European Union

Genome data gaps could stymie search for next COVID variant

Apr 02, 2022 10:51

Researchers are concerned that data gaps could make it harder to spot the next COVID-19 variant of concern, and could frustrate efforts to respond to it quickly.
Iran protests Denmark's use of physical force against Kurdish national, demands apology

Apr 02, 2022 09:10

Iran's embassy in Copenhagen has strongly protested the use of violent force by Denmark's police against a Kurdish woman, who holds Iranian citizenship, urging the European country to issue an apology.
Justice for Palestine cannot depend on media coverage

Apr 01, 2022 08:33

We cannot rely on the Western media to tell the whole truth about Palestine.
Day 37: Europe faces gas deadline as Russia vows 'harsh response'

Apr 01, 2022 08:19

European buyers of Russian gas faced a deadline to start paying in rubles on Friday as Moscow pledged to respond to EU sanctions and limit supplies of agriculture products to unfriendly countries.
US sanctions continue threatening Iranian people’s right to health: Envoy

Mar 30, 2022 03:31

An Iranian envoy to the United Nations has denounced the unilateral coercive measures imposed by the US as a “serious threat” to the nation’s right to health and have access to medicines.
Anti-Russia sanctions leading to global crisis of historic scale: Russian diplomat

Mar 30, 2022 02:14

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia has said the West’s unilateral anti-Russian sanctions are leading the world to a food crisis of a historic scale.
Russia calls ‘liberation’ of Donbass main goal of operation in Ukraine

Mar 29, 2022 12:03

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu says Moscow has completed the main objectives of the first phase of the special military operation in Ukraine and that the army will be focusing on the “liberation” of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, collectively known as the Donbass.
Dozens of migrants rescued off Canary Islands

Mar 28, 2022 07:38

Spanish coast guard rescued on Sunday 64 migrants intercepted off Canary Islands and brought them to Arguineguin port, in the Gran Canaria Island.
Gaps on practical guarantees, sanctions removal must be closed before JCPOA revival: Top Iranian diplomat

Mar 28, 2022 07:06

A senior Iranian diplomat says the remaining differences between Tehran and other parties to the 2015 Iran deal over the provision of guarantees and full removal of sanctions must be resolved in order to revive the deal.
Iran FM: Lack of US decision to remove sanctions hindering final agreement on JCPOA revival

Mar 27, 2022 10:36

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says inability of the US to make a political decision is the main obstacle in the way of Iran and the P4+1 group of countries to reach a final agreement in the Austrian capital of Vienna over the removal of anti-Tehran sanctions and a revival of the landmark 2015 deal.