https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/interior-minister-fires-kouklia-head-councilor
A whistleblower head councilor in Paphos district has been relieved of his duties this week by the interior minister, who has placed the local council of Kouklia under the administration of the district chief officer following pandemonium in the heavily-audited community...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/state-drops-big-marriage-fraud-case
Police in Cyprus were distinctly furious this week after prosecutors dropped charges against nine suspects in a fake marriage case, with the Legal department arguing an amended law linking sham marriage to immigration violations was not retroactive...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/report-shows-limassol-coronavirus-situation-not-improving
A total of 2,340 coronavirus cases were diagnosed in Cyprus between February 17 and March 2, with the 14-day cumulative diagnosis rate increasing to 263.5 per 100,000 population....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/cyprus-remains-an-attractive-investment-destination
Cyprus remains an attractive investment destination, especially among established investors
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https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-records-four-covid-19-deaths-349-cases
The health ministry announced four coronavirus deaths and 349 cases on Monday, raising the Republic’s coronavirus death toll to 82 and total cases to 15,450....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/al-jazeera-turns-attention-to-jho-low
Cypriot-naturalized citizen Jho Low, the Malaysian fugitive financier whose golden passports came under scrutiny last year, was back in the news this week after Al Jazeera published a video with actual voice recordings of 'the biggest fish' seeking a way out of the 1MDB colossal scandal...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-records-185-cases-one-death
The health ministry announced on Thursday that 185 new cases were detected from among 2,891 tests, while the island recorded another death involving an 86-year-old coronavirus patient whose death was fully attributed to the virus....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/pfizer-biontech-say-their-covid-19-vaccine-is-more-than-90-effective
Pfizer Inc on Monday said its experimental vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 based on initial data from a large study, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed over 1 million people, roiled the world’s economy and upended daily life....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/appointment-of-directors-principals-senior-manager-in-k-treppides-co
The Management of K. Treppides & Co Ltd committed to develop leadership that derives from its own people, who pursue excellence in the provision of high quality specialised and unique services, is pleased to announce the appointment of the following members into the Board of Management with effect 1 October 2020...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-records-deficit-of-€800-million-in-q2-due-to-covid-19-impact
Cyprus General Government posted a deficit of €800 million in the period of April – June 2020 compared to a surplus of €140 million in the respective period of last year, according to data released today by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat)....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/isis-‘beatles-duo-plead-not-guilty
Two Islamic State suspects from the UK, including one with Cypriot origins, have pleaded not guilty in a US court to charges of conspiring to murder four American hostages...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/october-heats-breaking-cyprus-records
The steep temperatures being recorded in Cyprus have broken October heat records, head of the meteorology service Kleanthis Nicolaides told Kathimerini Cyprus on Thursday.
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https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/law-professor-takes-on-manslaughter-case
The Russian suspect accused of being behind the death of a Ukrainian man in Paphos has appointed a law professor for his defence, a Cypriot attorney with research interests in criminal procedures...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/tourism-sector-in-ayia-napa-protaras-records-€15m-loss-in-2020
The tourism sector of the eastern coastal destinations of Ayia Napa and Protaras suffered losses estimated at €15 million during the current tourist season as a result of the stem in tourist arrivals against the backdrop of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/apollo-ceo-investigated-over-epstein-ties
The CEO of Apollo Global Management, whose affiliates acquired billions of bad debt in Cyprus, is being investigated over alleged financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspect-rearrested-in-filipina-abuse-case
A retired police officer who was accused last month of abusing his Filipina housemaid has been detained again, with police saying his new warrant include new charges of human trafficking...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/farmer-refuses-to-return-worker-s-passport
A story has emerged involving alleged mistreatment of a foreign worker, after a post shared on Facebook by a local NGO pointed to an old practice by employers unlawfully retaining foreign workers’ passports for leverage...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-cypriots-commemorate-tylliria-bombing
Busloads of Turkish Cypriots crossed into Cyprus’ “other ghost town” on Saturday to commemorate Turkish bombing in Tylliria during intercommunal clashes on the island in 1964, but the gathering was not without political controversy...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/july-records-highest-average-daily-maximum-temperatures-since-1983
In July 2020, temperatures reached or even exceeded 40 degrees Celsius in Cyprus more times than any other July since 1983....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/filipina-housemaid-speaks-out-in-abuse-case
The woman seen in a shared video being abused by her employer, a retired police officer, says she endured physical abuse and serious threats many times before recording the incident...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/woman-secretly-records-her-abuser
Police sprung into action on Wednesday, arresting a man in Nicosia after video and audio recordings involving possible abuse against a housemaid went viral on social media...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/lawyer-scorns-police-over-flopped-case
Two men who were arrested as suspects in the Kallitchionis murder were released from remanded custody on Tuesday, both raising questions over locking up pre-trial suspects as well as their lawyer accusing police of violating the rights of his clients...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-records-single-new-case
The Republic of Cyprus recorded one new coronavirus case on Wednesday, involving a close family contact of another known case, with whom new case travelled to Cyprus from Bulgaria last week....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-records-two-new-coronavirus-cases
The Health Ministry announced two new coronavirus cases on Monday, involving a repatriated person and a person with travel history....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-human-egg-trade-market-returns-to-spotlight
The illegal trade of human eggs in Cyprus returned to the limelight during this week’s House human rights committee, with MPs expressing concern over a growing market in which female students are prime targets....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-records-zero-cases
No new infections of the coronavirus were announced in Cyprus on Saturday, the first time the island recorded zero confirmed cases since the start of the outbreak in early March...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-records-just-one-new-coronavirus-case
Just one new coronavirus case was announced in the Republic of Cyprus on Monday, raising total known cases to 917....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/president-and-education-minister-brush-off-mounting-concerns
As concern mounts over the Cyprus government’s decision to send children back to school on May 21, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou issued a press conference Friday morning to clarify how the return of students to classrooms will play out....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/officers-in-serial-killer-probe-lawyer-up
A local report hints at legal wars brewing within prosecution agencies in the Republic of Cyprus, following the attorney general’s decision to prosecute fifteen police officers in the serial killer case...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/five-new-cases-emerge-after-over-two-thousand-samples-processed
Five new coronavirus cases were confirmed in the Republic of Cyprus on Wednesday which saw the processing of over two thousand samples in labs across the island....
