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By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Three years after defaulting on its repayments, Zambia recently reached a debt relief deal. The end of the impasse over the African nation’s ...

THEWAY THINGS ARE Going to her parked car, a teacher overheard a boy talking to pals, not about the usual social media trends but politics, and she could see where ...

The two-day Israeli military incursion into the Palestinian city of Jenin in the northern West Bank (12 Palestinians killed, one Israeli dead) seems at first glance like just another example of ‘...

It was obvious refugees could not be deported to Rwanda and that dangerous refugee criminals are eminently deportable but not an elected MEP Refugee decisions from the top courts in ...

By Gwynne Dyer “I said to Putin: ‘We could waste [Prigozhin], no problem. If not on the first try, then on the second.’ I told him: ‘Don’t do this’,” ...

Wealth inequality is much more severe than income inequality There are many reasons why high and increasing economic inequality is a worrying phenomenon. It can be a problem in itself, ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides With the advent of ChatGPT in November 2022, the discussions around artificial intelligence have intensified. Significant benefits appear to be in the pipeline in terms ...

The very Russian coup attempt that fizzled out halfway on the road to Moscow The Wagner Group that mounted a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin last week gets its ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE I’m a little confused about the ‘free’ aspect of Gesy; I stand ready for correction. When I asked around I was told everyone pays the ...

By Gwynne Dyer “I believe the (Iranian) regime will fall within a couple of years,” said Mohsen Sazegara. “It’s very different from three years ago, when they suppressed demonstrations ...

But the Turkish side needs to be persuaded that although the RoC and Greece are EU members and Turkey and the ‘TRNC’ are outsiders, the EU is not institutionally biased ...

One cannot fault the energy minister for lack of ideas, other than his fixation on natural gas. He made that his priority immediately on taking over the ministry, as the ...

We’re not surprised when religious zealots in some benighted part of the American heartland ban the teaching of evolution in the local school, but what could have possessed the ...

The important parliamentary elections in Greece will take place on June 25. This time, the electoral system will be better balanced between proportionally representing in parliament all the political forces of ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides For more than a century, oil has retained its international position as the main source of energy, utilised, among other things, for fuelling vehicles, ...

They are a small price to pay for incorruptible democracy that allows them to prosper Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are rare birds. They are big beasts politically, but flawed ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE A piece in The Irish Times spoke of what I miss about Ireland: the hometown of my childhood and teen years. What would I miss if ...

The furious speculation on whether the Ukrainian counteroffensive will succeed has been ongoing for several months already, so the first thing I must tell you is that I don’t ...

Despite challenges, the latest plans for the development of Aphrodite are more serious and realistic Aphrodite is back in the limelight. On May 31 NewMed submitted an updated development plan to ...

California’s fall from grace has been steep and swift, and now even the insurance companies are pulling out. The two biggest American home insurance companies, State Farm and Allstate, ...

If it is a war crime, it has strong echoes of Britain’s bombing of Rhur valley in WWII For unreconstructed Anglophiles like myself Dambusters was a heroic British operation ...

By Les Manison Newly elected President Nikos Christodoulides promised in his campaign that his government would be one of “broad social acceptance”. For the economy this should mean a situation ...

Artificial General Intelligence would perceive human beings in roughly the same way as we see plants. By Gwynne Dyer I’m looking at a headline this morning that screams ‘AI ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Demographic trends, most notably the declining trend of indigenous populations, mainly due to low birth rates, is a key challenge for all developed countries. ...