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Iran secures court order to protect Luxembourg funds against US attempt
May 14, 2021 01:52The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has managed to win a court order in Luxembourg to prevent the transfer of nearly $1.7 billion worth of assets from the European country to the United States.
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Euro-Med urges EU interference to end Zionist entity’s aggression in Gaza
May 14, 2021 01:47A rights group in a letter to the European Union has detailed the ongoing Israeli campaign of brutality against Palestinians, stressing the need to intervene and end deadly airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip.
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After hoarding, West bickers on sharing patents as virus kills in droves
May 13, 2021 10:56South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned of “vaccine apartheid” as millions of people in poor countries are dying of the coronavirus with no access to vaccines and wealthy countries are hogging shots.
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Support for new malaria vaccine may be lacking in rich world
May 13, 2021 10:47The first efforts to eradicate malaria began in the 1950s under the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Eradication Program (one that decided to leave sub-Saharan Africa out of the “global” campaign), making use of the anti-malarial drug chloroquine and spraying large areas with the insecticide DDT.
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Over a quarter of EU adults would refuse COVID-19 shot, survey says
May 13, 2021 10:02More than a quarter of adults in the European Union would be unlikely to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it was offered to them, a new survey shows.
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'Virus' of Islamophobia turning Europe into ‘open-air prison’ for Muslims: Erdogan
May 13, 2021 09:22Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has raised the alarm about the spread of Islamophobia across Europe, saying the “virus” of anti-Muslim sentiments is turning the continent into an “open-air prison” for the millions of Muslims living there.
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EU court scorns German firm over Iran contract
May 13, 2021 00:18An opinion provided by the European Union’s top court to German judges says that termination of a contract involving Bank Melli Iran by a major German company over fears of the illegal US sanctions was legally invalid.
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Iran, EU3 hold talks on JCPOA in Vienna
May 11, 2021 02:54Heads of delegations from Iran and the European troika held a 4-party meeting in Vienna for talks about the latest round of negotiations on the revival of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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Technical talks with Iran ongoing in parallel to Vienna negotiations to revive JCPOA: IAEA chief
May 10, 2021 15:08The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says talks on the technical aspects of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program are going on in the Austrian capital, Vienna, in parallel to political talks on the revival of a landmark nuclear deal clinched by Tehran and world powers in 2015.
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$152 trillion. That's how much wealthy countries 'drained' from the Global South since 1960
May 09, 2021 14:47Capitalist powers have drained $152 trillion from the Global South since 1960, according to new peer-reviewed research quantifying the reproduction of inequality on the world scale.