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EU adds Syria’s foreign minister to sanctions blacklist
Jan 16, 2021 07:09The European Union has added recently-appointed Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad to its sanctions blacklist, as Damascus has repeatedly said the Western restrictions come in clear disregard of international law and the UN Charter.
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US threatens to sanction European firms helping Nord Stream 2 pipeline
Jan 13, 2021 10:45The US State Department has warned European companies which it suspects are involved in building Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that they face the risk of sanctions, according to two sources.
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Missions to Mars, Moon and beyond await Earth in 2021
Jan 13, 2021 06:50About a month after the New Christian Year has started on Earth, three spacecraft will pull into the vicinity of Mars. These explorers, which launched in July last year, will be heralds of a busy year of space exploration, launches and astronomical occurrences.
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EU, OIC slam Israel's plan to build more illegal settler homes in West Bank
Jan 13, 2021 05:15The European Union and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have condemned the Israeli regime’s plan to advance the construction of hundreds of more settler units in the occupied West Bank in an apparent attempt to propel such land grab projects shortly before pro-settlement US President Donald Trump leaves office.
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EU slams US blacklisting of Yemen’s Ansarullah, warns of aid delivery disruption
Jan 13, 2021 05:03The European Union has censured a US decision to blacklist Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement, warning that the move could hinder aid deliveries to the war-torn country.
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Astronomers find oldest, most distant galaxy to date
Jan 11, 2021 12:35Thanks to new research by an international team of astronomers, the oldest and most distant galaxy observed in our Universe to date (GN-z11) has been identified. The team, whose research was recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy, was led by Linhua Jiang of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and Prof. Nobunari Kashikawa of the University of Tokyo.
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Top EU diplomat: US Capitol siege ‘wake-up call’ for democracies
Jan 11, 2021 10:49The European Union’s top diplomat has described last week’s deadly siege of the US Congress as a “wake-up call” for democracies, saying it exposed the perils of tolerating unchecked degradation of democratic values and the spread of disinformation on social media.
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Official warns EU advocating Trump 'legacy to blackmail Iran'
Jan 11, 2021 09:49Iran has warned that with US President Donald Trump "almost gone", the European Union is "advocating to use his legacy to blackmail Iran".
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Two-faced US trade policy erodes Atlantic alliance
Jan 08, 2021 06:49European distrust of American motives was behind the EU leaders’ recent signing of a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment with China over the urgent objections of the Donald Trump administration and Joe Biden’s transition team.
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Turkey indicts senior Kurdish leader, rebuffs EU demands
Jan 08, 2021 05:03A Turkish court has accepted an indictment against the co-head of the country’s pro-Kurdish opposition party, rejecting demands by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for his release.