https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/new-turkey-s-hasty-birth
The way in which the snap elections were called is not normal, nor is the unsettled situation in the country and on its borders...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-fledgling-party-to-run-in-june-polls-after-membership-boost
A masterful campaigner, Erdogan has won nearly a dozen elections and dominated Turkey since his Islamist-rooted AK party swept to power in 2002...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/parliament-calls-on-international-community-to-recognise-armenian-genocide
According to Mahtesian, between 1915 and 1923 more than 1.5 million innocent Armenians suffered torture, were put to death, slaughtered or forced to walk to their death...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/austria-will-bar-turkish-politicians-from-campaigning-on-its-soil
Several hundred thousand people in Austria are Turkish or of Turkish origiin...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/london-believes-the-cyprus-peace-process-should-start-sooner-than-later
British High Commissioner says "whatever is going to happen should start to happen quickly because after such a long delay since last summer and with other things that are happening, the world is not waiting"...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-s-erdogan-declares-early-elections
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections will be brought forward to June 24, more than a year earlier than planned, saying the country urgently needed to make the switch to an executive presidency....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/south-korea-discussing-peace-deal-with-north-korea-ahead-of-summit
South Korea and a US-led U.N force are technically still at war with North Korea after the Korean War ended with a truce, not a peace treaty...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/syrian-air-defences-shoot-down-missiles-over-two-air-bases
Shayrat air base was targeted last year in a U.S. cruise missile attack in response to a chemical attack that killed at least 70 people...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-anti-west-protesters-tell-nato-to-go-home
About 250 peace activists gathered outside the American Embassy in Nicosia Monday evening to demonstrate against NATO and the latest military airstrikes against Syria. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-activists-to-protest-strikes-in-syria
An anti-war demonstration is scheduled to take place Monday evening outside the US Embassy in Nicosia, organised by the Cyprus Peace Council which is opposing military strikes against Syria....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/putin-predicts-global-chaos-if-west-hits-syria-again
The United States, France and Britain have said the missile strikes were limited to Syria’s chemical weapons capabilities and not aimed at toppling Assad...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-says-air-strikes-cripple-syria-chemical-weapons-programme
US President Donald Trump called the operation a success...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/are-we-heading-for-a-west-v-east-showdown-in-syria
Following the allied strikes on Syria, the regional map is changing and Cyprus is the only EU-Member state stuck in the middle...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/may-says-uk-had-no-choice-but-to-conduct-missile-strikes-against-syria
More than 100 missiles fired from ships and manned aircraft, the allies struck three of Syria’s main chemical weapons facilities...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-and-allies-launch-air-strikes-in-syria
US, British and French forces pounded Syria with air strikes early on Saturday in response to a poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week, in the biggest intervention by Western powers against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/threat-of-us-russia-clash-hangs-over-syria
Two days ago U.S. President Donald Trump warned that missiles “will be coming” in response to that attack...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nigeria-s-boko-haram-has-abducted-more-than-1-000-children-since-2013
One young woman, Khadija, now 17, who was abducted after a Boko Haram attack on her town, then locked in a room, forced to marry one of the fighters and repeatedly raped...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-warns-the-missiles-are-coming-for-syria
The White House pushed back against suggestions that Trump had broadcast his plans for military strikes via Twitter...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-not-at-risk-over-syria-operations
Cyprus has nothing to fear from possible military strikes against Syria, according to the government spokesman who also said Nicosia is “in no way involved with the operations.”...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/any-us-missiles-fired-at-syria-will-be-shot-down
The Russian military said on March 13 that it would respond to any U.S. strike on Syria...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/adrift-in-dangerous-storms
Now that things are becoming more difficult, many government officials stick to believing what they want to believe rather than trying to manage reality...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/russia-is-drifting-away
Michalis Tsikalas says the fact that Russia and Turkey are locked in an embrace, which is getting stronger over time, should not go unnoticed in Cyprus. Taking action on any chosen path remains difficult in the world of energy choices, but don’t have all the luxury in the world to pick and choose. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-vows-quick-response-to-suspected-chemical-attack-in-syria
Initial US assessments have been unable to determine conclusively what materials were used in the attack...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/russian-message-intercepted-saying-package-has-been-delivered-before-spy-poisoning
Yulia and Sergei Skripal are recovering following Novichok attack in Salisbury...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/russia-can-build-turkey-power-station-alone
Russian firm Rosatom has been seeking investors for a 49 percent stake in the Akkuyu nuclear power plant project...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/south-africa-s-zuma-appears-in-court-on-corruption-charges
Thousands of Zuma supporters gathered to express solidarity with a leader they say is the victim of a politically motivated witchhunt...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/fyrom-and-its-irredentist-claims
Greece has never recognized an ethnic minority and the present government will be no exception...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-to-protest-construction-of-akkuyu-nuclear-plant
Cyprus is more concerned than any other country since the power plant will be situated just a few dozen kilometres from its northern coast...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/j-p-starts-to-pay-workers-again
J&P workers in Saudi Arabia finally got their December pay cheque following a protracted labour dispute with the management of the Cypriot company, which is facing a number of financial challenges. Cypriot workers are still waiting to get paid but it looks like they will have to wait until after the Easter holidays....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/saudi-arabia-s-first-new-cinema-in-decades-to-open
Saudi Arabia had some cinemas in the 1970s but its powerful clerics closed them"...
