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/47-stolen-antiquities-from-steinhardt-collection-returning-to-greece
Forty-seven illegally trafficked Greek artifacts, among the dozens surrendered by American hedge-fund billionaire Michael Steinhardt under a deal with US authorities, will be returned to Greece in the coming days, the Culture Ministry announced Thursday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/usa-fund-manager-to-turn-over-$70-million-in-stolen-antiquities
Billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt has agreed to turn over $70 million worth of stolen antiquities and will be subject to an unprecedented lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities, the Manhattan district attorney announced Monday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/new-tender-announced-for-ferry-connection-between-cyprus-and-greece
The Deputy Ministry for Shipping announced it has launched a new tender for the maritime connection between Cyprus and Greece after the first tender failed to attract official bids....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-grabs-a-seat-at-the-libya-conference-table
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has a seat waiting for him at the Libya conference in Paris on Friday, the first time ever for the east Mediterranean island to officially state its views on the war-torn country proxied by power struggles in the region...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/refugees-choose-rough-seas-over-cypriot-port
A refugee boat believed to be bound for Italy escaped custody at Kato Paphos port on Thursday, after passengers were not allowed to disembark the previous day but spent the night onboard awaiting further instructions from Nicosia...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/erdogan-files-lawsuit-against-greek-newspaper
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed a lawsuit against Greek daily newspaper Dimokratia at a prosecutor’s office in Ankara,...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-‘superminister-accused-of-obstructing-sea-rescues
Cypriot Interior Minister Nicos Nouris has slammed a report about him calling the shots to hinder sea rescues of refugees, accusing a journalist of pushing an 'extremely dangerous' open doors agenda while the local newspaper is hitting back with a little-known 'embarrassing' incident...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/stroke-is-the-second-leading-cause-of-death-in-cyprus
The second leading cause of death today in Cyprus is stroke, according to the Cyprus Stroke Association....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/nautical-geo-sails-again-this-time-south
Nautical Geo, a research vessel that Turkey expelled two weeks ago from an area west of Cyprus, was scheduled to resume activities off the coast of the island but this time staying out of zones claimed by Turkey...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/eu-issues-yet-another-damning-report-on-turkey
An EU enlargement report calls on Turkey to tone down actions and threats against member states including the Republic of Cyprus, while Ankara accuses the European Commission of adopting Greek and Greek Cypriot biases...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/ngo-says-refugee-woman-misled-by-agents
A pro-migrant group in Cyprus is accusing officials of using dubious methods to pressure a Syrian woman refugee to withdraw her asylum application, including hiding a recent development that could reunite her family on the island more quickly...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/‘a-dark-room-excerpts-from-alexis-papachelas-forthcoming-book
“The nut, he went and did what we didn’t,” said Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos the morning of July 15, 1974 after he found out that Dimitris Ioannidis, the junta’s military police chief, had orchestrated a coup to overthrow Cyprus President Archbishop Makarios....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/comment/opinion/the-city-of-london-is-hiding-the-world-s-stolen-money
In 1969, two years after the Cayman Islands, a British territory, passed its first law to allow secretive offshore trusts, an official government report struck an ominous note....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/greece-braces-for-tension-with-turkey
The prospect of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “testing” the freshly ratified Greek-French agreement, by escalating tensions in the Aegean or in the Eastern Mediterranean, is worrying Athens....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/futuristic-mega-yacht-back-in-cyprus
The futuristic mega yacht owned by a Russian industrialist is drawing attention once again in Cyprus, with maritime maps showing the Sailing Yacht A anchored in Chrysochou Bay on Monday morning...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkey-denies-cypriot-vessel-in-contested-waters
Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides was working the phones on Monday, a day after Turkey expelled a research vessel from waters west of the island, a maritime area with zones claimed by both Ankara and Nicosia...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/life/digging-deep-to-unlock-the-past-and-future-in-santorini
Scientists seeking to shed light on the geological history of the southern Aegean are spearheading an international oceanographic mission...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/turkish-warship-blocks-greek-research-ship
A Turkish warship issued a warning to a Greek research vessel to prevent it entering what Turkey considers its territorial waters, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday. The showdown came a year after tensions in the eastern Mediterranean threatened to escalate into open conflict between the neighbors and NATO allies...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/american-couple-arrested-at-athens-airport-with-antiquities
Two American nationals were arrested at Athens’ international airport on Monday after fragments of ancient vessels and other objects were discovered in their luggage....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/athens-protests-turkey-s-fishing-in-greek-territorial-waters
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has instructed the Greek Embassy in Ankara to issue a protest demarche over illegal fishing by Turkish fishing boats inside Greece’s territorial waters, the ministry said Monday....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/shocking-details-emerge-after-pushback-in-cyprus
More shocking details have emerged about a Syrian refugee’s ordeal in Cyprus, with police saying they were unaware last month they were separating a pregnant woman from her family during a pushback while some members of a House committee told a different story...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/all-eyes-on-oil-spill-response-in-cyprus
Traces of last week’s oil spill from Syria that came close to the north-eastern tip of Cyprus have been spotted further south off the coast of Cape Greco, with officials on both sides of the divided island scrambling to manage the disaster...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/syrian-mom-with-newborn-beats-pushback-in-cyprus
A pregnant woman who reached Cyprus on a refugee boat last month has given birth to a boy, while the rest of her family and other passengers who were pushed back to Lebanon were said to be facing deportation to Syria...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/divided-cyprus-braces-for-oil-spill-from-syria
Cypriot authorities went on alert Tuesday after a fuel oil leak in Syria was proven to be bigger than expected, with local media saying a visible slick had come close to the northeastern tip of the divided island...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cruise-ship-docks-at-paphos-after-covid-ordeal
Passengers on a luxury cruise with alternating departures in Greece and Egypt ended up in Paphos on Sunday for a brief stop, after the Cairo-bound ship had to turn back following a COVID case on board...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/business/alphamega-launches-convenience-store-in-ayia-napa-marina
Alphamega Hypermarkets started operating a new store in the Ayia Napa Marina, whose commercial zone was recently opened to the public....
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/notorious-cliff-in-akamas-claims-another-life
A man was killed and his daughter was seriously injured in an accident in Akamas on Sunday, after their buggy car flew off a cliff and ended up in the water...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/thousands-flee-fires-in-greece-turkey
Thousands of people fled wildfires burning out of control in Greece and Turkey on Friday, including a major blaze just north of the Greek capital of Athens that claimed one life, as a protracted heat wave left forests tinder-dry and flames threatened populated areas and electricity installations...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-jails-captain-for-docking-in-the-north
The captain of a Ukraine-bound oil tanker was sentenced to prison on Tuesday in the Republic of Cyprus, two days after he was arrested in the south for docking his ship in the north last year...
