In today’s episode, while Jimmy Carter’s election as president of the United States in 1976 may have been a close-run contest, it was greeted with almost unanimous elation in Cyprus.

Elsewhere, the United States may offer financial assistance to the Republic of Cyprus to upgrade the Andreas Papandreou air base in Paphos, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday.

All this and more in today’s Daily News Briefing brought to you by the Cyprus Mail.