Russian diplomats warn West over Ukraine ahead of NATO summit
Russia warned on Tuesday of “catastrophic consequences” for Europe if the Ukraine war escalates, as NATO leaders prepared to deliver a “positive message” to Kyiv at a summit on its ...
US says to move forward with transfer of F-16 jets to Turkey
U.S. President Joe Biden will move forward with the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey in consultation with Congress, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on ...
US Senator Menendez softens stance over F-16 sales to Turkey
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez on Monday said there was a temporary “lull” in Turkey’s “aggression against its neighbors” and said he is in talks ...
US crypto lobbyists court Democrats in fresh legislative push
Embattled by a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) crackdown, crypto companies are making a renewed push on Capitol Hill to drum up support for legislation they hope will rein ...
Veto on Turkey’s F-16s is an unwritten rule, Menendez says
“If the administration chooses to override the F-16 veto, I will oppose it and there will be consequences,” Senator and Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Robert Menendez ...
Nassar, disgraced doctor who abused US gymnasts, is stabbed in prison
Larry Nassar, the disgraced doctor of USA Gymnastics who was convicted of sexually abusing young female gymnasts, has been stabbed multiple times by another inmate in prison and was in ...
Biden to meet with King Charles, PM Sunak ahead of NATO meeting
U.S. President Joe Biden will look to deepen his relationships with King Charles and Prime Minster Rishi Sunak during separate meetings on Monday in which Ukraine and climate change ...
Foreign minister to meet Guterres in New York
Foreign Minister, Constantinos Kombos, is in New York where he will be meeting with UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.
On Monday the minister will participate in the Economist’s annual ...
Letter from six members of Congress to Blinken on Turkey, Aegean and F-16
The creation of an oversight mechanism that will be able to ensure that Turkey will not use the new F-16 fighters to violate Greek sovereignty in the Aegean has been ...
US central command says it killed ISIS leader in Eastern Syria
The U.S. Central Command said on Sunday it conducted a drone strike on July 7 that killed an ISIS leader in Eastern Syria.
It used the same MQ-9 drones in ...
Ukraine says it will limit use of cluster bombs, amid opposition to US move
Ukraine’s Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov welcomed the US decision to send cluster bombs to Kyiv, saying it would help to de-occupy the Ukrainian territory but vowed that the munitions ...
Nato flexes muscle to protect Vilnius summit near Russia, Belarus
NATO has turned Vilnius into a fortress defended by advanced weaponry to protect US President Joe Biden and other alliance leaders meeting next week only 32 km (20 miles) from Lithuania’s ...
Yellen urges China to support existing institutions to fight climate change
By Andrea Shalal
The United States and China, as the world’s two largest economies, must work together to combat the “existential threat” of climate change, U.S. Treasury Secretary ...
Two suspects arrested in Texas shooting at Fourth of July festival
Police on Friday arrested two men aged 19 and 20 on suspicion of murder in the shooting at a Texas street festival on the eve of the Fourth of July that killed ...
At least eight dead after apartment building crumbles in Brazil
– An apartment building collapsed in northeastern Brazil on Friday, leaving at least eight people dead and five missing, according to officials, as rescue workers scoured the rubble in a frantic ...
Shooter who killed 23 at Texas Walmart sentenced to 90 life terms -local media
A federal judge on Friday sentenced a white supremacist to 90 consecutive life terms in prison for a 2019 shooting in which he killed 23 people and wounded 22 others at a Texas Walmart ...
US plans to send Ukraine cluster munitions
The United States plans to send cluster munitions to Ukraine to help it battle Russian invaders, U.S. officials said on, a move opposed by human rights groups but which ...
‘Strategic’ relations highlighted at US Independence Day event
Cyprus-US relations have reached new heights and are no longer viewed solely through the lens of the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday.
The president was speaking at ...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seize commercial ship in Gulf – U.S. Navy
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards “forcibly seized” a commercial ship in international waters in the Gulf on Thursday and the vessel was possibly involved in smuggling, a U.S. Navy spokesperson ...
US’s Yellen lands in China, hopes to thaw icy relations
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday began a four-day visit to China focused on easing tensions between the world’s two largest economies, despite low expectations on both ...
US Navy says it prevented Iran from seizing tankers in Gulf of Oma
The U.S. Navy said it had intervened to prevent Iran from seizing two commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday, in the latest in a series of ...
Philadelphia mass shooting suspect arraigned on five murder charges
A Philadelphia resident arrested in one of a series of mass shootings across the country over the Fourth of July weekend was arraigned in court on Wednesday on five murder ...
Ten dead, 38 wounded in three mass shootings ahead of US July 4 holiday
Ten people were killed and 38 wounded in mass shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Fort Worth ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, officials said, prompting a fresh call from President ...
Rash of mass shootings kills 10 in US ahead of July 4 holiday
Mass shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Fort Worth, Texas, claimed the lives of 10 people ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, officials said, a grim reminder of the United States’ ...