Microsoft Corp said hackers have attacked some computers by exploiting a bug in Windows first disclosed two months ago by a Google Inc researcher, who came under fire at the time for publicizing the flaw without going to the software company first. Microsoft provided few details about the attacks. In an advisory on Tuesday, it
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Malta cancelled two flights to return migrants to Libya after the European Court of Human Rights issued an interim measure banning repatriation. The court's written decision was handed to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat on Tuesday evening as he addressed parliament about his concern over a growing migration crisis. He said more than 400 migrants, many
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Cyprus’ Finance Minister Haris Georgiades has said that the government is preparing intensively for the first assessment by Troika, on July 17, adding that it has been agreed with EU partners that the Bank’s of Cyprus exit from the resolution regime as soon as possible is a top priority. Referring to yesterday’s Eurogroup meeting and
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Former defence minister Costas Papacostas and three senior fire and rescue officers were found guilty as charged by a Cypriot court Tuesday on multiple counts of manslaughter and negligence that caused an explosion at a military base two years ago, killing 13 soldiers and rescue workers. Papacostas and the other three senior fire service officers,
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ForexTime Ltd (FXTM) is proud to be one of the main sponsors of the famous Eifman Ballet Company of St Petersburg’s performances of “Red Giselle” at the Limassol Garden Theatre on the 19th and 21st of July 2013. “Red Giselle” is an epic tribute to the memory of Olga Spesivtseva, one of the greatest classical
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A car bomb exploded in Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday wounding at least 18 people in a stronghold of the Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah militant group that has been fighting in Syria's civil war. Tensions in Lebanon have been high following the intervention of Hezbollah in support of President Bashar al-Assad's forces fighting a two-year revolt led
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Egypt's Nour Party, the country's second-biggest Islamist group after the Muslim Brotherhood, said on Tuesday it would accept the choice of former finance minister Samir Radwan as interim prime minister. Nour Party spokesman Nader Bakkar said the party would accept Radwan because he met the party's criteria that he be a "technocrat" economist and have
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Asian shares gained on Tuesday, taking heart from a rally on Wall Street spurred by strong U.S. job data last week, while the U.S. dollar held near a three-year high against a basket of currencies. But Chinese shares underperformed on concerns over Beijing's credit reform drive to rebalance the economy and as unexpectedly high inflation
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Cyprus has made progress and has already implemented some very tough but necessary decisions, Minister of Finance Harris Georgiades has said. Georgiades who attended Monday the Eurogroup meeting said "I see no delay in implementing the program, we anticipate the start of the assessment which will begin later this month". He noted that "we have
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Total R & D expenditure in Cyprus in 2011 is estimated at €88,9 mn which corresponds to 0,49% of the Gross Domestic Product, compared to €86,2 mn or 0,50% of the GDP in 2010 and €83,0 mn or 0,49% in 2009. On the basis of the results of the ad hoc survey carried out by
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