European Union

Iran will never succumb to US bullying, illegitimate demands: President Rouhani

Sep 20, 2020 09:05

President Hassan Rouhani said the Islamic Republic will never give in to US bullying after the United States claimed it has restored all UN sanctions against Tehran through the so-called snapback mechanism of a landmark nuclear deal clinched in 2015, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
E3: US claim on snapback sanctions on Iran lacks legal effect

Sep 20, 2020 06:46

The three European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the E3, say a claim by the United States that it has restored Iran sanctions through the so-called snapback mechanism has no legal effect.
Hundreds of refugees move toward new Lesbos camp

Sep 18, 2020 10:24

Dragging bags and bins full of belongings, migrants moved towards a new temporary tent camp on Greece's Lesbos on Friday (September 18), more than a week after a fire razed the country's biggest migrant camp, where they had been staying.
EU parliament urges arms embargo on Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi murder, Yemen war

Sep 18, 2020 09:06

The European Parliament has called on European Union (EU) member states to impose an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia over its gruesome murder of well-known dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and the Saudi devastating war on Yemen.
President Maduro: EU demand to delay election in Venezuela 'impossible'

Sep 18, 2020 08:35

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has dismissed as "impossible" the EU's suggestion to postpone the country’s December 6 election to meet the bloc’s conditions to dispatch an observer mission, blaming the idea on US pressure.
13 detained after fire near second Greek refugee camp

Sep 16, 2020 06:19

Thirteen people have been detained on the Greek island of Samos after a fire threatened the local migrant camp, police said Wednesday, days after another blaze destroyed Europe's largest migrant camp on Lesbos.
Parliament committee prepares triple-urgency motion to counter US hostile measures

Sep 15, 2020 12:28

The Iranian Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy has submitted a triple-urgency motion to the legislature to counter the United States’ hostile campaign aimed at renewing all United Nations sanctions against Iran.
Russia censures Germany for refusing to share Navalny’s medical records

Sep 15, 2020 06:46

Russia has censured Germany’s refusal to share with Moscow the details of its medical treatment of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny who Western states allege has been poisoned and Berlin’s referral of the case to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Russia denounces as ‘unacceptable’ US claims over Navalny case

Sep 10, 2020 13:34

Russia has lambasted as "unacceptable” a statement by the United States alleging that senior Russian officials might have been behind the purported poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny.
Boris Johnson defends controversial new Brexit-related bill

Sep 10, 2020 02:55

As concern continues to mount about the government’s highly controversial bill, which is set to interfere with aspects of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has leapt to its defense.