French go to polls to give Macron working majority or not (Update 1)
French voters go to the polls on Sunday in the first of two rounds that will decide whether President Emmanuel Macron gets a working majority in parliament or ends up ...
Russian rouble approaches multi-year highs after rate cut
The rouble soared on Friday to its strongest level against the dollar since late May, close to multi-year peaks, after Russia’s central bank cut its key interest rate by 150 ...
Isolated showers expected in some areas on Sunday
Beachgoers who headed out of the city for the holiday weekend should expect cloudy weather and isolated showers at least on the south-eastern end of the island on Sunday, the ...
Soaring inflation fuels bets on sharper Fed rate hikes
Stubbornly hot US inflation is fueling bets that the Federal Reserve will get more aggressive about trying to cool price pressures and even potentially ditch its own forward guidance by ...
Boris Johnson: a classic pyrrhic victory
There is no such animal as an ideal prime minister
I was woken up by the earthquake on Friday morning and decided to stay up in case there was another ...
Cavusoglu arrives in north, heading to Lapithos on Sunday
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu arrived in the north on Saturday night for meetings with the Turkish Cypriot leadership on Monday, reports said.
Cavusoglu is due to remain in the ...
Fire at tyre processing centre under control, residents furious (Update 1)
A fire that broke out on Saturday afternoon in an open area filled with old tyres at a processing centre for Vasilikos, was brought under control before midnight, the interior ...
Transport department denies UK mulling visas for EU workers to ease airport woes
Britain’s Department for Transport on Saturday denied a report that the government was considering issuing temporary visas to workers from the European Union to ease a staffing crisis at ...
Chinese defence minister says ties with U.S. at critical juncture
Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe said on Sunday that it was up to the United States to improve the bilateral relationship, as ties were at a critical juncture.
Repeating several ...
Scholz to travel to Kyiv with Macron and Draghi before G7
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will travel to Kyiv with his counterparts from France and Italy before the Group of Seven summit at the end of June, the German newspaper Bild ...
Buy Now Pay Later business model faces test as rates rise
Reduced consumer spending, rising interest rates and trickier credit conditions spell trouble for Buy Now Pay Later lenders, raising the prospect of consolidation in the sector.
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Crypto regulation efforts need to keep pace with market growth
The number of Canadians who own cryptoassets is growing rapidly and efforts to regulate the sector need to start keeping pace, a senior Bank of Canada official said, noting many ...
Our View: Gesy is not operating on a sustainable business model
WHEN the combination of politicians, unions and civil servants take the responsibility of managing a business operating in market conditions there can only be one result – financial disaster and eventually ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: A lack of perspective is part of our DNA
PERHAPS I have become a grumpy old man, no longer able to fight my innate conservatism and completely out of touch with the times. This was probably the reason I ...
Spain swelters in hottest pre-summer heatwave for 20 years
Fan-sellers were doing good business in the southern city of Seville on Saturday as Spain sizzled in the hottest pre-summer heatwave for at least 20 years.
Carriage drivers dampened down horses ...
Poseidon’s Complaint: puppet show with live music
The witty puppet show created by Roberto Braham, Marina Katsari and Vangelis Gettos, titled Poseidon’s Complaint is now ready to begin its journey. Its first stop is, of course, ...
Bieber is showing early signs of recovery, surgeon says
Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber is showing early signs of making a recovery after he was diagnosed with a virus that left half of his face paralysed, according to a ...
Murray beats Kyrgios to reach Stuttgart final
Andy Murray beat Nick Kyrgios in straight sets to book his place in the final of the Boss Open in Stuttgart.
The Scot followed up his victory over top seed ...
Ferrari star Leclerc takes pole in Azerbaijan
Charles Leclerc put his Ferrari on pole position for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix with Lewis Hamilton facing a stewards’ investigation for “driving unnecessarily slowly”.
Leclerc, who trails leader Max Verstappen ...
Seven bodies found at scene of helicopter crash in Italy
Rescuers have found the bodies of seven people killed in a helicopter crash in Italy, local authorities said on Saturday, two days after the aircraft disappeared from radar screens.
The ...
Ukraine ‘will prevail’ over Russia as battle grinds on
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine would prevail in its war with Russia, now focussed on a artillery slugging match over an eastern Ukrainian city.
Russian forces have ...
Ireland and Cyprus face common challenges as island states, Irish Speaker says
Ireland and Cyprus as two island nations with maritime history and tradition are facing common challenges Speaker of the Irish House of Representatives Seán Ó Fearghaíl said on Saturday.
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Blaze in tyre storage area caused by shredder malfunction (Update 2 with video)
A fire broke out on Saturday afternoon in an open area filled with old tyres at a processing centre for Vasilikos, between the villages of Kalavasos and Mari, mobilising the ...
Uncertainty and ECB rate hike announcement push Cypriot bonds yields upwards
Economic uncertainty amid the Ukraine war and the European Central Bank rate hikes announcement are pushing Cyprus bond yields upwards in the wider context of sovereign bond sell-off in secondary ...