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Better-than-expected earnings from a raft of US and European companies helped steady global stock markets on Wednesday, cutting through gloom caused by rising interest rates and the threat of an ...

McDonald’s will increase the price of its cheeseburger by 20% in Britain, in the first price hike for the popular item in 14 years as it responds to soaring inflation. The ...

Rishi Sunak, trailing in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister, pledged on Wednesday to temporarily scrap taxes on energy bills paid by households as part of a “...

Scientists advising the World Health Organization (WHO) on monkeypox say the window is closing to stop its spread, with cases currently doubling every two weeks, raising concerns that it will ...

The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday that Egypt needed to make “decisive progress” on fiscal and structural reform as Cairo seeks a new round of support from the fund. ...

Lebanon’s parliament on Tuesday passed long-awaited amendments to a banking secrecy law, according to a Reuters witness, in the first step towards reforms required by the International Monetary Fund (...

State-controlled media outlet Russia Today on Wednesday lost its court fight against a European Union ban imposed in March due to its systematic disinformation over Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine. ...

Police booked 34 people – including for illegal employment — after carrying out checks at 38 premises early on Wednesday as part of coordinated operations in the tourist resorts of Protaras and Ayia Napa ...

Authorities in the Russian-controlled Ukrainian city of Kherson have closed the city’s only bridge across the Dnipro river after it came under fire from U.S.-supplied high mobility ...

Ground staff at Deutsche Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) went on strike early Wednesday, prompting the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights, and adding to travel disruptions during the busy summer travel season. ...

Oil prices held steady on Wednesday as concerns about weaker demand offset industry data that showed a larger-than-expected drawdown in US crude stockpiles. Brent crude futures were at $104.55 a barrel ...

Occupancy rates at Paphos hotels in August will be around 80 to 85 percent, compared to last month’s rate of 80 percent, the President of the Paphos Hoteliers Association Thanos Michaelides told ...

Britain’s rail network faced major disruption again on Wednesday as staff walked out in a row over pay and conditions, the latest in a wave of industrial unrest as ...

Over recent years, the streamlining process of complex tasks such as automated crypto trading has sparked a unique era of growth for both the crypto and the trading industry. Some ...

In an athlete of the gods THEO PANAYIDES finds a can-do, tough-minded dancer combining an African upbringing with a Western mentality, still searching for something new in his chosen art ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is considering “all options” amid an escalating row over cabinet’s decision to appoint the head of the Cyprus medical association to the HIO board, government spokesman ...

Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez said forward Ousmane Dembele is a player reborn after the France international scored twice in the LaLiga club’s 2-2 pre-season draw with Serie A side ...

Sweden has not yet extradited suspects Turkey seeks over terrorism-related charges despite signing an accord to lift Ankara’s veto to its NATO membership last month, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut ...

Activists holding anti-racism banners gathered outside Larnaca court on Wednesday in solidarity with a Congolese woman assaulted earlier this month by a Greek Cypriot man while holding her infant in ...

Paphos municipal workers will stage a two-hour work stoppage on Thursday to press the municipality to go ahead with the hiring and promotion of workers in line with a relevant ...

The summer is flying by but fear not. There is plenty of time for beach lounging, festival-going and road-tripping and several exciting events are taking place this week to bid ...

David Beckham has congratulated England for reaching the Euro 2022 final and thanked them for “inspiring” his daughter Harper. The former England men’s captain said the Lionesses’ performances had been “...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has nominated Andriy Kostin, a lawmaker from the president’s Servant of the People party, to be the country’s next prosecutor general. Zelenskiy submitted a ...

A 58-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attacking a younger man with a knife in Paphos, police said on Wednesday. The 34-year-old injured man was transferred to the ...