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‘Nobody’s running the country’ said Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh complained on Saturday decrying the chaos and violence that are spreading right across the nation. At the ...

Recent developments have seen one major manufacturer’s high-end graphics cards becoming easier to find, with the increased availability being reflected in a gradual drop and stabilisation in terms of ...

Oil prices dipped on Friday and ended the week little changed after weathering concerns from banks and the International Energy Agency that the spread of coronavirus variants is slowing oil ...

A former official has accused the Turkish Statistical Institute (Turkstat) of manipulating inflation data, Ahval reported on Wednesday. Turkey’s last inflation report in July was at 18.95 per cent. This ...

Poly Network, the cryptocurrency platform which lost $610 million in a hack earlier this week, confirmed on Friday it had offered the hacker or hackers a $500,000 “bug bounty”. In a statement, ...

Amazon Studios (AMZN.O) said on Friday the second season of its multi-million dollar “Lord of the Rings” television series will be filmed in the United Kingdom, moving fictional ‘Middle ...

Britain’s Gatwick Airport urged the government to make international travel easier after lockdown restrictions drove it to a first-half loss of 245 million pounds ($338 million) and forced it to ask ...

Walt Disney Co earnings on Thursday topped Wall Street forecasts for the most recent quarter as its streaming services picked up more customers than expected and pandemic-hit US theme parks ...

Hackers behind one of the biggest ever digital coin heists have now returned nearly all of the $610 million-plus they stole, Poly Network, the cryptocurrency platform targeted earlier this week by ...

The Federal Reserve will announce a plan to taper its asset purchases in September, according to a solid majority of economists polled by Reuters who also said the US jobless ...

Bilateral trade between Israel and the UAE now stands at €712 million, according to Israeli government data. Trade between the two countries is expected to hit $1 billion by the end of ...

The total number of government-employed people increased during July, with 92 additional people joining the public sector, the Cyprus Statistical Service said in a report. This represents a 0.2 per cent year-on-year ...

British online fashion retailer Boohoo said on Thursday it would invest 500 million pounds ($693 million) in the United Kingdom over the next five years, creating 5,000 jobs and increasing its ability to ...

Thousands of small and medium Kuwaiti businesses could go to the wall after being walloped by the pandemic, potentially torpedoing a private sector central to the country’s efforts to ...

People care what their avatars are wearing. When the virtual world Decentraland said in June users could make and sell their own clothing for avatars to wear on the site, ...

Soccer star Lionel Messi’s signing on fee at Paris St Germain includes some of the French club’s cryptocurrency fan tokens, in the latest big name endorsement for new ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued a warning (see full text below) that a website hosted in India is set up as an impostor or counterfeit of ...

Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh announced on Wednesday that the central bank will lift subsidies on fuel imports, al-Jadeed local TV channel reported. “The Central Bank of Lebanon ...

A new study by Saga has revealed that more than a third of Britons (36 per cent) have been unable to book a staycation in the UK this summer, TTG reported ...

Beer deliveries in Cyprus have increased year-on-year during the first seven months of the year, a report by the Cyprus Statistical Service has shown. According to the service, 19.49 million litres ...

For the euro area, as in the world as a whole, output is recovering back toward the pre-pandemic trajectory, economists have predicted. “While the Delta variant means the picture could ...

Limassol, August 10, 2021. For immediate release. As hospitality industry leaders, Kanika Hotels & Resorts have been pioneering holiday perfection for over 40 years. The key to that success is how the company ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the move to cashless payments, a study shows. “Between 2009 and 2014 the total value of cash-free transactions worldwide increased by almost half, from £269 billion to £389.7 billion,” ...

Samsung Electronics unveiled its latest high-end foldable smartphones on Wednesday with lower prices than last year’s offerings in a push to expand foldable demand beyond niche devices. The tech ...