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Tory grandees’ fury over Johnson’s ‘nationalist’ no-deal Brexit
Dec 16, 2020 10:50Boris Johnson faced a rising tide of anger from senior Tories and business leaders recently as he appeared ready to embrace a no-deal Brexit and prepared Royal Navy gunboats to defend UK fishing waters.
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EU withholds $100mn budget support for Ethiopia over Tigray conflict
Dec 16, 2020 06:23The European Union (EU) has decided to put a hold on funding to Ethiopia due to the month-long conflict in the country’s Tigray region, which has triggered a refugee crisis and a humanitarian disaster.
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JCPOA commission set to address obstacles to fulfillment of commitments
Dec 16, 2020 05:43The Wednesday meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is going to discuss the obstacles to the fulfillment of commitments by the signatories, an Iranian spokesman said.
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Johnson and EU vow to go 'extra mile' to thrash out Brexit deal
Dec 15, 2020 18:26Britain and the EU enter the final stretch of the Brexit negotiations with renewed hope of a deal being struck within days after Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen agreed to “go the extra mile” and ordered the resumption of talks in Brussels.
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Rouhani: Europe’s sensitivity over propagandist’s execution interference in Iran affairs
Dec 14, 2020 12:26President Hassan Rouhani has slammed certain European countries for making interventionist remarks on the recent execution of a counterrevolutionary figure in Iran, noting that their apparent sensitivity on this issue amounts to interference in Iran’s internal affairs.
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UK and EU agree to extend negotiations beyond Sunday deadline
Dec 14, 2020 05:53Against all expectations Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, have agreed to extend post-Brexit trade talks beyond the previously agreed Sunday (December 13) deadline.
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Iran summons French envoy to protest statement on execution of counterrevolutionary propagandist
Dec 13, 2020 12:07Iran has summoned French Ambassador to Tehran Philippe Thiebaud to protest a statement issued by the European country's Foreign Ministry condemning the execution of Rouhollah Zam, administrator of a notorious counterrevolutionary website, who was convicted of corruption on earth, among other crimes.
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Iran summons German envoy over EU sympathy for executed propagandist
Dec 13, 2020 10:58Iran's Foreign Ministry has summoned Germany’s ambassador to Tehran after the European Union expressed strong sympathy for the former administrator of an anti-Iran website, who was executed earlier for a crime punishable by death under Iranian law.
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UK ministers warn supermarkets to stockpile food on no-deal Brexit fears
Dec 13, 2020 09:12Supermarkets in the United Kingdom have been warned to stockpile food as talks to reach a deal between the UK and the EU have so far been unsuccessful.
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Former European security chief warns UK of no-deal Brexit
Dec 13, 2020 05:26As both the UK and the European Union (EU) prepare for a no-deal Brexit which is now widely judged to be inevitable, a former European security chief has warned Britons to be “very worried” about the future.