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1. Beware of the Brits bearing ideas for a Cyprus solution

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/beware-of-the-brits-bearing-ideas-for-a-cyprus-solution

According to recent reports, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office is working on various scenarios to break the deadlock on the Cyprus problem and find a mutually acceptable formula....

2. Doughnut diplomacy as Krispy Kreme invades Paris sparking croissant crisis

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/doughnut-diplomacy-as-krispy-kreme-invades-paris-sparking-croissant-crisis

France, renowned for its culinary artistry, especially in the realm of patisserie, has recently found itself caught in the irresistible allure of the American doughnut, courtesy of Krispy Kreme....

3. Car crash at US-Canada border kills 2

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/car-crash-at-us-canada-border-kills-2

A dramatic incident unfolded on Wednesday as a high-speed crash on the Rainbow Bridge connecting New York and Ontario resulted in a fiery catastrophe, claiming the lives of two individuals in the vehicle....

4. 21 killed in fiery bus crash near Venice

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/21-killed-in-fiery-bus-crash-near-venice

At least 21 people died on Tuesday and 18 were injured after a bus carrying tourists to a campground crashed off an overpass near Venice in northern Italy and caught fire, city officials said....

5. Hellenic Train's revenue plummets after floods

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/hellenic-train-s-revenue-plummets-after-floods

Italian-owned railway operator Hellenic Train will reportedly seek to renegotiate its contract with the Greek state, sources have indicated, as the company faces massive revenue losses stemming from September’s floods in central Greece....

6. NYC drowns under state of emergency from flooding

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nyc-drowns-under-state-of-emergency-from-flooding

New York City began drying out Saturday after being soaked by one of its wettest days in decades, as city dwellers dried out basements and traffic resumed on highways, railways and airports that were temporarily shuttered by Friday’s severe rainfall....

7. Major highway still underwater as storm Daniel submerges vita route

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/major-highway-still-underwater-as-storm-daniel-submerges-vita-route

The damage wreaked to the national highway and the railway in Central Greece from the passage of storm Daniel last week is extensive and will continue to seriously affect travel between the Greek capital in the south and the northern port city of Thessaloniki, authorities have said....

8. Typhoon Doksuri hits China: 31,000 forced to flee

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/typhoon-doksuri-hits-china-31-000-forced-to-flee

Two people are reported to have died in severe flooding that has engulfed parts of Beijing, as Typhoon Doksuri passed through China’s capital....

9. Inferno engulfs Sydney building near Central Station

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/inferno-engulfs-sydney-building-near-central-station

An “apocalyptic” blaze engulfed a building near Central Station in Sydney on Thursday afternoon, sending a massive plume of smoke into the air and causing parts of the building to collapse....

10. Europe's largest economy paralyzed over strikes

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/europe-s-largest-economy-paralyzed-over-strikes

Airports and bus and train stations across Germany were at a standstill on Monday, causing disruption for millions at the start of the working week during one of the largest walkouts in decades as Europe's biggest economy reels from inflation....

11. Trains get back on track

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Trains and the suburban rail service, which had stopped after the deadly accident in northern Greece on February 28, resume on Wednesday...

12. 42,000 euros for every victim who died in the Tempe rail tragedy

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/42-000-euros-for-every-victim-who-died-in-the-tempe-rail-tragedy

Hellenic Train, whose train crashed in a head-on collision with a freighter on Feb. 28, killing 57 people on board, announced on Wednesday it will make advance payments to the families of the victims and to the passengers injured in the crash in Tempe, to cover their immediate financial needs....

13. Investigations into train crash reveal mistakes and inexperience

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/investigations-into-train-crash-reveal-mistakes-and-inexperience

The official documents of the case file on the tragic train collision in northern Greece on the night of February 28 highlight in the most damning way the sequence of mistakes and omissions as well as the lack of communication between railway employees and, in one case, lack of experience....

14. New minister announces urgent safety upgrades to rail network

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/new-minister-announces-urgent-safety-upgrades-to-rail-network

Greece’s newly-appointed transport minister on Wednesday announced a series of measures to improve the safety of the country’s railway system in the wake of the deadly train collision on February 28....

15. Rail safety warnings fell on deaf ears since 2014, says ERA

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/rail-safety-warnings-fell-on-deaf-ears-since-2014

The European Railway Agency (ERA) has been warning successive governments in Greece, as well as the European Commission, since at least 2014 about safety gaps in the Greek railway system, according to ERA head Josef Doppelbauer, speaking to Kathimerini in the wake of last week’s deadly collision at Tempe....

