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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."
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Tehran says no changes seen regarding JCPOA, warns to implement new nuclear law ‘word by word’
Jan 25, 2021 09:12Tehran says nothing new has happened with regard to the 2015 nuclear agreement it reached with six world powers, which was later ditched by former US President Donald Trump.
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EU MPs demand halt of Nord Stream 2 to pressure Russia
Jan 22, 2021 10:10EU legislators have reacted to Russia’s arrest of blogger Alexei Navalny by passing a resolution demanding a halt to the completion of the Moscow-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that carries Russian natural gas to Europe.
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What is the way to combat US sanctions?
Jan 21, 2021 03:42In his televised speech that was delivered on January 8, 2021, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei discussed the issue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), saying, “We do not at all insist on the return of the US to the JCPOA, and we are in no rush for that country to do so… Our reasonable, logical demand is that sanctions be lifted. This is a right that has been taken away from the Iranian nation.”