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German FM to travel to Iran next week to discuss JCPOA
Jun 07, 2019 01:40Germany’s Foreign Ministry says the country’s top diplomat Heiko Maas is to travel to Tehran next week to address ways to save the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the 5+1 group.
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Brexit causes Norway to reevaluate power cable project to UK
Jun 06, 2019 10:15The Norwegian government has ordered a reevaluation of a major project to transfer electricity to the United Kingdom amid growing uncertainties about Britain’s withdrawal from the European union.
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Trump met with more protests in Portsmouth
Jun 06, 2019 02:06On the last day of US President Donald Trump's 3-day state visit to the UK, the president caused yet more controversy as he attended WW2 remembrance day service in the Naval town of Portsmouth.
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Change UK splits as 6 of 11 MPs become independents
Jun 06, 2019 02:01Change UK, the party comprised of defectors from Britain’s Labour and Conservatives has sensationally lost six of its 11 parliamentarians. In-fighting and disagreement on political strategy is said to be at the heart of the split as some former members ponder joining the Liberal Democrats.
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Ford to announce closure of factory in UK’s Wales: Report
Jun 06, 2019 01:53US giant carmaker Ford is to announce the closure of a main factory operating in UK’s Wales region, another blow to the car industry in Britain which has suffered from similar decisions amid economic uncertainties around its withdrawal from the European Union.
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Galloway fired by UK radio after posting tweet against Israel
Jun 06, 2019 01:48Prominent British journalist and political activist George Galloway has been sacked as the host of a popular radio show after her published anti-Israeli comments online.
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Majority of UK voters do not want Johnson as prime minister: Polls
Jun 05, 2019 10:33A study of recent polls carried out in the United Kingdom shows majority of voters in the country have not a good opinion of Boris Johnson as their next prime minister.
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France, Britain condemn Israeli settlement plan in occupied East al-Quds
Jun 05, 2019 02:05France and Britain have condemned Israel’s recent approval of plans for the construction of hundreds of new settler units in the occupied East al-Quds irrespective of the international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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UK, US have ‘special relationship’ in dealing with Iran, but just one stands ‘by the nuclear deal’
Jun 05, 2019 01:15The United Kingdom and United States have a "special relationship" in dealing with Iran, says British Prime Minister Theresa May alongside US President Donald Trump, yet noting that London intends to “stand by the nuclear deal" unlike Washington.
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Iran's Bank Mellat sues UK for $1.6 billion in damages
Jun 05, 2019 00:41UK High Court this month will take up a case brought by Iran’s Bank Mellat against the British government over a 2010 freeze of assets, for which the lender is demanding $1.6 billion in compensation.