Opinion

Gas has been politicised in the region, losing sight of its commercial value By Charles Ellinas This was the subject of an online event organised by the International Crisis Group (...

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 ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has given the nod to Cyprus’ recovery and resilience plan (RRP), saying it was well balanced and addressed key structural challenges, and was ...

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 ...

A European Union plan to extend carbon pricing to the fuel used in cars and to heat homes is facing a wall of early resistance from countries and lawmakers fearing ...

The new measures decided by the government to try and curb the high number of positive cases, have left businesses holding the baby. Some months ago when the SafePass was ...

Thursday’s announcement by the British government that English holidaymakers no longer have to self-isolate on their return from countries it has put on the amber list, including Cyprus, is ...

It didn’t take long for the new parliament to fall back into regurgitating old agendas. Top of the list for opposition MPs yet again this week is a further ...

Eight days ago, it rained over the western Pacific Ocean near Japan. There was nothing especially remarkable about this rain event, yet it made big waves twice. First, it disturbed ...

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 ...

Although the president has agreed to call a meeting of the National Council to discuss ways to save Varosha, the takeaway from discussions on Tuesday with the municipality appeared to ...

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 deadly fire that broke out in Arakapas at the weekend ended in a terrible tragedy – four lives lost, scores of homes burnt down across ten communities and 55 square kilometres ...

Why the current UFO craze may be a problem of intelligence failings By Kyle Cunliffe It’s safe to say that UFOs, now branded UAPs, are back. In recent years, ...

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 ...

By Matt Williams The US is edging closer by the day to seeing half of its population fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Although vaccination rates differ from state to state, the ...

The government’s latest Covid-19 measures, explicitly intended as incentives for people to get vaccinated, are problematic, both in themselves and what they represent. Firstly, of course, it’s unfair ...

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 ...

Any time a story about the Athalassa psychiatric hospital in Nicosia is published, it rarely anything positive. To start with, how many times have we read that staff were being ...

It will surprise no one, we suspect, that Cyprus has missed yet another deadline for enforcing an EU directive. From Saturday, July 3, Cyprus is supposed to be a single use ...

As a kid on school holidays to the Orient and all through my professional life I was required by international laws to have a booklet which showed I was up-to-date ...