US to bar Palestinians from UN assembly as allies pledge statehood
The US said on Friday it would bar entry to some Palestinian officials seeking to attend next month’s UN General Assembly in New York, after several US allies pledged ...
US-Venezuela tensions rise as US warships arrive in Southern Caribbean
Tensions between the United States and Venezuela are rising amid a large U.S. naval buildup in the Southern Caribbean and nearby waters, which U.S. officials say aims to ...
All UN Security Council members, except US, say famine in Gaza is ‘man-made crisis’
All United Nations Security Council members, except the United States, on Wednesday said the famine in Gaza was a “manmade crisis” and warned that the use of starvation as a ...
Trump-appointed judge rebukes DOJ for ‘calamitous’ lawsuit against Maryland judges
A federal judge on Tuesday threw out an unusual lawsuit the Trump administration filed against every federal judge in Maryland over an order slowing down efforts to swiftly deport people ...
USS Mitscher arrives in Cyprus
The United States navy’s guided missile destroyer the USS Mitscher arrived in Cyprus on Monday, the American embassy in Nicosia announced.
The ship is one of the US’ fleet ...
Cyprus halts parcel post to US
The postal services on Monday announced that all post to the US containing goods has been suspended for the moment.
Letters and documents will continue to be accepted as usual ...
How American energy interests play in our neighbourhood
American oil companies became involved in the Middle East right from the start of the oil industry in the region. A Standard Oil subsidiary, that later became Chevron, gained concessions ...
In huge win for Trump, court throws out civil fraud penalty
In a triumph for Donald Trump, a New York state appeals court on Thursday threw out an approximately half-billion-dollar penalty against the U.S. president, in a fraud case that ...
Zelenskiy braces for perilous Trump talks in Washington on Monday
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy flies to Washington on Monday under heavy US pressure to agree a swift end to Russia’s war in Ukraine but determined to defend Kyiv’s ...
Melania Trump sends letter to Putin about abducted children
U.S. President Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, raised the plight of children in Ukraine and Russia in a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, two White House ...
Washington DC attorney general sues to stop federal takeover of police department
Washington, DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging United States President Donald Trump’s attempt to take control of the district’s police department, in a ...
Trump-Putin summit
Back in the USSR and a bit of the bizarre feature ahead of Trump-Putin summit
By Dmitriy Turlyun
A flurry of superpower-style signalling from Washington and Moscow over the war in Ukraine heralded the first US-Russian summit in four years, but on the ground in ...
Putin lands for high-stakes summit with Trump, who seeks ceasefire ‘today’
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Alaska on Friday to greet a waiting U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of a summit that could determine whether a ceasefire can be ...
US to retaliate against IMO members that back net zero emissions plan
The US on Tuesday rejected the “Net-Zero Framework” proposal by the International Maritime Organisation, which is aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions from the international shipping sector, and threatened ...
Trump administration plans to build largest US federal migrant detention center on military base
President Donald Trump’s administration is aiming to construct the largest federal migrant detention facility in the United States on a military base in Texas, the Pentagon said on Thursday, ...
US plan sees Hezbollah disarmed by year-end, Israeli withdrawal
The United States has presented Lebanon with a proposal for disarming Hezbollah by the end of the year, along with ending Israel’s military operations in the country and the ...
Our View: Expert help is welcome – now make the findings public
Many were surprised to hear that President Christodoulides had asked the United States government to send a team of experts to conduct investigations on how the recent fires started, evaluate ...
Five US soldiers shot at Georgia base, suspect a fellow soldier, official says
The man suspected of shooting and wounding five US soldiers on Wednesday at the Fort Stewart base in the state of Georgia is also a US soldier, a US official ...
Two Cyprus antiquities returned from America
Two Cypriot antiquities returned by the Art of Eternity Gallery in New York to be repatriated to the island were handed over to the government at a ceremony at the ...
Cyprus-based shipping company sanctioned by US over Iran links
A Cyprus-based shipping company by the name of “GMCG Ltd” was designated as “blocked property” by the United States’ government as part of the country’s latest round of sanctions ...
US calls UN Israel two-state solution conference a ‘publicity stunt’
The United States on Monday rejected as a “publicity stunt” a United Nations conference that brought dozens of ministers together to work toward a two-state solution between Israel and the ...
Hulk Hogan, who helped turn pro wrestling into billion-dollar spectacle, dies at 71
Hulk Hogan, the American sports and entertainment star who made professional wrestling a global phenomenon and loudly supported Donald Trump for president, has died at the age of 71, World Wrestling ...
Epstein files fight leads US House Republicans to start summer break a day early
The top Republican in the US House of Representatives said on Tuesday he would send lawmakers home a day early for a five-week summer recess to avoid a political fight ...
US appeals court will not lift limits on Associated Press access to White House
A US appeals court on Tuesday declined to lift restrictions imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration on White House access by Associated Press journalists after the news organization declined ...