https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspected-paphos-arsonist-released-from-custody
A 58-year-old suspected arsonist, who was released from custody Tuesday, will still face charges in connection with a Monday fire in Trachypedoulas...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/friends-will-say-goodbye-to-ioannis-at-limassol-pier
Friends of 18-year-old Ioannis Asikkis, who died Thursday from a drug overdose, were to meet Friday evening at Limassol’s pier to say goodbye on what would have been his 18th birthday...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ankara-issue-of-turkish-officers-a-thorn-in-relations
Turkey has escalated its rhetoric with regard to the eight Turkish servicemen it wants extradited, insisting that the issue will remain at the core of its differences with Greece....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/parents-of-ayia-napa-murdered-victim-blame-cyprus
The parents of George Low, the 22-year-old Briton who was stabbed to death in Ayia Napa two years ago, say the killers of their son walk free because north and south in divided Cyprus don’t cooperate...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/kisa-sees-institutional-racism-in-ham-and-pasta-arrest
Human rights group KISA is pointing to institutional racism over the recent arrest of an asylum-seeker and single mother on theft charges, calling for an investigation into how state authorities treat refugees who are vulnerable members of society...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriots-prefer-cannabis-to-get-high
A new drug report shows that cannabis is the most popular drug in Cyprus, while Cypriot towns are among European cities with the highest levels of methamphetamine detected in wastewater...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/student-arrested-while-delivering-food-to-paphos-immigration
Paphos immigration officers arrested a delivery guy from Bangladesh, after he had gone to their department to deliver a food order....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-suspends-migrant-deal-with-greece-says-cavusoglu
Turkey has suspended a migrant readmission deal it had signed with Greece in response to a Greek court ruling that refused to extradite the eight Turkish soldiers who fled to the country after the failed coup in 2016, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday, according to reports in Daily Sabah and Reuters....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/kammenos-to-brief-nato-counterparts-on-bozdag-remarks
Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos has said he plans to brief his counterparts during a meeting of NATO defense ministers Thursday on the controversial remarks made by Turkey’s deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag regarding the eight army officers released from pretrial detention on Monday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-foreign-ministry-spokesman-says-athens-‘a-refuge-for-coup-plotters
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has reacted angrily to news Monday that the last four Turkish servicemen of the eight who fled to Greece after the coup attempt in 2016 were released after the 18 months of maximum detention expired, with a spokesman accusing Athens of becoming “a refuge for coup plotters.”...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/opposition-demands-answers-from-pm-over-turkish-extradition-claims
Opposition chief Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to respond to claims by a Turkish government spokesman that Athens had pledged to extradite eight Turkish servicemen wanted by Ankara in connection with the botched coup of 2016....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/paphos-mayor-says-police-building-bogus-case-against-him
Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos has received no response from police following his social media comment that cops are scrambling to build a public insult case against him...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-court-will-hear-browder-s-case-in-july
The Nicosia District Court will hear a motion from Bill Browder’s lawyer seeking an order that would prevent Cyprus from acting on a Russian warrant against the famous Putin critic...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/spain-police-arrest-fund-manager-browder-on-russia-warrant
British businessman Bill Browder, a prominent Kremlin critic, was detained and then released by Spanish police on Wednesday, after a warrant for his arrest he said came from Russia was found to be no longer valid...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sales-of-petroleum-products-record-monthly-increase
A press release issued by the Statistical Service of Cyprus says that a rise was recorded in the provisions of Gasoil for Marine use and Aviation Kerosene, as well as in the sales of Heavy Fuel Oil....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-court-rejects-third-appeal-for-release-of-greek-soldiers
A Turkish misdemeanours court has rejected for the third time an appeal to release from pre-trial detention two Greek soldiers who were arrested after accidentally straying into Turkish territory...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/pulitzer-winning-author-philip-roth-dies-at-85
Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American experience, died on Tuesday at the age of 85...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/merkel-speaks-with-tsipras-zaev-over-fyrom-name-talks
German Chancellor Angela Merkel conveyed her country's interest in the developments concerning talks between Athens and Skopje over the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), during a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/cyprus-tightens-vetting-for-investment-for-passport-scheme
In the wake of criticism that it was operating a "passports-for-cash" scheme, Cyprus has toughened up vetting procedures for those investors looking to get their hands on a European Union passport...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriots-brothers-in-fiji-will-make-their-plea-in-june
Defence lawyer Mark Anthony representing two Cyprus nationals charged with money laundering told the Fiji High Court that his clients were not ready to take their plea...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/rainy-weather-ahead-but-still-hot
It will be cloudy in the next few days with high temperatures in the upper 30’s, while there will be dust in the atmosphere and a chance of rain for the next few days...
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/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/news/larnaca-state-medics-plead-not-guilty
The two Larnaca doctors, who are facing charges of gross negligence in the death of a 10-year-old school boy, pleaded not guilty on Thursday and were set free on bail until their trial in September...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/trump-reimbursed-attorney-who-paid-off-porn-star
President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time in an ethics disclosure that he repaid more than $100,000 to former personal attorney Michael Cohen, renewing questions about Trump’s ties to porn star Stormy Daniels...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/netflix-s-next-act-feeding-the-service-with-its-own-movies
As Hollywood studios unleash their summer blockbusters into theatres, Netflix is trying to give film buffs a reason to stay home...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-admit-handcuffing-larnaca-doctors-was-not-necessary
Police say handcuffing the two ER doctors in the aftermath of the school boy’s death ‘could have been avoided’ while adding that their focus remains the investigation of the serious incident...
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/business/cyprus-gdp-grows-by-0-8-in-the-first-three-months
Bailed out eurozone member Cyprus notched up its 13th consecutive quarter in positive growth with GDP rising 0.8 percent in the first quarter, an official estimate showed...
