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EU chief mulls mandatory COVID jabs as Omicron fears deepen
Dec 01, 2021 14:10Europe's top official said Wednesday it was time to "think about mandatory vaccination" as the fast-spreading Omicron variant darkened forecasts and deepened fears of another difficult winter.
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Belarus to halt Russian energy flow to Europe amid tensions with Poland
Dec 01, 2021 08:41Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko says his government will suspend Russian energy flows to Europe in response to Poland's closure of the border with his country amid a migrant crisis.
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Iran, a victim of weapons of mass destruction and nuclear allegations
Dec 01, 2021 07:06Currently, about 30,000 Iranians still suffer from the injuries they sustained during Saddam’s use of chemical weapons. This war crime, which occurred during Iraq’s war against Iran between 1980 and 1988, is never covered by the mainstream media to the proportion of its importance and significance.
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Russia hails 'successful resumption' of Vienna talks, says working groups on the job
Nov 30, 2021 10:47Russia’s lead negotiator has described as “quite successful” the resumption of negotiations in Vienna to put the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement back on track through the removal of the illegal US sanctions imposed on Iran.
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Iran’s top negotiator: Vienna talks participants agree that negotiations should focus on sanctions removal
Nov 29, 2021 14:37Iran’s top negotiator to Vienna talks on the removal of anti-Iran sanctions says all participants in the first meeting of the seventh round of talks have agreed that removing sanctions must be the main focus of negotiations.
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Iran’s foreign minister: Removal of sanctions main goal of Vienna talks, no requests beyond JCPOA accepted
Nov 29, 2021 13:08Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the main goal pursued in the new round of talks between Iran and the remaining members of the 2015 nuclear deal is removal of all sanctions imposed on Tehran, adding that the Islamic Republic will not accept any requests beyond the scope of the deal.
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Maduro brands EU vote observers as 'spies'; rejects claim of vote irregularities
Nov 29, 2021 05:23Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has lashed out at the European Union (EU) election observers as “spies,” dismissing their claim that the last week’s vote was marred by irregularities.
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‘The attitude is positive’, says Russia’s top negotiator ahead of Vienna talks
Nov 29, 2021 02:10Opportunities still exist for the parties to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal to come to an agreement in Vienna, says Russia’s lead negotiator, a day before the resumption of the high-profile negotiations in the Austrian capital, whose main goal, as asserted by the Iranian side, is to remove Washington’s anti-Iran sanctions.
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Envoy: Russian fear of NATO a ‘very dangerous delusion’
Nov 28, 2021 09:05Russia’s ambassador to the US has criticized the West’s shipment of arms to Ukraine, saying the assumption that Moscow would not respond to Kiev’s military moves in fear of NATO is a “very dangerous delusion”.
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Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert
Nov 28, 2021 07:23Researchers in South Africa are racing to track the concerning rise of a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The variant harbours a large number of the mutations found in other variants, including Delta, and it seems to be spreading quickly across South Africa.