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By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Three years after defaulting on its repayments, Zambia recently reached a debt relief deal. The end of the impasse over the African nation’s ...

And the church’s role in schools ensures it will stay that way By Fahri Zihni My late mother was born in the village of Tera, Paphos in 1924 to a ...

Inside the game, my month-long election campaign experience in the Cyprus Football Association By Demos Georgiades Stepping into the political labyrinth of the Cyprus Football Association (CFA), I had expectations. ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides With the advent of ChatGPT in November 2022, the discussions around artificial intelligence have intensified. Significant benefits appear to be in the pipeline in terms ...

By Ioanna Achilleos Zavitsanaki Over the years, society has become increasingly demotivated in talking about the Cyprus problem. Reasons include the length of time that has passed without progress, the ...

By Uri Gal Germany’s best-selling newspaper, Bild, is reportedly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to replace certain editorial roles, in an effort to cut costs. In a leaked internal email ...

By Abdullah Attari The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive settlement expansion scheme known as ...

Accessibility of Gesy providers for people with disabilities is not a given By Efi Xanthou On October 27, 2022, a report from Gesy’s oversight ombudsperson was distributed to various government departments ...

By Sarah Vivienne Bentley and Claire Naughtin The launch of ever-capable large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5 has sparked much interest over the past six months. However, trust in ...

By Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos As the date of the Nato summit on July 11 in Vilnius approaches, the question of Sweden’s accession to the alliance is gaining currency because of ...

By Roger J. Kreuz Can the language someone uses be as unique as their fingerprints? As I describe in my forthcoming book, “Linguistic Fingerprints: How Language Creates and Reveals Identity,” ...

Burst dam threatens humanitarian, environmental disaster By Matthias Williams, Mark Trevelyan and Gloria Dickie The breach of a huge dam on the front-line Dnipro river has muddied the picture for ...

The conundrum of driving in Cyprus By Christakis Peristianis Some years ago, when the pandemic was still in its initial stages, the then Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis commented on the ...

Jeff MacLeod, Mount Saint Vincent University Donald Trump has reportedly been indicted on federal charges for his handling of classified documents after he lost the 2020 presidential election. The indictment follows ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Demographic trends, most notably the declining trend of indigenous populations, mainly due to low birth rates, is a key challenge for all developed countries. ...

By Gwynne Dyer Let us suppose that the current Russian regime collapses, with or without a Ukrainian military victory to give it a final shove. Who would be the least ...

The EU has claimed that halloumi/hellim production will form a ‘mini-reunification laboratory’. There is no sign of that yet By Fahri Zihni The much loved hellim/halloumi is perhaps ...

The euro is the second largest reserve currency, but so far the dollar still reigns supreme By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Since the end of World War II, the ...

By Charles Barthold French president Emmanuel Macron is facing a political crisis unprecedented in contemporary times. Pierre Rosanvallon, one of the country’s most influential political theorists (and a man ...

Elzbieta Witek, the Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, who visited Cyprus this week, said that the ongoing war in Ukraine raises a big security issue for ...

In August 2006, I learned for the first time what a professional towing strap means. Twenty-year-old Jana Kavacova, who had been missing for days, was found buried in the industrial area ...

By Ozay Mehmet If Kemal Kilicdaroglu wins the Turkish general election, a win-win-win solution on Cyprus may be within reach. The name of the solution would be confederation. President Nicos ...

By Maha Nassar On May 15, 2023, the United Nations will stage a high-level special meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba – the mass displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians from their ...

Many industries want to make full use of AI 1.0, but it costs a lot to collect and label data, and the processed data sets and models are isolated from each ...