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Greek systemic banks have been placed among the European banking sector’s strongest performers by UBS, which has issued a buy recommendation on all four major Greek banking groups and ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has launched a consultation on new rules covering investment firms whose assets exceed €30 billion, setting out how the threshold should be calculated and when firms ...

Iran’s army said it attacked the United Arab Emirates’ Al Minhad Air Base with drones early on Monday, Iranian state television reported, as hostilities intensified following U.S. strikes ...

EU industrial production rebounded in 2025 after two consecutive annual declines, with the value of sold manufactured goods rising by 2.9 per cent in inflation-adjusted terms, according to a report from Eurostat. ...

Smartphone shipments across the Middle East excluding Turkey fell 19 per cent year-on-year to 10.6 million units in the second quarter of 2026, as rising prices, supply constraints and geopolitical uncertainty pushed vendors ...

Unilever is betting that shedding food assets and focusing on beauty, personal care and home products will ​close a valuation gap with more focused rivals. The challenge is convincing investors ...

Cats belong in Cyprus like the sea and the sun: it is hard to picture the island without its felines, which some claim outnumber the local human population. Bars, beaches, ...

This summer, my wife and I attended Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in southern France. The performance began at 9.30pm in the sweltering ...

Pakistan, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States all offered condolences on Sunday after a passenger ferry sank off the coast of Kyrenia, causing the confirmed deaths ...

A deep-water search and rescue boat will arrive in Cyprus on Tuesday to aid in efforts to locate those who are still missing after a passenger ferry capsized off the ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that the European Union “remains silent when Turkey, a Nato member, illegally occupies half of Cyprus, an EU member”, while accusing the ...

The Turkish Cypriot authorities on Sunday night announced a three-day mourning period to be observed in light of the sinking of a passenger ferry off the coast of Kyrenia earlier ...

Chelsea’s vibrant start to life under new manager Xabi Alonso continued with a 4-3 home win over Brighton & Hove Albion and Bruno Fernandes’s hat-trick helped Manchester United ...

In late August 2026, former President Nicos Anastasiades delivered an address over the state-run Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation that fundamentally unsettled the country’s political landscape. Ostensibly arranged as an elder statesman’...

Larnaca’s joint rescue coordination centre (JRCC) on Sunday evening said that it was told that the Turkish Cypriot authorities “do not need the assistance” it had offered after a ...

The captain of the ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia was arrested on Sunday evening, Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said, describing the incident, which has thus ...

Every day we see items that eventually become recognisable images – in tourist shops, on postage stamps, on official logos – yet their origins elude us. A trip to the Cyprus Museum ...

A total of eight people are now confirmed to have died as a result of the sinking of a passenger ferry off the coast of Kyrenia, the north’s ‘transport ...

United Nations special representative Khassim Diagne on Sunday said he was “deeply saddened” by the sinking of a passenger ferry off the coast of Kyrenia, which has thus far caused ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday offered his condolences after a ferry bound for his country sank shortly after departing from the new port of Kyrenia earlier in the ...

Last Sunday night I woke up sweating at around 1am after a particularly bad nightmare. Usually, I cannot get back to sleep easily, but this time I was so deeply ...

By Maria Demertzis Six million people voted for their favourite euro design in the first week of the survey launched by the ECB in July. This is a whopping one ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Sunday afternoon expressed “deep sadness” over the sinking of a passenger ferry off the coast of Kyrenia, which has thus far caused the deaths of ...

A family’s plea after years of fighting The family of a quadriplegic Greek woman have decided to go public in pleading with the Cypriot government to release nearly €5 million ...