https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/heat-grips-island-amid-new-climate-normals
A heat warning remains in effect in Cyprus with temperature highs expected to reach 41 degrees for the remainder of the workweek, as strong winds also continue to affect the island...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-wants-to-cut-red-tape-in-fire-response
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has instructed officials to look for ways to cut red tape in the prevention and handling of fires, following a devastating blaze that killed four workers and exposed lack of coordination between state and local authorities...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-police-retrace-steps-in-deadly-fire
Cypriot authorities officially confirmed the identifies of four Egyptian workers who died in a devastating wildfire last weekend, with police saying investigators are trying to piece back together any communications the victims might have had prior to their demise...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/government-responds-to-fire-with-€6-million-aid
The Republic of Cyprus has announced €6 million in financial aid for villages affected by a deadly fire, including compensation to the families of victims, with the government clarifying that illegal or uninsured structures would not be an issue...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-chief-visits-cyprus-after-deadly-fire
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is on a visit to Cyprus to boost post-pandemic recovery efforts, but the EU chief also grabbed an opportunity to tell a local community affected by last weekend’s deadly fire that Europe was at their side...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-not-ruling-out-criminal-probe-in-fire-deaths
The Cypriot government has rejected accusations of a lax response to Saturday’s deadly wildfire, with police not ruling out a criminal investigation that could include a probe into the deaths of four Egyptian workers who died while trying to escape the inferno...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/questions-emerge-in-cyprus-fire-deaths
Pro-migrant group KISA is accusing authorities and farmland bosses of leaving foreign workers to fend for themselves in Saturday’s wildfire in Cyprus, as more questions are being raised following the death of four Egyptian workers who perished while trying to evacuate in an inferno with the odds overwhelmingly stacked against them...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/four-laborers-died-trying-to-escape-cyprus-fire
The bodies of four farm workers were discovered Sunday, the second day of a huge wildfire in Cyprus that so far burned 55 square kilometers, with reports saying the laborers perished while desperately trying to escape the inferno...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-scrambles-to-contain-chaotic-wildfire
Villages in Limassol and Larnaca districts were being evacuated on Saturday due to a huge wildfire fire raging through rural communities, with Cypriot police arresting a suspect and the government appealing for aid from EU partners and Israel...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-menoyia-escapees-apprehended
Two escapees facing deportation at Menoyia Immigration Detention Center were apprehended by police on Monday over a dozen miles away, following a large-scale operation including air support...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-under-siege-as-it-celebrates-easter
Towns across the Republic of Cyprus were overrun with anarchists on Holy Saturday, when street fires and loud explosions dominated urban areas late into the night amid pandemic lockdown and midnight mass...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/religious-event-in-israel-turns-deadly
At least 44 people were crushed to death at an over-crowded religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a 'heavy disaster'...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/emotions-run-high-as-boy-reunited-with-dad
A US-born child was reunited with his dad in Limassol on Monday, ten days after the Supreme Court gave the Cypriot mother a deadline to comply with a court order, with the handover taking place four years after she flew him to the island unbeknownst to the father...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/peter-piot-vaccination-passports-a-one-way-street
Professor Peter Piot, advisor to the Commission President, speaks to ‘K’...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/asylum-seeker-held-at-menoyia-loses-appeal
A man from Sri Lanka, who is being detained at Menoyia for over a year, has lost his appeal at the Supreme Court, which ruled the interior ministry had legal grounds to keep him in prolonged custody because of legal steps taken by the applicant himself...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greek-convict-facing-extradition-skips-court
Cypriot police are searching for a man free on bail, who is wanted by Greek authorities to serve the remainder of a long prison sentence, after he failed to attend a court hearing in Limassol...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/pfizer-suggests-vaccine-can-beat-mutations
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appeared to work against a key mutation in the highly transmissible new variants of the coronavirus discovered in the UK and South Africa, according to a laboratory study conducted by the US drugmaker...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/boy-dies-after-parents-shot-to-death
A teenager in the north died Friday morning after allegedly shooting and killing his parents before turning the gun on himself, with reports saying his older brother managed to escape from certain death...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-stays-calm-but-mutation-unknowns-remain
Biontech says it is confident its COVID-19 vaccine expected within days in Cyprus would remain effective against a variant that has been spreading in Britain, but questions still remain over the effectiveness of the vaccine as mutations continue to spread...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-to-launch-5g-frequencies-auction
In 2021, according to the most optimistic scenarios, Cyprus will enter the constellation of 5G networks, with the frequencies auction set to begin on Thursday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/contacts-of-coronavirus-patients-escape-athalassa-hospital
Two patients of the Athalassa mental hospital who were contacts of two other patients who had tested positive for coronavirus escaped on Monday, while just one has so far been located....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/limassol-police-corner-in-suspect-vehicle
Three patrol cars collided with a suspect vehicle on Wednesday night in Limassol, after the driver failed to stop for inspection, with officers ending up making arrests on drug, traffic, and public health violations...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/roxy-s-charo-takes-cyprus-to-echr
A Dominican woman, who was recognized as a sex trafficking victim after her ordeal in the capital’s Roxy strip club over a decade ago, is taking the Republic of Cyprus to the European Court of Human Rights, after the country’s Supreme Court sided with a lower court judge who threw out her lawsuit seeking damages...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/supreme-court-says-daniela-case-closed
The Supreme Court has refused to reopen Daniela Rosca’s murder case, a woman who was killed by intruders in her own home in Larnaca, while the convicted mastermind insists he has new information that could exonerate him...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/divided-island-braces-for-dherynia-protest
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has called on Greek Cypriot bikers to be on their best behaviour during Saturday’s demonstration in Dherynia, warning that Turkish anti-protesters would look for an opportunity to use any unruly action as a pretext to start a riot...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/isis-‘beatles-duo-plead-not-guilty
Two Islamic State suspects from the UK, including one with Cypriot origins, have pleaded not guilty in a US court to charges of conspiring to murder four American hostages...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cops-defend-use-of-firearm-in-traffic-stop
Questions have been raised in local media over the use of firearms by on-duty police officers, following an incident in Paphos when warning shots were fired during a traffic stop...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-probe-brit-s-courthouse-daring-escape
Escape from lawful custody could be added to the list of charges against an elderly man who jumped out of courthouse window, with reports saying this will depend on whether he was trying to run away or end his life...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/defendant-in-child-abuse-case-jumps-out-of-courthouse-window
A 72-year-old defendant in a case in which he is accused of sexually abusing two minors and who appeared before the Famagusta district court on Tuesday jumped out of a first-storey window of the courthouse as the hearing was ongoing....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/mountains-under-yellow-warning
Weather officials have issued a heat warning for the mountains on Monday, while temperatures in other parts of the interior are expected to climb once again over 40 starting on Tuesday...
