Alper Ali Riza

History repeated itself as farce at the White House last Thursday during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for talks with President Trump at the Oval Office. As ...

In war truth is the first casualty except for the US war on Iran on February 28, when the first casualties were primary school girls killed in their classrooms in southern ...

No one believes that Iran was planning to attack the US and Israel imminently on Saturday a week ago, justifying the pre-emptive attack on Iran while negotiations were in progress ...

As the US and Israel attack Iran and many of its people are conflicted about what should happen to their government, no patriotic Iranian welcomes the bombing of their country ...

Technically he should have been asked to attend a police station as is normal police procedure in white-collar criminal cases Prince Andrew was arrested on his 66th birthday last Thursday ...

The last time a Labour prime minister came under pressure to resign like Keir Starmer did last week, was when Harold Wilson faced a backbench revolt over trade union reform ...

Peter Mandelson is likely to be charged with offences of misconduct in public office (MiPO) for leaking highly sensitive market information he received as a UK cabinet minister in the ...

The purpose of political equality in any Cyprus talks is to strike a fair balance between two rival but unequal communities condemned by history and geography to share a small ...

To understand the geopolitical conundrum over Greenland you need a globe of planet Earth and a summary of the judgement of the Permanent Court of International Justice in Denmark v ...

Iran is in the news again. This time because the bazaar joined protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran and many protesters have been reported killed and seriously injured. The ...

A hierarchy of laws in the US can leave treaties up to interpretation Does international law matter to the US? That is the question in the time of Trump’s ...

Although the recent teenage glorification of Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology at a school in Larnaca in Cyprus is nothing new among teenagers, or confined to Cyprus, the attraction of ...

A review of the year and predicting the shape of things to come in 2026 and beyond must begin with events at home. The Cyprus Mail is of course a Cypriot ...

Defamation is a niche branch of the law for the rich and powerful but the $5 billion claim by President Trump against the BBC for defaming him is off the scale. ...

President Trump’s National Security Strategy 2025 is a brief policy statement about a hugely controversial shift in US foreign policy away from the EU and Nato in favour of sovereign ...

The UK justice minister, David Lammy, told parliament last Tuesday that the government is minded to remove the right to jury trial for all offences for which the sentence was ...

The country does not recognise same-sex marriages or civil unions Poland is a devoutly Catholic country and its laws on same sex marriage are less tolerant of homosexuality than other ...

The UK government’s new interior minister Shabana Mahmood was asked rhetorically whether she would be applying to join the anti-immigration populist party Reform UK as a backhanded compliment after ...

President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Airforce One on Friday that he will sue the BBC for between $1 and $5 billion for cheating and putting words in his mouth in a ...

Cyprus’ stint at the helm of the rotating presidency a lesson in political equality “The Cypriots know they cannot become a world power; but they have succeeded in becoming a ...

Last Thursday Britain’s King Charles III initiated the process by which he will deprive his brother of all titles including that of prince. Henceforth he will be known as ...

Federalism is back on the agenda after the election of Tufan Erhurman as “TRNC president” by a landslide comparable to the resounding approval Turkish Cypriots gave the UN-EU sponsored bicommunal ...

Abandoning a criminal prosecution is as controversial in England as it has been in the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) where there is a proposal to transfer the prosecutorial function of ...

Katie Clerides who died last week was a rare bird. Her father was the Greek Cypriot president of the Republic of Cyprus 1993-2003 and her mother was from India which ...