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Dear Ambassador John Breslow, A warm welcome to Cyprus for you and your family. Godspeed. At the Cyprus Forum 2026, you underlined that relations between our countries are at an “all-time ...

“The best is yet to come!” Kimberly Guilfoyle, a Trump adviser and then fiancée of Donald Trump Jr, blasted out at the 2020 Republican National Convention. The president looked bemused. ...

There needs to be a fundamental shift towards energy and water infrastructure, higher-productivity industries, fairer taxation and better incomes This opinion piece focuses on the challenges for the government in ...

We are all doomsday preppers now! Britain and Europe are sleepwalking into a war with Russia over Ukraine in a state of rigid groupthink from which not even the withdrawal ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar Late in the evening, even past midnight, Paphos picks up the rubbish and for a few enchanted hours, civilisation smells like it has its act together again. ...

Sovereign debt distress across North America, Europe and Japan marks the terminal phase of a multi-decade debt cycle hitting an arithmetic wall. Compounding deficits – amplified by post-2008 quantitative easing, pandemic ...

According to the ‘70s anarchist slogan, ‘No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in’. That’s certainly true for the election in Israel this month (27 October), even ...

The renewed effort to complete the Vasiliko LNG import terminal is entering a critical phase. Eight companies have expressed interest in Etyfa’s (natural gas infrastructure company) tender, estimated at €180 ...

The critical September White House summit between the US and Chinese presidents yielded a complex mix of relative market stabilisation and unresolved geopolitical tensions. Despite intense competition, the two leaders ...

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is technically not upper caste, but he does have a high opinion of himself. “When my mother was alive, I used to believe that ...

For more than three decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union, American foreign policy was defined by the doctrine of liberal hegemony – the conviction that the unchecked projection of ...

Perhaps the most difficult question one can ask a politician is also the simplest: “What exactly are you trying to achieve?” Not what principles are you defending, what historical injustices ...

On October 1, President Nikos Christodoulides marked the 66th anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus by declaring that its birth was the culmination of the “purest” national liberation struggle: the 1955-59 ...

Christa Pike is the 50-year-old American woman who was executed in the state of Tennessee and lived to tell the tale after her execution did not result in her death ...

Parakeets in London are as ubiquitous as seagulls in my hometown in Ireland. Invasive species have become common, sometimes depleting native species, causing problems for farmers, then the question of ...

US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio’s visit to Athens was significant in both substance and symbolism. It was more than another high-level diplomatic visit. It ...

In an anarchic international system, small states bordering regional heavyweights operate on razor-thin margins of survival. Neither multilateral communiqués, commercial energy concessions, nor diplomatic choreography can overturn the distribution ...

The trial of the British father who pleaded guilty of causing the death of his three-year-old boy who fell from a hotel window in Paphos last July will learn his ...

By Dina-Perla Portnaar I don’t want to own a car, for many reasons. In most European cities, people can choose whether they want one. Cyprus should enhance its public ...

The world of football marvelled at Manchester City’s extraordinary decade. It was not only the gathering of numerous trophies. It was the level of football they played that made ...

“I would not like to call this an incident. Let’s say it’s a diplomatic misunderstanding,” said Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha. But the South Korean president ...

Economic success creates a new question for Cyprus. Having repaired the state’s balance sheet, is the island using its financial strength sufficiently to repair structural weaknesses in its economy? ...

States in the international system operate in an environment of unyielding anarchy. No supreme arbiter protects a sovereign state when an existential crisis arrives. When a small state sits directly ...

Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed an array of politicians seemingly fixated on their own importance and on the unshakable belief that only they can make a difference ...