https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/venezuela-s-re-elected-maduro-faces-overseas-censure
Venezuela’s socialist leader Nicolas Maduro faced fresh international censure on Monday after re-election in a vote foes denounced as a farce cementing autocracy in the crisis-stricken OPEC nation...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/netanyahu-s-son-deletes-instagram-after-‘f-turkey-post
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son crudely weighed in on a diplomatic row between Israel and Ankara — posting “F–k Turkey” on his Instagram account, according to reports...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ayia-napa-makes-noise-again
Ayia Napa mayor Yiannis Karousos, who has made a name for himself for trying to turn away ‘low-quality young tourists’ in his town, is asking for a noise pollution law to be repealed so that nightclubs could be fined for playing music too loud...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/post-grenfell-review-finds-uk-s-building-regulations-system-broken
A government review ordered after the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 71 people in London in June last year has found that Britain’s buildings regulation system is broken, but has stopped short of recommending an outright ban on combustible cladding...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/health-minister-calls-on-doctors-to-stand-with-him
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou held a press conference to address criticism over his actions and ask state doctors to pay no attention to those who oppose reform in the industry...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/thomas-cook-buoyed-by-strong-demand-for-turkey-greece-egypt-holidays
British holiday company Thomas Cook said it was on track to meet annual forecasts helped by strong demand for holidays to Turkey, Greece and Egypt, and as part of its plan to shift capacity away from parts of Spain where margins are lower...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/opposition-parties-accuse-government-of-interfering-in-justice
Greek opposition parties blamed the government for the resignation of the president of the Council of State on Wednesday, saying it is a strong indication of its interference in Justice....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/stone-laying-for-limassol-s-casino-resort-set-for-june
The stone laying ceremony for the Cypriot casino resort will take place in June, with temporary facilities ready to run in the summer ahead of the main attraction two years later...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/meghan-s-father-says-heart-op-puts-him-out-of-royal-wedding
The father of American actress Meghan Markle said he could not attend his daughter’s wedding to Britain’s Prince Harry on Saturday because he needed a heart procedure...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/doctors-strike-but-there-are-cracks-in-their-united-front
State doctors are going forward with a two-hour work stoppage in public hospitals to protest what they call “unworkable conditions” but there are already cracks in their united front...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/even-royal-weddings-don-t-go-according-to-plan
This weekend’s carefully planned wedding of Britain’s Prince Harry to his fiance Meghan Markle was mired in confusion on Tuesday after the father of the American actress told a celebrity news website he was no longer coming...
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/trump-seeks-very-meaningful-summit-in-with-n-korea
US President Donald Trump has high hopes of “doing something very meaningful” to curtail North Korea’s nuclear ambitions at a summit in Singapore next month, after Pyongyang smoothed the way for talks by freeing three American prisoner...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/bank-of-england-keeps-powder-dry-on-rate-rise
The Bank of England held interest rates and said weak growth during a snowy start to 2018 was likely to be only temporary, but it wanted to see a pick-up in the economy in the next few months before raising borrowing costs...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/house-halts-medical-cannabis-bill-due-to-recent-crimes
Members of the House are turning against a medical marijuana bill, citing recent horrific crimes on the island and fears they may be linked to the use of cannabis. But studies suggest that decriminalisation has actually helped violent crime rates drop considerably....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-can-t-save-iran-deal-after-trump-nuked-it
European countries are powerless to salvage the nuclear deal with Iran after the United States pulled out, the deputy head of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/iran-targets-israeli-bases-across-syrian-frontier
Iranian forces in Syria launched a rocket attack on Israeli army bases in the Golan Heights early on Thursday, Israel said, prompting one of the heaviest Israeli barrages against Syria since the conflict there began in 2011...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-lawyer-took-money-from-firm-linked-to-russian-oligarch
An attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels said that Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, was paid $500,000 by a company with ties to a Russian oligarch who was hit last month with US sanctions to punish Moscow for activities that included suspected meddling in the 2016 US election...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/global-impact-of-us-of-withdrawing-from-iran-nuclear-deal
President Donald Trump has made his decision. The United States is going to withdraw from what he called Tuesday a "defective deal"...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/iran-poses-a-threat-in-the-east-med
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Iran constitutes a threat against every country in the Mediterranean and it is in the interest of everyone to “prevent the aggression.”...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/revolution-sweeps-armenian-opposition-leader-into-power
Opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan was elected Armenia’s prime minister on Tuesday, capping a peaceful revolution driven by weeks of mass protests against corruption and cronyism in the ex-Soviet republic...
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/news/greek-and-jewish-diaspora-team-up-for-cyprus
The Greek-American and American Jewish communities have joined forces to promote legislation in the United States that would bolster the security status of Cyprus and block the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-treasury-assistant-secretary-encouraged-by-meetings-in-cyprus
The United States have been encouraged by the commitments made by Cypriot officials in the framework of meetings US Department of the Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Marshall Billingslea held on Friday and will continue to work with Cyprus to combat corruption, money laundering, and other financial threats....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/language-and-political-nonsense
In his famous essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell argued that the use of simple language – free of pretension, foreign words and vagueness – would improve the level of political thought...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/may-avoids-london-blitz-in-local-elections
Theresa May’s Conservative Party avoided a wipeout in London local elections and eked out gains in Brexit-supporting regions elsewhere, partial results on Friday showed, denting the opposition Labour Party’s hopes of a big win....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/eu-sees-strong-growth-as-unemployment-declines
The Commission foresees a "strong growth momentum continuing" in the coming years, but warned of risks widening...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/you-can-t-put-a-price-on-heritage
When the German tabloid Bild suggested that Greece should sell off Corfu and the Parthenon as part of its asset-stripping, they didn't know that Durrell had foreseen this many years ago...
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...
