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Opinion

Ceausescu’s party, now in right-wing colours?

I’ll hold my hands up: Giorgos Pamborides’s reply to Yiannis Karousos was a textbook comeback. Razor-sharp. Because that, it...
World

Nikolas Molfetas: Despite midterm defeat, Trumpism endures

Donald Trump talks about the new White House ballroom and the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial....
World

Israeli president picks Gadi Eisenkot, Netanyahu rival, to try to form government

Israel's president on Saturday chose Gadi Eisenkot, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strongest rival, to try to form a new...
World

US anti-trans ballot wins pose challenge for Democrats ahead of 2028

Voters in four US states approved ballot measures to restrict transgender rights in Tuesday's midterm elections, sending a warning...
World

New Zealand election first count ends with two main parties nearly deadlocked

New Zealand's ruling centre-right National Party and main opposition Labour were nearly deadlocked in the popular vote after initial...
Opinion

Democracy always finds a way to correct itself

What really happened in the United States on 3 November may be simpler than the hundreds of analyses churned...
Opinion

Another one for Karavostasi

Plenty of people were asking yesterday, most of them half in jest, what Averof Neofytou will do if the...
Opinion

Cyprus push for the last mile hinges on Ankara

We are watching every contact, meeting and conversation on the Cyprus problem closely. For the Greek Cypriot side, the...
Op-eds

Intellectually closed, not intellectually incapable

By Dina-Perla Portnaar* When political convictions lose sight of their moral limits, the extremes can marginalise the political middle. Those...
Opinion

The rotating presidency, in its most dazzling disguise

Sotiris Paroutis, who made a programme about the rotating presidency (good for him!), asked Niyazi Kizilyurek about the insecurity...
Opinion

Blackmail, Averof’s belly laugh, Annita’s broken record and looming defeat

For a month now we have watched the backstabbing in the DISY camp on Pindarou Street. All the while,...
World

Trump faces midterm verdict with control of Congress at stake

American voters will deliver a verdict on the first two years of President Donald Trump's second term in Tuesday's...
World

As Europe’s right advances, Germany’s AfD rethinks its anti-euro roots

The far-right Alternative for Germany, founded more than a decade ago in opposition to the EU's handling of the...
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