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The beginning of the end of Pax Americana President Vladimir Putin of Russia on a state visit to China declared a new era in international relations. Well, he would say ...

Last week a despairing reader asked me if the solution to the ‘Middle East Problem’ might be to throw money at it: just buy the Palestinians out. Offer every Palestinian ...

This is the second time this year I feel compelled to write about the development of – or lack of – the Aphrodite gas field. This is the fifth attempt made by ...

“Just like this year, last year the heat wave extended from parts of India to Bangladesh and Myanmar, and all the way to Thailand. This year it went further east, ...

Politics in the UK turned farcical last week when Natalie Elphicke, the Conservative member for Dover, defected to the Labour Party. In the jargon, she crossed the floor and sat ...

Israeli leaders are waiting with bated breath to find out if the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is going to issue arrest warrants against some of them for ...

Following successive interest rate hikes and the policy of gradual quantitative easing in the developed economies over the last two years, emerging macroeconomic conditions appear to be conducive for a ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The EU has evolved relatively slowly and gradually over time, from a trade agreement between a small number of states in the 1950s, to ...

I participated at FLAME 2024, Europe’s lead natural gas conference, in Amsterdam end April. The theme of the conference was ‘Navigating the energy trilemma’ and LNG featured prominently. A key ...

“Without extinction, there would likely be insufficient ecological ‘space’ available for new species.” What? Is this person saying that extinction is a good thing? But what about the scarlet-throated goat-botherer? ...

The Annan experience was devastating for Turkish Cypriots. Who can blame them for being cynical about future talks? If we take August 1960 as the year of the shotgun wedding between ...

They could do more to support economy and citizens Over the last two years the Cyprus government has produced mounting surpluses and boosted substantially its cash balances at banks. And ...

West’s foreign policy blunders to blame for migrant crisis What to do about boat people? The problem is not as overwhelming in UK as it is in the Mediterranean ...

Extreme nationalism always looks foolish or even deranged to those who have not caught the virus, but in India it’s now official. In January, India’s Ministry of Defence ...

It is extraordinary that the West still buys into the idea that it was necessary and proportionate for the defence of Israel to destroy Gaza The UN Charter which was ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Why wasn’t Joe Biden’s ‘Outrage and heartbreak!’ at the brutal death of seven foreign aid workers the reaction of a man who suffered family ...

Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s ‘Supreme Leader’, is embarrassed and humiliated by the complete failure of his drone and missile attack on Israel, but does US President Joe Biden have the ...

Egypt desperately needs a major gas discovery to shore up its declining production The submission of the updated development plan for the Aphrodite gasfield by Chevron at the beginning of ...

History is mostly a matter of dates, and the key date is always that of the last conquest. All previous conquests are then magically forgiven and forgotten. This observation is ...

Describing herself as an accidental politician, the head of Belarus’ government in exile was in Cyprus this week drumming up support against the country’s leader, who she accuses of ...

Court decided that there was a risk that the Israeli government harboured intention to destroy the Palestinians of Gaza as a group Last week this column reported on an open ...

What should you do when your government assures you that everything is under control and says there is no need to buy generators, stock up on food and withdraw money ...

Egypt has traditionally attracted significant interest, due to its distinctive historical and cultural weight, the sheer size of the country’s area and population, its geopolitical location and its control ...

There are plenty of crazies in Russian politics who make bizarre claims about their country’s victim status (“the evil West made us do it”) and issue blood-curdling but implausible ...