https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/austria-allocates-€33m-for-wrongly-convicted-gay-men
A historic proposal by the Austrian Ministry of Justice sees €33m set aside to compensate those who were wrongly convicted - but critics say the amount on offer is not enough....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/cyprus-politicians-perks-and-pensions-excessive-or-fair
The political landscape in Cyprus is abuzz once again, as opposition parties seize yet another opportunity to level criticism at President Christodoulides. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/notorious-italian-mafia-boss-succumbs-to-cancer-after-30-years-on-the-run
Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who was convicted of multiple murders and was arrested in January after spending 30 years on the run, has died of cancer, officials said on Monday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-plane-brings-captives-back-home
The plane carrying five American citizens freed as part of a deal between the U.S. and Iran have now landed back home in the United States....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/world-famous-artist-botero-breathes-his-last-at-91
Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his whimsical imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists, died Friday in Monaco. He was 91....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/maria-ressa-s-nobel-worthy-legal-triumph
Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa has been acquitted of her final tax evasion charge in the latest legal victory for the veteran journalist as she battles to stay out of prison over cases that she has previously described as part of a pattern of harassment....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-blue-horizon-ferry-crew-members-jailed-in-passenger-s-death-case
Two of the four crew members of the Blue Horizon ferry arrested for their involvement in the death of a passenger were jailed until their trial early Monday morning, after testifying before an investigative magistrate....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/four-accused-of-brutalizing-child-freelance-dealer
"They treated me worse than an animal," said the young man who was beaten, burnt, and forced to snort cocaine by drug traffickers....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/israelis-in-cyprus-protest-during-netanyahu-visit
Israelis in Cyprus organized a protest rally on Monday morning as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the Presidential Palace for the Cyprus-Greece-Israel Trilateral Summit....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-s-mugshot-makes-its-grand-debut
It’s here! A much-anticipated mugshot of Donald Trump is on display after Georgia authorities denied his request to be excused from picture day....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/usa-former-nyc-mayor-surrenders-to-authorities-over-election-fraud
Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has surrendered to authorities in Georgia over accusations that he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-agrees-to-georgia-surrender-for-2020-election-case
Former U.S. President Donald Trump plans to surrender on Thursday in Atlanta in connection with his indictment in Georgia on charges he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, he said on social media on Monday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/canadian-woman-s-poison-pen-lands-her-20-year-sentence
A Canadian woman who mailed a threatening letter containing a poisonous substance to former President Donald Trump while he was serving in the White House was sentenced to over two decades in prison on Thursday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/jordan-secret-police-accused-of-lgbtq-targeting
Jordanian secret police have been accused of intimidating gay people by “outing” them to their families and of forcing the closure of two LGBTQ+ organisations....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/viral-tiktok-call-sparks-chaotic-scene-on-london-s-iconic-street
A call to loot a sports shop on London's Oxford Street, which went viral via Snapchat and TikTok, led to hundreds of people gathering in front of JD Sports who responded to the call to "rob JD Sports"....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/david-hunter-visits-late-wife-s-grave
The British pensioner who was freed after spending over a year in custody for his terminally-ill wife's manslaughter was finally able to pay his respects today....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/76-year-old-released-after-2-year-jail-sentence-in-wife-s-death
The Paphos criminal court handed down a 2-year jail sentence to 76-year-old David Hunter on Monday. Hunter had been previously found guilty of manslaughter, not premeditated murder, in the death of his wife, Janice, on December 18, 2021, ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/woman-jailed-after-proclaiming-innocence-in-biker-s-death
An elderly woman has been ordered to spend over one year in prison for the death of an army airplane engineer, whose motorcycle collided with a car driven by the defendant who maintained her innocence throughout the trial...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/conservatives-storm-to-victory-in-repeat-greek-election
Greece's conservative New Democracy party stormed to victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday with voters giving reformist Kyriakos Mitsotakis another four-year term as prime minister...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/celebration-turns-fatal-for-us-women-in-germany
Two US women who had just earned computer-related college degrees had gone to southern Germany to celebrate when a fellow American they met while hiking shoved them down a steep slope last week, killing one and seriously wounding the other, according to officials.
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https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/comedian-s-mh370-joke-triggers-interpol-involvement
Malaysian police said they asked Interpol on Wednesday to help track down a U.S. comedian after she made a joke about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 — a request the comedian called "ridiculous."...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/biden-whistleblower-hints-at-cypriot-help-in-run-off
Biden whistleblower Gal Luft appears to have resurfaced after going missing earlier this year in Cyprus, with a New York Post piece suggesting the Israeli professor who was in custody on a US arrant had escaped with help on the island...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/menendez-wants-change-from-turkey-before-f-16-approval
A senior US senator who has long opposed the potential sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey said on Tuesday he wants Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to take a 'less belligerent stance toward NATO allies and Turkey’s neighbors before lifting his opposition to the deal...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/larnaca-man-sentenced-for-assaulting-woman-holding-infant
In a recent ruling, the Larnaca District Court sentenced a 44-year-old man to eight months in jail for assaulting a 29-year-old woman from Congo who was holding her infant last July....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-found-guilty-in-cyprus-deadly-wildfire
A man was found guilty in the deadly fire that killed four Egyptian workers in 2021, with a Limassol judge ordering him in custody until his sentencing at the end of the month...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/deutsche-bank-agrees-to-$75m-settlement-in-epstein-abuse-lawsuit
Deutsche Bank AG has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit by women who say they were abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and accused the German bank of facilitating his sex trafficking....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/vanished-whistleblower-in-cyprus-gets-attention
The unknown whereabouts in Cyprus of an American-Israeli whistleblower wanted by US authorities has raised questions in Washington, where Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says Biden whistleblowers want to come forward but they fear for their lives...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sex-rendezvous-messages-emerge-in-murder-investigation
Cyprus Police are investigating the murder of a sex worker in Limassol that took place over the weekend, when a woman from Ukraine was found dead in her hotel apartment where an asylum seeker from Turkey had also booked an appointment to see her on Saturday evening...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cops-boost-sex-trafficking-ops-days-after-limassol-murder
Cyprus Police arrested a man in Limassol on Tuesday during a sex trafficking operation, but officials declined to comment whether the investigation was linked to the murder of an unnamed woman from Ukraine over the weekend...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/echr-takes-on-ayia-napa-gang-rape-case
The Republic of Cyprus is defending its actions after its own Supreme Court cleared a British woman of lying to police about a gang rape in 2019, with both sides sticking to their guns as the case is now appears before the European Court of Human Rights...
