https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/29-third-country-nationals-deported-from-cyprus-yesterday
The Aliens and Immigration Unit in cooperation with the Greek authorities and FRONTEX organized on Tuesday a joint flight of forced return of third nationals....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/is-an-eu-wide-digital-driver-s-license-a-good-idea
The European Commission has presented proposals that aim at updating driving license rules in an effort to improve the enforcement of traffic rules and also tackle the driver shortage issue....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/president-cancels-order-for-state-vehicles
The government has withdrawn the request pending before the parliamentary finance committee for the purchase of vehicles for state officials, the parliamentary finance committee said....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/airlines-and-iata-to-take-legal-action-for-flight-reductions-at-schiphol
The government of the Netherlands may be facing legal action related to their recent decision to reduce the number of annual flights at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport to 460,000 from November 2023, which is eight percent lower than the current flight cap....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/gary-rossington-of-lynyrd-skynyrd-dies
Guitarist Gary Rossington, the last surviving founding member of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died, the band announced on their official Facebook page Sunday evening. He was 71....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/g20-talks-end-with-no-consensus-on-ukraine-war
Top diplomats from the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations ended their contentious meeting in New Delhi on Thursday with no consensus on the Ukraine war, India’s foreign minister said, as discussions of the war and China’s widening global influence dominated much of the talks...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/another-14-vultures-arrive-from-spain-to-supplement-cyprus-dwindling-population
Another 14 vultures arrived in Cyprus from Spain on Thursday last week as part of a population-boosting action under The LIFE with Vultures project team....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-australian-to-represent-cyprus-in-eurovision-2023
Andrew Lambrou, with the song “Break A Broken Heart”, will represent Cyprus in this year's Eurovision contest taking place in May, in Liverpool, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) announced on Thursday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cervical-cancer-vaccine-now-free-of-charge-under-gesy
The fourth most frequent cancer in Cyprus in women is cervical cancer, with 36 new cases in 2019, according to the Cyprus Association of Cancer Patients and Friends (PASYKAF)....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/parisian-opera-house-that-inspired-‘phantom-of-the-opera-becomes-an-airbnb
For a limited time only, a Parisian opera house box seat typically reserved for visiting dignitaries is being transformed into an Airbnb and priced for the ridiculously reasonable €37 per night....
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...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-sends-humanitarian-supplies-to-syria-for-earthquake-relief
As part of an EU humanitarian air bridge for Syria, two planes with emergency aid landed Monday in Damascus, to provide further support for the Syrian people impacted by the earthquake. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/christodoulides-netanyahu-discuss-strategic-importance-of-cyprus-israel-relationship
The strategic significance of the Cyprus-Israel relationship was discussed during a telephone conversation on Sunday evening between President-elect Nikos Christodoulides and Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the latter's initiative...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/the-who-s-who-of-the-christodoulides-government
On Monday afternoon (27/02), Nikos Christodoulides, the country's new leader, unveiled his new administration. Read the detailed biographies of the individuals who make up the new government....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/akamas-compensation-guidelines-poses-risks-says-finance-minister
"The guidelines for compensating landowners in Akamas for the loss of land value they have incurred and providing assistance to the neighborhood are speculative and ill-defined....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/kaili-lawyer-stunned-as-mep-s-partner-walks-free
The defense for Greek MEP Eva Kaili is raising hell after Belgian authorities released her partner in an ongoing corruption investigation, with one of her lawyers accusing Belgium’s criminal justice of operating against European legal culture...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/us-ponders-releasing-intel-on-china-arms-supply-to-russia
The Biden administration is considering releasing intelligence it believes shows that China is weighing whether to supply weapons to support Russia's war in Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/american-pilot-takes-selfie-with-chinese-balloon
The US Department of Defense has released a photo of a US Air Force pilot looking down from his plane at the Chinese balloon that was shot down on February 4....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/hooded-men-break-up-lgbtq-meeting-in-limassol
A group of hooded men stormed an LGBTQ event at the Cyprus University of Technology on Wednesday, yelling anti-gay slurs, assaulting participants, and discharging a fire extinguisher towards them, with police saying they were investigating a hate crime...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/my-big-fat-greek-wedding-3-hits-theaters-on-september-8th
The third installment in the beloved "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" franchise will arrive later this year....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-s-natural-gas-consumption-drops-by-19-3
The EU consumption of natural gas has dropped by 19.3% in the period August 2022 - January 2023, compared with the average gas consumption for the same months (August - January) between 2017 and 2022, according to information from member state official sources and reported by Eurostat, the statistical service of the EU....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/bank-of-cyprus-71-million-in-profits-in-2022
Bank of Cyprus' profit for 2022 was 71 million euros, up from 30 million euros in 2021....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/mr-kadis-the-goal-is-to-recycle-70-of-construction-and-demolition-waste
Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis stated in his address at the "Workshop for the presentation of an innovative robotic method of separating waste from construction and demolition" that the goal is for at least 70% of the waste generated from construction and demolition to be recycled....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/k-reveals-the-salaries-of-n-christodoulides-and-his-ministers
Cyprus has been waiting since Monday for the names of the new Cabinet and the rest of the group of state officials who will take office. As President-elect Christodoulides continues to scout for his ministers, K's sources are saying that the new Cabinet will be firmly in place during the upcoming week, closer to the day of the 'changing of the guard' at the Presidential Palace....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/i-m-in-love-with-you-you-re-a-threat-the-strange-responses-of-bing-a-i
At the very least, the responses provided by Bing (or Bing A.I.), Microsoft's new artificial intelligence chatbot integrated into the search engine of the same name, are concerning....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-arrest-man-wanted-in-deadly-car-ambush
A man wanted in connection with a deadly ambush in downtown Nicosia was arrested on Wednesday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ngo-calls-on-cyprus-authorities-to-implement-ban-on-lead-pellets
Lead shot ammunition in wetlands is illegal in all 27 EU countries including Cyprus, as well as Iceland, Norway, and Lichtenstein, BirdLife Cyprus announced and called on local authorities once more to ensure that non-lead pellets are being used in hunting areas that are found close to or within wetlands....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cabinet-approves-€0-5-million-in-aid-to-turkey-for-syria
At the start of today's session, the Council of Ministers observed a one-minute silence in memory of the victims of the deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/objects-shot-down-by-us-are-not-of-alien-origin-says-george-danos
President of the Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO) George Danos told CNA that he highly doubts that the objects shot down recently by the US army are of extraterrestrial origin....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/woman-in-paphos-arrested-after-refusing-search
A woman in Paphos who was arrested for refusing a random search over the weekend is now facing sex solicitation charges...
