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The Cyprus Shipping Deputy Ministry (SDM) has announced a new range of green incentives to reward vessels that demonstrate effective emissions reductions. From fiscal year 2021, annual tonnage tax will be ...

British firms called on Tuesday for another £7.6 billion ($10.3 billion) of emergency government help, saying they cannot wait until finance minister Rishi Sunak’s March budget to learn if they will ...

Photo shows Turkey’s Deputy Transport and Infrastructure Minister Omer Fatih Sayan “We will never allow digital fascism and anarchism to dominate in Turkey,” the country’s Deputy Transport and ...

Global energy majors including Royal Dutch Shell and Total are expected to benefit most from January’s gas price spike, beating rival trading houses and non-integrated producers thanks to their ...

Eurowings is hiring! Eurowings announced on Monday that it is preparing for its restart in summer 2021. In order to be able to cover the traditionally busiest travel period of the ...

China’s economy picked up speed in the fourth quarter, with growth beating expectations as it ended a rough coronavirus-striken 2020 in remarkably good shape and remained poised to expand further ...

Israel’s economy is likely to grow by 4.6 per cent this year, the Finance Ministry said on Sunday in a forecast reliant on continuation of rapid Covid-19 inoculations and a ...

Syria, hit by sanctions, has over the past year faced months of gasoline and fuel shortages, forcing it to ration supplies distributed across government-held areas and to apply several rounds ...

Demand for remote workers in Britain tripled over the course of 2020 as businesses grew more willing to let staff work from home during the coronavirus pandemic, figures from a recruitment ...

Turkey has announced a 2021 public investment programme worth ₺138.5 billion ($18.53 billion), with communication and transportation projects receiving the largest allocation of the investment funds. The programme, published in the Official Gazette ...

Britain’s government said on Saturday it would give financial aid to airports before the end of March, after the industry called for urgent support as tighter Covid-19 rules for ...

A Libyan political dialogue arranged by the United Nations has made progress towards agreeing a new transitional government to oversee the run-up to elections in December, the UN said on ...

Photo shows the Taas refinery founded by Bondarenko and Stolyarenko How the Russian Government efforts to gain full control over Russian hydrocarbons passes through Cyprus In November 2019, the Russian newspaper ...

Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard has dropped its €16.2 billion ($19.6 billion) bid to acquire European retailer Carrefour SA after the takeover plan ran into stiff opposition from the French government, two sources ...

Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp is delaying an update aimed at increasing business transactions on the platform after a storm of concern from users who feared that the messaging platform was ...

By George Eid and Andrew Rosenbaum Lebanese banks in Cyprus, like all Lebanese banks, are facing intense pressure from the Lebanon central bank (Banque du Liban) to raise capital. At ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday said that he was against raising interest rates, and that rates should be cut to slow inflation. Erdoğan said he was against ...

Britain’s economy shrank in November for the first time since the initial COVID-19 lockdown last spring, hit by a tightening of social-distancing rules. “A third lockdown means that a ...

French carmaker Renault pledged to slim down and focus more on technology as its new CEO laid out plans to revive a business hammered by management turmoil and the Covid-19 ...

Microsoft Corp, health insurer Cigna Corp and the Mayo Clinic are part of a coalition pushing for digital records of people who get vaccinated against Covid-19. A key aim of ...

Airbnb Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky on Thursday predicted travel would permanently change due to the pandemic with people seeking out thousands of smaller cities and spending more time visiting ...

US President-elect Joe Biden’s proposal to pour $1.9 trillion into a hobbled economy could lay the foundation for a surge in jobs and spending that many economists say is needed ...

DarkMarket, the world’s largest illegal sales point for drugs and other illegal merchandise on the dark web, has been taken offline in an international operation involving Germany, Australia, Denmark, ...

Synairgen, a treatment that reduces hospital time for Covid-19 patients, is showing promise in Phase III trials which started up on Tuesday. The Southampton-headquartered company Synairgen is engaged in a 610...