https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/xylofagou-boat-accident-still-under-investigation
Authorities are still investigating a boat incident on Wednesday where a 60-year-old woman died after a motorboat capsized off the Xylofagou coast in the Red Cliff area....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/crime-boss-was-shouting-at-dutiful-cops
The police chief is reportedly perturbed over reports that a crime boss was lashing out at cops and cursing senior officials without them batting an eye...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-warns-airbnb-over-unfair-practices
Cyprus hoteliers got a helping hand this week in their fight for more restrictions on Airbnb, following a European Union warning to the American platform to improve its practices or face action by national consumer agencies...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-says-british-officers-raped-her-in-1956
More allegations are piling up in an ongoing case in the UK against British forces, who are accused of torture and even rape during the Greek Cypriot insurgency between 1955 and 1959...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/paphos-man-with-stolen-antiquities-arrested
Paphos police are investigating a case of stolen antiquities, following the discovery of ancient amphorae and jugs and even a stun gun at a local residence...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/unsc-expected-to-renew-unficyp-despite-pressure
Despite pressure to cut back on peacekeeping missions worldwide, it appears the UN Security Council will most likely vote to renew UNFICYP in Cyprus for another six months...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-foreign-minister-calls-moscow-up
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reaffirmed his country’s support for a UN-led peace effort in Cyprus, calling on UNFICYP to continue its role on the divided island...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/paphos-passengers-stranded-12-hours-in-double-whammy
Passengers en route to Thessaloniki were forced to wait 12 hours at Paphos International Airport, due to mechanical failures of not one but two planes that were supposed to transport them to their destination...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-detains-eldyk-soldier-on-greek-warrant
A Greek solider serving in Cyprus was arrested in connection with funding a terrorist group, following a deposit he made last year to the Revolutionary Fund...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-improves-but-more-work-needed-to-combat-human-trafficking
A US report on human trafficking has reinstated the Republic of Cyprus back to Tier 1, saying the country meets minimum standards while the situation in the north is a lot worse...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/senators-add-more-roadblocks-to-turkey-s-f35-deal
US senators are turning up the pressure over the F35 fighter jet sale to Turkey, with new restriction proposals that could possibly make the delivery of the stealth warplanes more difficult...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ditch-the-bag-or-pay-the-charge
Supermarkets and other shops will be required to charge customers for plastic bags on Sunday, based on a new executive order by the President’s Cabinet...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-gets-seven-years-for-sexually-abusing-wife-s-daughter
A 50-year-old man was sentenced to seven years for sexually abusing his stepdaughter when she was between ages 10 and 15, which included forcing her to perform oral sex on him when she was a teen...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/former-judge-points-fingers-at-the-establishment
Former ECHR judge Loukis Loucaides says police abuse and corruption are part of a systemic problem in Cyprus that cannot change until those at the top who hold political office stand up and follow the letter of the law...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/cyprus-co-op-bank-freezes-accounts-with-bad-loans
The Cyprus Cooperative Bank on Friday froze accounts of customers who keep their loans delinquent on purpose, as the bank makes an effort to force them to seek refinance terms...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/uk-minister-visits-cyprus-to-touch-base
British Minister of State for the Armed Forces Mark Lancaster is on a two day visit on the island to help strengthen defence cooperation between his country and the Republic of Cyprus...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/probe-into-stavros-death-still-open
Members of a Health and Safety Task Force Committee are visiting Alethriko elementary on Wednesday, a Larnaca school where 10-year-old Stavros Georgallis got injured last month and whose death hours later was shrouded in controversy and allegations of incompetence...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/new-push-in-the-uk-for-direct-flights-in-the-north
The Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce is lending its support to a new petition in the UK, sponsored by a British conservative MP, who is pushing for direct flights to the north one year after the Pegasus restrictions...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/fyrom-parliament-starts-debate-on-name-deal-with-greece
The parliament of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Tuesday started debating a law ratifying an agreement with neighboring Greece designed to end a decades-long dispute over the country’s name....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/fyrom-government-submits-deal-on-new-name-to-parliament
The government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) set in motion Monday the process of ratifying a pending agreement to change the country's name to "North Macedonia" in hopes of ending a bitter 27-year dispute with southern neighbor Greece....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/noratlas-replica-finds-its-way-to-makedonitissa
The parts of a Noratlas plane arrived at Makedonitissa military cemetery on Monday, where they will be put back together in an exact replica of the aircraft that was shot down by friendly fire during a secret mission in 1974...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/mixed-weather-with-temperatures-picking-up-midweek
Monday weather will be partly cloudy with a chance of rain showers later in the afternoon, with maximum temperatures in the low to mid 30’s expected to pick up by mid-week...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/alonissos-fire-forces-tourists-to-move
A large blaze burning a pine forest on the island of Alonissos, on the east coast of Greece, forced the civil protection agency to evacuate about 70 tourists from a hotel in the area of Marpouda on Wednesday night, as a precaution....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/paphos-mayor-issues-warning-to-police
Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos has levelled new accusations against Cyprus police, pointing to a prison inmate abuse with hot water that was not reported as well as saying he has evidence that cops knew about secret drone operations while dismissing his allegations on the matter...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/turkish-aid-to-north-comes-to-430-million
The Turkish Cypriot economy is expected to get a boost from Turkish aid in 2018, with approximately €430 million being spent in different areas of the self-declared state in the north...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/paphos-mayor-sticks-to-his-guns-in-turkish-cypriot-property-saga
Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos is dismissing a response issued by the Interior Ministry regarding the latest Turkish Cypriot property saga, while reiterating allegations he made about favouritism and criminal activity in his town...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trial-of-ex-deputy-police-chief-can-go-forward
The Supreme Court has ruled that an independent report should be handed over to the defence team of the former deputy chief of police, who is facing charges in connection with the leaking of information in the Ayia Napa mob killings of 2016...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/passport-scheme-could-bring-‘dutch-disease-in-cyprus
The Fiscal Council is warning that the passports-for-cash scheme could mean that some sectors of the economy could suffer while others grow, a phenomenon known as the Dutch disease...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-will-shop-elsewhere-if-us-won-t-sell-f-35-jets
Turkey will go elsewhere if the United States does not allow it to buy Lockheed Martin’s F-35 jets, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by broadcaster NTV and other media on Wednesday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/israel-blocks-flotilla-from-gaza-en-route-to-cyprus
A Limassol-bound flotilla carrying at least two dozen Palestinian patients and activists was reportedly blocked by Israeli forces, who fired warning shots when the boats broke a boundary off the coast Gaza...
