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By Colin Smith Fifty years ago this weekend I was in Israel covering for the Observer the second week of what became known as the Yom Kippur or Ramadam war ...

Neophytos Loizides, professor in international Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, was interviewed by the Cyprus Mail on the main questions of regional security for Cyprus How do you ...

By Andrew Thomas Hamas’ attack on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War was the deadliest single day in Israeli history. Showers of rockets, kidnappings and indiscriminate killings have ...

By Alex Prior Starmer’s challenge in his speech to the Labour party conference was to present himself as a prime minister in waiting. To achieve this, he had to ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The global economy is undergoing a difficult period, characterised by the enduring geopolitical turmoil and uncertainty, which adversely affect energy security and food sufficiency ...

By Socratis E Socratous and Leontios Charalampidis A few years ago, one of those film series that everyone talked about was The Hunger Games, a movie saga based on the ...

By Nareg Seferian The United States’ top humanitarian aid representative, Samantha Power, was dispatched on a fact-finding mission on Sept. 26, 2023, to a registration point on the border with Armenia for ...

By Garret Martin When it comes to shutdowns, the U.S. is very much an exception rather than the rule. Save for a last-minute spending deal in Congress on Oct. 1, 2023, ...

By Christa van Raalte and Richard Wallis The presenter, comedian and actor Russell Brand is at the centre of a joint investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 ...

The geopolitical tensions in recent years have taken a toll on the climate of cooperation, especially between major countries. The global economy is rather sluggish, financing conditions have worsened, while ...

Perhaps we should expect less from the UN instead By Tamsin Phillipa Paige Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lambasted the UN Security Council yet again, saying in a speech this ...

Large increases in profits not due to better performance in using the funds of depositors to improve the economy Recent media reports on the performances of the largest Cyprus banks ...

By Nasia Hadjigeorgiou Day in day out, Greek Cypriots hear about the difficulties that exist in resolving the Cyprus problem – Turkey is not willing to compromise, Turkish Cypriots are not ...

By President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda As Poles, we are proud that on September 10, 2023, our compatriots the Ulma family will be added to the ranks of the ...

An evaluation of the latest problems to have arisen in the buffer zone The attack by Turkish Cypriots against members of Unficyp in the buffer zone last month highlights their ...

Comparing Fukushima’s ‘treated water’ with a typical nuclear plant’s discharge is misleading, as the ‘treated water’ had direct contact with the melted reactor cores By Huaxia Despite public ...

By Efi Xanthou The ruckus over the claims concerning the qualifications of the permanent secretary of the health ministry Christina Yiannaki have immersed us over the last month. I am ...

Unficyp has allowed plenty of Greek Cypriot building in buffer zone, Turkish Cypriots argue By Fahri Zihni Following the Pile (Pyla)-United Nations incident on August 18, when the building of ...

The EU already has a role in the Cyprus problem, but it does not have Washington’s political clout By Marios Eliades During the election campaign, now President Nikos Christdoulides ...

By Panayiotis Pachomiou Housing is a basic human right, but many Europeans struggle to find a home they can afford. The high cost of housing affects not only individuals and ...

By Tim Reid Vivek Ramaswamy, a multimillionaire former biotech executive, has a chance to build on the attention he has been getting in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination ...

By Gregory F. Treverton, Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, reportedly died when a private jet he was said to be on crashed on ...

By Ester Lázaro Lázaro One night, upon returning to the cave that his tribe calls home, the monkey-humanoid Moon-Watcher finds a strange crystal object, a kind of monolith ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides With the end of the pandemic, the accumulated demand, and increased savings, partly as a result of the significant government support packages, led to ...