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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, ...

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

European Investment Bank survey has shown that 51 per cent of Cypriot firms have cut investment during the Covid-19 pandemic, well below the EU average of 45 per cent. The survey, which ...

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 ...