#United States

A new amendment to the US defence budget includes Cyprus for the first time in the list of countries eligible to participate in military training programmes in eastern Europe. With ...

The man suspected of killing UnitedHealth UNH.N executive Brian Thompson in a brazen shooting outside a midtown Manhattan hotel last week has been arrested, New York City officials said ...

Mexico is seeking an agreement with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to ensure Mexico does not receive deportees from third countries in case of large-scale deportations from the United States, ...

The United States is pushing as hard as it can to get to a diplomatic resolution in Lebanon but cautioned such an agreement required a green light from all parties ...

Improving relations between Cyprus and the United States may push Russia to recognise the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s international relations advisor Hasan Unal said on Thursday. Speaking ...

By Euripides Evriviades From the moment Donald Trump triumphantly secured his election as the 47th president of the United States, much has been said and written about him, including unending ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will be the first president of Cyprus to pay an official visit to the White House in 28 years, when he meets President Joe Biden on Wednesday afternoon. ...

The United States warned Iran at the United Nations on Monday that if it undertakes any further aggressive acts against Israel or US personnel in the region “there will be ...

An award-winning Cambodian journalist who was arrested on charges of inciting social unrest was freed on bail on Thursday, a day after the government released a video of the investigative ...

Venezuela has detained three Americans and two others for alleged terrorist activities, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Thursday, marking an increase in the count of foreign prisoners in the ...

The United States has seized 41 internet domains used by Russian intelligence agents and their proxies to hack into government agencies including the Pentagon and State Department, the Justice Department said ...

By Alexander Cohen Should Americans be bracing for bloodshed if Donald Trump loses the 2024 presidential election? As a political scientist who studies American politics, I can easily imagine a repeat ...

Dozens of US troops have been deployed to Cyprus to prepare for possible evacuations of American citizens from Lebanon, it was reported on Thursday. The troops add to a growing ...

The United States is sending a small number of additional troops to the Middle East given escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the Pentagon said on Monday, declining ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles, a move he ...

A roadmap for Bilateral Defence Cooperation was signed on Monday by the Republic of Cyprus and the United States. The roadmap was signed at the defence ministry by Minister Vassilis ...

The United States has seized a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and flown it from the Dominican Republic to Florida after determining that its purchase violated US sanctions, ...

Fortress America and Festung Europa (Fortress Europe) are just starting to take shape; bare outlines of what they will have grown into ten years from now. But the trend is ...

The United States remains committed to defending Israel in any Iranian attack, and was hopeful about a possible Gaza ceasefire agreement, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said on ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken crisscrossed the Middle East on Tuesday as part of Washington’s latest diplomatic push to secure a Gaza ceasefire and a hostage release deal ...

The United States on Tuesday disputed a report that cited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying he might have convinced US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel should ...

The US expects Gaza peace talks to move forward as planned, the State Department said on Monday, adding it believes a ceasefire deal remains possible even after Hamas cast doubt ...

By Peter Greste The photo of returning prisoners in an American plane, all grinning from ear to ear, says it all: the joy, the relief and the success of an ...

U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were released by Russia on Thursday as part of the biggest East-West prisoner exchange since the end of the ...