Opinion

In democracies people get the leaders they deserve Standards in public life have reached rock bottom in the US and UK. A convicted felon is poised to win the US ...

OUR DELUSIONS of grandeur hit red after the Prezniktwo’s meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House last Wednesday. Our constantly growing geostrategic/regional/diplomatic footprint, combined with ...

By Simone Tagliapietra and Cecilia Trasi  It has become clear that the European Union’s pursuit of a triple goal of decarbonisation, competitiveness and security requires better integration of the ...

From the moment the official visit of President Nikos Christodoulides to the White House for a meeting with President Joe Biden was announced, the president, his spokesmen and their media ...

By Carol Johnson, University of Adelaide Having a female presidential candidate has made gender obvious in this US presidential election, even to many who normally neglect its role. The specific ...

Our political parties never cease to amaze us. On Thursday they voted through a bill proposal that would increase the number of penalty points needed for the suspension of someone’...

The Tax office announced on Wednesday that the next day’s deadline for submission of 2023 tax returns had been put back by a month to November 30. Press reports had suggested ...

By Primrose Freestone Toothbrushes and showerheads in modern homes are teeming with viruses known as bacteriophages (bacteria eaters), a new study has found. Many of these ‘phages’ – as they’re ...

There had been 18 instances of attacks on delivery drivers since the start of the year said Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis. Fifteen of these had taken place in Limassol – the latest ...

By Kelly Jakubowski Even if we haven’t heard them for many years, familiar songs often stick with us for life. We can often recall every lyric to songs we ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will be the first president of Cyprus to pay an official visit to the White House in 28 years, when he meets President Joe Biden on Wednesday afternoon. ...

Student parades were held in all towns on Monday to celebrate Oxi Day – the rejection of Mussolini’s ultimatum to Greece on October 28, 1940 – which led to Greece’s victorious war ...

By James Oliphant With his third straight U.S. presidential campaign coming down to the wire, Donald Trump mused at a rally about hydrogen-powered cars exploding, lamented how difficult it ...

It has been over two-and-a-half years since ExxonMobil last drilled in Cyprus’ EEZ, but the company is about to come back. In an interview earlier this month the minister of ...

A meeting of the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives on October 7, 2024 discussed the proposal of the general secretary of Akel, Stefanos Stefanou, for the levying of a temporary ...

By Euripides Evriviades There is Nato, known to all, with 32 members. There is also the Nato Partnership for Peace, known to most, with 18 members. There is also the Nato Partners, ...

By Thomas Gift Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX recently made history by catching a Starship rocket booster as it careened back to Earth, wants you to vote for Donald Trump ...

If you believe the British government (which you should never do), a new agreement will bring justice for the people of the Chagos Islands, who have lived in exile for ...

I have been reading your articles about the phone banning in schools which is a great move by the ministry of education and has received the approval of the parliament. ...

Antonio Guterres is probably the best UN secretary-general since Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden who was killed in an air crash trying to bring peace to the Congo. Guterres’ attendance ...

IF THERE are any people who still believe Prezniktwo actually means what he says, they should get their personal doctor to book an appointment with a brain specialist to have ...

If the Cyprus problem could be solved with platitudes, political gimmicks and the repetition of slogans, President Nikos Christodoulides would have finalised the settlement months ago. These are the tools ...

By Tristan Dunning, Martin Kear and Shannon Brincat While the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could have provided an off-ramp for the conflict in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

By Luigi Scazzieri A year after Hamas launched its October 7th attack on Israel, the Middle East is on the edge of a broader war. For a time, Europeans and ...