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By Gwynne Dyer Five times in the past two weeks, government soldiers in Badakhshan and Takhar provinces in northern Afghanistan have fled across the border into Tajikistan after clashes with ...

Where lives are at risk the state has a legal obligation to take measures to protect the public By Alper Ali Riza The legal obligation to wear a mask in ...

By Christos P Panayiotides Mr President, I am one of the many Greek Cypriots, who are unreservedly against any form of ethnic or religious discrimination at the expense of any ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou I don’t pry into the private affairs of friends or ask about political affiliations. During the coup in 1974, it was a revelation ...

We simply no longer live in normal ecological times and must act accordingly as fires are set to become more and more likely With the smoke barely gone from the ...

First the ‘heat dome’, with temperatures in the mid-to-high forties Celsius in many parts of western North America for up to a week (49.6°C in Lytton, BC). Then, when the ...

The future of Varosha is out of the government’s control The story of the fenced-off part of Famagusta highlights the enormous incompetence and lack of foresight by Greek Cypriot ...

The most blatant and revealing crisis of democracy plaguing our own country and its natives was unwittingly formulated by the UK’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who last week stepped ...

From Covid hypocrisy at the very top of government to a longed-for win over Germany Last week was an extraordinary week in England even in these extraordinary times. On Sunday ...

Every legislative act has four related but distinct dimensions Despite the visible risk of boring you, I beg you to allow me to revert on the subject of my last ...

Any new gas infrastructure runs the risk of becoming a stranded asset It is ironic that at a time when natural gas is under existential attack in Europe, high prices ...

A parallel state of the Republic in northern Cyprus is one where it is not power that is shared with the RoC, but values, laws and system of governance Searching ...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis central banks substantially lowered interest rates to support the recovery of their economies. In fact, the ECB by September 2015 had reduced its ...

At the recent G7 summit, US president Joe Biden promised to distribute 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines free to the poorer countries by the middle of next year. That’s ...

Systemic corruption poisons values, erodes rule of law, distorts the market, discourages investment and productivity and reduces standard of living Kleptocracy is a form of government in which the leaders, ...

There are simply too many diverging aims and electoral and legislative weaknesses for it to work There are many who consistently argue that a “government of national unity” will help ...

The European Championship 2020 is being played in 2021 for obvious reasons but better late than never. They did not augur well when Christian Eriksen of Denmark suffered a cardiac arrest in ...

With Phoenician blood in their veins, Cypriots should be particularly wary of falling into the digital currency trap By Christos P. Panayiotides I have little doubt that part of the ...

The hope and/or fear that ‘aliens are among us’ had its heyday in the 1950s but is making a comeback By Gwynne Dyer The silly season has come early ...

June is developing into a crucial month for the East Med and its geopolitics involving Turkey, Greece and Cyprus By Charles Ellinas At a recent Senate hearing, US Secretary of ...

Infringements highlighted by the EU over sale of golden passports may not be solid in law By Alper Ali Riza The golden passports scandal is a misnomer. A passport is ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou The Bee Gees, as denigrated as they were loved, wrote a song called ‘Words’ a line of which goes, ‘Talk in everlasting ...

It’s not Bretton Woods, but it’s a start. The decision by the finance ministers of the G7 countries to create a global minimum tax rate on corporate profits ...

Hourly pay for managers is over five times more than for elementary workers – the highest ratio in the EU. The much-heralded Cyprus Tomorrow plan must narrow that gap It is ...