British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet senior police leaders on Thursday, his office said, after a second night of clashes between protesters and police prompted by the deaths of three young girls in a frenzied knife attack at a dance class. There were angry scenes in London on Wednesday evening as thousands of anti-immigration […]
Net new loans in Cyprus experienced a substantial increase in June 2024, reaching a total of €330.6 million, compared to €234.9 million in May, according to a report released this week by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC). Overall, new loans saw a rise to €514.9 million in June 2024, up from €391.6 million in […]
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump falsely suggested to the country’s largest annual gathering of Black journalists on Wednesday that his Democratic rival Kamala Harris had previously downplayed her Black heritage. “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black, until a number of years […]
The Cyprus government’s surplus surged to €424.5 million in the January-June period, representing 1.3 per cent of GDP, compared to €62 million and 0.2 per cent of GDP during the same period in 2023, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). According to the report, total revenue for the […]
The Bank of England will not publish rules for implementing tougher global bank capital requirements until after the summer, it said this week, raising questions about whether a July 2025 start date remains feasible. The standards were written by the global Basel Committee, and member jurisdictions such as Britain, the United States and the European […]
Saudi Arabia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.4 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter, preliminary data by the government’s statistical authority showed on Wednesday, driven by a 8.5 per cent decline in oil activities which has limited overall growth for several quarters. GDP had decreased 1.7 per cent in the first quarter of […]
Turkey wants to complete negotiations for a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council by the end of the year, the Turkish trade ministry said on Wednesday, after Ankara hosted the first round of talks this week. Ankara and the council agreed in March to hold the talks as Turkey bids to broaden economic […]
Traffic from one of the busiest roads in the Larnaca area is being diverted through a small, formerly quiet residential street, causing uproar and a potentially dangerous situation. The problem stems from the staggered closure of the Meneou-Pervolia road for sewage and road works. This is the road to a stretch of coastline, from the […]
President Christodoulides, for the last couple of weeks, has been forecasting “some development in the Cyprus issue,” which could materialise in August or early September. He repeated this prediction again at the presidential palace on Monday at a gathering of the heads of Republic’s diplomatic missions. This has been mentioned publicly on several occasions, although […]
