European Union

Hundreds of refugees move toward new Lesbos camp

Sep 18, 2020 10:24

Dragging bags and bins full of belongings, migrants moved towards a new temporary tent camp on Greece's Lesbos on Friday (September 18), more than a week after a fire razed the country's biggest migrant camp, where they had been staying.
EU parliament urges arms embargo on Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi murder, Yemen war

Sep 18, 2020 09:06

The European Parliament has called on European Union (EU) member states to impose an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia over its gruesome murder of well-known dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and the Saudi devastating war on Yemen.
President Maduro: EU demand to delay election in Venezuela 'impossible'

Sep 18, 2020 08:35

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has dismissed as "impossible" the EU's suggestion to postpone the country’s December 6 election to meet the bloc’s conditions to dispatch an observer mission, blaming the idea on US pressure.
13 detained after fire near second Greek refugee camp

Sep 16, 2020 06:19

Thirteen people have been detained on the Greek island of Samos after a fire threatened the local migrant camp, police said Wednesday, days after another blaze destroyed Europe's largest migrant camp on Lesbos.
Parliament committee prepares triple-urgency motion to counter US hostile measures

Sep 15, 2020 12:28

The Iranian Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy has submitted a triple-urgency motion to the legislature to counter the United States’ hostile campaign aimed at renewing all United Nations sanctions against Iran.
Russia censures Germany for refusing to share Navalny’s medical records

Sep 15, 2020 06:46

Russia has censured Germany’s refusal to share with Moscow the details of its medical treatment of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny who Western states allege has been poisoned and Berlin’s referral of the case to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
The EU is rewarding Zionist regime for merely postponing violations of International Law

Sep 11, 2020 13:06

Normalizing the Zionist regime's suspension of annexation is equivalent to normalizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to annex Palestinian territory at a later, as yet undisclosed, date. The EU should stop exploiting the Palestinian people for their diplomatic gains.
Russia denounces as ‘unacceptable’ US claims over Navalny case

Sep 10, 2020 13:34

Russia has lambasted as "unacceptable” a statement by the United States alleging that senior Russian officials might have been behind the purported poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny.
Boris Johnson defends controversial new Brexit-related bill

Sep 10, 2020 02:55

As concern continues to mount about the government’s highly controversial bill, which is set to interfere with aspects of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has leapt to its defense.
Iran's FM plans to visit Europe next week: Report

Sep 09, 2020 04:32

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is planning a European tour, a report said.