https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/legislation-in-the-works-to-tax-airbnb-rentals-in-cyprus
Home owners who rent out their properties through Airbnb will have to pay taxes if a new law is passed in the Republic of Cyprus, but this may not be enough for tourism stakeholders who have been calling for more restrictions on the online service....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greek-court-releases-turkish-officer-under-tight-security
The serviceman, who piloted the military helicopter which brought the eight officers to Greece a day after the botched coup, had been granted protection by an asylum appeals committee in December...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nicosia-couple-murdered-in-front-of-their-son
The autopsy of the Strovolos couple in Nicosia who were murdered in their own home Thursday has revealed the 60-year-old man and his 59-year-old wife were savagely stabbed multiple times and went into hemorrhagic shock....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/lawmakers-shelve-novartis-bribe-probe
A day after a special parliamentary committee deemed that it was not competent to investigate allegations that several top-ranking Greek politicians took bribes from a Swiss drugs firm, Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis appeared confident that the judicial probe into the affair is “moving in the right direction.”...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-s-erdogan-declares-early-elections
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections will be brought forward to June 24, more than a year earlier than planned, saying the country urgently needed to make the switch to an executive presidency....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/leaders-uncommitted-after-dinner-date
There was no breakthrough apart from the leaders not excluding any new moves from the UN...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/bail-reversed-for-cypriot-brothers-in-fiji
Two Cypriot brothers remain in custody in Fiji on charges of money laundering, after a high court reversed a previous bail ruling, citing the seriousness of their alleged crimes and possible long sentences. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/algerian-military-plane-with-more-than-100-on-board-crashes
More than 250 people including members of Western Sahara’s Polisario independence movement were killed when a military plane crashed in a field outside Algeria’s capital on Wednesday, officials said....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-seeks-to-overcome-regional-tension-for-peace
Rival Cypriot leaders will meet for dinner on April 16 in an effort by the United Nations to reignite a stalled peace process...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/tsipras-looking-to-rein-in-hawkish-defence-minister
According to a senior official, the incendiary rhetoric “is not needed” at a time when Greece is trying to de-escalate tension with Turkey...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/south-africa-s-zuma-appears-in-court-on-corruption-charges
Thousands of Zuma supporters gathered to express solidarity with a leader they say is the victim of a politically motivated witchhunt...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/echr-rules-against-cyprus
The European Court of Human Rights upheld a complaint against Cyprus with four votes in favour and three against, where a Polish inmate accused the state of inhumane treatment....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/medical-error-destroys-man-s-sex-life
A medical malpractice case was settled in court after a man with a simple urinating problem ended up without a prostate gland and is now suffering from sexual dysfunction. The judge in the case ruled that the doctor and clinic had failed to perform necessary tests before their incorrect diagnosis....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/migrant-caravan-heading-to-us-puts-mexico-in-tough-spot
So far the Mexican federal government has provided little guidance on how to handle the migrants...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/china-hammers-us-goods-with-tariffs
Eight other products, including pork and scrap aluminium, will now be subject to additional tariffs of 25 percent...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sexual-misdemeanours-to-become-felonies
New draft legislation in the works would modify four types of sexual offences, by changing them from a misdemeanor to a felony and increasing considerably the sentencing lengths. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-court-upholds-detention-of-two-greek-soldiers-haberturk
A Turkish court rejected on Thursday an objection submitted by the lawyers of the two Greek soldiers who have been detained in Edirne's prison against a decision to keep them in custody, according to Haberturk newspaper....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/child-porn-sentences-get-tougher
The Supreme Court has set a new precedent for longer sentences in child pornography cases, following revelations that the problem is getting bigger and some content in materials seized by police was shockingly abhorrent....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/russian-spy-poisoned-by-nerve-agent-outside-home
Russia has denied any involvement in the attack and has said it suspects the British secret services of using the Novichok nerve agent...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-and-turkey-before-the-grand-chamber
An unsolved murder case is going before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday, with Cyprus and Turkey being accused of refusing to cooperate to solve the crime, despite both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots carrying out separate investigations. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-justice-fails-to-deliver
Former Attorney General Alecos Markides says the judicial system in the Republic of Cyprus has not adapted to the demands of the modern state, pointing out a number of failures from inexperienced judges to a lack of check and balances. ...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/extradition-case-of-cypriot-hacker-delayed
The extradition hearing of a 20-year-old man in Cyprus, accused of wire fraud and wanted by the FBI, was interrupted Thursday after his defence team accused the prosecutor of withholding evidence and presenting an reliable witness. His Cypriot trial is scheduled to go forward April 3....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/property-commission-in-north-deemed-ineffective
This, according to legal experts, is tantamount to Ankara admitting the ineffectiveness of the IPC...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/putin-easily-wins-another-six-year-term
The longer-term question is whether Putin will soften his anti-Western rhetoric now the election is won...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/max-s-killer-gets-three-months
The Supreme Court hands down a three-month prison sentence to a man who stabbed a German Shepherd to death, overruling an earlier suspended sentence that was seen by the public as too lenient...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/calling-on-the-diaspora
Greek society has simply been in the pressure cooker for too long...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/turkish-strategy
Put simply, Turkey is making it clear, and in a brutal manner, that it will not halt the process of Finlandization ...
