https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/toxic-patriotism
The lynch mob attack on Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris – the only way the incident can be described – during a gathering to commemorate the so-called Pontic Genocide, the killing of ethnic Greeks by the Turks during World War I, and while the national anthem was playing in the background, should give us pause...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/rift-between-teachers-and-minister-gets-bigger
Organised teachers are up in arms over the education minister’s comments during a probe in the aftermath of a school boy’s death, when he asked union educators to stay away from the investigation...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/harry-and-meghan-seal-it-with-a-kiss
Britain’s Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle were pronounced husband and wife on Saturday by the Archbishop of Canterbury in a glittering union that brought a measure of modern Hollywood glamour into the 1,000-year-old monarchy...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eight-to-ten-dead-in-texas-high-school-shooting
At least eight people were killed on Friday in a shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, and officers had taken into custody a student who was suspected of carrying out the attack...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/prince-charles-to-walk-meghan-markle-down-the-aisle
Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, will walk Meghan Markle down the aisle at her glittering wedding to his son Prince Harry after her own father had to pull out because of ill health...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/post-grenfell-review-finds-uk-s-building-regulations-system-broken
A government review ordered after the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 71 people in London in June last year has found that Britain’s buildings regulation system is broken, but has stopped short of recommending an outright ban on combustible cladding...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/larnaca-state-medics-plead-not-guilty
The two Larnaca doctors, who are facing charges of gross negligence in the death of a 10-year-old school boy, pleaded not guilty on Thursday and were set free on bail until their trial in September...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/north-korea-reconsiders-summit-with-trump-puts-talks-on-ice
North Korea threw next month’s unprecedented summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump into doubt, threatening weeks of diplomatic progress by saying it may reconsider if Washington insists on unilateral denuclearization...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/meghan-s-father-says-heart-op-puts-him-out-of-royal-wedding
The father of American actress Meghan Markle said he could not attend his daughter’s wedding to Britain’s Prince Harry on Saturday because he needed a heart procedure...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greece-s-souda-bay-military-base-is-‘world-class
Greece’s military base in Souda Bay, Crete, is an “essential hub” for NATO operations in the Mediterranean, combining world-class facilities with access to North Africa, the Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples and US Naval Forces Europe and Africa, US Navy Admiral James Foggo....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/even-royal-weddings-don-t-go-according-to-plan
This weekend’s carefully planned wedding of Britain’s Prince Harry to his fiance Meghan Markle was mired in confusion on Tuesday after the father of the American actress told a celebrity news website he was no longer coming...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/israeli-forces-kill-dozens-in-gaza-protests-as-anger-mounts-over-us-embassy
Israeli forces killed at least 41 Palestinians along the Gaza border on Monday, health officials said, as demonstrators streamed to the frontier on the day the United States prepared to open its embassy in Jerusalem...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-larnaca-doctors-arrested-in-school-boy-s-death
Two state doctors in Larnaca are in custody following the death of a 10-year-old boy who sustained a head injury during gym class, with his mother blaming ER medics for being incompetent in diagnosing an internal head trauma promptly...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/strovolos-double-murder-suspects-to-enter-plea-june-13
The arraignment of the four suspects in the Strovolos double murder was set for June 13 during Friday’s hearing, where one of the defence lawyers raised questions over the conduct of police investigators with his client...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-committed-to-preserving-cyprus-peacekeeping
Jonathan Cohen, the nominated Deputy Representative of the United States to the UN, vowed to preserve the UN Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/irish-women-talk-about-abortion-ahead-of-referendum
When posters with the words ‘Licence To Kill’ were put up in her neighbourhood in advance of Ireland’s referendum on abortion, Amy Callahan decided to share the story of travelling to Britain to terminate her pregnancy...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/security-is-tight-as-nicosia-hosts-trilateral-meeting
Security is tight on the island as the leaders of Cyprus, Greece, and Israel hold a trilateral meeting at the Presidential Palace Tuesday, with police setting up road blocks and flying helicopters non-stop...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/europe-should-wake-up-to-the-destruction-of-cyprus-heritage
Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Petitions Cecilia Wikstrom on Monday urged Europe to take further action to protect Cyprus’ cultural heritage in the Turkish-held north of the island...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/defence-attorney-in-strovolos-murders-raises-legal-questions
The fourth suspect in the Strovolos double murder was re-remanded in custody Monday, with his lawyer raising questions in court over the way police investigators got statements out of his client...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-say-strovolos-suspect-admits-to-murders
Police say the main suspect in the Strovolos double murder, during a written deposition admitted to killing the couple but many gaps in the convoluted investigation still remain unanswered...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-national-gets-suspended-sentence-for-crossing-greek-border
A Greek court on Thursday passed down a five-month suspended prison sentence to a Turkish man found guilty of illegal entry after crossing the border on Wednesday.
The 38-year-old was also fined 1,500 euros...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-seeks-new-path-in-cyprus-talks
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci is on the receiving end of new criticism from Turkey and Turkish Cypriot politicians, following his remarks on a highly contested UN framework for Cyprus peace...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/breast-cancer-screening-failure-may-have-shortened-270-lives-in-england
As many as 270 women’s lives may have been shortened after an IT failure in England’s breast cancer screening programme meant 450,000 patients were not invited for appointments...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/facebook-to-play-cupid-in-online-dating-debut
Facebook is entering the dating game to matchmake millions of people on the world’s largest online social network and nudge them into spending more time there...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/astrasol-plaintiffs-move-to-block-appeal
The Astrasol case is not over, as plaintiffs are scrambling to block an appeal that challenges a court ruling last year that found defendants were responsible for causing a cancer cluster in a Nicosia residential area...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/uk-dogs-and-cats-catching-deadly-diseases-from-ticks-after-travelling-abroad
British pets are catching deadly diseases from foreign ticks after travelling to Europe on pet passports, vets have warned....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/second-suspect-arrested-in-retired-teacher-murder
A 34-year-old woman, who was arrested Saturday night in connection with the murder of a retired teacher in Nicosia, is refusing to allow medical examiners to photograph her without clothes...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/fourth-arrest-in-horrific-strovolos-double-murder
Police arrest a fourth suspect in the horrific double murder in Strovolos, with the public remaining in utter shock ten days later and investigators continuing to sift through evidence in what is undoubtedly an unprecedented and complicated case....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/my-gladiator-lay-down-his-shield-toddler-alfie-evans-dies-in-britain
Alfie had a rare, degenerative disease and had been in a semi-vegetative state for more than a year...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/north-korean-hails-summit-as-trump-presses-for-full-denuclearisation
U.S. President Donald Trump said he would maintain sanctions pressure on Pyongyang ahead of his own unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong Un...
