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On Wednesday night, I watched Gaza: Doctors Under Attack on UK television, Channel 4. It was a harrowing experience.  The Guardian describes the documentary succinctly “We are shown doctors doing their ...

Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last week’s big change saw the creation of ...

As Europe advances on a sustainable energy future, the challenge of building clean, reliable and affordable energy systems is both urgent and complex Success in building a sustainable energy future ...

The events which have been unfolding in the Middle East between Israel and Iran are not just another regional flare-up. They are not episodic. They are systemic. The Israeli-Iranian confrontation, ...

Gold has taken centre stage in recent economic developments, as its value has risen steeply. Since the beginning of 2024, gold prices have increased by more than 60 per cent, reflecting the ...

The world has long tried to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and rightly so. US President Donald Trump never ceases to proclaim that had he been president in 2022, the ...

In Cyprus, immunity from challenge is a hangover from colonial times Thanasis Nicolaou, a newly conscripted soldier in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) national guard was found dead under Alassa ...

The Irish celebrated Bloomsday on June 16 honouring James Joyce’s unique publication Ulysses. It’s a rare day dedicated to a work of art, now evolving into a week’s ...

In the 1980s, there was a joke doing the rounds among IT people like myself. The Cray supercomputer was asked the ultimate question: “Is there a god? Does it exist?” ...

I’ve seen this movie already. I don’t want to see it again. “They lied,” said Donald Trump in 2016, running for the Republican presidential nomination against the neo-cons in ...

It is now official. The commercial operation of Cyprus’ Competitive Electricity Market commences on September 15, with the first trading day on October 1. It took an inordinate length of time to ...

During the past two weeks US President Donald Trump exhibited everything one would expect of him. Unfortunately, expecting things to happen cannot prepare you for the feelings of utter dismay ...

At the age of 99, the documentary film-maker David Attenborough has achieved his greatest triumph. With a single film clip, he has signed the death warrant for one of the world’...

In last week’s Tales from the Coffeeshop, Patroclos asked rhetorically: is everyone who publicly repeats some wild allegation about the courts investigated for contempt? To which the answer is ...

The agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, effective from February 1, 2020, left a strong political and economic imprint on the EU and, an even deeper ...

I only heard parts of an interesting programme on the BBC, because phone calls prevented me getting the title or presenter who subjected himself to reacting to various noise tests. ...

By Euripides L Evriviades It is time to bring the Cyprus question back to the centre of Europe’s conscience The recent appointment of former European Commissioner Johannes Hahn as ...

This is the second anniversary of the arrival of the Emergency but practically nobody is mentioning it. Instead people are choosing to worry about more familiar problems like global trade ...

Many of us here in Cyprus are often annoyed at the inconvenience we face when travelling from Larnaca to somewhere in Europe. Apart from the limited direct flights to European ...

‘We shall fight them on the keyboards and in cyberspace’ When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990 and withdrew into its Russian shell, Nato countries benefited economically as the need to ...

This is focused on Cyprus, Egypt and Israel. All three countries have abundant renewable energy potential, especially solar. But so far success in harnessing it is mixed. Cyprus produced 24 per ...

Although recent global economic developments, including the imposition of trade tariffs and geopolitical uncertainties, are not expected to have significant immediate impact on the Cypriot economy, they nevertheless pose risks ...

Straws in the wind: recently I ran across a post by the CEO of a nationwide professional association in Canada. People like him are used to hopping across the US ...

The recent downgrade by the rating agency Moody’s of America’s AAA rating has passed by largely unnoticed among the plethora of world and local events taking place. For ...