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Biden admin insists on Iran’s full compliance for return to JCPOA
Feb 03, 2021 03:09The administration of newly-elected US President Joe Biden has expressed contradictory remarks about its return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, saying Tehran must make the first move and resume full compliance before Washington will be ready to rejoin the pact.
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Biden can fix US reputation by rejoining Iran deal, honoring other pledges: Senior European lawmaker
Feb 03, 2021 02:22A senior member of the European Parliament says President Joe Biden has to live up to his promises, including returning the United States to the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, if he seeks to repair the US reputation that was badly tarnished under predecessor Donald Trump.
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UK applies to join Asia-Pacific trading bloc on Brexit anniversary
Jan 31, 2021 12:46A year after officially leaving the European Union (EU), the UK is set to apply to join a free trade area with Asia and Pacific nations on Monday (February 01), with negotiations expected in the spring.
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Hungary approves Chinese Sinopharm's COVID vaccine, first in EU to do so
Jan 29, 2021 12:57Hungary, which last week became the first European Union member to buy Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, on Friday became the bloc’s first to approve China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine.
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Europe complicit in Yemen humanitarian disaster by selling arms to Saudi Arabia, UAE: Lawmaker
Jan 29, 2021 04:03A member of the European Parliament has denounced Europe’s support for the ongoing Saudi-led military onslaught on Yemen, arguing that EU nations have done little to condemn the attacks and deal with the humanitarian catastrophe there.
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Iran ahead of schedule in producing 20% enriched uranium: Qalibaf
Jan 28, 2021 13:15Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf says Iran is ahead of schedule in enriching uranium to a purity level of 20 percent, almost a month after the country began to scale up its uranium enrichment program.
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First flashes of Brexit trade trouble appear in UK data
Jan 28, 2021 08:52The UK’s new and less open trading relationship with the European Union is showing its first negative effects in economic data.
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UNHCR calls on European states to end refugee pushbacks at borders
Jan 28, 2021 05:56The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed alarm over the increasingly frequent repulsion and expulsion of refugees at Europe’s borders, urging European countries to halt these practices and protect the right to seek asylum.
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Efforts begin to save JCPOA under Biden administration
Jan 26, 2021 04:57They are clearly very different issues, but EU foreign affairs ministers have agreed the two main policy areas on which they want to make progress with the United States: climate change and the Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the JCPOA, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
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EU states no longer consider Guaido Venezuela's interim president, describe him as 'privileged interlocutor'
Jan 26, 2021 03:06The European Union has announced that it no longer considers Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido interim president of the Latin American country, describing him as a "privileged interlocutor."