak-trial
A state prosecutor could be held in contempt by a Nicosia court if she fails to hand over a criminal probe finding in connection with the leaking of Interpol information in the Ayia Napa mob killings of 2016...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/indian-housemaid-to-be-deported-on-suspicion-of-theft
A housemaid in Paphos is being deported following her arrest on theft charges, after her employer called police to say she suspected her domestic worker of stealing valuables worth €11,000...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/probe-ordered-into-injury-of-thessaloniki-sanitation-worker
An investigation has been launched in the northern port city of Thessaloniki into the circumstances that led to a municipal santiation worker sustaining serious injures on the job....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-pleads-not-guilty-in-yeroskipou-fatal-dog-mauling
The 27-year-old dog owner who is facing manslaughter in the death of Petruna Nikolova has pleaded not guilty to the main charges...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspects-go-to-criminal-trial-in-teen-s-overdose-death
The three suspects in custody in the death of 18-year-old Ioannis Asikkis, who died from a drug overdose, will face a criminal trial, while a cafeteria owner is wanted by police in connection with the case...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ditch-the-bag-or-pay-the-charge
Supermarkets and other shops will be required to charge customers for plastic bags on Sunday, based on a new executive order by the President’s Cabinet...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ag-names-investigators-to-comb-though-entire-co-op
A former judge, an economist, and a banker will make up the executive committee that will investigate any suspicious dealings that took place in the troubled Cypriot co-op...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-gets-seven-years-for-sexually-abusing-wife-s-daughter
A 50-year-old man was sentenced to seven years for sexually abusing his stepdaughter when she was between ages 10 and 15, which included forcing her to perform oral sex on him when she was a teen...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-criticised-over-woman-s-arrest-in-hit-and-run-murder
Police are pushing back on criticism over the arrest of a 23-year-old female in Sunday’s hit-and-run murder, where a Briton was run down moments after stopping the woman’s boyfriend from abusing her at a bar in Coral Bay...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/tsipras-erdogan-discuss-meeting-on-sidelines-of-nato-summit
Officials in Athens and Ankara are busy trying to lay the groundwork for a meeting, even a brief one, between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the NATO Summit on July 10....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/son-faces-manslaughter-in-mother-s-death
A man who savagely attacked his mother earlier this year is facing manslaughter charges, following her death on Sunday after being on life support for several months...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspects-arrested-for-murder-in-fatal-hit-and-run
Two suspects were arrested Sunday morning for attempted murder and premeditated murder in connection with a hit and run incident in Peyia, which left a British tourist dead and another seriously injured...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/bodyguards-deported-on-public-safety-grounds
Cyprus Immigration deported four security guards following an executive decision by Police Chief Zacharias Chrysostomou, while the usual suspects are facing repeated searches and charges ranging from illegal possession to unlawful security cameras...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/teen-gets-eight-years-for-raping-girlfriend-s-granny
A 17-year-old teenager from Nicosia was sentenced to eight years for raping his girlfriend’s 81-year-old grandmother, after she had told him off during an earlier incident...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/esm-warns-cypriot-banks-of-quick-fixes
The European Stability Mechanism warns Cyprus that despite a recent decline in non-performing loans (NPL), the banking sector remains vulnerable due to weak profitability and a still high NPL ratio...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-students-in-the-north-arrested-for-not-standing-during-anthem
Two female students at the Eastern Mediterranean University were detained by Turkish Cypriot police at their graduation ceremony, following the girls’ refusal to stand during the national anthem...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspects-remain-in-custody-in-drug-overdose-death
The Limassol District Court renewed the remand of three suspects in connection with the death of 18-year-old Ioannis Asikkis, who died from a drug overdose last week...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/probe-into-stavros-death-still-open
Members of a Health and Safety Task Force Committee are visiting Alethriko elementary on Wednesday, a Larnaca school where 10-year-old Stavros Georgallis got injured last month and whose death hours later was shrouded in controversy and allegations of incompetence...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ousted-far-right-mp-to-appear-before-examining-magistrate-over-coup-remarks
The ousted Golden Dawn MP Constantinos Barbarousis, who is accused of treason, will appear before an examining magistrate on Wednesday to explain his remarks during a parliamentary debate last Friday, when he called for a military coup....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-court-rejects-fourth-appeal-for-release-of-greek-soldiers
A court in the northwestern Turkish province of Edirne on Tuesday rejected for the fourth time an appeal to release from pre-trial detention two Greek servicemen who have been imprisoned in the country since early March, after they accidentally crossed into the neighbouring country, Greek TV broadcaster Skai reported....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/co-op-bankers-plead-not-guilty-in-unsecured-loans-scandal
Senior co-op executives pleaded not guilty to fraud charges in connection with a banking scandal where loans worth millions were given out without due process...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspected-paphos-arsonist-released-from-custody
A 58-year-old suspected arsonist, who was released from custody Tuesday, will still face charges in connection with a Monday fire in Trachypedoulas...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-suspects-arrested-in-limassol-rental-scam
Two people in Limassol are behind bars on suspicion they were renting out a residence that did not belong to them, defrauding tenants by pocketing €800 each month and then disappearing...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ousted-golden-dawn-member-barbarousis-arrested
The ousted Golden Dawn MP Constantinos Barbarousis was arrested on Monday morning in the Penteli area of northern Athens at a friend’s home by counter terrorism officers....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/prosecutor-brings-treason-charges-against-extreme-right-mp
A deputy Supreme Court prosecutor in Athens charged a lawmaker of extreme-right Golden Dawn with preparatory acts to commit treason, after he called for a military coup during a speech in parliament on Friday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/friends-will-say-goodbye-to-ioannis-at-limassol-pier
Friends of 18-year-old Ioannis Asikkis, who died Thursday from a drug overdose, were to meet Friday evening at Limassol’s pier to say goodbye on what would have been his 18th birthday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/uk-court-convicts-cypriot-drug-lord-s-mother
A UK court has convicted a Cypriot woman, mother of a drug lord in Cyprus, of talking part in an illegal drug trafficking network by making trips around London to collect money on her son’s behalf...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/debt-collectors-to-go-after-unpaid-electricity-bills
The Cyprus Electricity Authority is resorting to private debt collectors to go after unpaid bills, following criticism that the organisation lost €65 million in late payments or defaulted accounts...