https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/first-ship-carrying-ukrainian-grain-leaves-odesa-port
A ship carrying grain left the Ukrainian port of Odesa for Lebanon on Monday under a safe passage agreement, Ukrainian and Turkish officials said, the first departure since the Russian invasion blocked shipping through the Black Sea five months ago....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/dutch-are-reducing-waste-by-fixing-broken-objects-with-online-local-barter-network
Finding someone who can fix a broken piece of furniture, mend clothing, or repair a family treasure has become easier thanks to a new online platform....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-senator-calls-on-erdogan-to-immediately-halt-provocations-in-cyprus
US senator Robert Menendez called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to halt provocations in Cyprus immediately, in a video message at the opening of the World Conference of Cyprus Diaspora, in Nicosia....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/why-heat-waves-are-increasingly-hitting-europe
Record high temperatures in many Western European countries, with record highs in Britain, France, Germany and elsewhere, as well as persistent prolonged heat in the Iberian Peninsula, are the culmination of a long upward trend in Europe's summer temperatures this year....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/op-ed-about-racism
The image of a 43-year-old Cypriot man beating a woman of African descent with an infant in her arms is the definition of racist gender-based violence....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/photo-blunder-throws-north-into-chaos
A photo printed on lottery tickets in the north has landed officials in the hot seat and started a political media war, after it was revealed that depicted fighters holding a Turkish flag were actually Greek Cypriot paramilitaries rejoicing after capturing a Turkish Cypriot stronghold in 1964...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/restaurant-s-palm-tree-falls-on-prospective-customer
Famagusta police are investigating acts of negligence and recklessness in connection with a woman in Paralimni who was hospitalized after a palm tree came down at the worst possible time...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-upgraded-to-tier-1-in-us-trafficking-in-persons-report
The Ministry of Justice and Public Order has welcomed the US State Department's Trafficking in Persons report for 2022 released on Tuesday noting the upgrade of Cyprus to Tier 1 status. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/african-in-cyprus-tired-of-other-blacks-acting-out
A man from Africa, who was interviewed by reporters in Paphos following a house fire incident in Emba, spoke of a 'black mentality' as one of the reasons why sometimes locals were apprehensive about asylum seekers...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/high-winds-as-wildfire-rages-near-athens
A Greek wildfire fueled by gale-force winds raged in the mountainous region of Penteli near Athens on Tuesday, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of at least four areas and a hospital...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/op-ed-watching-the-turkish-paratroopers-from-my-window
It was approximately 5.20 a.m. on the morning of July 20, 1974, when I was awakened by the ring of a telephone in my home in Nicosia....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/akar-slams-greece-for-seeking-to-block-sale-of-f-16-jets-to-turkey
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Tuesday attacked Greece and the Greek American lobby in the United States for seeking to put the brakes on the sale of 40 Lockheed Martin-made F-16 fighter jets to Turkey,...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/emergency-sirens-wake-up-divided-cyprus
People in Cyprus woke up to the sound of emergency sirens wailing across the island on Wednesday early morning, marking the anniversary of the Turkish Attila operation launched on 20 July 1974, a series of events remembered very differently by the divided nation’s two communities...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-priest-reassigned-after-coup-faux-pas
Failure to commemorate a Greek Cypriot man killed by EOKA in 1973 lead to a local priest being reassigned this week, with the cleric saying it was an honest mistake but the relatives argue there was a sinister motive...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/elderly-woman-dies-in-rollover-accident
An elderly woman was killed in a car accident on Wednesday morning, when a vehicle driven by her husband overturned just after midnight on a rural road in Limassol district...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/the-enclave-live-under-dire-conditions-in-the-occupied-side
It is not an exaggeration to say that the enclaved have remained in their homeland, in the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus, under dire conditions and are struggling on a daily basis for their survival until the day the island is freed and reunified....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/president-anastasiades-pays-tribute-to-those-who-died-in-1974-coup
Cyprus on Friday paid tribute to those who lost their lives defending freedom and democracy on the occasion of the 15-July 1974 coup d’ etat which paved the way for the Turkish invasion five days later. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-house-passes-bill-restricting-f-16-sales-to-turkey
The US House has approved an amendment for blocking F-16 sales to Turkey....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cabinet-appointment-signals-gesy-wars-not-over
All hell broke loose this week in the health sector of the Republic of Cyprus, after a heart doctor not liked by unions was given a seat on the board of the Health Insurance Organization, signaling core debates about whether the state should stick to uniform rules or expand its single-payer philosophy...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/feta-can-only-be-greek
Greece has scored a win in its long fight to protect its right to the term “feta” after Europe’s top court reprimanded Denmark for not blocking local companies from using the name for sales outside the European Union....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/ever-wonder-what-it-smelled-like-in-the-golden-age-or-the-stench-of-the-industrial-age
Sometimes, the most powerful jolt of nostalgia one can feel is that which comes after picking up the scent of something iconic of one’s childhood....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/menendez-turkey-unwilling-to-resolve-issues-before-f-16-purchase
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Robert Menendez, has raised a number of issues that need to be addressed in order for Turkey to purchase F-16 aircraft from the US....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/slashed-tires-slow-down-finance-minister
The tires of a vehicle belonging to the Cypriot finance minister were slashed over weekend, with police saying they were investigating the incident...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/video-shows-mother-with-baby-assaulted-in-larnaca
Larnaca police are investigating a complaint from a woman who says she was assaulted by a man in broad daylight, with the alleged incident captured on video and posted on social media...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/minister-ukraine-needs-assurances-to-resume-grain-exports
The Ukrainian foreign minister says grain exports from his country’s ports won’t resume without security guarantees for ship owners, cargo owners and Ukraine as an independent nation....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sri-lankan-president-flees-country-amid-devastating-economic-crisis
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country on Wednesday and hundreds of protesters stormed the prime minister's office demanding his ouster, as a people's uprising over a devastating economic crisis overwhelmed security forces....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-local-youths-arrested-after-geri-gang-attack
Two young men were arrested Tuesday night in Geri, where police officers responding to a call saw a gang damaging a burning car, whose owner says he and his buddies were ambushed by men holding wooden bats and knives...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/boris-johnson-has-stepped-down
After an acute political meltdown in the U.K., Prime Minister Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the Conservative Party, setting in motion a race for a new prime minister....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/boris-johnson-vows-to-fight-on-amid-growing-wave-of-resignations
Britain's Boris Johnson defiantly vowed on Wednesday to fight on against growing calls for him to resign as prime minister, but his pledge to keep going was met with scornful laughter at a parliamentary appearance....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/australia-is-exterminating-tens-of-millions-of-bees-to-save-its-honey-industry
Tens of millions of bees are being exterminated in a desperate attempt to save Australia's honey industry from a devastating mite plague....
