https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/rare-green-comet-revisits-earth-after-50-000-years
A rare green comet, a unique traveler, is revisiting our solar system these days after 50,000 earth years when people still lived in caves....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/menendez-won-t-let-it-rest
Any decision by the United States to go ahead with the sale of F-16 fighter jets and upgrade kits to Turkey would be 'baffling' given the 'belligerent' stance of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan towards NATO ally Greece, said Senator Bob Menendez, chair of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, reiterating that he will not approve the sale...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/migration-nikos-christodoulides-can-and-wants-to-deal-with-it
One of the biggest and most serious problems Cyprus faces now, and one of the biggest challenges, is the issue of migration. Our country must deal with disproportionate flows of migrants, both in relation to its size and resources and in relation to its population....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greek-pm-says-we-will-not-go-to-war-with-turkey
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Thursday he still believes it is possible to resolve his country’s differences with Turkey by speaking with Turkey’s president, and stressed that the two neighbors will not go to war...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/finance-minister-responds-to-cbs-disinformation-and-fake-news
The report on the CBS show '60 Minutes' about Russian oligarchs was referred to by the Finance Minister in his detailed response on the issue. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-talks-up-imminent-chevron-announcement
Cypriot Energy Minister Natasa Pilides is waging a battle to ensure Chevron’s reluctant development concept for Aphrodite will stick to plan, but cost-cutting ideas, merger wars, and maritime issues continue to blur options backed by an administration on its last leg...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cavusoglu-to-travel-to-us-amid-troubled-ties
Turkey and the United States will aim to smooth out a series of disagreements between the NATO allies when the Turkish foreign minister visits Washington this week. But expectations that outstanding issues can be resolved are low....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/330-000-migrants-attempted-to-enter-the-eu-last-year-highest-since-2016
The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization reached around 330,000 last year, the highest number since 2016, the EU’s border and coast guard agency said Friday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-is-in-the-midst of-the-new-narcos
Since December 20, cannabis has been washing up on the shores of free and occupied Famagusta, specifically over 100 kilos of packaged Indian hemp were collected by police....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/the-properties-threatened-by-the-pedieos-river
There have been numerous occasions in recent years when the Pedieos River's overflow has resulted in serious issues. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/the-most-likely-scenario for-the-drugs-found-in-protaras
Stelios Sergides, deputy commander of the YKAN, told CNA that 340 kilos of cannabis, 38 kilos of cocaine, 3.5 kilos of ecstasy pills, and 4.5 kilos of methamphetamine were seized in Cyprus in 2022, with the number of drugs increasing over the previous five years....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-backs-new-israeli-foreign-minster
Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has congratulated his Israeli counterpart who took office this week ahead of anticipated big news in Israeli-Arab relations that do not leave Nicosia unaffected...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/dubai-abolishes alcohol-tax
According to the BBC, Dubai is eliminating the 30% alcohol tax and will no longer require personal alcohol licences, which are required for anyone wishing to consume alcohol....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/economic-events-that-will-be-remembered-in-2022
The energy crisis, which intensified after Russia's invasion of Ukraine and resulted in skyrocketing gas prices, took the lead throughout the year....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cavusoglu-tells-americans-they-lost-honest-broker-status
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused Washington of having stopped maintaining a ‘balance’ regarding Greece and Cyprus, just as Athens fired back at Ankara over increasing rhetoric in Aegean disputes...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/pele-brazilian-legend-of-the-beautiful-game-dies
Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer player who rose from barefoot poverty to become one of the greatest and best-known athletes in modern history, died on Thursday at the age of 82...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-and-india-sign-bilateral-cooperation-agreements
Bilateral cooperation agreements between the Republic of Cyprus and India were signed on Thursday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nicosia...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/israeli-ambassadorship-to-turkey-rewrites-gas-rules
Israel's new ambassador to Turkey presented her credentials to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan week, after four years of strain between the two countries and just months after Nicosia said it was confident it would not be sidelined by its Jewish neighbor...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greeks-and-turks-square-off-over-aegean-flights
US calls to deescalate tension in the Aegean fell on deaf ears as NATO allies Greece and Turkey continued to trade accusations during Christmas, with Ankara accusing Athens of harassing Turkish aircraft and the Greek prime minister talking about a troublemaker neighbor...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/when-will-cypriots-begin-to-reap-the-benefits-of-natural-gas
Minister of Energy, Trade, and Industry Natasha Pileidou hailed the discovery of a natural gas deposit in Block 6 of the Cypriot EEZ as a very positive development. Given the energy challenges the European Union is facing,...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-threatens-athens-with-missile-attack
Turkey warned Greece that a missile could hit the Greek capital unless “you stay calm,” further escalating its rhetoric against Greece....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/the-eu-will-retaliate-if-turkey-s-unilateral-actions-in-cyprus-continue
A local source in Brussels said that if Turkey continues to take unilateral actions against Cyprus in violation of existing UN Security Council resolutions, there will be a reaction, noting that Nicosia "has no better ally than Brussels."
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https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/hawaii-world-s-largest-active-volcano-erupts
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, has started to erupt, prompting volcanic ash and debris to fall nearby, authorities said Monday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/covid-protests-spreading-across-china
From Shanghai to Beijing, protests have erupted across China in a rare show of dissent against the ruling Communist Party sparked by anger over the country’s increasingly costly zero-Covid policy....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greek-navtex-is-a-message-to-libya
The navigation warning issued by Greece on Saturday expanding the area of seismic surveys for oil and natural gas deposits off the coast of Crete was in response to a request by US oil firm ExxonMobil, which has been granted exploration rights, but also serves a geopolitical purpose...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/civil-protection-s-role-in-disaster-management-at-the-nicosia-risk-forum-2022
The role of civil protection and international solidarity in disaster management as a result of climate change is being discussed at the two-day Nicosia Risk Forum 2022 (#NRF2022) on Civil Protection, which began today in Larnaca and is organized by the CERIDES Foundation of the European University Cyprus....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/high-speed-chase-in-nicosia-sparks-debate
A motorcyclist was hospitalized on Tuesday after he was injured in an accident during a high-speed police chase, which caught onlookers by surprise as the suspect took cops on a dangerous ride through the capital...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-intends-to-drill-south-of-the-island-of-crete
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday announced Turkey’s plans to drill for hydrocarbons – oil and natural gas – in its maritime zone, as well as on land and sea in third countries....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/a-€6-million-chalet-is-just-one-of-several-investments-planned-for-the-mountains-of-cyprus
The new €6.3 million project in Moniatis, which is looking for a buyer, shows that investment in mountainous areas is picking up steam. With DTA's Guru projects, the creation of the Tree Hotel, hotel acquisitions by Property Gallery, and the restoration of the Berengaria Hotel in Prodromos, interest has recently begun to be more active....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/abduction-of-cyprus-little-hacker-points-to-bizarre-case
Cyprus Police have landed on a tortuous case after it was revealed that a recent abduction of the island’s infamous 'Little Hacker' allegedly came to expose a fake arrest in the buffer zone and a real plot against a prominent businessman who has been in the crosshairs of law enforcement for years...
