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Bipartisan resolution calls on US President to make Cyprus solution top foreign policy priority

Source: Cyprus News AgencyMay 14, 2021

By Source: Cyprus News AgencyMay 14, 2021014

US Republican Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) leads a bipartisan resolution calling on the Biden Administration to condemn Turkey for its illegal occupation of Cyprus and...

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Recognition of Armenian genocide by US ‘would be of historic importance’

Nick TheodoulouApril 23, 2021April 23, 2021

By Nick TheodoulouApril 23, 2021April 23, 20210859

Vartkes Mahdessian, the representative of the Armenian community in the House of Representatives, is hopeful that US President Biden will recognise the Armenian genocide on...

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Boy reunited with father for return to US

Evie AndreouMarch 30, 2021March 30, 2021

By Evie AndreouMarch 30, 2021March 30, 202103468

The five-year-old boy whom the court ordered must return to the US after his father took the mother in court for abducting the child in...

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Young Cypriot hacker found guilty in US trial

Jonathan ShkurkoJanuary 26, 2021January 26, 2021

By Jonathan ShkurkoJanuary 26, 2021January 26, 2021014233

A young hacker who became the first ever Cypriot citizen to be extradited to the US has been found guilty of committing cyber-crimes by a...

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US Secretary of State nominee says will work to deepen ties between US and Cyprus

Source: Cyprus News AgencyJanuary 22, 2021

By Source: Cyprus News AgencyJanuary 22, 202101220

US Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken said if his appointment is confirmed by the US Senate, he will work to continue deepening ties between...

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Christodoulides speaks with Pompeo

Source: Cyprus News AgencyJanuary 16, 2021

By Source: Cyprus News AgencyJanuary 16, 20210838

US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and Foreign Minister, Nicos Christodoulides had a phone conversation on Friday and agreed that the strength of the US-Cyprus...

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Bilateral co-operation with US on agenda of upcoming talks

Katy TurnerJanuary 3, 2021

By Katy TurnerJanuary 3, 20210494

US acting secretary of homeland security Chad Wolf will lay the foundation stone in Larnaca on Monday of the Cyprus Center for Land, Open Seas...

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Biden ‘looks forward’ to a new meeting with Anastasiades

Evie AndreouDecember 31, 2020December 31, 2020

By Evie AndreouDecember 31, 2020December 31, 202001628

US President-elect Joe Biden has sent a thank you letter to President Nicos Anastasiades for the latter’s best wishes after his election victory, it was...

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Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine clears first U.S. FDA hurdle

Reuters News ServiceDecember 15, 2020

By Reuters News ServiceDecember 15, 20200251

Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine appeared to be set for regulatory authorization this week after U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff members did not raise any...

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Trump issues formal threat to veto effort to block massive UAE arms sales

Reuters News ServiceDecember 9, 2020

By Reuters News ServiceDecember 9, 20200364

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a formal threat on Wednesday to veto congressional efforts to block his plans for $23 billion in military sales to...

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After 4.2 million Covid-19 cases in November, US pins hope on vaccine

Reuters News ServiceDecember 1, 2020

By Reuters News ServiceDecember 1, 20200331

The United States entered the final month of the year with expectations that promising vaccine candidates will soon be approved to halt the rapidly spreading...

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Russia strikes back over US pressure on Cyprus over port entry

George PsyllidesNovember 6, 2020November 6, 2020

By George PsyllidesNovember 6, 2020November 6, 202004620

The US demand for Cyprus to deny port access to Russian navy vessels contradicts the right of every state to pursue an independent foreign policy,...

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US expects ‘further assurances’ that Cyprus’ will deny port access to Russian naval vessels

Source: Cyprus News AgencyNovember 3, 2020November 3, 2020

By Source: Cyprus News AgencyNovember 3, 2020November 3, 202006497

The United States expect to see further assurances on the ability of Cyprus to deny port access to Russian naval vessels, according to Clarke Cooper,...

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Diaspora in the US sends letter to President Trump over Varosha

Source: Cyprus News AgencyNovember 1, 2020

By Source: Cyprus News AgencyNovember 1, 202001844

Τhe Greek and Cyprus Diaspora in the United States has sent a letter to President Donald Trump over the illegal opening of the fenced-off town...

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Almost half a million Americans contract COVID-19 in past week as infections surge

Reuters News ServiceOctober 27, 2020

By Reuters News ServiceOctober 27, 20200465

Nearly half a million people in the United States have contracted the novel coronavirus in the last seven days, according to a Reuters tally, as...

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US and Cyprus: working together for cybersecurity

CM Guest ColumnistOctober 24, 2020October 24, 2020

By CM Guest ColumnistOctober 24, 2020October 24, 20200613

By Judith G. Garber Each October, the United States commemorates Cybersecurity Awareness Month to help inform people, businesses, and international partners on ways to protect...

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US Assistant Secretary of State due in Cyprus

Source: Cyprus News AgencyOctober 18, 2020October 18, 2020

By Source: Cyprus News AgencyOctober 18, 2020October 18, 20200784

Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, Clarke Cooper is travelling to Cyprus on a working visit on Monday and will hold talks with Foreign...

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Varosha move provocative, Pompeo says

Source: Cyprus News AgencyOctober 16, 2020

By Source: Cyprus News AgencyOctober 16, 202001804

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that the Turkish move in reopening part of the fenced-off area of Varosha is provocative and inconsistent...

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Biden says White House must press Turkey to refrain from further provocations

Source: Cyprus News AgencyOctober 7, 2020

By Source: Cyprus News AgencyOctober 7, 20200848

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, in a statement issued by his campaign, said the Trump administration must Turkey to refrain from a further provocative...

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Coronavirus: US donates PPE worth €15,000 to Famagusta hospital

Source: Cyprus News AgencySeptember 21, 2020

By Source: Cyprus News AgencySeptember 21, 20200536

US Ambassador to Cyprus Judith Garber on Monday handed over personal protective equipment worth €15,000, including over 13,000 masks and over 600 goggles to Famagusta...