https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/racial-undertones-uncertain-in-ayia-napa-brutal-assault
A Turkish Cypriot woman, who was brutally assaulted over the weekend during an escalated altercation with Greek Cypriot men in Ayia Napa, says she is shocked but hopes there will be no worsening of relations between the two communities over the incident...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/natural-gas-a-priority-for-affordable-electricity-generation
The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) agrees with the government's priority to bring natural gas το Cyprus, in order to produce cheap electricity, said CCCI President Christodoulos Angastiniotis, after a meeting held between CCCI and President of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulides, on Tuesday....
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/police-keep-murder-plot-arrests-under-wraps
Cyprus Police are keeping a low profile on two arrests in connection with an investigation into a suspected murder plot, where a Russian journalist is believed to have been targeted over a dispute...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/gender-bias-fears-linger-over-bishop-guilty-ruling
A lawmaker and women’s rights activist in Cyprus says a former bishop’s guilty verdict for sexually harassing a teenage girl four decades ago was a landmark court decision, while also dismissing concerns that gender bias played a role in the ruling...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/former-kition-metropolitan-found-guilty-of-indecent-assault
The Larnaca District Court has delivered a guilty verdict against the former Metropolitan of Kition for an indecent assault that occurred in 1981. The assault took place in the Metropolitan's office when the victim was 16 years and 8 months old....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-found-liable-for-sexual-abuse-accuser-awarded-$5-million
A federal jury on Tuesday found that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, a writer who accused the former president of attacking her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/alleged-teen-kidnapper-gives-own-version-of-events
A foreign man accused of kidnapping two teenagers in a public park in Nicosia says he did not do anything, but local media say the suspect admitted after his remand hearing that he held a boy and a girl against their will...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/huge-child-abduction-case-flops-in-cypriot-court
A criminal court in Cyprus has acquitted all remaining defendants in a high profile child abduction case, just months after a Norwegian court also vindicated the father of the young girl, whose Cypriot mother accused him six years ago of taking their daughter unlawfully...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/uncle-says-little-hacker-was-scouting-for-burial-sites
The disappearance of a Limassol man feared murdered has become more complicated after the uncle of the main suspect, known as Little Hacker, offered to point investigators to possible burial sites claiming they were picked by his nephew...
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/who-declares-end-to-covid-19-global-emergency
The World Health Organization said Friday that Covid-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies worldwide and killed at least 7 million people worldwide....
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...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/more-details-and-questions-emerge-in-disappearance-case
New developments and more questions emerged on Tuesday in the disappearance of a Limassol man after police re-arrested the main suspect hours before his remand expired, with reports saying the judge heard about new incriminating statements from other jailed suspects...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/21st-international-film-days-festival-cyprus-2023
The 21st International Film Days Festival - Cyprus 2023 is set to begin on Friday, April 21st, at the Rialto Theatre in Limassol and the Zina Pallas in Nicosia. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/child-porn-convict-freed-in-photo-fakery-case
The Supreme Court in the Republic of Cyprus has commuted a child porn prison sentence of a man in Larnaca after it emerged that images used to incriminate him were not real...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/fox-news-pays-over-$787-million-for-airing-false-info
Fox News has settled with Dominion Voting Systems for over $787 million, marking the largest media defamation settlement in history. The settlement was reached just hours before the defamation trial was set to begin in a Delaware court....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/second-driver-in-fatal-double-hit-and-run-sentenced
A man who was found guilty of manslaughter in a double hit and run fatality in Paphos was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday, with police still unable to locate the first car that struck the local woman unconscious...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/french-furious-over-retirement-age-increase-of-2-years
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to fill the streets of France Thursday for the 11th day of nationwide resistance to a government proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. The furious public reaction to the plan has cornered and weakened French President Emmanuel Macron....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/inside-the-high-stakes-prosecution-of-a-former-president
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has made history by becoming the first president to face criminal charges before a court of justice in the United States. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-faces-34-felony-charges-but-won-t-be-handcuffed-or-have-mug-shot-taken
Donald Trump will be placed under arrest today and informed that he has been charged with 34 felony counts for falsification of business records, according to a source who has been briefed on the procedures for the arraignment of the former president....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/driver-in-double-hit-and-run-guilty-of-manslaughter
A man who was detained in a double hit and run fatality in December 2021 was found guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday, with Paphos police still unable to locate the first car that struck a local woman unconscious...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ukrainian-gets-half-year-in-russian-knife-attack
A Ukrainian woman in Cyprus who carried out a knife assault against a group of Russians last year has been sentenced to six months in prison on common assault after being acquitted on more serious charges of incitement to hatred and violence...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cliff-death-boyfriend-vindicated-after-police-backtrack
A man who reported the cliff death of his girlfriend but became suspect based on a controversial forensic report walked free on Friday, after official results of a second autopsy rejected the investigators’ premeditated murder theory and stirred up debate on how Cyprus Police investigate cases...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/no-deal-in-sight-in-cyprus-mercy-killing-case
A Cyprus criminal court on Tuesday rejected a defense argument that a British man’s confession to killing his ailing wife was unlawfully obtained, because he was in no frame of mind to speak to police without a lawyer present...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/judge-takes-shot-in-the-dark-in-cliff-death-case
A judge in Paphos ordered a man to remain in police custody for three additional days in connection with the cliff death of a Ukrainian woman at a famous scenic location, despite police saying they were still waiting on a second autopsy to clarify charges...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/expert-says-cliff-death-accident-story-checks-out
Cyprus Police are rolling back statements on a murder investigation in the cliff death of a Ukrainian woman, after a private forensic examiner tasked by the suspect announced to the media that his client’s version of events about a tragic accident checked out...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cliff-death-draws-the-big-guns-of-forensics
A private forensic pathologist will take part in a defense autopsy of a young Ukrainian woman, whose boyfriend insists her cliff death was an accident, despite initial objections by the Legal Department which has also tasked its own expert to lead the exam...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/hate-speech-rampant-in-cyprus-despite-progress
Hate speech affecting several groups remains widespread in the Cypriot public discourse, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) said on Tuesday in a report on Cyprus. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/mismanagement-corruption-and-nepotism-will-not-be-tolerated
Mismanagement, corruption, and nepotism will not be tolerated, and for the people who will be at the center of his administration, these were the two main issues that President of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulides addressed in his speech on Wednesday during the swearing-in ceremony of the new members of his government....
