https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-response-to-pandemic-gets-tested
Another pandemic death was recorded Tuesday in the Republic of Cyprus, as critical voices against the government’s response continue to multiply calling for fewer tests and more vaccinations...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-remains-under-flood-watch
A low pressure system continues to affect the area over Cyprus, with heavy showers and powerful thunderstorms expected Wednesday in the late morning and early afternoon...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/coordination-for-green-digital-transition-of-actions-needed-kokkinos-says
Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy, Kyriakos Kokkinos stressed the need to coordinate actions and investments at national and European level to achieve the EU's goals "for a sustainable, digital and green transition, empowering businesses with an emphasis on the SME and start-up ecosystem, and ensuring EU technological dominance", during his intervention at the informal teleconference of the Competitiveness Council for Research, under the Portuguese Presidency....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/coming-period-packed-with-cyprus-problem-diplomacy
EU and UN officials are expected in Cyprus in the coming days ahead of the informal conference on Cyprus that will take place April 27-29 of in Geneva and this month’s European Council summit, during which EU leaders will discuss Turkey`s European course. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/the-cyprus-issue-today
Over the past 30 years, Turkey, and its friends in the society of nations, sought, and partially succeeded, in obscuring the importance of the Cyprus issue’s international dimension, that is the Turkish invasion and the illegal occupation of the island. The aim was to present the Cyprus issue as a one-dimensional, internal affair that exclusively concerns the relations and the rights of the two communities, Greek- and Turkish-Cypriots....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-scores-royal-caribbean-mid-pandemic
Cyprus Deputy Ministry for Tourism has welcomed a world-renowned cruise ship company’s decision to include Cyprus among its destinations during June – August 2021, utilizing a brand-new ship, to be delivered shortly...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/second-thoughts-as-relaxation-plan-unravels
Health minister Constantinos Ioannou was due to consult with health experts online Tuesday during an emergency meeting, following alarming news over multiple chains of infection and a rise in daily cases amid a plan to relax measures step by step...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/rain-enters-picture-this-week
A low pressure system is affecting Cyprus as temperatures fall and rise this week, with rain chances and suspicious clouds hanging over the island...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/health-minister-concerned-over-rule-flouters
Cyprus must continue to show good epidemiological figures before any more restrictions can be lifted safely, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said Monday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/peter-piot-vaccination-passports-a-one-way-street
Professor Peter Piot, advisor to the Commission President, speaks to ‘K’...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-hesitantly-relaxes-more-measures
More students were going back to school on Monday as Cyprus entered the second phase of a gradual relaxation of pandemic measures, with officials closely monitoring the situation to avoid a major setback....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/‘sugar-daddy-loses-appeal-in-child-rape
The Supreme Court has upheld the sentence of an elderly man who was convicted of having paid sex with a teenage girl, with the bench declaring that punishment for sexual crimes against children ought to be severe as well as act as a deterrent...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-leaders-seek-to-inject-energy-into-slow-vaccine-rollout
European Union leaders are gathering Thursday to try to inject new energy into the bloc’s lagging coronavirus vaccination efforts as concern mounts that new variants might spread faster than authorities can adapt....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/anastasiades-determined-to-get-formal-negotiations-rolling-again
President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday expressed strong determination to participate in the informal meeting on Cyprus that the UN announced will take place in Geneva on April 27-29....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-expects-full-vaccine-coverage-by-early-october
The Health Ministry’s vaccine strategy foresees the vaccination process to be completed by the end of September or early October, the acting director of the Cyprus nursing services administration Evagors Tampouris said Thursday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/property-valuations-and-uncertainty-clauses
Property appraisers in this country have had to deal with unprecedented events in the last seven to eight years that forced them to make use of the so-called 'uncertainty clauses' in their real estate estimates...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/young-worker-loses-fingers-in-accident
A young man in Paphos was seriously injured in explosion in a company basement Wednesday morning, with reports saying doctors could be attempting to reattach his fingers...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-awaits-relaxation-announcements-as-cases-rise
The Health Ministry’s announcement of Tuesday’s coronavirus cases sounded the alarms, cutting short the restrained optimism that had prevailed thus far....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/anastasiades-joins-euco-summit-prep-with-eu-leaders
President Nicos Anastasiades participated on Tuesday in a teleconference with the President of the European Council and EU heads of state and government, in preparation for the extraordinary European Council summit to take place online on February 25-26. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/covid-cases-popping-up-at-high-schools
A handful of coronavirus cases have been detected at high schools in Nicosia and Paphos, as the government is busy mulling over proposals for a further easing of measures that include the return of all educational levels to classrooms....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-wages-battle-for-air-connectivity
Two Cypriot ministers have joined forces this week to call on the EU’s Competition commissioner to allow more state subsidies for airlines amid the pandemic, citing improvements in scheme criteria but also the remoteness of the island...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/world-hears-how-mars-sounds-like
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has sent back the first audio clip from the Red Planet, capturing a faint Martian breeze, with a longer video showing the remarkable moment the rover touched down on the surface...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/r-i-ecosystems-of-cyprus-and-israel-exchange-expertise
Stakeholders of the Cyprus Research and Innovation ecosystem had the opportunity to gain a comprehensive view of Israel’s experience and expertise in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, through a series of digital lectures that took place in January – February....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-starts-to-thaw-as-temps-rise
A high pressure has moved into the area over Cyprus this week, with strong winds remaining over local areas and temperatures gradually on the rise...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/activists-say-hunters-lead-pellets-threaten-flamingos
Conservationists in Cyprus are urging authorities to expand a hunting ban throughout a coastal salt lake network amid concerns that migrating flamingos could potentially swallow lethal quantities of lead shotgun pellets...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-back-off-as-marchers-defy-ban
Thousands took to the streets in Nicosia over the weekend to protest against a controversial ban on peaceful assembly, with marchers and officers on their best behavior after an earlier anti-corruption demonstration was put down by use of force...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-to-push-for-help-from-brussels-on-migration-issue
The Republic of Cyprus will make its case to Brussels and other international fora, both at the political and technocratic level, over migratory pressure and the need for assistance.
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https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/limassol-keeping-cyprus-out-of-covid-safe-zone
Cyprus remains above the safety threshold of 150 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people, despite a drop in the diagnosed cases, recording a cumulative impact of 164.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the two-week period between February 3-16....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cold-continues-through-the-weekend
A cold front affecting Cyprus this week is expected to last through the weekend, despite a gradual rise in temperature, with rain chances not going away before Monday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/high-school-student-says-she-was-gang-raped
Three male teens are in custody after a high school student in Limassol told police she was raped last year, with the boys denying the allegations and saying sexual intercourse was consensual...
