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Countries respective interests were upgraded to embassies.

“Passing my bipartisan bill to lift the embargo would benefit the people of both of our countries by boosting USA exports and allowing Cubans greater access to American goods”.

The Cuban flag has flown proudly over Havana’s newly restored embassy as the USA and Cuba relaunched diplomatic ties but swiftly cautioned that sharp differences lingered after five decades of enmity.

The US was represented by Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson, who led US negotiators in six months of talks leading to the July 1 announcement, and Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana who will now become...

In Havana, the USA embassy was also reopened for business with no outward sign of change.

The historic shift was publicly memorialized later Monday when Cuban officials formally inaugurated their embassy in Washington and Cuba’s blue, red and white-starred flag flew for the first time since the countries severed ties in 1961. A few USA lawmakers, including...

REP. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (R), Florida: I look forward to working with my colleagues in Congress to try to block the expansion of a U.S. Embassy in Cuba, to try to stop the confirmation of a US ambassador to the island. By midmorning, the Cuban government had pulled back several...

The earlier version said the compensation would be paid for “up to five years”.

President Barack Obama says the deal, which swaps sanctions relief for restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program, is the best way to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

The majority of Americans support the new agreement between major world powers and Iran regarding its controversial nuclear program.

— REIMPOSING U.N. SANCTIONS: If one of the parties to the nuclear deal, like the United States, determines that Iran is not fulfilling its commitments, it can ask for a Security Council vote on a new resolution to continue the lifting of all U.N sanctions resolutions on Iran.

As per the schedule, the report is to be submitted to the Rajya Sabha by July 24, within days of commencement of the Monsoon Session of Parliament.

“The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously”, announced New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully, who presided over the Security Council for the Iran meeting.

Israel has been strongly critical of the agreement struck this week between its arch-foe Iran and six world powers that would see Tehran curb its nuclear programme in return for a gradual lifting of sanctions.

“That’s not the purpose of my trip”, he admitted to reporters en route to Tel Aviv, Reuters reported.