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Austria urges setting up 'hot spots' outside EU for processing refugees
Jul 07, 2018 14:29Austria has proposed that the European Union should entirely move its refugee application processing system outside the bloc.
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EU states give go-ahead to free trade deal with Japan
Jul 07, 2018 10:16Members of the European Union have expressed support for a free trade deal with Japan thus paving the way for an agreement to the same effect to be signed between the two parties at the Union's next week summit in Brussels.
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Nuclear deal parties resolved to stand up to US departure: Zarif
Jul 07, 2018 00:46Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif says all the remaining signatories to a 2015 landmark nuclear agreement have political will to stand up to the United States' move to withdraw from the deal.
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European Parliament slams UAE for 'destabilizing' Somalia over Qatar crisis
Jul 06, 2018 10:02The European Parliament has condemned the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia for cutting financial support to Somalia for its neutrality on a rift between a Saudi-led quartet and Qatar.
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France says no Iran package before Nov. as Zarif rejects 'obscure promises'
Jul 06, 2018 08:08France says Europe is unlikely to put together an economic package for Iran before November as Tehran wants "verifiable and actionable commitments rather than lofty and obscure promises."
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UK police investigating new Novichok nerve agent attack
Jul 05, 2018 02:39The UK counter-terrorism police have launched an investigation into what they say is another attack on British citizens with the Russian nerve agent Novichok, the same poison that was used in March against Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal.
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European Commission analyzing German deal on refugee row
Jul 03, 2018 14:26The European Commission is analyzing a German deal on migration after Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and her rebellious interior minister reached a compromise on a refugee dispute that threatened to disintegrate her coalition government.
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FMs of Iran, remaining JCPOA parties to meet in Vienna on Friday
Jul 03, 2018 09:00Foreign ministers of Iran and the five remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal are scheduled to meet in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Friday to discuss ways of maintaining the international accord after the US’s withdrawal.
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EU officials say UK's latest Brexit proposal is ‘unrealistic’
Jul 02, 2018 14:55A draft document outlining Britain’s future relationship with the European Union after exiting the EU has already been dismissed as unrealistic by senior EU officials, who say the UK has no chance of changing the bloc’s founding principles.
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Refugee deaths in Mediterranean surpass 1,000 this year, says UN refugee agency
Jul 02, 2018 14:55The United Nations refugee agency says a total of more than 1,000 refugees have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea so far this year.