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Russia urges leaders of France, Germany to help ease Ukraine tensions
Apr 17, 2021 00:26Russia has urged the leaders of France and Germany to help stop Ukraine's "provocative" actions in the restive east of the country and to encourage Kiev to observe ceasefire agreements in its long-running conflict with ethnic Russians there.
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French MPs approve infamous 'security bill' expanding police powers
Apr 16, 2021 11:07French lawmakers have passed a contentious “security bill” that expands police powers despite being widely denounced by civil rights groups and political opponents who say it will block exposing growing cases of police brutality and abuse.
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France’s latest anti-Islam bill draws fierce condemnation on social media
Apr 10, 2021 07:28France’s latest legislative move to ban the wearing of hijab in public by Muslim girls under the age of 18 has sparked fierce condemnation on social media platforms with widespread use of the hashtag #HandsOffMyHijab.
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Western media conspiracy theories about Hezbollah distract from Lebanon’s real issues
Apr 07, 2021 09:58Nasser Qandil, a well-known Lebanese journalist warns about an underway campaign that seeks to alter the country’s political configuration in a way that would mount excessive pressure on the resistance.
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Zarif urges France, Britain, Germany to act ‘constructively’ in upcoming Vienna meeting
Apr 05, 2021 01:08Iran’s foreign minister has urged the three European parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement to honor their commitments under the historic pact and act constructively in the upcoming meeting in Vienna.
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PM Johnson fears spread of France's ‘sad’ COVID situation to UK
Apr 04, 2021 04:03UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned of the possible spread of what he described as the “very sad” COVID-19 situation in France to the United Kingdom.
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Stop abiding by illegal US sanctions: Iran's Zarif tells France's Le Drian
Apr 04, 2021 01:25Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif holds a telephone call with his French counterpart, urging Paris to live up to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and world powers, including by stopping its adherence to the illegal US sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
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Rights activists urge France to conduct probe into possible war crime in Mali
Apr 02, 2021 06:17Human rights activists have called on France to open an investigation into a January 3 airstrike on central Mali after a United Nations probe confirmed that the aerial attack had resulted in at least 19 civilian deaths.
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Macron orders COVID-19 lockdown across all of France, closes schools
Apr 01, 2021 03:15President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered France into its third national lockdown and said schools would close for three weeks as he sought to push back a third wave of COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm hospitals.
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Russian, German, French leaders discuss Iran nuclear deal
Mar 31, 2021 03:12The leaders of Russia, France and Germany, which are signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal, have exchanged views on the multilateral accord amid the standoff between Iran and the United States over the implementation of the agreement.