International

More than 20,000 U.S. organisations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp’s email software, a person familiar with the US government’...

The dollar held near a one-month high against the British pound, which traded at $1.3819, and a three-month high against the euro, which stood at $1.1904. The dollar hovered near three-month highs ...

Brent crude futures surged above $70 a barrel on Monday for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, while U.S. crude touched its highest in more than two years, ...

S&P Global, late on Friday, affirmed its rating for Cyprus at ‘BBB-/A-3’ for long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings for Cyprus. The outlook ...

COVID-19 insurance policies are increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation staples, creating opportunities for insurers as more countries require mandatory coverage in case visitors fall ill from the coronavirus. ...

Britain’s top EU adviser David Frost on Sunday defended Britain’s unilateral move to smooth post-Brexit trade between Britain and Northern Ireland, over which the EU has promised to ...

The first independent digital banking platform in the United Arab Emirates launched on Sunday, a neobank hoping to become a leader in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Dubai-based ...

The German government has agreed to pay four nuclear operators nearly €2.6 billion ($3.1 billion) in compensation for forcing them to shut their nuclear plants early in response to the Fukushima disaster, ...

The world of foreign exchange is divided into three parts: Majors, minors and exotics. Most traders concentrate on the majors and ignore the rest. But there is ‘gold’ to be ...

Volkswagen wants electric vehicles to make up the majority of European sales for its core brand by 2030, it said on Friday, the latest carmaker to accelerate the shift towards battery-powered ...

The rollercoster ride in bitcoin since the start of the year has not dampened wealth manager Jim Paulsen’s enthusiasm for the cryptocurrency. Yet Paulsen, chief investment officer for Leuthold ...

US drugmaker Merck & Co Inc said on Saturday the experimental antiviral drug molnupiravir it is developing with Ridgeback Bio showed a quicker reduction in infectious virus in its phase 2...

Although Cyprus’ mineral deposits are limited compared to large-scale copper producers such as Chile or Peru, Cyprus has significant untapped minerals deposits and could benefit from the global surge in ...

21CY01 Technical Support for capacity building and methodological support for the effective preparation and implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan 130,000 21CY06 Preparation and implementation of green taxation reform in ...

FC Barcelona, along with fellow Spanish LaLiga football teams Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao and Osasuna have been ordered to repay millions in state aid., The European Court of Justice, the ...

Payments firm Square Inc agreed on Thursday to buy a majority stake in rapper Jay-Z’s Tidal music streaming service for $297 million in a deal that could popularize blockchain or ...

The United States on Thursday agreed to a four-month suspension of retaliatory tariffs imposed on British goods such as Scotch whisky over a long-running aircraft subsidy row, with both sides ...

Will the EastMed pipeline bypass Cyprus? by Dr. Charles Ellinas The Greek and Cypriot press abounds with news and denials that a new plan has emerged for the much-talked about ...

The Cyprus IT Community on Thursday announced its formal partnership with the Lebanese IT Syndicate, as an increasing number of Lebanese tech companies consider relocation to the island. The Lebanese ...

Germany’s financial watchdog has filed a criminal complaint against Greensill Bank’s management for suspected balance sheet manipulation, according to people briefed on the matter, the Financial Times reported ...

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) will open its first-ever physical store outside the United States on Thursday. It is a first step in a global plan for expansion that is ...

The future for Cyprus professional services is to use its vast know-how and experience in international markets, and to do this, planning is needed, Marios Klitou, CEO of Baker Tilly ...

Just because cars are going electric, is not to say they are getting boring. Rather the opposite: the move towards electrification is producing some of the hottest automotive propositions in ...

Indigenous people from Brazil and Colombia sued retailer Casino in a French court on Wednesday over the selling of beef linked to land grabbing and deforestation in the Amazon, campaigners ...