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ECB joins central banks pledging coronavirus action if needed
Mar 06, 2020 16:40Finance ministers from the Group of Seven were expected to lead a global teleconference in the coming days to discuss their response to the economic threat posed by the coronavirus. The ministers were expected to be joined by their central bank governors. That could be the prelude to concerted action that might include a global series of interest rate cuts.
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Iran’s Zarif discusses COVID-19 outbreak with foreign officials
Mar 05, 2020 04:59Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held telephone conversations with a number of his foreign counterparts and with the EU foreign policy chief about a range of issues, most notably the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the world.
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Speaking against settlement expansion is just a chore for the EU
Mar 03, 2020 16:31Colonization is illegal under international law, and yet the European Union persists in supporting the Zionist regime of Israel by advocating the two-state paradigm and offering preferential trade and other deals. The extent to which settlement expansion has been dissociated from Israeli regime's illegal colonization has made it possible for the EU to condemn parts of colonization while obliterating the process.
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Russia won’t stop terror fight in Syria to solve EU’s refugee problem: Lavrov
Mar 03, 2020 14:09Russia says it will not stop fighting terrorism in Syria alongside the Damascus government because of European concerns over a new influx of refugees into the continent.
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Greece expects ‘strong’ EU support in refugee crisis
Mar 03, 2020 10:58Greece says it expects “strong” support from the European Union (EU) leaders to help resolve a deepening refugee crisis at its border with Turkey, as diplomats from the bloc arrived in the border area for a meeting on the matter.
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EU border force on 'high alert' as migrants' push to enter continent
Mar 01, 2020 12:22The European Union border force Frontex has announced that it is on "high alert" across all the bloc’s borders with Turkey, and aims to provide further support to Greece as thousands of migrants seek to enter the continent through the southeastern European country.
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Russia stresses opposition to return of UNSC sanctions against Iran
Feb 27, 2020 04:27Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Russia will keep objecting to the restoration of United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) sanctions against Iran, emphasizing that Moscow will not let the 15-member body turn into a “toy” in the hands of the US.
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Remaining JCPOA parties willing to keep nuclear deal alive: Iran's Araqchi
Feb 27, 2020 03:57Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi says European signatories to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are keen to preserve the agreement.
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Coronavirus outbreak continues in China, fears rise of pandemic
Feb 26, 2020 06:07China has reported new deaths and cases of coronavirus infections, amid fears that the viral outbreak is looking increasingly like a global pandemic.
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Permafrost is already thawing. Will it tip the scales in the climate crisis?
Feb 24, 2020 12:16Across vast swaths of the northern hemisphere’s higher reaches, frozen ground holds billions of tonnes of carbon. As global temperatures rise, this “permafrost” land is at increasing risk of thawing out, potentially releasing its long-held carbon into the atmosphere.