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Rubio says NATO members ready to agree 5% defense spending by June summit
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that all NATO members will have agreed on a goal of spending the equivalent to 5% of GDP on defense over the ...
Dutch PM confirms Rutte’s call for higher NATO defence spend
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has proposed that alliance members meet higher targets for defence spending by 2032, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said on Friday.
Reuters reported last week that ...
Germany’s Merz says he is more hopeful about Nato’s future now
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday he was more optimistic about the future of the Nato alliance than he was three months ago, when he questioned its continued existence ...
White House national security adviser Waltz being forced out, sources say
U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz is being forced out of his job, four people briefed on the matter said on Thursday, in the first ...
US admiral at Nato fired in expanding national security purge
US Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, who holds a senior position in Nato, has been fired as part of what appears to be an expanding national security purge of top ...
Three of four missing US Army soldiers found dead in Lithuania
Three of the four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing in Lithuania last week when their vehicle sunk in a peat bog have been found dead at the site, ...
Vehicle of US soldiers missing in Lithuania found submerged in water, US Army says
A vehicle used by four US Army soldiers that went missing on Tuesday afternoon in Lithuania has been found submerged in water and the search for the missing soldiers is ...
Cyprus to call for ‘no different treatment of invaders’ on European armament
Cyprus is to push for “no different treatment of invaders” with regard to the European Union’s plans to boost its military defences, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Monday, ...
The end of the irrelevant discussion of Cyprus joining Nato
By Loukis Skaliotis
Worrying as world events have been in the last few days, at least they will prove useful in putting to rest the totally irrelevant, on and off ...
Europe can’t turn Uncle Sam into ‘Uncle Sucker,’ US defence secretary says
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth rejected criticism on Thursday of Washington’s negotiating strategy with Russia on the war in Ukraine and warned Europe against treating America like a “sucker” ...
Akel leader Stefanou sets out opposition to Nato
Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou on Sunday expressed his opposition to what he described as the government’s efforts to “integrate Cyprus into Nato”.
Speaking at his party’s youth wing ...
Nato chief Rutte says Europe will pay for US arms for Ukraine
Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday urged the United States to keep supplying Ukraine with weapons to fight Russia’s invasion and said he was sure Europe was ready ...
Rutte says NATO must spend smarter on defence or face bill of 3.7 per cent of GDP
NATO chief Mark Rutte said on Monday the alliance’s military capability targets may require members to spend as much as 3.7% of GDP on defence but this figure could be ...
US may offer financial assistance to upgrade Paphos air base
The United States may offer financial assistance to the Republic of Cyprus to upgrade the Andreas Papandreou air base in Paphos, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday.
Speaking to newspaper ...
Nato accession genie now out of the bottle
Cyprus acceding to Nato – easier said than done? If so, why did the government float the idea, with President Nikos Christodoulides sounding sanguine about the prospects? A trial balloon, intended ...
‘Cyprus will see the weapons it bought are useless’, Turkish speaker says
The Greek Cypriots will see that the weapons they bought are useless, Turkish parliament speaker Numan Kurtulmus said on Thursday night.
Addressing journalists after a meeting with the north’s ‘...
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Cyprus turns to west for new air defence system
Cyprus is turning to the west to renew its air defence systems, a senior government source said on Thursday.
The source told Reuters the country is “turning to other countries ...
‘Unnecessary’ war of words over Nato
Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Tuesday hit out at what he called the unnecessary public debate and war of words over Cyprus joining Nato.
Kombos, speaking at the House foreign ...
The Western orientation of Cyprus non-negotiable, says Demetriou
Closer ties with Nato would not only render the island a pillar of security and stability in the region but would also create better conditions for a solution to the ...
Our View: Akel needs to accept that the world has moved on
President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday announced that Cyprus was getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, which it will never as things stand.
The president, ...
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Cyprus gearing up for Nato membership with US help, says president
Cyprus is getting ready to join Nato, if and when Turkey withdraws its objections, and to this end the country is discussing with the United States how it can take ...
Cyprus joining NATO plan presented to Biden
President Nikos Christodoulides reportedly presented a plan of Cyprus’ possible future accession to NATO to US President Joe Biden at their meeting in October 30 at the White House.
According to ...
Hundreds protest use of Cyprus as base for war
Hundreds of people demonstrated against “the transformation of Cyprus into a base for war” outside the US-sponsored security training facility CyCLOPS in Larnaca on Sunday.
The protestors, carrying banners with ...
Cyprus should join Nato’s ‘Partnership for Peace’
I have read with interest the latest book by Chrysostomos Pericleous called “Leaders Inferior to Circumstances”. The book covers the last 20 years of Cyprus’ political history. The author openly criticises ...