Trump issues formal threat to veto effort to block massive UAE arms sales
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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Cyprus lifts veto on EU Russia sanctions
The European Union added seven Russian-backed officials in Crimea to its sanctions blacklist on Tuesday for organising local elections in the peninsula last year. The...
Supreme Court won’t vote on contentious bills until next year
The supreme court on Tuesday set March 3, 2020 as the date on which it will hear arguments for and against the president’s veto of...
Parliament rejection of presidential veto unlikely to have teeth
Parliament’s rejection on Monday of a presidential veto on a bill aiming to freeze home repossessions until October may prove pointless given that banks have...
Widowers threaten legal action over pensions
A group representing widowers on Monday called on the government to relent on the issue of pensions and to respect the House vote on the...
Anastasiades vetoes bill for widowers’ pension
President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday vetoed a bill on the widowers’ pension passed by the House plenum earlier in the month on the grounds that...
President vetoes ‘negative’ foreclosures changes (update)
President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday vetoed bills passed by the opposition rendering the foreclosures legislation ineffective and raising the risk of downgrades for the island’s...
Security Council guarantees and the Russian stand
On April 21, 2004, it was a Russian veto in the UN Security Council which prevented the adoption of the Anglo-American draft resolution on Cyprus,...
US lawmakers may change September 11 law after rejecting veto
US lawmakers expressed doubts on Thursday about September 11 legislation they forced on President Barack Obama, saying the new law allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia...
US 9/11 law exasperates Saudis, government silent
A US law allowing lawsuits against Saudi Arabia over the Sept 11 attacks met a stony silence from Riyadh on Thursday but some Saudis bristled,...
Obama vetoes Sept. 11 Saudi bill, sets up showdown with Congress
By Patricia Zengerle and Roberta Rampton President Barack Obama has vetoed legislation allowing families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia,...
Two vetoed bills will be examined by new parliament
Two bills vetoed by the president will be examined by the new parliament after the May 22 elections, it emerged on Thursday. The bills were...
Plenum rejects president’s bill referral (updated)
By Angelos Anastasiou An extraordinary plenary session of parliament on Friday rejected President Nicos Anastasiades’ veto of a bill rendering preliminary views of the Town-Planning...
President will veto House amendment on foreclosures
By Angelos Anastasiou PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades will veto the amendment voted by the House pushing implementation of tougher foreclosures legislation back by one month, to...