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EU urges Israel to halt settlement expansion in West Bank
Jan 18, 2021 06:02The European Union has urged Israel to halt its settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.
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AEOI rejects E3 accusation of military implications in uranium metal production
Jan 17, 2021 04:36Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization responds to a statement by the three European signatories to the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, rejecting the accusation that its plan to produce uranium metal-based fuel has military implications.
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E3 calls on Iran to halt R&D activities aimed at producing new fuel for Tehran reactor
Jan 17, 2021 02:00The three European signatories to a landmark 2015 nuclear agreement signed between Iran and major world powers have called on Tehran to halt its research and development (R&D) activities, claiming they are against the deal.
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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.