Opinion

By Colin Smith Fifty years ago this weekend I was in Israel covering for the Observer the second week of what became known as the Yom Kippur or Ramadam war ...

Ever since the establishment of the Cyprus Republic, the CyBC had been used as the mouthpiece of the president and the government of the day. Although it likes to call ...

In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine global energy geopolitics and trade flows have undergone massive realignments. With the Western embargo on Russian oil and gas, Europe has ...

Neophytos Loizides, professor in international Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, was interviewed by the Cyprus Mail on the main questions of regional security for Cyprus How do you ...

By Andrew Thomas Hamas’ attack on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War was the deadliest single day in Israeli history. Showers of rockets, kidnappings and indiscriminate killings have ...

By Alex Prior Starmer’s challenge in his speech to the Labour party conference was to present himself as a prime minister in waiting. To achieve this, he had to ...

But it would never work because the RoC would have to relinquish sovereignty over areas not under its effective control, which is just not going to happen – not now, not ...

President Christodoulides’ meeting with the Association of Tourist Enterprises (Stek), also attended by the deputy minister of tourism Costas Koumis, on Thursday had been arranged some time ago. It was ...

By Maria Demertzis The digital euro will likely be a reality in the not-so-distant future. For the European consumer, however, is still unclear what difference it will make to her ...

It was astonishing that terrorist group Hamas called for a ‘global day of rage’ in support of the Palestinians and against Israel on Friday 13 October. If there was to be ...

The government decision to set up a committee to monitor the implementation of the recommendations of the Greco report, on fighting corruption, suggests that someone in the cabinet has a ...

By Chris Dawson One difference between men and women has been well documented by economists, psychologists and biologists – that women tend to be more cautious and take fewer risks. Evidence ...

Nobody likes the imposition of new taxes or the increase in existing ones. Nothing is more certain to unite people against the government than new or higher taxes. Politicians kicked ...

What do Leonardo da Vinci, Mark Twain, Aristotle Onassis, Richard Branson, George Lucas, and Oprah Winfrey have in common? Each kept a journal or diary to record their experiences, thoughts, ...

Until last weekend, the Biden administration was counting on the Middle East to remain relatively calm while it quietly pursued its main policy goals there: brokering Israeli-Saudi detente and containing ...

On Monday this week – in a quiet event and surrounded by family and many dozens of friends and collaborators from across the island – Martin Marancos was laid to rest under ...

The ability of the Christodoulides government to put a positive spin on news related to the Cyprus issue is admirable. It has no such success with other news stories – the ...

Nobody appeared to have been expecting the Hamas attack on Israel on Saturday morning, but even more surprising seems to have been the ease with which the Hamas gunmen cut ...

Hamas gave impression economy was in focus, says source By Samia Nakhoul and Jonathan Saul A careful campaign of deception ensured Israel was caught off guard when the Palestinian Islamist ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The global economy is undergoing a difficult period, characterised by the enduring geopolitical turmoil and uncertainty, which adversely affect energy security and food sufficiency ...

Berlin introduces border controls, eclipsing open-door policy Partly due to electioneering ahead of Sunday votes -analysts Authorities struggle with influx as asylum requests up 80% By Sarah Marsh and Riham Alkousaa ...

In 1973, 50 years ago on Friday, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, coincided with Ramadan, the Islamic lunar month of fasting. But nobody raised an alarm in Israel ...

By Socratis E Socratous and Leontios Charalampidis A few years ago, one of those film series that everyone talked about was The Hunger Games, a movie saga based on the ...

Short-term patchwork government measures to deal with cost-of-living crisis and persistent inequalities are not enough By Les Manison A report by the OECD on “taxing wages” reveals that the increase ...