https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-worried-over-salamis-piece-on-ebay
Turkish Cypriot police have launched an investigation after a piece of marble from the ancient site of Salamis ended up on eBay...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sexual-abuse-complaints-hit-double-digits
Police say over ten official complaints involving sexual abuse allegations were under investigation, as one case after the other came forward in Cyprus’ own MeToo movement...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/doctor-s-sexual-misconduct-trial-goes-forward
A sexual assault case against a doctor with a large medical practice in Cyprus is moving forward, while questions have been raised over a messenger company that failed for months to serve him court documents as well as a prior conviction that fell through the cracks...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/boy-stays-in-cyprus-during-mom-s-appeal
The mother of a 5-year-old child, both of whom came to live on the island unbeknownst to the father, was able to buy more time on Tuesday after a higher court suspended for a second time a return order that would have reunited the American boy with his father in New York...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ny-dad-flies-in-after-son-s-return-delayed
The father of a US-born child abducted by the mother over three years ago flew to Cyprus Wednesday night, after the country’s Supreme Court issued a temporary hold on a return order following a motion from the mother to delay her son’s departure...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/former-ag-says-he-cautioned-over-golden-passports
The state’s former attorney general says his department had cautioned the government years ago that the country’s golden passport scheme might have been incompatible with European law, essentially contradicting the executive branch's position that nobody had said anything...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/teacher-ready-to-sue-over-twitter-search
A teacher who won an appeal following an unlawful police search, in connection with a Twitter parody account complaint filed by Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis, has vowed to sue the state saying she was targeted because of her activism...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/lawyer-says-al-jazeera-took-him-out-of-context
Cypriot attorney Andreas Pittadjis, who was targeted in an Al Jazeera undercover investigation into allegations of corruption over golden passports, took to social media to reiterate his position he did nothing illegal, accusing the foreign network of being dishonest...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-police-scolded-again-over-spy-van
The Supreme Court in the Republic of Cyprus has recalled an arrest warrant for Avraham Shahak Avni, a Jewish community leader who is implicated in the spy van probe, ruling that police had no reasonable basis to detain a man who had been otherwise cooperating with authorities from the get-go...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/experts-assist-in-cyprus-spy-van-probe
Following months of sluggish investigation into Cyprus’ spy van, police investigators are reportedly in the process of drafting their final report while another expert is due to arrive on the island to lend a hand...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/bill-introduces-femicide-in-penal-code
A new bill proposal calling for femicide to be recognized officially as a sex-based hate crime has been submitted to the House legal affairs committee, with proponents saying the term would be helpful for prosecutorial reasons while some critics say the law might be sexist...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-minister-has-one-regret-over-passports
Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides, who oversaw Cyprus' disgraced golden passport scheme while he was serving as interior minister, says he should have pushed harder to end the program much sooner...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspects-in-dherynia-riot-face-judge
Six male suspects are in custody over the Dherynia checkpoint riot on Sunday, when hooded men stormed into the buffer zone shouting anti-Turkish slogans and causing property damage...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cluster-woman-not-charged-with-spreading-virus
A woman who traveled to Cyprus and made headlines after several infections across the island were linked back to her has been charged in a court of law for violating health protocols, with prosecutors ending up not accusing her of spreading a communicable disease...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/biden-in-hot-water-over-erdogan-comments
US presidential candidate and presumptive nominee for the Democrats, Joe Biden, is in hot water over old comments he made about Turkey’s Erdogan, after a video surfaced just days before the launch of the Democratic National Convention...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/navtex-warnings-muddy-the-waters-off-cyprus
Rival navigational warnings and conflicting information about naval exercises in the eastern Mediterranean dominated headlines over the weekend, with Germany appearing to be behind a last-ditch effort to buy time and de-escalate tensions between Greece and Turkey...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-weighs-risks-of-luring-back-tourists
The introduction of Britain and Russia into one of the categories that would allow tourists to visit Cyprus is not on the agenda according to Kathimerini sources, with hoteliers waging a battle to assume part of the risk and scientists appearing unconvinced ahead of an upcoming meeting at the Presidential Palace...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-criticized-over-handling-downtown-incident
Another suspect has been arrested on a court warrant following Sunday’s downtown fatal incident in Nicosia, while critics continue to cry foul over the way officials are handling the situation in the media...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-jailed-in-another-ayia-napa-rape-case
A man has been sentenced to eight years for the rape of a young British woman, who said she was raped after being driven in a dark remote area outside Ayia Napa last year...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/deputy-mayor-draws-back-racist-declaration
Limassol’s deputy mayor Nikos Sykas has issued a statement following widespread criticism over a post on Facebook when he self-identified as a racist...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-defends-action-over-larnaca-bound-plane
Ankara says a Larnaca-bound plane never submitted a timely request to fly through Turkish airspace, accusing the Republic of Cyprus of using the pandemic to score points for political gain...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/president-lets-man-who-broke-curfew-walk-free
President Nicos Anastasiades has issued a reprieve for a man sentenced to 45 days in prison for violating curfew, following outrage by legal experts who said the punishment did not fit the crime...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-police-pick-up-pace-in-spy-van-probe
The surveillance company executive at the centre of a high profile spy van case in Cyprus is expected to give a police deposition as early as Tuesday, with reports saying the former Israeli intelligence officer insists he never broke the law...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/chloroquine-hype-begins-to-wane
More doubts over chloroquine emerged this week, with new studies pointing to high risks and a US top health official saying he was fired after being pressured to direct money towards the “game changer” drug...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/world-remains-cautious-over-chloroquine
The US Food and Drug Administration is a step closer to a potential approval of chloroquine for treatment against Covid-19, while more doubts over the drug’s effectiveness and concerns over lethal side effects continue to pop up around the globe...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/quarantined-students-in-north-put-foot-down
Turkish Cypriot students who flew to the north on a charter flight were up in arms over quarantine accommodations, while both sides of the island were having a hard time convincing people to comply with quarantine rules...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/defence-minister-goes-‘behind-enemy-lines
Cypriot Defence Minister Savvas Angelides got up close and personal with special commandos during their winter training high up in the snowy mountains...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/state-drops-case-in-ayia-napa-police-blunder
A case has been dropped against former deputy police chief Andreas Kyriacou, just hours before a judge was expected to rule in Alexoui’s bail hearing...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/istanbul-street-sign-draws-attention
A street sign in Larnaca was the topic of a heated discussion on Facebook, with social media users calling on the city to remove “Istanbul Street” in the Turkish Cypriot borough...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/church-plans-for-kornesios-draw-heat
Local controversy is growing over the Archbishop’s decision to turn a famous folk house museum in old Nicosia into a church museum for next year’s bicentennial celebrations of the Greek Revolution...
