https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/meps-will-get-sense-of-urgency-on-missing-persons
So far 856 missing persons from both communities have been identified and returned to the families for a dignified burial...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/seven-arrested-in-illegal-work-crackdown
Police raided a hotel in Protaras on Easter Monday, arresting seven individuals during an operation to combat illegal employment....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/firm-challenges-blue-british-passport-contract-going-to-france
De La Rue said it would seek a judicial review of the provisional decision to award the British passport contract to an overseas company...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/winnie-mandela-tainted-anti-apartheid-leader-dies-at-81
She died peacefully surrounded by her family following a long illness that kept her in and out of hospital since the start of the year...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/paphos-mayor-says-car-park-permit-not-lawful
Paphos mayor Fedonas Fedonos says a parking lot outside a produce market was not licensed lawfully, pointing fingers at Turkish Cypriot Properties Management, while the private business says an offer had been refused by the city previously....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sexual-misdemeanours-to-become-felonies
New draft legislation in the works would modify four types of sexual offences, by changing them from a misdemeanor to a felony and increasing considerably the sentencing lengths. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-decriminalises-early-term-abortion
A majority of MPs on Friday voted to decriminalise abortion by amending the island’s criminal code to make early-term pregnancy terminations risk-free. But more work is to be done in the House on additional legislation on a range of related issues....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/j-p-in-saudi-arabia-in-dire-straits
The Cyprus-based J&P Overseas construction company is in a negative spotlight this week, after a series of damning letters sent by employees to Riyadh’s management were made public. The allegations are pretty ugly but the company vows to fix problems....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nine-conservatives-demand-vote-on-britain-leaving-eu-customs-union
The changes drawn up include one giving parliament a vote on staying in a customs union “which is almost certain to pass”...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/executive-at-fire-ravaged-russian-shopping-mall-arrested
The top floor of the complex, where the fire started, was packed with families visiting a cinema and a children’s play area...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/on-the-european-path
Turkey might push things to the extremes because it has entered a phase of instability...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/commissioner-says-state-has-failed-elena
The commissioner issued a statement on Thursday saying the state has failed to protect Elena, while also calling on officials to work harder in order to improve and modernise the Social Welfare Services....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/taxi-drivers-call-off-strike-at-larnaca-airport
The taxi drivers strike at Larnaca airport is being suspended hours after it was launched, following an attack incident and an invitation by the transport minister to meet representatives Thursday afternoon. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/cobalt-launches-larnaca-heathrow-flights
The addition of Heathrow makes it a hat-trick of London airports for expanding Cobalt, which is already established at London Stansted and Gatwick...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/ryanair-s-jordan-schedule-takes-off-from-paphos
There is a four times weekly service from Paphos to Amman ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/fitch-upgrades-bank-of-cyprus-covered-bonds-to-bbb
Fitch Ratings has upgraded Bank of Cyprus` outstanding €650 million conditional pass-through (CPT) covered bonds to `BBB` from `BBB-` with a stable outlook, the international credit rating agency has said in a press release....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/abusive-woman-is-thrown-off-easyjet-flight-to-paphos
British woman was headed on a girls' holiday from Manchester to Cyprus...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/new-divisions
This division is already evident in politics which has sunk to a new vulgar low...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-justice-fails-to-deliver
Former Attorney General Alecos Markides says the judicial system in the Republic of Cyprus has not adapted to the demands of the modern state, pointing out a number of failures from inexperienced judges to a lack of check and balances. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/it-is-pay-your-taxes-time-again
As Cypriot tax payers will soon be able to file their tax forms online through TAXISnet, authorities are working around the clock to make sure they can launch the programme in April and send passwords to users who have yet not signed up....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sarkozy-denies-wrongdoing-over-libya-lies
At issue is a murky affair of Libyan spies, arms dealers and allegations that late Libyan leader Gaddafi provided Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign with millions...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/property-commission-in-north-deemed-ineffective
This, according to legal experts, is tantamount to Ankara admitting the ineffectiveness of the IPC...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/kotzias-in-landmark-visit-to-skopje-amid-rift-at-home
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias is due to conduct a landmark visit to Skopje Thursday, amid signs that Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are edging closer to a solution on the latter’s official name, though differences remain within the coalition in Athens over the issue....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/academic-behind-facebook-breach-says-he-is-a-scapegoat
Facebook has been rocked by a whistleblower who said that Cambridge Analytica had improperly accessed information on 50 million users...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greece-was-right-to-question-to-german-airport-checks
Officials in Athens say the data vindicate Greece’s reaction to German checks on flights from Greek airports...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sixth-texas-parcel-bomb-leaves-us-investigators-baffled
Officials have appealed to the bomber to reveal the motives for the attacks...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/biggest-yacht-in-the-world-in-limassol
Limassol may be the focus of attention this week as the American Iwo Jima is in the area for exercise drills, but a different kind of boat is now stealing the show, the luxury superyacht Dilbar which is the biggest in the world....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/human-traffickers-found-guilty
A known Cypriot lawyer was found guilty along with six others in a human trafficking case, where Romanian women were lured to Cyprus for jobs but ended up being locked up until they preformed fake marriages with men from third countries...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/self-driving-uber-car-kills-woman-crossing-street
The ride services company said it was suspending North American tests of its self-driving vehicles...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/passport-control-with-no-questions-asked
Passengers using Larnaca and Paphos airports in Cyprus will have a new, automated way to go through passport control this summer, without having to stare at an official. ...
