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There is an urgent need to open lines of communication and bring this war to an end By Alper Ali Riza Ukraine has been pleading for help from Nato and ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou For some women removing their clothes in front of a stranger may not be a big deal; they’re relaxed about their ...

From occupation to thousands of refugees Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has invaded Ukraine and foreclosed his and everybody else’s other options, certain aspects of the near future ...

In the aftermath of this crisis Europe will be even more determined to accelerate transition to renewables and clean energy The unthinkable, and probably illogical, happened. Russia has finally invaded ...

Open letter to the Commissioner of Taxation By Christos P. Panayiotides and Nicos G. Syrimis Dear Mr Georgios Panteli, A major problem has confronted Cyprus since 2004, the year in which ...

His decision to invade Ukraine has made the task of criticising Nato difficult, but the reality is that Nato is not innocent I am happy to don sackcloth and ashes ...

Because the Taliban have been designated as ‘terrorists’, it is possible for the United States not only to embargo American aid and trade to Afghanistan, but also to block or ...

Diko seeks a ‘regulatory role’ in politics, but the party leader’s recent comments reveal why that should not happen I watched with interest the interview of Nicolas Papadopoulos, president ...

Brexit provides no reasonable justification for depriving British expats in Cyprus of the right to vote in municipal elections Brexit is no justification for disenfranchising British permanent residents settled in ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou Teens rush to grow up, the old often long for past youth and decisions we’d alter if we could. Inbetween years ...

The island does reasonably well against its own clean targets because so far it has been setting the bar very low By Charles Ellinas Cyprus’ distorted renewables market was led ...

Open letter addressed to the attorney-general of the Republic Dear Mr Giorgos Savvides, I am monitoring the issue of the resettlement of the Famagustians in their properties, within the fenced-off ...

For Britain, the Queen has been a source of strength and continuity for 70 years By Alper Ali Riza 2022 is the Queen’s platinum jubilee year. She has been served by 12 ...

By Gwynne Dyer I generally leave the psychohistory to Hari Seldon, but just this once I feel sufficiently motivated to venture into the field. The immediate spur for this departure ...

By Gwynne Dyer Military coups are back in fashion in Africa. There have been over 200 attempted coups in the continent since 1960, about half of them successful, but in the past ...

The former foreign minister’s hardline policies on Cyprus issue were a failure. He should not stand for president By Christos Panayiotides In the summer of 1962, I had the great ...

By Patricia Jordan February already and what lot of rain we have had since the start of the year! It’s all good for the dams, aquifers and wells, but ...

The current project has a long, and likely tortuous, way to go This is further to my article in the Cyprus Mail last Sunday. Since then, the debate over the ...

From being a gang-rape victim, the complainant was interviewed as a suspect By Alper Ali Riza By a majority of two to one the Supreme Court of Cyprus quashed the ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannides Apparently Boris Johnson, British PM of Turkish ancestry, can rattle off chunks of the Iliad – in Greek. I don’t memorise, I ...

Following a highly controversial tendering process, the island’s €290million LNG project was handed in December 2019 to a consortium led by China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Company (CPPE), a pipeline construction ...

Trial by social media and news websites has become the disturbing norm By Christos Panayiotides The biological urge to reproduce is the mechanism that nature has provided to secure the ...

The effects of the Covid pandemic have exposed and exacerbated income inequalities in Cyprus including large remuneration disparities between employees in the higher-paid public sector and those in the private ...

Those who cannot understand Russia’s security fears over Nato’s expansion into East Europe are either not fair minded or unhistorical By Alper Ali Riza Nato has absorbed every ...