El Salvador and ‘the world’s coolest dictator’
“It’s not perfect, but it’s good. We’ve done something really good here,” said El Salvador’s vice-president, Felix Ulloa, defending the government’s no-quarter war against the ...
Foreign ministry blasts congressman’s visit
The visit by US Congressman Pete Sessions to the north was condemned as a violation of international law and a deviation from the official US position, the foreign ministry said ...
Trump pleads not guilty of plotting to overturn election loss (Update)
Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges he orchestrated a plot to try to overturn his 2020 election loss in what U.S. prosecutors call an unprecedented effort by ...
US reiterates support for Cyprus solution
The United States will continue to support the agreed Security Council framework for a bizonal, bicommunal federation with political equality and will continue to urge the parties to resume negotiations, ...
White House says deeply concerned by Niger events, cooperation at risk
The United States remains deeply concerned by developments in Niger in the wake of a military coup and condemns any effort to seize power by force, White House national security ...
Government affirms commitment to sanctions against Russia
Members of the government presented Cyprus’ “faithful adherence” to the sanctions against Russia to a US Department of State official tasked with overseeing sanctions implementation, it emerged on Friday.
According ...
Biden invites Israel’s Netanyahu to White House (Update)
US President Joe Biden, after a lengthy delay, on Monday invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States for an official visit at a date to be determined, ...
Defence Minister in US to sign agreement for national guard cooperation agreement
Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas is in the United States, where he will sign an agreement for the integration of the National Guard of Cyprus into the State Partnership Programme (SPP), ...
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 ...
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 ...
Canadian wildfire smoke spreads, 100 million Americans under air-quality alerts
Murky, dull skies loomed over tens of millions of Americans on Thursday as smoke from prolonged Canadian wildfires drifted across the Midwest and East, causing unhealthy and, in some spots, ...
Cluster munitions would be useful for Ukraine, Pentagon says
The United States military believes that cluster munitions would be useful for Ukraine in pushing back against Russian forces, a senior Pentagon official said on Thursday, but they had not ...
The prospects of the oil market and economic implications
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
For more than a century, oil has retained its international position as the main source of energy, utilised, among other things, for fuelling vehicles, ...
US imposes visa restrictions on Uganda officials after anti-LGBTQ law
The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Uganda officials after the African nation passed an anti-LGBTQ law that was condemned by many countries and the United Nations, the U....
Cuba, Iran presidents meet in Havana, vow to confront ‘Yankee imperialism’
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met with Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday, his last stop on a three-nation Latin American tour aimed at shoring up support among Latin American allies ...
US ‘aspirational’ shoppers are spending less on fashion, jewelry
A gulf in spending patterns between wealthy Americans and so-called “aspirational” shoppers is driving luxury retailers to search out new sources of revenue and, in some cases, to shift their ...
China to build spy base in Cuba, WSJ says; US casts doubt on report
China has reached a secret deal with Cuba to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island roughly 100 miles (160 km) from Florida, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, but ...
Sunak, Biden sign new US-UK agreement on clean energy, AI
U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday agreed to deepen close economic ties between the United States and Britain, pledging to accelerate the clean ...
Fresh fighting threatens Sudan’s week-long ceasefire
Sporadic clashes between Sudan’s army and a paramilitary force spilled over into Thursday, puncturing the relative calm in the capital Khartoum and raising the risk of a week-long truce ...
Registrar receives green light to review sanctioned companies
Registrar of Companies Irini Mylona on Friday morning said her office has been greenlighted to proceed with examination of applications for personnel replacements received from companies caught up in the ...
Debt default could trigger recession, Harris and Brainard warn
Vice President Kamala Harris and top White House economic adviser Lael Brainard said on Thursday that a default on the U.S. debt of $31.4 trillion would throw the American economy ...
US House member ‘pauses’ subpoena attempt over Afghanistan cable
The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Thursday he accepted the State Department’s invitation to view a classified cable related to the ...
US retail sales miss expectations, but core sales strong
US retail sales increased less than expected in April, but the underlying trend was solid, suggesting that consumer spending likely remained strong early in the second quarter, despite growing risks ...
Second tranche of US sanctions data received (Updated)
Officials from the UK and the US will soon visit to provide additional information on the sanctions, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday as authorities received the second tranche of ...