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Researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have created a facemask using silver and copper nanolayers that neutralises SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, the university’s official ...

The new revised Master Plan for the unified development of the Port and Marina of Larnaca was presented on Wednesday, in a project that will create more than 4,000 jobs. The ...

British Airways is planning to set up a budget airline subsidiary based at Gatwick airport, the airline told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Creating a new unit could provide ...

A recent EU report on Small- to Medium-sized Enterprises commends Cyprus support for SMEs during the pandemic, but sees some measures as lacking. The recently released Annual Report on European ...

Russia will have to split up ownership of the nearly-completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline, according to a German court order issued on Wednesday. In order to comply, Nord Stream 2 must be ...

Afghanistan finds itself in a very tight place in terms of financing the new Taliban government and the country’s economy. The result is that the nation’s currency, the ...

Croatia’s tourism results almost reached the 2019 level in July and August, and booking for September also looks promising, Croatian Minister of Tourism Nikolina Brnjac said on Wednesday. “The number ...

British car output fell to its lowest July level since 1956 as a global shortage of semi-conductor chips and staff having to self-isolate due to COVID-19 hit the sector, a trade ...

A momentous German election marking the end of Angela Merkel’s 16 years as chancellor is less than a month away and with no clear outcome in sight, markets may start ...

There are at least four well-funded companies focused on competing to supply broadband from space in low-earth orbits. The market for these services is vast, but it particularly benefits shipping, ...

The general manager of the Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (ΟΕΒ) Michalis Antoniou, speaking to StockWatch, said that there is a grave shortage of manpower that threatens the growth of the ...

Germany-based tourism group TUI recorded an adjusted operating profit (EBIT) of minus €699 million euros (846 million US dollars) in the first quarter of its fiscal year ending December 2020, the company announced ...

Abu Dhabi conglomerate International Holding Co (IHC.AD) is considering acquisitions worth a few billion dollars in total across several sectors, including a real estate developer in Abu Dhabi, its ...

Travel receipts in the first six months of the year increased by 51 per cent from the same period in the previous year, the Bank of Greece said in a statement ...

The global supply chain is grinding to a halt, under the pressure of soaring consumer demand for goods and insufficient technology at ports and for shipping. – this offers an opportunity ...

The Taliban have appointed an acting head of Afghanistan’s central bank to help ease growing economic turmoil, more than a week after the Islamist movement seized the capital Kabul, ...

General Motors Co (GM.N) has expanded the recall of its Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles due to a risk of fire from the pouch-type lithium-ion battery cells made by South ...

Four out of five German companies are struggling with a shortage of raw materials, the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) announced on Thursday. Global supply chains ...

Bitcoin’s price surged past $50,000 on Monday for the first time since May, but the rebound from a months-long slump later ran out of steam. The world’s largest cryptocurrency ...

There is real danger that Europe will see shortages of natural gas this winter, combined with sharp increases in price for the commodity. “Going into the current winter with less ...

KEDIPES is expected to move forward in its transformation into an asset management company (a ‘bad bank’), StockWatch reported on Monday. The company, which was set up to manage non-performing ...

Britain’s post-lockdown economic rebound slowed sharply in August as companies struggled with unprecedented shortages of staff and materials, though strong inflation pressures cooled a bit, a survey showed on ...

“Gas cannot be used as a weapon,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday after meeting Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian president, in Kyiv. “We are for new sanctions if Russia uses ...

PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL.O) will allow customers in the UK to buy, sell and hold bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies starting this week, the company said on Monday. The roll-out, ...