https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/cannabis-and-opium-were-part-of-ancient-cypriot-culture
The distinction between medicine and the mind-altering drug may have been lost on ancient peoples...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/lawmakers-shelve-novartis-bribe-probe
A day after a special parliamentary committee deemed that it was not competent to investigate allegations that several top-ranking Greek politicians took bribes from a Swiss drugs firm, Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis appeared confident that the judicial probe into the affair is “moving in the right direction.”...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-s-erdogan-declares-early-elections
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections will be brought forward to June 24, more than a year earlier than planned, saying the country urgently needed to make the switch to an executive presidency....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/may-gets-backing-for-action-against-syria
She told her senior ministers the Douma events showed a “deeply concerning” erosion of international legal norms barring the use of chemical weapons...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/tesco-beats-guidance-with-28-percent-full-year-profit-increase
Lewis joined Tesco in September 2014, tasked with turning around the group which had been hit by a fall in sales and profits due to changing shopping habits...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/russia-can-build-turkey-power-station-alone
Russian firm Rosatom has been seeking investors for a 49 percent stake in the Akkuyu nuclear power plant project...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/fb-ready-to-deal-with-strict-eu-laws
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said this week that he agreed “in spirit” with a strict new European Union law on data privacy but stopped short of committing to it as the standard for the social network across the world....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/a-solution-is-the-only-way-forward-for-cyprus
The Cyprus issue is not a dice roll, but the dilemma that Cypriots once had – either we solve it or we stay as is – is no longer valid...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/china-retaliates-for-us-tariffs-slaps-duties-on-soybeans-planes-autos
The scale of China’s tariff targets was in line with Beijing’s pledge to mount a commensurate response...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/firm-challenges-blue-british-passport-contract-going-to-france
De La Rue said it would seek a judicial review of the provisional decision to award the British passport contract to an overseas company...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/ukraine-s-privatbank-files-$3-billion-lawsuit-against-pwc-subsidiaries
Kiev has already withdrawn PwC’s right to audit Ukrainian banks as punishment for its alleged failure to flag evidence of wrongdoing at PrivatBank...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-leaders-to-have-informal-meeting-at-dinner
It will be the first time Anastasiades and Akinci have met since the collapse of peace talks in Switzerland...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/executive-at-fire-ravaged-russian-shopping-mall-arrested
The top floor of the complex, where the fire started, was packed with families visiting a cinema and a children’s play area...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/on-the-european-path
Turkey might push things to the extremes because it has entered a phase of instability...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-says-eu-condemnation-of-turkey-is-unprecedented
Anastasiades argued that the real aim of Turkey was to control energy supply routes in the region...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/putin-blames-criminal-negligence-for-mall-fire
The fire swept through the upper floors of the Winter Cherry shopping centre in the city of Kemerovo...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/government-aims-to-stop-dodgy-beach-construction
The government is determined to put a halt to illegal construction on the beach, following a recent spat between state and local officials on several projects that apparently violate the law. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/economic-sentiment-indicator-decreased-by-1-6-points-in-march
The decline resulted from a worsening of business confidence in services, industry, and among consumers...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/cypriot-investor-signs-$4-2-billion-zimbabwe-platinum-deal
It is the largest investment structure in the country’s mining industry in Zimbabwe...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/zuckerberg-apologised-for-facebook-mistakes
His plans did not represent a big reduction of advertisers’ ability to use Facebook data,...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-won-t-abandon-gas-search-despite-geopolitical-challenges
Drillings planned in Cyprus' EEZ for 2018 mainly by ExxonMobil will give a pretty good idea about the island's resources...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/academic-behind-facebook-breach-says-he-is-a-scapegoat
Facebook has been rocked by a whistleblower who said that Cambridge Analytica had improperly accessed information on 50 million users...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/google-makes-push-to-turn-product-searches-into-cash
Over the past two years, mobile searches asking where to buy products soared by 85 percent...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/putin-easily-wins-another-six-year-term
The longer-term question is whether Putin will soften his anti-Western rhetoric now the election is won...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-dumps-chief-diplomat-tillerson-after-clashes
Senior State Department officials said Tillerson was unaware of why Trump pushed him out...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/givenchy-tower-of-french-fashion-and-tailor-to-the-stars-dies-at-91
Givenchy branched out into menswear soon after opening his fashion house...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-and-north-korea-s-kim-plan-first-ever-meeting
Trump had previously said he was willing to meet Kim under the right circumstances but had indicated the time was not right...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-renews-threat-against-cyprus-offshore-gas-exploration
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that “provocative activities will be met with the appropriate response”...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/may-defends-saudi-ties-as-crown-prince-gets-royal-welcome
British officials were privately delighted at the decision by Prince Mohammed to choose Britain as the major western destination on his first foreign trip ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/cysec-to-wrap-up-inquiries-on-the-banking-crisis
The three cases concerning the now-defunct Laiki Bank with regard the acquisition products by German Commerzabank, the reclassification of the Greek bonds held by Laiki, and the investment of Bank of Cyprus in Banca Transilvania...
