Summer retail discounts helped pushed Cyprus's consumer price inflation down to 3.7% year on year in July from a June reading of 4.2%, the island's statistics department said on Thursday. On a
Cyprus is to auction up to 20 mln euros worth of 10 year bonds domestically on August 22, offering a 6.50% coupon, the finance ministry said on Thursday. Authorities last offered debt
* Resignation threatens to derail peace talks * The junior partner in Cyprus's two-party coalition quit the government on Wednesday, making consensus on much-needed fiscal reforms more difficult and potentially complicating
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak flew to Cairo on Wednesday where he will be tried for conspiring to kill protesters, the first Arab ruler to appear in court since uprisings swept the region. Speculation
* Bond yields soar; Gov't insists no funding needs til December * Cyprus may soon have to seek an international bailout, becoming the fourth state in the euro zone to request
Syrians began the Muslim Ramadan fast in sombre mood on Monday after troops stormed Hama, scene of a 1982 massacre, in one of the bloodiest days of a five-month-old uprising against President
Syrians began the Muslim Ramadan fast in somber mood on Monday after troops stormed Hama, scene of a 1982 massacre, in one of the bloodiest days of a five-month-old uprising against President
More than 200,000 university applicants in Britain will fail to get places this year, the head of the admissions service said in an interview with the Independent newspaper published on Monday. Chief
* Facing spike in international borrowing costs Standard & Poor's cut Cyprus's credit rating by one notch on Friday and warned another cut was possible, deepening economic gloom for the island struggling
* Economy on the brink of collapse * European member of parliament and former foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides has called for the president of Cyprus to resign in order to appease
