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THE WAY THINGS ARE Some in Cyprus won’t say they have adopted a baby, perhaps from the need to protect the child’s assumed identity or their private business. ...

Τhe EuroAsia Interconnector and Cyprus’ 2030 Energy Plan Cyprus issued its draft updated National Energy and Climate Plan, 2021-2030, (NECP) for public consultation on July 21 and to the European Commission (EC) ...

“The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine,” wrote Sextus Empiricus, a Sceptic philosopher who lived mainly in Athens and Alexandria almost 2,000 years ago. Justice may ...

The much-indicted septuagenarian former US president Donald Trump is running for president against the incumbent octogenarian Joe Biden in the 2024 race to the White House proving there is still life ...

It hurts the economy, society and the environment Under the democratic system of Cyprus the executive and legislative branches of government are elected by the people to serve the people. ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides With the end of the pandemic, the accumulated demand, and increased savings, partly as a result of the significant government support packages, led to ...

The Cyprus Supreme Court: The applicants were born in Cyprus on either side of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus of July 20, 1974 and are descended from parents who are of mixed ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE For those who can’t afford hours of expensive aircon, the heat is hell. Are you a ticking pollution time bomb adding to climate crime? Mediterranean ...

Even though the final results of the successful appraisal drilling of the Aphrodite gasfield earlier this year have not yet been formally announced, development of Aphrodite appears to be getting ...

“It’s not perfect, but it’s good. We’ve done something really good here,” said El Salvador’s vice-president, Felix Ulloa, defending the government’s no-quarter war against the ...

Burning the holy Quran or any other holy book is a violent expression of hatred of believers by setting fire to the symbol of their faith and not a lawful ...

The protesters in Israel came out every week for seven months to fight what they saw as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s assault on democracy, but they lost. On Monday ...

It is lagging far behind when it comes to environment and sustainability By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The growth of GDP as the main objective of macroeconomic policy is ...

Courts in Israel have developed it beyond the confines of absurdity The political turmoil in Israel came to a climax last week when its parliament, the Knesset, passed a controversial ...

THE WAYS THINGS ARE Maari, hyperventilating, called from her retreat on Troodos. She’d been in her garden having a smoke, when a soundless, fluid presence passed through her plants ...

The best chance since 2013 that Aphrodite may actually resurface – maybe One of our big problems is that governments often talk about developing our gasfields as if they are in full ...

An enforceable tax on wealth, a serious clampdown on tax evasion, combatting the public sector payroll and improving the minimum pay system are all crucial Income inequalities are dominated by ...

“Europe is threatened by anti-European mobs who destroy police stations, burn libraries and stab babies,” explained Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain’s far-right Vox Party and the bogeyman in ...

Those songs of summer say it best These days the heat of the summer months is too much for anyone to venture out while the Sun beats down at temperatures ...

But in the UK it has been a long road to get there, and could only help Huw Edwards as far as his conscience allowed Huw Edwards was the unnamed ...

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 ...