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What a relief that the land swaps, which US President Donald Trump had talked about before and after his meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska as the way to ...

Power cuts, not exceeding 30 minutes, were made in different parts of the country every day in the last fortnight by the Transmission System Operator (TSO). This was necessary to avoid ...

On August 16, 1974 the second stage of Turkey’s invasion was completed drawing the divided line that still exists unchanged, 51 years later. There have been massive changes on both sides of ...

US President Donald Trump does not do conventional diplomacy, either because he does not have the patience for it or because he believes there is another way for resolving international ...

The union representing the best-paid employees in Cyprus, Etyk, has a policy of always demanding more. This policy has obviously served bank workers very well over the years, with even ...

He may have stopped being president two-and-a-half years ago and leader of Disy more than 10 years ago but Nicos Anastasiades seems incapable of accepting that his political career is over, ...

The muted reaction in the Republic to the arrest of the five Greek Cypriots in the north last month on trumped-up charges came as a surprise. If this had happened 10 ...

A few days after the Limassol fire, President Christodoulides addressed the public from the presidential residence in Troodos, with the solemn-looking community leaders of the affected villages standing around him. ...

President Donald Trump said “great progress was made” in Wednesday’s talks on ending the war in Ukraine between his special envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Nothing ...

Many were surprised to hear that President Christodoulides had asked the United States government to send a team of experts to conduct investigations on how the recent fires started, evaluate ...

Three days have passed since an anti-occupation gathering organised by Famagusta municipality but the negative comments by political parties continue. They have all expressed their disapproval of the “unacceptable” views ...

The arrest of the five Greek Cypriots by the occupation authorities last week has put the Cyprus government in a rather difficult position. Even more difficult after the military court ...

Defence Minister Vassilis Palmas announced on Tuesday that he would be submitting a declaration of interest to the European Commission with regard to the Security Action for Europe (SAFE), the ...

The main reason there had been no Public Warning System (PWS) in operation during last week’s wildfires, to issue people in the middle of the blaze with much-needed information, ...

Cyprus’ pharmacists on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of keeping the absurd opening hours, which forces all pharmacies to close between 1.30pm and 3pm every day except on Wednesdays and ...

When US President Donald Trump, the most ardent supporter of Israel in its war on Hamas, openly questions the narrative about the famine in Gaza being promoted by Israeli Prime ...

The general consensus is that the US-EU trade deal agreed on Sunday by US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was a triumph for US, ...

There have been many calls from several quarters for the resignations of those responsible for the perceived failure of last week’s firefighting operations. These calls did not always focus ...

The government has been vilified for the perceived failure to contain the wildfire that broke out in Malia village around lunchtime on Wednesday and spread in the hills north of ...

It was at the beginning of June that government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis, speaking about the country’s firefighting capability, boasted that the government was “at absolute operational readiness with strengthened ...

Good results in the Pancyprian exams are not necessary for all the places available at the two public universities. There are departments at these public universities that take students who ...

We doubt there is any political party or individual deputy unaware of the article in the constitution, preventing the passing of bills that would lead to unbudgeted state spending. It ...

Tax revenue must be steadily rising, and the government has more money to spend than it had budgeted. There can be no other explanation for the bizarre decision to offer ...

General secretary of Sek union federation Andreas Matsas had an article published in Monday’s Politis, in which he demonstrated his role as the chief salesman of the automatic price ...