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There were scenes of “total chaos” this morning at Heathrow airport check-in due to huge numbers of staff being forced to self-isolate, the Independent reported on Monday. Passengers complained of ...

Oil slumped on Monday over concerns about spreading Covid-19 variants derailing the global economic recovery that has brought fuel demand to near pre-pandemic levels, while tight crude supplies kept prices ...

Ryanair says it will hire 2,000 pilots to crew its fleet of new Boeing aircraft, the airline said in a statement on Monday. It is reportedly the largest recruitment drive that ...

The cost of food has reached a crisis level in Turkey, as production declines and the weak Turkish lira (currently at 10.30 to the euro) makes imports more expensive. The central ...

Jamaica plans to ask Britain for compensation for the Atlantic slave trade in the former British colony, a senior government official said, under a petition that could seek billions of ...

The European Commission will delay its plan to put forward a new levy on digital services later in July, a spokesman said on Monday, following intense pressure from the US ...

Egypt’s Suez Canal revenue rose to a record $5.84 billion in its 2020-21 financial year (July-June), up from $5.72 bln in the previous year, the Suez Canal Authority said on Sunday. ...

The founding family and top investor in the Daily Mail’s owner is considering taking the British newspaper publisher private in a $1.1 billion deal if certain conditions are met, the ...

Taiwan’s Foxconn (2317.TW) and TSMC (2330.TW) said on Monday they had reached deals to buy 10 million doses of Germany’s BioNTech SE’s (22UAy.DE) COVID-19 vaccine, putting the ...

The spread of the Covid-19 Delta variant threatens Europe’s nascent economic rebound, economists told the Financial Times on Sunday. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said on ...

Tobacco group Philip Morris International agreed on Friday to buy Vectura (VEC.L) for 1.05 billions pounds ($1.44 billion), giving the US firm access to the British drugmaker’s respiratory ailment treatments ...

Does Elon Musk control Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) or does Tesla control Elon Musk? More than $2 billion hinges on that question as a trial kicks off on Monday. Shareholders allege ...

The European Commission is likely to delay putting forward its plans for a digital levy until the autumn to try to improve the chances of a global corporate tax reform ...

Malta will ban all visitors from entering the country as from Wednesday unless they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, Health Minister Chris Fearne said on Friday. “We will be the ...

The European Union has delivered enough coronavirus vaccine doses to member states to reach a target to fully vaccinate at least 70 per cent of adults in the bloc, European Commission ...

Finance ministers of the world’s 20 largest economies (G20) on Saturday agreed to go ahead with the plan to design a global tax system that would impose a minimum levy ...

As a great many of us here in Cyprus either are already fully vaccinated, or are close to getting both jabs, the possibility of European travel, armed with our EU ...

Netflix on Thursday expanded its deal with “Bridgerton” television producer Shonda Rhimes, adding feature films, gaming and live events to its pact with her company. Netflix said the deal with ...

Entertainment venues in England will force customers to use so-called vaccination passports from autumn to prove they have had either both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine or a negative test ...

Foreign workers in Cyprus tend to be more highly educated than the average number across the European Union, a report has indicated. According to data from the European Union’s ...

The Cyprus government is already at work to find a solution for the country on the OECD minimum corporate tax proposal that has been agreed to by the G7 and ...

The Biden administration is set as early as Friday to add more than 10 Chinese companies to its economic blacklist over alleged human rights abuses and high-tech surveillance in Xinjiang, two ...

Hit by the collapse of Lebanon’s economy, the army has started selling rides on its helicopters to finance their maintenance, a measure of the depth of the financial troubles ...

In Vietnam, where the state is fighting a fierce online battle against political dissent, social media “influencers” are more likely to be soldiers than celebrities. Force 47, as the Vietnamese army’...