Credit Suisse flags hefty loss as rich clients leave
Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) expects a pre-tax loss of up to 1.5 billion Swiss francs ($1.58 billion) in its fourth quarter as it keeps bleeding cash, the Swiss bank said on Wednesday, ...
TikTok on ‘high alert’ in Malaysia as tensions rise over election wrangle
Short video platform TikTok said on Wednesday it was on high alert for content that violates its guidelines in Malaysia after authorities warned of a rise in ethnic tension on ...
Sony to expand Chinese game incubator in Microsoft head-to-head
Sony Group Corp (6758.T) said it plans to expand a programme to identify and incubate Chinese-made games, in a race with Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) to tap China’s gaming ...
‘Groundbreaking’ gender identity bill brought to the House
Only unmarried people will be able to legally change gender with the introduction of “easily accessible procedures” for gender recognition in the national legislation, MPs heard during the House legal ...
Our View: Tourism recovered this year but seasonality still a problem
Cyprus’ tourism, to its credit, has recovered at a faster rate than was expected following the complete shutdown of 2020 because of the pandemic restrictions.
According to figures presented at the ...
Courtois saves penalty as disappointing Belgium beat Canada 1-0
Keeper Thibaut Courtois showed his class as Belgium made the most of Canada’s woeful finishing to win their opening World Cup Group F game 1-0 thanks to a Michy ...
African leaders agree on ceasefire in east Congo from Friday
African leaders have declared a cessation of hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo starting Friday, in particular attacks by the M23 rebel group, they said in a joint statement ...
President focuses on energy in German visit (updated)
Cyprus and Germany both want to strengthen and broaden their consistently excellent relations, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday after meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
In post on social ...
Poland asks Germany to send Patriot missile launchers to Ukraine
Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Wednesday he had asked Germany to send Patriot missile launchers offered to Poland to Ukraine.
“After further Russian missile attacks, I asked Germany ...
New space observatory helps solve mystery involving enormous black holes
Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way’s center, some are fierce – guzzling surrounding material ...
Turkish Cypriot journalist arrested
Journalist Kazim Denizci was arrested in the north on charges of aiding a terrorist organisation, reports said on Wednesday.
According to the newspaper Avrupa, Denizci, who writes for their paper ...
Spain hammer Costa Rica 7-0 in perfect World Cup start
Spain thrashed Costa Rica 7-0 on Wednesday, their biggest ever winning margin at a World Cup, helped by two goals by Ferran Torres and strikes by five other players to ...
World Cup gatherings may fuel Brazil’s latest COVID wave
Brazil faces a new wave of COVID cases just as the football-crazed nation is gathering en masse to follow the World Cup, with new coronavirus sub-variants and delayed vaccine boosters ...
Pharos Arts Foundation lines up two concerts for early December
Two concerts with musicians from abroad are set to take the stage of The Shoe Factory. The Pharos Arts Foundation opens the last month of the year with a cello ...
Letters sent to dead people to vote a result of ‘system glitch’
The interior ministry issued an apology on Wednesday, after letters went out to dead people to register to vote.
The issue came to light, after a father published a letter ...
Erdogan says Turkey will launch Syria land operation when convenient
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey’s air operations against a Kurdish militia in northern Syria were only the beginning and it would launch a land operation when ...
UK braced for Christmas post chaos as union rejects ‘final’ pay offer
Strikes by British postal workers in the run up to Christmas look set to go ahead after Royal Mail’s largest labour union rejected the latest pay offer from the ...
Reform top of the agenda at the House in past year
Hundreds of bills were submitted to the parliament in the past year, while the most critical bills dealt with the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Fund, local government, civil service ...
Compromise over pre-primary education
The House education committee said on Wednesday they believe to have found the compromise for compulsory pre-primary education, even as teachers union Poed held a strike outside the presidential palace ...
Labour minister pessimistic about CoLA consensus
Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos said on Wednesday he was pessimistic about achieving a collective agreement on the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), after meeting with trade union Deok.
He called on all ...
New bill to prevent homeowners left fighting for title deeds
Deputies on Wednesday were discussing a mechanism aimed at protecting – and preventing – trapped buyers, after Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides submitted a bill to the House legal committee.
The aim is ...
Crypto world: Let’s talk about decentralized exchanges
As the crypto castle crumbles, some true believers say the answer is to double down on DEX. Decentralized exchanges, that is.
The spectacular collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, a ...
Japan stun Germany with late strikes at World Cup
Goals from substitutes Ritsu Doan and Takuma Asano in the last 15 minutes gave Japan a stunning 2-1 upset over four-times champions Germany in their World Cup Group E opener on ...
Russia fires missiles across Ukraine to knock out heat as winter looms
Russia rained down volleys of missiles across Ukraine on Wednesday, hitting infrastructure in the capital Kyiv and other cities as Moscow pursued its campaign to knock out Ukraine’s power ...