US honours Cyprus MP with anti-corruption award
Cypriot activist and MP Alexandra Attalides is among 12 individuals from across the world honoured by the US state department for their work to combat corruption.
Attalides, elected to the House ...
US recognises Cyprus’ right to develop resources in its EEZ – state department
The US recognises the right of the Republic of Cyprus to develop resources in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the state department has said.
A spokesperson was asked by Greek ...
Parents of suspected Michigan school shooter, themselves wanted, taken into custody
The parents of a Michigan teenager accused of murdering four fellow high school students were taken into custody on Saturday, a day after each was charged with four counts of ...
Parents of Michigan teen in school shooting charged with manslaughter
Prosecutors filed involuntary manslaughter charges on Friday against the parents of the Michigan teenager who authorities say fatally shot four classmates at his school earlier this week.
James and Jennifer ...
US has rock solid commitment to help Taiwan defend itself -official
Threats and coercion by China towards Taiwan increase the need for the United States to help Taiwan maintain a credible self-defence, the top US diplomat for Asia said on Thursday.
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Expanded eligibility boosts US Covid-19 booster shots ahead of holidays
Millions of Americans got COVID-19 booster shots at a near record pace after the Biden administration expanded eligibility last week, but health officials concerned about climbing infections ahead of the ...
Biden and China’s Xi will hold virtual meeting on Monday
By Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom and Trevor Hunnicutt
US President Joe Biden will hold a virtual meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday, the White House said, talks Washington ...
Expect shortages over Christmas
The US’ experience with supply chain issues goes a long way to explaining what Cyprus should expect and why
By Kevin Ketels
Walk into any US store these days and ...
US to lift restrictions Nov 8 for vaccinated foreign travelers
he White House on Friday will lift COVID-19 travel restrictions for fully vaccinated international visitors starting Nov. 8, ending historic restrictions that had barred much of the world from entering the ...
US to resume Trump ‘Remain in Mexico’ asylum policy in November
President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to restart by mid-November a program begun under his predecessor Donald Trump that forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for U....
US to lift Canada, Mexico land border restrictions in Nov for vaccinated visitors
The United States will lift restrictions at its land borders with Canada and Mexico for fully vaccinated foreign nationals in early November, ending historic curbs on non-essential travelers in place ...
Biden, Xi plan U.S.-China virtual summit before year’s end, U.S. says
The United States and China have agreed in principle for their presidents to hold a virtual meeting before year’s end, a senior U.S. administration official said on Wednesday, ...
Elpidofors controversy now closed says Anastasiades
The matter of Archbishop of America Elpidoforos’ participation in an event in New York where Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar was presented as ‘president of the TRNC’ is considered closed, ...
Higher taxes are coming and for markets, that could be a good thing
And so it begins: Taxes in the world’s wealthiest countries are rising. Inevitable perhaps given the unprecedented COVID-era debt surge and, according to some investors, even a good thing ...
Auto-eugenics in America
Eugenics was a 20th-century pseudo-science that purported to improve the human breed by weeding out the ‘least fit’, often by measures like compulsory sterilisation or, in the case of the ...
9/11 anniversary marked in Cyprus: firefighters honoured (Updated)
President Nicos Anastasiades on Saturday stressed the importance for countries to renew their determination in the global fight against terrorism, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist ...
US Gulf Coast braces for Hurricane Ida after Cuba takes hit
Hurricane Ida churned toward the U.S. Gulf coast on Saturday, forecast to gather strength in coming hours and prompting evacuations of flood-prone New Orleans neighborhoods and oil rigs in ...
UK, U.S. impose sanctions on Russian intelligence agents over Navalny poisoning
Britain and the United States imposed sanctions on Friday on men they said were Russian intelligence operatives responsible for the poisoning one year ago of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
The ...
FDA authorizes Covid-19 vaccine boosters for the immunocompromised
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a third dose of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc for people with compromised immune systems.
The amended https://www....
North Korea not picking up hotlines after warning South, U.S. over joint drills
North Korea did not answer routine calls on inter-Korean hotlines on Tuesday, South Korea said, hours after a senior official in Pyongyang warned the South and the United States over ...
In a first under Biden, detainee transferred out of Guantanamo Bay
President Joe Biden’s administration said on Monday that it had transferred its first detainee from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, a Moroccan man who had been ...
Cyprus downgraded in US human trafficking report
Cyprus has been downgraded in the US State Department’s 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) after three years of being in the top tier, mainly because there have not been ...
UNSG’s report ‘does not reflect the gravity of Turkish provocations’
The UN Secretary-general’s reports on Cyprus do not reflect gravity of Turkish provocations, the island’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Andreas Hadjichrysanthou has said.
He was speaking ...
More Chinese companies added to US economic blacklist
The Biden administration is set as early as Friday to add more than 10 Chinese companies to its economic blacklist over alleged human rights abuses and high-tech surveillance in Xinjiang, two ...