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The reports about Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva’s impending comeback as Brazilian president verged on the ecstatic in the week before last Sunday’s vote. He was after ...

The Turkey-Libya MoU increasing tensions with Greece After a quiet year in 2021, perhaps as a result of Covid-19, we are back to the perennial problem of exclusive economic zones (EEZ) ...

In an interview with Alper Ali Riza, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar explains why it is time the international community should think outside the federal box Lunch at Buyuk Han ...

Praise for the candidates who supported the proposal to combat corruption On many occasions recently, I have heard politicians say that we must regain our credibility to find an exodus ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Molly Russell, an apparently happy teen, killed herself and an investigation into her death seeks answers because her grieving, bewildered father wants them, and accountability. Some ...

By Gwynne Dyer “The queen’s final act of service to the nation was to selflessly buy the economy one last fortnight,” said one tweet when all four wheels finally ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides For a prolonged period the prices of conventional energy (coal, oil and natural gas) were contained at low levels, mainly reflecting the view that ...

By Alper Ali Riza The decision of His Honour Judge Theo Karamanis, an associate judge at the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) court in Dhekelia, to retain jurisdiction in the criminal ...

By Christos Panayiotides In recent years there has been a global political shift towards far-right parties. We have seen this phenomenon in many countries. In France there was Jean-Marie Le ...

By Charles Ellinas A report on the ‘Digital Quality of Life Index 2022’ ranks Cyprus 37th in the world by overall digital wellbeing, down two places since last year’s edition, ...

The roadmap to resolve the dispute with Israel is welcome but Europe is still phasing out gas The news this week that the energy ministers of Cyprus and Israel agreed ...

Now is the time for Cypriot diplomacy to make a move with concrete, realistic proposals The recent decision of the US government to lift the US arms embargo on Cyprus ...

The prospect of a recession in Cyprus is a distinct possibility According to the latest Eurobarometer by the European Commission seven out of ten Cypriots describe the economic situation of ...

Expanding Nato eastwards was a failure of intelligence as well as statecraft Compare and Contrast. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered the invasion of Ukraine after lying to the whole ...

There’s an election in Italy on Sunday, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini’s ‘blackshirts’ marched on Rome and brought the first fascist dictator to power. Giorgia Meloni, the ...

On Monday, about eleven million kilometres from Earth, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will make the first attempt to divert an asteroid from its orbit. But forget ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE We don’t let our memories, senses and instincts serve us well if we willfully smother them. Natural mental functions, evolved over millennia, can be submerged ...

Which would be worse: a global nuclear war with all buttons pressed, or real, self-conscious artificial intelligence that goes rogue? You know, the central theme of the ‘Terminator’ movies. An ...

The dawn of social media has led to an alarming loosening of the general rules of what is acceptable in terms of column writing When in 2015 I decided to seek ...

There is no space for losers at the head of the Conservative party A week is a long time in politics but it was an eternity last week in the ...

I never thought I’d be writing a column in defence of Donald Trump, but a journalist has to go where the evidence leads. Over the years I have written ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Saudi Arabia has traditionally based its policies on exploiting its natural wealth. Its government/administrative structure rests on the power of the Saud family ...

Gas find in Cronos-1 provides another chance to solve the Cyprus problem You are probably aware that the Italian multinational oil and gas company Eni has recently made a significant ...

And no, she could not have reprieved Evagoras Pallikarides in 1956 Queen Elizabeth may have passed away but some of us of a certain age will remain Elizabethans until “we too ...