Opinion

The events which have been unfolding in the Middle East between Israel and Iran are not just another regional flare-up. They are not episodic. They are systemic. The Israeli-Iranian confrontation, ...

Gold has taken centre stage in recent economic developments, as its value has risen steeply. Since the beginning of 2024, gold prices have increased by more than 60 per cent, reflecting the ...

The world has long tried to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and rightly so. US President Donald Trump never ceases to proclaim that had he been president in 2022, the ...

In Cyprus, immunity from challenge is a hangover from colonial times Thanasis Nicolaou, a newly conscripted soldier in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) national guard was found dead under Alassa ...

WHEN reports appeared a few weeks ago about a police raid on the home of a senior prison warden which uncovered a large amount of graded state documents, that should ...

Whether it’s merely a populist gesture a year out from the 2026 parliamentary elections or a genuine desire for more accountability, Dipa MP Marinos Mousiouttas’ bill to pressure deputies into ...

The state’s plan for so-called sustainable development of the environmentally sensitive Akamas has been so bad it brings to mind the old joke: “They couldn’t organise a beer ...

Akel raised an issue that nobody has ever dared talk about at last weekend’s party conference – the unregulated and uncontrolled sale of real estate to third country nationals. It ...

The de-escalation everyone had been demanding was achieved by the ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump in the early hours of Tuesday. Early violations of the ceasefire that caused Trump ...

The Irish celebrated Bloomsday on June 16 honouring James Joyce’s unique publication Ulysses. It’s a rare day dedicated to a work of art, now evolving into a week’s ...

The EU’s ‘substantive and more active involvement’ in the efforts to resume negotiations on the Cyprus problem could have a high added value for the efforts of the UNSG’...

Akel held its 24th Pancyprian conference at the weekend, electing a new central committee and re-electing its leader Stefanos Stefanou with 96.4 per cent of the vote. This was a mobilisation ...

In the 1980s, there was a joke doing the rounds among IT people like myself. The Cray supercomputer was asked the ultimate question: “Is there a god? Does it exist?” ...

By Miranda Xafa  In a recent article (“The Global Role of the Dollar After the Tramp Tariffs”) I discussed the possibility of a “Mar-a-Lago” accord, proposed by President Trump’s ...

In a bid to defuse the conflict over Iran’s nuclear program, foreign ministers from Europe’s top three powers hurried to meet their Iranian counterpart on Friday in Geneva. ...

By Euripides L Evriviades Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Cyprus – India’s first in over two decades and the first of an Indian PM since Cyprus joined the ...

I’ve seen this movie already. I don’t want to see it again. “They lied,” said Donald Trump in 2016, running for the Republican presidential nomination against the neo-cons in ...

By Dr Andreas Procopiou In recent weeks, public discourse in Cyprus around the future of the electricity market has been flooded with voices suggesting we should “freeze” electricity prices, just ...

The bursting of interrelated credit and property bubbles has caused financial crises in the US and certain European countries, including Cyprus, in recent decades. The epicentre of the global financial ...

When a war of words gets out of hand an actual war usually follows. The war of words between Iran and Israel has been going on for many years and ...

PREZNIKTWO’S delusions of world statesmanship were dealt a vicious blow (thankfully it was not fatal, and some delusions survived) last weekend when Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei suggested ...

The foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK met their Iranian counterpart Abbas Araqchi in Geneva on Friday, in an attempt to open a path back to diplomacy for ...

At the time of writing, US President Donald Trump is deliberating over whether to join Israel’s air campaign to destroy Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme. This is already ...

Nobody should have been surprised to be listening to Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou taking credit for the 13 per cent increase in the average salary in the last two years. It ...