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EU chief urges asylum reform after 58 migrants die in southern Italy
Feb 27, 2023 06:50The European Commission has called on the EU to move forward with the reform of the bloc’s asylum rules, following the death of at least 58 migrants off the coast of Italy’s Calabria region.
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EU denounces Israeli plans to build over 7,000 illegal settler units in occupied West Bank
Feb 26, 2023 02:58The European Union has condemned the latest decision by Israel’s far-right cabinet to construct over 7,000 new illegal settler units across the occupied West Bank in open defiance of the international outcry over the Tel Aviv regime’s land theft and settlement expansion policies.
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Iranian airline restores Boeing 737 grounded because of sanctions
Feb 26, 2023 02:36An Iranian airline has restored a Boeing 737 aircraft to its fleet as part of a domestic overhaul program that is aimed at offsetting the impacts of US sanctions on the Iranian aviation industry.
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G20 finance meeting to end without consensus on war in Ukraine
Feb 25, 2023 12:31Finance ministers of the Group of 20 (G20) have failed to reach a consensus on how to describe the conflict in Ukraine at a two-day summit in India.
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Russia warns US, NATO, and Ukraine over ‘reckless steps’ in Transnistria
Feb 24, 2023 14:14The Russian Foreign Ministry has warned that any action by Ukraine or its Western allies that poses a threat to Russian peacekeepers or Russian nationals in the region separated from Moldova in Transnistria will be considered an attack on Russia.
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US announces fresh sanctions on Russia as Ukraine war enters second year
Feb 24, 2023 13:51The United States has announced sweeping sanctions aimed at increasing economic pressure on Russia and reducing Moscow's access to critical technologies such as semiconductors, as the war in Ukraine enters its second year.
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Weeks after quake, EU says temporarily lifting sanctions on Syria
Feb 24, 2023 05:31Two weeks after the devastating earthquake in Syria that had already been contending with harsh US and European sanctions, the EU has decided to temporarily ease the sanctions in order to supposedly speed up aid delivery.
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Germany expels two Iranian diplomats in support of terror ringleader
Feb 22, 2023 13:45In yet another indication of Germany’s belligerent policies against the Islamic Republic, the German Foreign Ministry has expelled two Iranian diplomats in reprisal for a death sentence handed down to the ringleader of a US-based terrorist group accused of committing a series of terror attacks in the country.
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Iran: Some European states don't qualify to advise others on intl. law principles
Feb 22, 2023 03:43Iran says certain European states do not qualify to advise others towards observing the principles of international law, reacting to the Council of the European Union's sanctioning of dozens of Iranian individuals and entities.
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Iran slaps retaliatory sanctions on EU, British individuals and entities
Feb 22, 2023 03:18Iran has announced the imposition of retaliatory sanctions against a number of European Union (EU) and British individuals and entities.