https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-court-rejects-third-appeal-for-release-of-greek-soldiers
A Turkish misdemeanours court has rejected for the third time an appeal to release from pre-trial detention two Greek soldiers who were arrested after accidentally straying into Turkish territory...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/britons-dash-to-become-german-before-brexit
Driven by the prospect of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union next year, the number of British passport holders who became German citizens jumped by 162 percent last year, Germany’s Federal Statistics Office said on Wednesday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/pulitzer-winning-author-philip-roth-dies-at-85
Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American experience, died on Tuesday at the age of 85...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/britons-living-in-cyprus-have-nothing-to-worry-about-post-brexit
Britain says it has secured the right for UK nationals living in Cyprus to keep the same status that they currently enjoy as EU citizens...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/m-s-to-close-100-uk-stores-in-four-years
British retailer Marks & Spencer plans to close more than 100 stores in its home market by 2022, accelerating a drive to re-shape its business as it strives to make at least a third of sales online...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-blames-greece-for-aegean-tension
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has once more attempted to raise questions about Greek sovereignty over parts of the Aegean Sea, saying that tension would be avoided if Athens stopped considering it as an entirely Greek sea...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/uk-financial-sector-wants-global-talent-on-tap-after-brexit
Costs for hiring bankers, accountants and lawyers from outside Britain will soar after Brexit and threaten London’s standing as a global financial centre unless the immigration system is urgently reformed, a report said...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/russian-dirty-money-flowing-through-london-damages-uk
Russian money hidden in British assets and laundered through City of London financial institutions damages the government’s efforts to take a tough stance against Moscow’s aggressive foreign policy, a committee of lawmakers said...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/there-could-be-no-flights-after-brexit
There is a possibility that flights will not be able to take place the day after Britain’s planned departure from the EU next year...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ex-russian-spy-sergei-skripal-discharged-from-hospital
Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy who was poisoned by a nerve agent in Britain more than two months ago, has been discharged from hospital, England’s health service said on Friday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/cyprus-energy-search-–-averting-a-us-turkey-crisis
Cyprus continues to proceed with offshore oil and gas projects despite Turkey's opposition...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/booing-cyprus-breaks-more-tourism-records
An influx of Russian and British tourists has helped Cyprus break more records for the number of arrivals this year...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/paphos-city-hall-to-raise-rainbow-flag
Paphos will raise the rainbow flag for the first time this month, as Cyprus celebrates diversity and acceptance in an effort to Make The Change...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/cyprus-has-lowest-annual-inflation-in-the-eu
Cyprus registered the lowest annual inflation in the European Union for April 2018, with a rate of -0.3%, according to Eurostat....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/bonfire-of-the-vanities-author-tom-wolfe-dead-at-88
Tom Wolfe, an early practitioner of “new journalism” who captured the mood and culture of America across five decades with books including “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” “The Right Stuff,” and “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” has died at the age of 88...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/protesters-in-march-for-gaza-pelt-stones-at-israeli-embassy
A march by leftist groups and Palestinians in central Athens on Tuesday to express solidarity with Palestine following the deaths of protesters by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip turned violent, as demonstrators pelted stones at riot police vans guarding the Israeli embassy and the embassy building itself....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/cyprus-gdp-grows-by-0-8-in-the-first-three-months
Bailed out eurozone member Cyprus notched up its 13th consecutive quarter in positive growth with GDP rising 0.8 percent in the first quarter, an official estimate showed...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/the-clock-is-ticking-on-britain-s-of-poor-brexit-progress
The European Union has warned Britain time was running out to seal a Brexit deal this autumn and ensure London does not crash out of the bloc next March, adding to pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/co-op-receives-two-bids-in-good-bank-bad-bank-scenarios
The Cooperative Central Bank (CCB) announced on Monday it has received two bids as part of its privatisation process launched in March, with one bidder going after the ‘good bank’ scenario just as the European Commission approved the acquisition of Altamira Cyprus by a joint platform with CCB and one of the bidders...
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/brexit-hit-eu-staff-ditch-uk-passports
About one in 10 British civil servants at the European Commission has taken another EU nationality since the Brexit vote, but are nonetheless resigned to scant prospects of future promotion...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/un-official-in-cyprus-for-fact-finding-tour-on-peacekeeping
UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Bintou Keita is in Cyprus to review the UN peacekeeping force (UNFICYP) and the ongoing progress in the implementation of the Security Council-mandated strategic review of the Mission...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/bad-news-for-bitcoin-believers
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Monday said buyers of bitcoin, which he has characterized as “rat poison squared,” thrive on the hope they’ll find other people who will pay more for it...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/greece-s-new-startup-culture-technology-and-seagrass-sunglasses
Greek student Stavros Tsompanidis was walking on a beach when he saw a business idea in the piles of dried-up seagrass...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/adidas-sticks-by-kanye-west-after-slavery-remarks
Adidas remains committed to the Yeezy brand created by rapper Kanye West despite his comments describing slavery as a choice and praising US President Donald Trump...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/cyprus-mortgage-values-drops-by-€62-28-million-during-april
The number of mortgages issued in April reached 1,317 down from 1,804 in March when their value was €299.63 million...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/russian-tourist-arrivals-expected-to-drop-this-year
Holiday reservations appear to be down this time of the year but experts believe things could be on the upswing again, even as Russian arrivals in Cyprus take a hit due to competition from Turkey...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/cyprus-registers-biggest-dip-in-unemployment-in-eu
Cyprus recorded the EU's largest annual dip in unemployment in March, from 12.3% to 9.1% followed by Greece (23.2% to 20.6%, Croatia (11.8% to 9.4%) and Portugal (9.7% to 7.4%), according to Eurostat...
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/mueller-raises-possibility-of-trump-subpoena
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, in a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyers in March, raised the possibility of issuing a subpoena for Trump if he declines to talk to investigators in the Russia probe, a former lawyer for the president said...
