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Last week it was Europe’s turn, with a slow-moving ‘heat dome’ that gave almost everybody from the United Kingdom to Poland three consecutive days of record-breaking temperatures. In Germany ...

The narrative that presents Cyprus’ bid to join Schengen as merely ‘fulfilling EU obligations’ is a dangerous bureaucratic fantasy. In international politics, Nicosia’s push to bring government-controlled areas into ...

The Commerciality Declaration for Cyprus’ Glaucus and Pegasus gas discoveries made this week marks an important milestone – not only for the island, but also for ExxonMobil’s wider Eastern Mediterranean ...

A blue and white bus grumbled its heavy body through a warm spring Sunday in March 1989, blessed as our springs are with fields as green as the skin of an ...

Bad things happen, and some of them are nobody’s fault. Big earthquakes in Venezuela are about a century apart (1812, 1902, 2026), so you can’t blame the planners and the politicians ...

The first round of high-level US-Iran talks in Lucerne produced cautious but meaningful progress towards restoring stability in one of the world’s most important energy regions. Both sides described ...

An acknowledged Greek painter and a good friend of mine, Sylvana Samartzidou, recently portrayed me gazing at the past, next to a classic Cyprus fishing boat grounded on the golden ...

There were two judgments of general interest from the English courts two weeks ago about Palestine Action, a direct-action protest group based in UK that campaigned against the UK government’...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar My first five days in Cyprus were hell, with problems inside the house that demanded attention before anything else could begin to settle, continuous management of issues ...

At a ‘high-level United Nations consultative conference’ in Ghana earlier this month, African and Caribbean countries called on the countries that benefitted from the transatlantic slave trade to make a ...

The geopolitical chessboard of the Eastern Mediterranean is a harsh, unforgiving arena where the survival of smaller states depends entirely on a cold, pragmatic calculation of the regional balance of ...

A different kind of column today. A personal one. Not so long ago, I wrote about Albert Camus and the absurdity of life. This came back to haunt me when ...

Three recent books help explain why consensus on the nature of the Cyprus problem, let alone the solution, remains so difficult. And, perhaps, why dozens of UN diplomats have failed ...

Cyprus banking representatives recently visited European regulators in Brussels declaring that the island’s banks are “stronger than ever” citing impressive levels of key indicators on financial stability and profitability. ...

Burnham should bide his time Former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election last Thursday by a huge majority, comfortably trouncing the far right of Nigel Farage’s Reform ...

Are our complaints petty or real? A shoe mender I knew had a sign on his wall: I had no shoes and I felt sorry for myself until I met ...

For decades, Cyprus has treated energy policy and water policy as largely separate issues. Energy planning focused on electricity generation, fuel imports and infrastructure development, while water planning focused on ...

The question is no longer whether Cyprus needs a long-term energy plan. The question is what such a plan should include. A successful energy strategy must provide a coherent framework ...

Recent warnings from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), concerns raised by the auditor-general and growing criticism from energy experts all point to the same conclusion: Cyprus urgently needs a comprehensive ...

The launch of the East Med Energy Center (Emec) in Houston this week and the revival of high-level regional energy diplomacy mark significant developments in East Med energy cooperation. The ...

When Arsenal football club lost 4-3 on penalties to Paris Saint Germain (PSG) in the European Champions final in Budapest two weeks ago the question no England fan dared ask ...

The June 2026 Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between Cyprus and France, and the 2024–2029 US–Cyprus Defence Roadmap, mark a radical departure from Nicosia’s historic military neutrality. While Cyprus hopes ...

“The war is over,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress last Tuesday, but it isn’t. In the Persian Gulf there is a sort-of ceasefire between the United ...

The sharp exchanges between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Benjamin Netanyahu are real. The language is harsh. At times, extreme. It is tempting to dismiss them as political posturing aimed at ...