Opinion

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 ...

In the end, the education ministry surrendered to the teaching unions over the evaluation system, the bill for which it had submitted to the House for approval. As expected, the ...

By Panagiota Steliou More and more young professionals today are rejecting the traditional pursuit of climbing the corporate ladder for job security and financial growth – a path that appealed more ...

The council of ministers on Wednesday approved another bill that would supposedly deal with the controversial issue of multiple pensions. What was approved by the cabinet, could still be changed ...

Defending the president’s diplomatic blunder about Iran’s alleged message, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos criticised the opposition parties for focusing on this while completely ignoring the Russian Federation’s ...

President Christodoulides’ relentless efforts to give the Cyprus Republic and himself a ‘role’ in international affairs backfired at the weekend, when the spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry issued a ...

It is now official. The commercial operation of Cyprus’ Competitive Electricity Market commences on September 15, with the first trading day on October 1. It took an inordinate length of time to ...

During the past two weeks US President Donald Trump exhibited everything one would expect of him. Unfortunately, expecting things to happen cannot prepare you for the feelings of utter dismay ...

At the age of 99, the documentary film-maker David Attenborough has achieved his greatest triumph. With a single film clip, he has signed the death warrant for one of the world’...

By Crispian Balmer, Maayan Lubell, Michael Martina and Matt Spetalnick Israel’s surprise attack on Iran had an obvious goal of sharply disrupting Tehran’s nuclear programme and lengthening the ...

In last week’s Tales from the Coffeeshop, Patroclos asked rhetorically: is everyone who publicly repeats some wild allegation about the courts investigated for contempt? To which the answer is ...

The agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, effective from February 1, 2020, left a strong political and economic imprint on the EU and, an even deeper ...

By Emilios Charalambous and Maria Aristidou In February 2025, the European Commission presented the Omnibus Simplification Packages, a new bundle of legislative proposals aimed at easing the sustainability-related compliance obligations imposed ...

I HAVE to say that what is going on in our region is rather scary. From some parts of Kyproulla apparently you could see the missiles flying in the direction ...

The Christodoulides government has a tendency of treating everything as theatre. On Friday, after the news of Israel’s air strikes on Iran, the government spokesman posted on ‘X’ that “...

By Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi Israel has gutted Iran’s nuclear and military leadership with airstrikes that leave a weakened Tehran with few options to retaliate, including an all-out ...

Although an Israeli attack on Iran was seen as a possibility it still seems to have taken most of the world by surprise when it happened in the early hours ...

Dr Louisa Borg Haviaras Recently President Nikos Christodoulides was in London to launch the ‘Minds in Cyprus’ initiative, with the aim of bringing talented Cypriots back to their country.   This ...

Iran once ridiculed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the boy who cried wolf for his constant public warnings about Tehran’s nuclear programme, and his repeated threats to shut ...

Another decision was issued by the European Court of Human Rights, after an application by the owner of an apartment block in Varosha. It ordered Turkey to pay compensation of €18,000 ...