https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-reaches-vaccine-deal-with-astrazeneca
The Cyprus-born EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety announced Thursday the EU’s first vaccine deal, reached with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, for a quantity of up to 400 million doses of the vaccine under development....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/joint-drill-makes-waves-around-cyprus
Turkey issued a new navigational telex on Thursday for gunnery exercises next week in the eastern Mediterranean, following an ongoing joint military drill between Cyprus, Greece, France and Italy...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-takes-a-stab-at-al-jazeera-propaganda
The daily publication of reports by the foreign media network Al Jazeera targeting the Cyprus citizenship-for-investment programme after gaining possession of over 1,400 leaked documents has sent the Cyprus government rushing to set the record straight....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-mayor-weighs-in-on-migrant-housing
Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis has suggested asylum applicants be barred from residing downtown until their applications are adjudicated, while also calling on the government for a 'clearer housing policy'...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/after-collision-athens-plans-next-steps
Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos on Tuesday congratulated the captain of the Greek frigate Limnos that accidentally collided with a Turkish ship during a standoff in the Eastern Mediterranean last week and indicated that Greece is prepared to hold talks with Turkey on the condition that it withdraws its warships and seismic research vessels from the area of the Greek continental shelf...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greek-and-turkish-warships-in-mini-collision-says-defense-source
A Greek and a Turkish warship were involved in a mini-collision on Wednesday during a standoff in the eastern Mediterranean, a Greek defense source said, describing it as an "accident."...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/buyer-s-market-and-herd-immunity
The most unhappy property buyers are the ones who believe that the real estate market is a Buyer’s Market and discover that in the end the market is anything but a buyer’s market...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/limassol-cop-accused-of-sexually-abusing-girl
A male police officer and his wife have been arrested in Limassol following a complaint alleging sexual abuse of a young girl...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/temps-rise-again-but-humidity-stays-low
A yellow warning has been issued for Cyprus due to extreme high temperatures in the interior, but officials say a slight rise expected in the coming days is not expected to cause more discomfort...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspect-rearrested-in-filipina-abuse-case
A retired police officer who was accused last month of abusing his Filipina housemaid has been detained again, with police saying his new warrant include new charges of human trafficking...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/french-la-fayette-frigate-spotted-off-larnaca-coast
After the two French Rafale fighter jets and the C 180 utility aircraft landed in the National Guard’s ‘Andreas Papandreou’ air base in Paphos, a warship of the French Navy has also arrived in Cyprus....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/farmer-refuses-to-return-worker-s-passport
A story has emerged involving alleged mistreatment of a foreign worker, after a post shared on Facebook by a local NGO pointed to an old practice by employers unlawfully retaining foreign workers’ passports for leverage...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/dendias-to-meet-pompeo-in-vienna
Athens says it will not accept a fait accompli in the Eastern Mediterranean, with reports saying Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias is set to meet US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Vien on Friday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/week-starts-with-quick-dip-in-temps
Monday skies will be partly cloudy with chances of rain in the afternoon, while temperature highs will not go above 36 degrees Celsius but will rise gradually over the next few days...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/hot-and-humid-weather-lasts-another-day
High levels of humidity and extreme high temperatures prompted weather officials to issue an orange warning for Cyprus on Friday, but a slight drop is on the way for the weekend...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/still-hot-but-noticeable-drop-on-the-way
Weather officials issued a yellow warning for Thursday due to extreme high temperatures in the interior, while strong winds are expected along the southern coastline...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/out-of-control-bus-crashes-in-downtown-nicosia
Another public bus in Nicosia was involved in a road incident without a driver at the steering wheel, with the vehicle moving forward and a person on a moped jumping out of the way in a split-second decision...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-perturbed-over-russia-tax-move
Finance ministry officials in the Republic of Cyprus say they were caught by surprise when Russia announced it would scrap a bilateral double tax treaty, with Moscow suggesting there was no other alternative after talks had failed...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/airport-video-shows-no-social-distancing
Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos has reacted to viral photos that showed passengers crowding each other at the Larnaca airport terminal, arguing that face masks are the next best thing where social distancing is not an effective measure...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-battles-to-keep-spike-under-control
Cypriot authorities are scrambling to contain the virus spreading out of Limassol, with test results over the weekend suggesting the government could be forced to impose stricter lockdown-like measures either locally or nationally...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-drowns-while-trying-to-save-child
A man died in a drowning incident at a beach in Limassol on Friday after making an attempt to save a young child...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/new-orange-weather-alert-for-cyprus
Weather officials issued a heat warning Friday due to extreme high temperatures in Cyprus, with temperatures dropping gradually after the weekend but still remaining above normal levels...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/woman-secretly-records-her-abuser
Police sprung into action on Wednesday, arresting a man in Nicosia after video and audio recordings involving possible abuse against a housemaid went viral on social media...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-under-two-heat-warnings
Weather officials have issued two simultaneous warnings for extreme high temperatures in Cyprus, with maximum levels reaching 41 degrees inland and a whopping 35 in the mountains...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-under-orange-hot-weather-alert
An orange weather alert has been issued Wednesday for Cyprus, with inland maximum highs reaching 42 degrees Celsius and temperatures expected to climb further in the coming days...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/four-suspects-caught-in-old-nicosia-murder
Four suspects in last month’s fatal incident in downtown Nicosia have been arrested in rural Larnaca, with police saying one suspect remains at large...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-health-experts-lay-it-on-the-line
Health officials in the Republic of Cyprus say recently detected clusters of the coronavirus in Limassol do not pose a direct threat to the community but warn the bug never went away and only more testing will show how widespread it may be in the southern town...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/jealous-husband-gets-18-years-for-killing-wife
A criminal court in Paphos on Thursday sentenced the estranged husband of slain Ghada Al Nouri from Syria to 18 years, after he was found guilty of manslaughter...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/health-experts-fear-spike-in-limassol
Health experts in Cyprus are becoming increasingly concerned following reports of three clusters of coronavirus in Limassol, but it has yet to be clarified whether there is any connection between clusters...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/hot-weekend-with-hotter-week-days-ahead
A new yellow warning has been issued for Friday afternoon due to extreme high inland temperatures, with levels remaining unchanged over the weekend but then gradually starting to go up...
