Opinion

By Luigi Scazzieri Italy’s election on September 25th is likely to result in a right-wing coalition government made up of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, Matteo Salvini’s ...

Nobody would have been surprised to have heard that the opening of the electricity market to independent providers will be postponed yet again. This was meant to have happened in ...

By Sharon Thompson In 1938, a group of feminist agitators came together in London to tackle what they saw as the most pressing issue of their time: inequality in marriage. For ...

By Liam Proud Banks usually make for tricky private equity targets. Turnoffs include demanding regulators and high leverage, which stops buyers from piling on further debt. But when prices are ...

On Monday, about eleven million kilometres from Earth, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will make the first attempt to divert an asteroid from its orbit. But forget ...

There could not have been a more open admission that the so-called ‘special military operation’ was not going well than President Vladimir Putin’s address to the nation on Wednesday. ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE We don’t let our memories, senses and instincts serve us well if we willfully smother them. Natural mental functions, evolved over millennia, can be submerged ...

Saving this fan mussel of significance in the region requires urgent action By Valentina Fossati The fan mussel Pinna nobilis has been an emblematic species of cultural and dietary importance ...

Four of the independent presidential candidates will meet again today in their attempt to join forces behind a single candidate. Achilleas Demetriades, Constantinos Christofides, Marios Eliades and Christodoulos Protopapas, who ...

The equality commissioner was quick to let us know that the gender pay gap in Cyprus was 9 per cent, something which comes up a once a year and many politicians ...

A crashing economy is leading to a growing sense of hopelessness with many not being able to see a way out reports Esra Aygin “From now on, the struggle for ...

Which would be worse: a global nuclear war with all buttons pressed, or real, self-conscious artificial intelligence that goes rogue? You know, the central theme of the ‘Terminator’ movies. An ...

The dawn of social media has led to an alarming loosening of the general rules of what is acceptable in terms of column writing When in 2015 I decided to seek ...

By Andrzej Duda, President of the Republic of Poland The outbreak of the Second World War, which began on September 1, 1939 with the invasion of Poland by the Nazi Third Reich, ...

By St. John Coombes Much of the reason for Brexit was for the UK to ‘take back control’ of borders, money and laws. The reason, so the argument went, was ...

It took 17 years for the state authorities to establish that a 26-year-old National Guard conscript, Thanasis Nicolaou, found dead on the dry riverbed under Alassa bridge, had been strangled. When ...

THE DEVOUT churchgoers and Orthodox fanatics, who have been living on myths spread by monks (also known as prophesies of the holy fathers) about the ‘blond race’ (Russians) liberating Constantinople ...

There is no space for losers at the head of the Conservative party A week is a long time in politics but it was an eternity last week in the ...

Ambassador Liu Yantao explains how China’s complete reunification will be fulfilled Recently, in disregard of China’s stern warnings, some forces hostile to China’s development made provocative visits ...

Residential rents have gone up significantly in the last few months and not just for university students who seem to be the only ones complaining. The arrival of foreign companies, ...

By Boróka Bó For many young people, retirement is a blip on the radar, if not a total unknown. This is particularly true during our cost of living crisis, ...

While the legislature is discussing the pension bill for public employees that was submitted by the government, unions and pressure groups have taken the opportunity to push their long-standing demand ...

Chairman of the House refugees committee Nicos Kettiros had written to the interior ministry last February asking for a list of names of civil servants of the Service for the ...

One of humanity’s greatest mysteries has always been the future. Since the beginning of time, people have attempted to predict what will happen, turning to magic, rituals and prophecies ...