16. Bad luck can't always be held responsible

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/bad-luck-can-t-always-be-held-responsible

“It was an unfortunate moment,” the stationmaster in the deadly train crash is said to have claimed. How many times has the inadequacy and failure of the broader Greek state mechanism been hidden behind such phrases? Sometimes it is blamed on “bad luck,” at others, it is dismissed with “That’s Greece.”...

17. EU sending experts to help Greece improve rail safety

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-sending-experts-to-help-greece-improve-rail-safety

The European Union is sending experts to Athens this week to help the country improve safety on its rail system in the wake of last week’s deadly collision between two trains in central Greece...

18. Larissa station master jailed pending trial

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/larissa-station-master-jailed-pending-trial

The station master at Greece's Larissa railway station was detained pending trial on Sunday, his lawyer said, on charges related to the country's deadliest train crash on record...

19. Tragedy in Tempi: Both Cypriot victims identified through DNA match

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/tragedy-in-tempi-both-cypriot-victims-identified-through-dna-match

Anastasia Adamidou, 24, of Paphos, was identified by DNA on Friday morning (03/03), and her family has been notified. Along with Kyprianos Papaioannou, the young woman is one of the many victims of the Tempi railway disaster....

20. Train crash suspect 'devastated'

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/lawyer-says-station-master-devastated-after-deadly-crash

The station master who faces manslaughter in Greece’s deadly rail collision is devastated and accepts responsibility, says his lawyer, while pointing out that others are also responsible for the disaster...

21. Dispatch audio reveals human error in train disaster

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/dispatch-audio-reveals-human-error-in-train-collision

A train station master in Greece has been arrested on manslaughter charges following a deadly rail collision, while video of the fireball and dispatcher audio dialogues moments before the crash have been made public...

22. Transport Minister resigns, 'It's the least I can do for the victims of this tragedy'

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/transport-minister-resigns-it-s-the-least-i-can-do-for-the-victims-of-this-tragedy

In a statement, Karamanlis announced his resignation as Minister of Road and Transport....

23. Two Cypriots missing in Greece's worst railway disaster in years

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-cypriots-missing-in-greece-s-worst-railway-disaster-in-years

The collision between two trains late Tuesday night in Tempe has turned into a national tragedy, according to official Fire Department information, with the death toll reaching 36....

24. NHS nurses walk out in first strike in over a century

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nhs-nurses-walk-out-in-first-strike-in-over-a-century

Nurses across much of the UK launched a historic strike on Thursday, as they walked out of hospitals and onto picket lines after several years of falling pay and declining standards left the country’s nationalized health care system in a state of crisis....

25. France first country to ban short haul flights

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/france-first-country-to-ban-short-haul-flights

France has been given the green light to ban short-haul domestic flights. Specifically, between locations where there is a train alternative that takes less than 2.5 hours....

26. Cyprus's first step toward rail and tram transportation

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-s-first-step-toward-rail-and-tram-transportation

On the occasion of her visit to the island for the Cyprus Maritime Cyprus 2022 conference, European Commissioner for Transport, Adina Valean, raised for the first time the issue of the creation of a railway in Cyprus and the prospects of co-financing it....

27. No entry fee for 12 museums to promote Cyprus' cultural heritage

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/no-entry-fee-for-12-museums-to-promote-cyprus-cultural-heritage

The Cyprus Parliament has approved amendments providing free entrance to 12 museums under the jurisdiction of the Antiquities Department. In addition, nine ancient monuments have been approved for use as sites for events and civil wedding ceremonies....

28. Russia vows retaliation over Lithuanian blockade of goods

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/russia-vows-retaliation-over-lithuanian-blockade-of-goods

Russia warned NATO member Lithuania on Monday that unless the transit of goods to Russia's Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea was swiftly restored then Moscow would take undisclosed measures to defend its national interests....

29. Satellite images appear to show Russian ships 'stealing' Ukrainian grain

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/satellite-images-appear-to-show-russian-ships-stealing-ukrainian-grain

Russia's theft of Ukrainian grain appears to be ramping up as it continues its war on the country, according to new satellite photos of the Crimean port of Sevastopol....

30. More than 30 dead, 100 wounded from rocket strike at train station

https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/more-than-30-dead-100-wounded-from-rocket-strike-at-train-station

More than 30 people were killed and over 100 were wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a railway station in east Ukraine on Friday as civilians tried to evacuate to safer parts of the country, the state railway company said....

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