International

On Tuesday, EU Brexit chief Maros Sefcovic announced plans to take legal action against the UK over Northern Ireland measures, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The action is expected ...

“I just can’t wait to be back on the beach!” The words of Jo Pink, 48, who has already received both doses of her Covid-19 vaccination. Hopeful that the UK ...

For the first time, Cyprus employers must rebrand themselves to attract top talent, notes Katerina Andreou, founder of hrinnovate.org. As the chart shows, there is a fraught global shortage ...

Russia accused Facebook on Monday of violating citizens’ rights by blocking some media outlets’ content in the latest standoff between a government and Big Tech. Communications watchdog Roskomnadzor at the ...

Tesla Inc’s stock extended losses on Monday and is now down by a third from its January record high, making it the third time in about a year that ...

China has launched a digital Covid-19 vaccination certificate for its citizens planning cross-border travels, joining other countries issuing similar documents as they seek ways to reopen their economies. As vaccines ...

The European Union wants to produce a fifth of the global output of cutting-edge semiconductors at the end of this decade and make its first quantum computer in five years, ...

Israel’s El Al airlines launched a pilot programme at its Tel Aviv airport check-in counters on Monday to test unvaccinated passengers for Covid-19 before allowing them to board a ...

Lex Greensill’s mission to “make finance fairer” has taken him from the sugar cane fields of Bundaberg in Australia to the gold embossed halls of Buckingham Palace. On Monday, ...

“Businesses in Cyprus support each other. It’s a real community,” comments Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou, CEO at Tototheo Maritime & President at WISTA International in an interview with the Cyprus ...

Harley-Davidson Inc has decided the best way to get younger customers to buy a new motorcycle is to sell them a used one first. The Milwaukee-based company plans to roll ...

Borsa İstanbul General Manager Mehmet Hakan Atilla announced his official resignation on Monday. He had previously stated that he was taking a six-month leave from his post. Former Halkbank Deputy ...

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...