https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/deadly-earthquake-jolts-eastern-turkey
A powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Friday, killing at least 20 people and collapsing buildings in affected towns near the center of the tremor, which was strong enough to be felt in several neighboring countries...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/how-russian-uncapitalism-works
Like a private equity firm enacting an acquisition-led ‘roll-up’ in a fragmented sector, Putin and Co in Russian have been busy in recent years quietly taking scores of small banks into state ownership...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/egypt-issues-warning-over-cyprus-rights
Egypt has sent out a warning on Sunday about repercussions of any unilateral moves that could breach the rights of the Republic of Cyprus and pose threats to security and stability in the Middle East...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/foreign-powers-back-libya-ceasefire
Foreign powers agreed at a summit in Berlin on Sunday to shore up a shaky truce in Libya, but the meeting was overshadowed by blockades of oilfields by forces loyal to commander Khalifa Haftar that could cripple the country’s crude production...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/passenger-killed-in-kaimakli-car-crash
Nicosia police are trying to determine who was behind the wheel of a vehicle that crashed on Saturday morning in Kaimakli, killing the front seat passenger...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/haftar-tells-athens-turkey-libya-deal-invalid
The agreement on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean signed between Turkey and the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord is in violation of international law and is therefore invalid, Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar said after a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens on Friday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-congresspersons-usa-and-unsc-members-must-continue-to-support-peacemaking-efforts-in-cyprus
The United States and the other members of the UN Security Council must continue to support peacemaking efforts in Cyprus, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and Congressman Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Caucus stressed....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/german-official-says-libya-summit-will-not-discuss-maritime-borders
The summit that will be held in Berlin this Sunday, January 19th, to try to find a path to peace for Libya will not discuss a contentious deal signed between Turkey and Libya on maritime borders, a German Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, responding to a question on why Greece was not invited to the conference, despite its request to participate....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-hopes-to-join-us-visa-waiver
Cypriot officials say they are setting up a task force aimed at including the country in the US visa waiver programme the soonest possible...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-pays-off-costly-crisis-loan-early
The Cypriot finance minister says the government is repaying an IMF rescue loan faster and at a lower rate after a double bond issuance expected to secure most of the country’s borrowing needs for 2020...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/large-boat-with-refugees-reaches-cyprus
Over a hundred presumptive refugees from Syria reached the eastern coast of Cyprus on Tuesday, including women and young children...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/thousands-of-greek-cards-to-be-replaced-in-travel-website-data-breach
Greece’s four systemic banks have canceled or are planning to cancel and replace up to 15,000 credit and debit cards, after the payment card data used by some of their customers on a Greek online tourist services portal was hacked....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greece-has-asked-germany-to-participate-in-libya-summit
Greece has asked to attend a summit in Berlin which will discuss a path to peace in Libya, government spokesman Stelios Petsas revealed on Tuesday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/arrested-woman-linked-to-armed-robbery
A broken cell phone ended up linking a foreign woman, who was arrested Monday on theft charges, to another crime that took place ten years ag...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/libya-truce-on-shaky-ground
Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army, has left Moscow without signing a ceasefire agreement drafted at talks in Russia on Monday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-students-take-to-the-streets
Organized student groups were gathering outside the Presidential Palace in Nicosia on Thursday to protest the implementation of exams on a semester basis...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/libya-in-the-wake-of-a-ceasefire
Libyan eastern forces loyal to commander Khalifa Haftar announced on Saturday a ceasefire in the western region, which includes the capital Tripoli, starting 00:01 on Sunday and the internationally recognized Government of National Accord agreed to the truce...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/iran-says-military-shot-down-plane-in-error
Iran said on Saturday it had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 people aboard and voiced its deep regret, after initially denying it brought down the aircraft in the tense aftermath of Iranian missile strikes on US targets in Iraq...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/missile-suspected-in-iran-plane-crash
The plane crash in Iran that killed 176 people aboard was likely brought down by a missile unintentionally, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says, while Tehran has invited officials from the US, Ukraine, and Canada to join the investigation...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/libya-blames-maritime-tensions-on-greece
Libya has slammed Greece in a recent letter to the United Nations, accusing Athens of refusing to play fair, while US State Secretary Mike Pompeo says he is taking on a new initiative to de-escalate Greco-Turkish tensions over maritime borders...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/video-shows-plane-crashing-in-tehran
A Ukrainian airliner crashed soon after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport on Wednesday, killing all 176 people aboard, Iran’s state television and Ukraine’s leaders said...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/uproar-ahead-of-ayia-napa-sentencing
A British teen was handed down a four-month suspended sentence after a Cypriot judge found her guilty of fabricating rape claims against Israeli youths in Ayia Napa last summer...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/iran-escalation-continues-after-midnight-tweet
US President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites “very hard” if Iran attacks Americans or US assets after a drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, as tens of thousands of people marched in Iraq to mourn their deaths...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-preemptive-strike-put-to-the-test
The Trump administration on Friday justified its killing of a top Iranian general as an act of self-defense, trying to deflect accusations that it violated international law and concerns raised by legal experts and a senior UN rights investigator....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/judge-rejects-remand-for-svetlana
A judge threw out a remand request against a Russian woman, who became the target of a racist rant at a Larnaca parking lot last year, after she was detained by Limassol police on conspiracy charges in a separate case...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greece-cyprus-and-israel-sign-eastmed-deal
Greece, Israel and Cyprus have signed a deal for an undersea pipeline designed to carry gas from offshore deposits in the southeastern Mediterranean to continental Europe...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/family-scatters-son-s-ashes-after-ordeal
A grateful family returned to Cyprus this week and scattered their son’s ashes two days after thieves had a change of heart and returned a stolen urn...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/attorney-general-okays-spy-van-warrants
The CEO of WiSpear says he is open to talking to Cypriot police, while investigators insist on reeling him in after the attorney general reportedly gave the okay for the arrest warrants of three Israeli nationals in the spy van case...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/tough-dilemmas-in-greek-turkish-affairs
Turkey’s claims in the Aegean were first brought to the table in 1973 and have escalated ever since, reaching successive peaks over 10 to 15 years and multiplying...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/limassol-police-recover-stolen-urn
A grieving mother who left Cyprus on Sunday after a brief holiday that had turned into a nightmare was overjoyed after police recovered a stolen urn with her son’s ashes...