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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...

As there was almost nothing in the Brexit agreement on rules for UK financial services firms to operate in the European Union, UK traders are effectively cut off from operating ...

Wizz Air sold €500 million in three-year bonds at an interest rate of just 1.35 per cent on Wednesday. The sale was oversubscribed with more than €2 billion in orders from investors. Wizz ...

Accusations against “bilateral contracts,” or side deals for vaccines made by the European Commission are false, a European Commission representative said on Tuesday. There are no contracts between individual EU ...

One U.S. Federal Reserve official says there is now a “clearer focus” about the economy’s path forward and a horizon for a fuller recovery. Another says the pandemic’...

Turkish banks’ asset quality is likely to weaken in 2021, with inflation high and a continuing dearth of foreign investment, Fitch Ratings says in a recent report. Borrowers’ debt-servicing capacity will ...

Jet2 on Tuesday announced in a statement that all flights and holidays would be suspended until March 25 of this year. “Due to the ongoing uncertainty and travel restrictions caused by ...