• EU human rights court rebukes France over fines for BDS activists

    EU human rights court rebukes France over fines for BDS activists

    Jun 12, 2020 02:33

    The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that French judges were wrong to take penal action against members of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, who staged demonstrations against Israeli-made products, stating the protests did not amount to incitement to discrimination.

  • Barnier accuses UK of 'cherry picking' at talks

    Barnier accuses UK of 'cherry picking' at talks

    Jun 11, 2020 03:27

    In the latest blow to post-Brexit trade talks, the European Union’s chief negotiator has accused the UK of making excessive demands on the bloc.

  • EU concerned over Israel’s annexation plan in West Bank, German FM says

    EU concerned over Israel’s annexation plan in West Bank, German FM says

    Jun 11, 2020 00:32

    German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, where he is going to express the European Union’s “concern” over the Tel Aviv regime’s controversial plan to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank.

  • American police shoot, kill, imprison more people than other developed countries

    American police shoot, kill, imprison more people than other developed countries

    Jun 10, 2020 11:13

    US Police officers are more likely to use force on black Americans – and, according to a 2016 study published in the American Journal of Health, black men are nearly three times more likely than white men to be killed by police intervention. Comparable figures for other countries are not readily available. In general, more Americans are subjected to the cogs of the criminal justice system than in many other countries; and more end up in prison, too.

  • Top EU diplomat: US no longer party to Iran deal, can’t invoke JCPOA

    Top EU diplomat: US no longer party to Iran deal, can’t invoke JCPOA

    Jun 10, 2020 01:14

    European Union Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell says the US has already pulled out of an international 2015 nuclear agreement signed between Iran and major world powers and cannot currently use its former membership of the deal to seek a permanent arms embargo on Tehran.

  • Judiciary chief: No escape from justice for fugitive corruption suspects

    Judiciary chief: No escape from justice for fugitive corruption suspects

    Jun 08, 2020 09:42

    Iran's Judiciary chief has ordered the serious pursuit of financial corruption suspects who have fled the country, warning that they will not be spared prosecution no matter where they have run to.

  • Some European states provide refuge for criminals fleeing Iran: Judiciary official

    Some European states provide refuge for criminals fleeing Iran: Judiciary official

    Jun 08, 2020 09:20

    A high-ranking Iranian judiciary official says some European countries provide refuge for those people who are prosecuted in Iran on security or economic charges, instead of cooperating with Tehran for their extradition.

  •  ‘Second more deadly wave of coronavirus expected ‘to hit Europe this winter’

    ‘Second more deadly wave of coronavirus expected ‘to hit Europe this winter’

    Jun 07, 2020 06:55

    The World Health Organization’s top official in Europe has said European countries should brace themselves for a deadly second wave of coronavirus infections because the pandemic is not over. In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Dr. Hans Kluge, Director for the WHO European region, delivered a stark warning to countries beginning to ease their lockdown restrictions, saying that now is the “time for preparation, not celebration.”

  • Iran: Expansion of US, EU bans on Syria ‘unlawful, inhumane’

    Iran: Expansion of US, EU bans on Syria ‘unlawful, inhumane’

    Jun 05, 2020 09:30

    Iran has condemned the expansion of EU and US illegal sanctions on Syria, calling it an inhumane tool that seriously endangers human rights.

  • Heart failure: Poor health literacy raises death risk

    Heart failure: Poor health literacy raises death risk

    Jun 05, 2020 04:01

    Lila J. Finney Rutten, Ph.D., professor of health services research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota said “Our findings showed that an inadequate level of health literacy is associated with increased risks in mortality and hospitalization among patients with heart failure.”