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There have been occasional violent episodes in Thai politics and one recent massacre (2010), but the struggle for a genuine democracy has usually been relatively restrained. Maybe that is why it ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE For Cyprus, Ireland and Palestine, Easter and April carry ongoing significance, their history still a living thing because of unresolved political issues. Cypriots and Christian Palestinians ...

Turkey started natural gas production from its own massive Black Sea gasfield Sakarya on 20 April, less than three years after discovery. Sakarya is estimated to hold 710 billion cubic metres (bcm) ...

By Katerina Nicolaou I got him a stainless-steel egg poacher pan, Mrs Maria told me. You turn the boiling water down to a simmer, add eggs to the cups, steam ...

Failure of government to prosecute blatant cases of corruption and nepotism most striking example of crony capitalism on the island By Les Manison Capitalism, also called a free market economy, ...

Cyprus is condemned by history and geopolitics to be a hub of one kind or another. It is a tightrope role that Cypriots negotiate pragmatically and with gusto. Nice to ...

There is genuine incomprehension in the Global South about why West cares so much about the invasion of Ukraine By Gwynne Dyer There is a deep and growing rift between ‘...

“Obviously, this is not a nominal situation,” said John Insprucker, a senior engineer at Space-X, who was doing a webcast on Thursday’s launch attempt of Elon Musk’s gigantic ...

Listening the other day to my favourite breakfast radio show, some listeners asked via text message when will “this farce with the refugee identity in Cyprus” finally end? In other ...

Russians love to litigate in England and the legal profession in London loves Russian litigation as it is extremely lucrative By Alper Ali Riza After the Soviet Union collapsed an ...

In Northern Ireland with a problem similar to the Cyprob, the referendum question on the Good Friday Agreement was much simpler Last week President Nikos Christodoulides told a conference in ...

It is the key measure needed to reduce reliance on pricey fossil-fuels Increased grid flexibility is critical if we are to produce more than 25 per cent of our electricity from ...

By Gwynne Dyer US President Joe Biden is visiting Ireland this week to celebrate an anniversary that almost didn’t happen. Monday was the 25th anniversary of the ‘Good Friday ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Discussions to resolve the Cyprus problem are currently at a standstill, while the work of technical groups on various aspects has been suspended. However, ...

Last year US President Joe Biden called Pakistan “one of the most dangerous countries in the world,” presumably because of its potentially lethal cocktail of nuclear weapons and unstable politics. ...

Last week I was taken to task in the comments section for suggesting a referendum as a ladder for all parties to climb down in the political crisis in Israel ...

Staff seem to have sacrificed quality for quantity in their obsession with the cult of GDP growth The concluding statement of the IMF outlining its preliminary findings at the end ...

Cyprus is about to be hit by a tsunami of new climate targets to be met by 2030 That was the warning at the European Gas Conference in Vienna this week. “...

Netanyahu’s proposals would change the way Supreme Court judges are appointed in favour of political control Some of the best judges in the UK and elsewhere are Jewish. Yet ...

On Saturday Asteroid 2023 DZ2 flew by our planet at 27,000 km per hour, closer to us than it was to the Moon. It was less than one-hundredth of the diameter of ...

He has apologised for misleading Parliament but claims that he did not do so intentionally or recklessly Representative democracy requires a free press and a well-honed Parliament. A free press ...

People aren’t yet suffering enough to give the issue their full attention The final report of the United Nation’s climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE On March 7, just before International Women’s Day, the BBC’s Today programme interviewed three young women who had been flashed. That shock intrusion frighteningly elicited ...

Two new things on the climate front this week, both bad news. Hurricanes used to be like drive-by shootings: one pass, one hit and then gone. Now they’re starting ...