MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s finance ministry said on Monday it would scrap an agreement with Cyprus aimed at avoiding double taxation after talks to modify the deal failed, and that legal changes would make it more profitable for people to transfer money back ... More »
LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) – A 96-year-old celebrated his birthday on Saturday by breaking his own record as the world’s oldest active scuba diver for the third year running, plunging to the depths of the equivalent of a 15-storey building to explore a shipwrec... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – From the battles of the Vietnam War to starving African villages and the destitute streets of London, photographer Don McCullin has documented violence, suffering and deprivation for more than half a century.His pictures brought home to the ... More »
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s largest bank, PrivatBank, said on Monday it had filed a $3 billion lawsuit against the Ukrainian and Cypriot subsidiaries of international accounting firm PwC for alleged breaches during audits of the lender in 2013-2015. It is the l... More »
European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union finance ministers will decide on Tuesday on the composition of an EU blacklist of tax havens tha... More »
FILE PHOTO – Dutch Finance Minister and Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem arrives at Eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium July 10, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/File Photo BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Finance ministers from Latvia, Luxembourg,... More »
European Union lawmakers called on Friday for stricter EU supervision of Malta's application of the bloc's rules on money laundering and basic rights, stepping up pressure after the assassination of an investigative journalist on the island. More »
Investors who lend billions of euros to Spain every year are struggling to sketch out the repercussions for the country's finances of a possible independence proclamation by the wealthy region of Catalonia. More »
Australian Senator Nick Xenophon, a key independent lawmaker, said on Friday he was resigning from national politics, potentially complicating Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's efforts to pass legislation. More »
The European Central Bank will ask euro zone banks from next year to set aside more cash to cover newly classified bad loans and may also present additional measures to tackle the sector's huge stock of bad debt, it said on Wednesday. More »
Portugal's 10-year bond yield hit its lowest level since January 2016 on Monday, driven by the country regaining an investment grade credit rating after 5-1/2 years, effectively drawing a line under its debt crisis. More »
Eggs contaminated with the insecticide fipronil have been discovered in 40 countries, including 24 of the European Union's 28 member states, German news agency DPA reported on Tuesday, without citing its sources. More »
Greek Cypriots take part in a protest against positions put forward by President Nicos Anastasiades in peace talks, at Ledra Palace checkpoint in the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia, Cyprus July 6, 2017. The banner reads ‘No, the country is not for sale’.... More »
Portugal’s Salvador Sobral (C) celebrates with team after the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 Semi-Final 1 at the International Exhibition Centre in Kiev, Ukraine, May 10, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich The Portuguese and Armenian entrants for the 2017 Eurovision so... More »
An old man in need receives vegetable soup in a plastic cup to take away from the soup kitchen ‘Kana’ in a poor district of the city of Dortmund, western Germany, April 7, 2017. Picture taken April 7, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay For all its economic success,... More »
FILE PHOTO: Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko attends a news conference after a meeting of the management board of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia local organising committee in Moscow, Russia, July 5, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/File Photo Russian deputy ... More »
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci (R) and Greek Cypriot leader, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, drink coffee in old Nicosia May 23, 2015. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou Cyprus reunification talks were in disarray on Wednesday after reports the Turkish Cy... More »
FILE PHOTO: Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci (R) and Greek Cypriot leader, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, hold hands during a bicommunal event organized by the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce in N... More »
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde delivers remarks at the Atlantic Council in Washington, U.S., February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Sunday that she... More »
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (L) and French President Francois Hollande attend a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium October 21, 2016. REUTERS/Stephane De Sakutin/Pool – RTX2PU1R Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and French President Fr... More »
Pedestrians walk past the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany September 8, 2016. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski The euro zone housing market is on its best run since the global financial crisis but prices on average are still only in ... More »
A British artist is suing U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying the campaign illegally used his photograph of a bowl of brightly colored Skittles candies to illustrate its position against bringing Syrian refugees to the United States. More »
A suspected meteorite did a close fly-by over Cyprus early on Friday, sending people into consternation over a blitz of bright lights which appeared in the night sky coupled with large bangs. More »
Sept 4, 2016- New York, NY, USA- Lucas Pouille of France winning a game late in the fifth set against Rafael Nadal of Spain (not pictured) on day seven of the 2016 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Mandatory Credit: R... More »
BRUSSELS An impasse between EU nations on whether to allow Monsanto’s Roundup and similar weed-killers to continue to be sold means that the European Commission, rather than national politicians, will decide the issue next week. With most EU attention focused ... More »
GENEVA/BRUSSELS The United Nations and human rights groups warned on Tuesday that a tentative European Union deal to send back all irregular migrants to Turkey in exchange for political and financial rewards could be illegal. “I am deeply concerned about any a... More »
BRUSSELS International lenders are concerned with the quality of reforms in Greece, in exchange for which Athens is getting loans, the chairman of euro zone finance ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem told the European Parliament’s economic committee on Thursday. Di... More »
ANKARA Turkey is unsettled by “anti-Islamic” messages in the U.S. presidential race, in which the Republican front runner called for a ban on foreign Muslims, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday. Donald Trump last month advocated banning all forei... More »
Companies and organizations are pledging to provide funds, goods and services to help thousands of migrants arriving in Europe from war-torn and impoverished countries. Companies are helping through both corporate and employee schemes. Following are some examp... More »
NEW YORK A group of mainly U.S.-based stock traders and computer hackers in Ukraine made as much as $100 million in illegal profits over five years by conspiring to use information stolen from thousands of corporate press statements before their public release... More »
NEW YORK A group of mainly U.S.-based stock traders and computer hackers in Ukraine made as much as $100 million in illegal profits over five years by conspiring to use information stolen from thousands of corporate press statements before their public release... More »
FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus The 14th-century Cypriot tower that is the fictional setting of Shakespeare’s play “Othello” reopens next month after undergoing renovation following decades of decay on the internationally isolated Turkish side of the ethnically divided isla... More »
