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UK and EU agree to extend negotiations beyond Sunday deadline
Dec 14, 2020 05:53Against all expectations Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, have agreed to extend post-Brexit trade talks beyond the previously agreed Sunday (December 13) deadline.
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Iran summons French envoy to protest statement on execution of counterrevolutionary propagandist
Dec 13, 2020 12:07Iran has summoned French Ambassador to Tehran Philippe Thiebaud to protest a statement issued by the European country's Foreign Ministry condemning the execution of Rouhollah Zam, administrator of a notorious counterrevolutionary website, who was convicted of corruption on earth, among other crimes.
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Iran summons German envoy over EU sympathy for executed propagandist
Dec 13, 2020 10:58Iran's Foreign Ministry has summoned Germany’s ambassador to Tehran after the European Union expressed strong sympathy for the former administrator of an anti-Iran website, who was executed earlier for a crime punishable by death under Iranian law.
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UK ministers warn supermarkets to stockpile food on no-deal Brexit fears
Dec 13, 2020 09:12Supermarkets in the United Kingdom have been warned to stockpile food as talks to reach a deal between the UK and the EU have so far been unsuccessful.
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Former European security chief warns UK of no-deal Brexit
Dec 13, 2020 05:26As both the UK and the European Union (EU) prepare for a no-deal Brexit which is now widely judged to be inevitable, a former European security chief has warned Britons to be “very worried” about the future.
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Turkey slams EU’s ‘biased and illegal’ approach, sanctions threat
Dec 11, 2020 10:54The Turkish foreign ministry has slammed the European Union's approach towards Turkey’s persisting dispute with Greece and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean as "biased and illegal," calling on the Western bloc to instead act as an honest broker.
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EU extends Russia sanctions by another 6 months
Dec 11, 2020 08:24The European Union (EU) has extended sanctions against Russia, by another six months, as the US also imposed further bans on several Russian individuals and entities.
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Turkey’s president downplays EU sanctions threat
Dec 10, 2020 04:42Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has downplayed any economic sanctions the European Union might impose on Ankara over the dispute in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Speaker slams E3’s statement on Iran’s parliamentary bill
Dec 09, 2020 05:57Speaker of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf denounced as weird a statement from the three European parties to the JCPOA that asks Iran not to carry out a recently-ratified law on strategic action for the lifting of sanctions.
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OPCW cover-up scandal shows ‘culture of lying central to Western narrative,’ ex-diplomat says
Dec 09, 2020 03:11The OPCW’s cover-up scandal, under US pressure, of a Syria chemical weapons probe shows “the culture of lying has become so central to the Western narrative,” a former US Senate policy adviser and diplomat says.