https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/meps-want-anastasiades-to-be-audited
A name-and-shame resolution approved by the European Parliament on Thursday pointed to Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and other leaders mentioned in the Pandora Papers, with calls on member states to carry out thorough investigations of alleged wrongdoing as well as close loopholes on offshore dealings...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/anastasiades-pandora-reference-hangs-in-the-balance
Intense debate dominates in corridors of the European Parliament this week on whether specific references to Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and other leaders should be included in a draft resolution that calls for investigation into politicians who have been linked to offshore dealings in the Pandora Papers...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/house-committee-condemns-sidelining-of-prison-warden
There was an odd twist during a House committee hearing on Tuesday, after it emerged that the prison warden had been told to sit out a crucial part regarding ankle bracelet legislation, with members crying foul over the arrangement...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-lacks-snitches-to-root-out-cartels
The head of Cyprus’ competition protection office says its program designed to root out cartels on the island has failed because of the country’s closed society where snitching is not part of Cypriot culture...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/robbie-lyle-to-speak-at-digital-agenda-cyprus
Arsenal's most well-known fan, Robbie Lyle, is scheduled to speak at Digital Agenda Cyprus on the 19th of October 2021....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/‘a-dark-room-excerpts-from-alexis-papachelas-forthcoming-book
“The nut, he went and did what we didn’t,” said Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos the morning of July 15, 1974 after he found out that Dimitris Ioannidis, the junta’s military police chief, had orchestrated a coup to overthrow Cyprus President Archbishop Makarios....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/israeli-forex-boss-in-limassol-faces-extradition
The lawyers of a foreign exchange company boss in Limassol, who has been arrested in Cyprus in connection with a multimillion takedown of illegal online investments in Germany, have asked for more time before their client appears for his extradition hearing...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/the-city-of-london-is-hiding-the-world-s-stolen-money
In 1969, two years after the Cayman Islands, a British territory, passed its first law to allow secretive offshore trusts, an official government report struck an ominous note....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/us-embassy-requests-proposals-for-counter-trafficking-programs
Worldwide, more than 25 million victims of human trafficking are enslaved for the commercial gain of others....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/second-suspect-arrested-in-alleged-plot-against-israelis
Cyprus police have arrested another man in connection with an investigation into an alleged assassination plot against Israeli businessmen, while lawyers representing the main suspect say lack of a public hearing is not fair to their client...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/a-‘pacemaker-for-the-brain-no-treatment-helped-her-depression-—-until-this
Driving home from work in Northern California five years ago, a young woman was so overwhelmed with depression that all she could think about was ending her life....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/azeri-s-defense-signals-hell-of-a-fight-in-court
The defense team of an Azeri man in Cyprus, suspected in an alleged plot to assassinate Israelis on the island, has invoked its client’s right to a public trial, arguing it would be unfair to him and the court to allow insinuations of terrorism fueling a media frenzy...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/norwegian-court-vindicates-girl-s-‘wanted-father
A Norwegian father, who is officially still wanted in Cyprus on kidnapping charges, has been vindicated by a court in his native country after it emerged that the Cypriot mother of his young daughter, who was brought to the island unbeknownst to him, had filed false claims to sway a custody hearing in her favor...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/psychic-lawsuit
An American man has filed a lawsuit against a psychic who promised him that she could remove a curse on his marriage put there by a witch hired by his ex-partner....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-renews-call-for-demilitarization-of-islands-in-letter-to-un
With yet another round of exploratory low-level talks set to start between Greece and Turkey on Wednesday, Ankara has renewed calls for the demilitarization of the eastern Aegean islands....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/facebook-in-a-whirlwind-of-scandals-and-unprecedented-blackouts
It took a few minutes for it to disappear from the internet and about seven hours for it to return....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/more-than-330-current-and-former-politicians-identified-as-beneficiaries-of-secret-accounts
A huge leak of financial documents published by several major news outlets on Sunday reportedly linked world leaders to secret wealth stockpiles, including King Abdullah of Jordan, Czech Prime Minister Andrzej Bremen and Prime Minister Andrei Bredo....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/israeli-target-in-cyprus-identified-as-plot-thickens
Israeli media suggest 'unpaid debts' were behind a thwarted alleged assassination plot in Cyprus, pointing to a billionaire in the gambling business who left the island after authorities warned an Azeri-Russian seeking him out as a suspected hit man...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/protected-too-late-us-officials-report-more-than-20-extinctions
The ivory-billed woodpecker, which birders have been seeking in the bayous of Arkansas, is gone forever, according to federal officials....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/israelis-emerge-as-targets-in-alleged-plot-in-cyprus
Cyprus police are trying to connect the dots in the country’s latest contract killing investigation, with a detained suspect thought to have travelled to the island to take out Israeli businessmen who got wind of the plot and fled ahead of time...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/new-medical-degree-offered-in-english
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’s School of Medicine opened its doors on Monday to 60 foreign students who have signed up for its newly fledged English-language undergraduate program....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-unique-terror-court-case-turns-topsy-turvy
A defence attorney for a man accused of threatening Cyprus’ president threw a topsy-turvy on Tuesday before a Limassol judge, who was scheduled to pass sentence in the country’s unprecedented terror case...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/no-more-apologies-inside-facebook-s-push-to-defend-its-image
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, signed off last month on a new initiative code-named Project Amplify....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-who-threatened-president-pleads-guilty
A man accused of issuing a threat against the Cypriot president has entered a change of plea, following his arrest in Limassol last year after he was identified by foreign intelligence as a terrorist sympathizer...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/lebanese-line-up-in-endless-queues-to-renew-passports
The situation in Lebanon remains chaotic due to the economic crisis....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-must-meet-deadline-of-key-reforms-to-receive-the-next-85-million-from-the-eu
With the first 157m euros already paid in advance from the Cyprus Recovery and Resilience Fund, the country still has a long way to go to complete the reforms and investments required to unlock the next 85m euros which is due to be received in February 2022....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspected-healthcare-fraud-lands-doctor-in-jail
A Limassol judge has ordered a detained gynecologist to remain in custody for two days, as police investigators examine a complaint by an elderly patient who thought she had her uterus removed by the suspect but later learned it never happened...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/supermarkets-want-a-safe-pass-redo
Supermarket representatives in the Republic of Cyprus are crying foul over Safe Pass measures, accusing police officers of being vindictive with fines and pointing out that some door greeters are even scared to confront aggressive customers...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-sees-far-east-wide-open-for-tourism
Cypriot deputy tourism minister Savvas Perdios wants Gulf Air to keep the island in mind when expanding to Europe and America, hoping more connections would encourage Saudi visitors “from good stock” to pop up next door to Bahrain for a visitor visa to Cyprus...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/will-of-philip-a-90-year-secret
The will of Philip , Queen Elizabeth's deceased husband, will be sealed and will remain so for at least 90 years, a London court has ruled....
