https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/delta-flight-to-china-returns-to-seattle-while-in-mid-air
Delta Air Lines said Monday that new pandemic-related cleaning requirements at a Shanghai airport were behind the turning back of a recent flight from Seattle in midair, a move that had prompted a protest from the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/desmond-tutu-south-africa-s-moral-conscience-dies-aged-90
Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/year-s-final-week-starts-with-reluctant-rain
A weak high pressure system is currently affecting Cyprus this week, with low chances of rain mainly in the west and temperatures slightly above normal averages...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/interior-ministry-evicts-migrants-on-christmas-eve
Asylum seekers from Africa have been ordered by an executive order to abandon their place of residence in an industrial area south of Nicosia, with the landlord asking authorities on Christmas Eve to allow time until tenants can find a new roof over their heads...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/shepherd-gets-ten-years-for-raping-college-student
A man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for rape, after a college student said she was out in the fields with her mother south of Nicosia when she was sexually assaulted under knife threat...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/europe-continues-to-be-in-the-deep-red-on-the-covid-19-ecdc-map
The epidemiological situation in the European Union and the European Economic Area remains serious and has not significantly changed, according to the latest epidemiological map on the spread of COVID-19 by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/partly-sunny-but-chilly-before-christmas-day
A cold front is affecting Cyprus until Christmas Eve, with mixed skies in the days ahead and temperatures expected to rise gradually over the holiday weekend...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/financial-turmoil-hits-turkish-cypriots
Serious side effects from the lira's plunge–Basic food products are becoming more expensive
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https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/food-running-out-as-survivors-grapple-for-supplies-in-philippines
Philippine officials and residents of areas that bore the brunt of Typhoon Rai pleaded for food, water, and shelter on Tuesday as damaged roads, flooding, and severed power and communication lines hampered relief efforts....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/israel-bans-citizens-from-traveling-to-eu-countries-to-curb-spread-of-omicron
The fifth wave of Covid-19 has begun. The Omicron variant brought the fifth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic to Israel, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a televised speech on Sunday, urging citizens to step up vaccination of children and administration of booster doses....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/epic-fail-after-carmel-forecasters-get-it-wrong
The state forecaster in the Republic of Cyprus is defending a severe warning issued for Sunday, with social media users who stayed in saying they missed out on good weather after Storm Carmel failed to deliver...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/kids-murdered-in-1974-buried-in-the-north
The remains of eleven children murdered in Cyprus during the summer 1974 events were laid to rest on Monday after they were identified through DNA tests carried out by a bicommunal missing persons committee on the island...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/carmel-clobbers-west-after-cyprus-landfall
Roads to Troodos Mountains were open to all vehicles on Sunday morning, despite severe weather alerts due to a depression affecting the island, but police say highway conditions in the west were still dangerous...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-braces-for-impact-as-carmel-gathers-steam
Local authorities in the Republic of Cyprus are on high alert this weekend as Cyclone Carmel, which was gathering strength over water Saturday morning, is expected to pound the island late at night...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-ship-oruc-reis-to-continue-hydrocarbon-exploration
The Antalya station issued a navigational telex (Navtex) late Thursday announcing that the Turkish ship Oruc Reis will continue its seismic exploration mission in the sea area between southern Turkey and the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus through January 31....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/calm-before-storm-as-cyclone-approaches
Unstable weather conditions are affecting Cyprus on Friday with cyclone Carmel approaching from the west expected to make landfall Saturday night...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sun-and-clouds-battle-it-out-in-cyprus
Unstable weather conditions continue to affect Cyprus for the rest of the week, with periods of sunshine punctuated by cloudy skies and pop-up showers including thunderstorms...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greenpeace-greek-gas-hunt-an-‘unbearable-threat-to-whales
Greenpeace on Wednesday renewed calls against proposed deep-sea oil and gas exploration off southwest Greece, warning of “unbearable” consequences to endangered Mediterranean whales and dolphins....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/east-med-is-‘not-a-turkish-sea-president-of-french-senate-tells-kathimerini
The East Mediterranean is not a Turkish sea and interoperability between the French and Greek armed forces is a factor that brings stability to the region...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ministers-agree-to-remove-all-countries-from-the-international-travel-red-list
Senior ministers have agreed to remove all countries from the international travel red list, according to the Daily Mail....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/the-longest-running-war-in-modern-history-is-finally-over
North Korea and South Korea, along with the United States and China, have reached an agreement in principle to formally end hostilities on the Korean Peninsula, which began in 1950 and led to the creation of two separate states....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/biafrans-in-limassol-take-oath-as-leader-faces-trial
A Twitter post in Cyprus this week showed youths from Nigeria being administered an oath of allegiance to separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra, who are calling for the release of their leader Nnamdi Kanu who is on trial for treason...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-ordered-to-see-shrink-after-flag-incident
A Greek Cypriot man accused of indecent behavior following an attempt to place a Greek flag at a monument in the north has been ordered to see a psychiatrist...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-gets-a-break-after-severe-weather
A high pressure system is affecting Cyprus on Thursday, a day after severe warnings ended, with low chances of rain as weather improves but some mountain roads remain accessible only to properly equipped vehicles...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/denmark-to-re-impose-restrictions-after-rise-in-covid-cases
Denmark will re-impose restrictions in order to curb the rapid spread of Covid-19, including the Omicron variant, the Prime Minister announced today....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/the-situation-as-it-is-slightly-worrying-voniatis
"The situation as it is so far is slightly worrying," said epidemiologist Dr. Michalis Voniatis to KYPE, adding that with the arrival of Omicron in Cyprus, which according to him is just a matter of time, the cases will skyrocket to four-digit numbers....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/erdogan-attacks-cyprus-over-exploration-license
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday accused Cyprus of violating Turkey’s continental shelf by awarding an exploration license in the Mediterranean to ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/germany-man-kills-himself-his-wife-and-3-children-in-apparent-murder-suicide
A man who killed his wife and three young children before taking his own life had faked a vaccination certificate and feared his children would be taken away from him when the forgery was discovered, a German prosecutor said on Tuesday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-braces-as-mini-medicane-gathers-force
A low pressure system from the west is affecting Cyprus, with officials warning over strong winds and heavy rains on Tuesday night and in the daytime on Wednesday, but conditions will improve after mid-week...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/judge-denies-public-hearing-in-double-murder
The sole suspect in the double murder of two Russian women appeared on Monday in Limassol District Court behind closed doors, with reporters kept at bay in a case where his initial arrest had also taken place in total secrecy...
