Pars Today
Turkey has called on Europe to take action against racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia, as the country is set to mark one year since terrorist attacks in Germany’s western city of Hanau.
President Hassan Rouhani says it would be “impossible” to modify the country's landmark nuclear agreement, emphasizing that the only way to save the deal is to lift the United States’ “inhumane sanctions” on Iran.
France has called on Germany to scrap a massive nearly-finished gas pipeline from Russia in protest over the detention of Western-backed opposition figure Alexei Navalny.
The US State Department has warned European companies which it suspects are involved in building Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that they face the risk of sanctions, according to two sources.
The Kremlin says US sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will carry natural gas from Russia to Germany, are a blatant “cowboy-like” attack on the project jointly developed by Russian and European companies.
Several people have sustained injuries during a shooting in the German capital of Berlin, with police reports ruling out any political motive behind the incident.
Russia has lashed out at the government of Germany for providing material support for the so-called aid group White Helmets, which is notorious for giving support to foreign-backed militants and Takfiri terrorist groups.
Europe has tightened coronavirus restrictions ahead of Christmas, with a number of countries entering weeks of lockdown, amid a surge in infections in recent weeks.
Germany has announced plans to go into a partial lockdown from Wednesday, as Europe's largest economy battles a surge in coronavirus infections.
Iran's Foreign Ministry has summoned Germany’s ambassador to Tehran after the European Union expressed strong sympathy for the former administrator of an anti-Iran website, who was executed earlier for a crime punishable by death under Iranian law.