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PARIS – France on Wednesday became the last European country to toughen anti-coronavirus measures, imposing a curfew on Paris and eight other cities from Saturday. At the same time, Germany and Ireland also tightened restrictions. “We must act. We must stop the spread of the virus,” President Emmanuel Macron said …

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif advises US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to read UNSCR 2231. In a tweet on Thursday, Zarif wrote: “Still wrong, @SecPompeo. Nothing new is happening on 09/20. Just Res.2231.” “Bolton – who convinced the boss to order you to ‘STOP US involvement’ …

KREMLIN – Russia’s main pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, on Sunday won a clear victory in local polls just weeks after the suspected poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Navalny is a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. On August 20, he fell ill during a flight from Siberia to …

VIENNA – Signatories to the tentative Iran nuclear deal meet in Vienna on Tuesday as the United States urges international sanctions against Iran to be reimposed and an arms embargo extended. Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia are struggling to save the historic 2015 deal with Iran, which has been …

LONDON – France, Germany and the United Kingdom on Thursday issued a joint statement saying they would not support the United States in its attempt to reimpose sanctions on Iran. The United States on Thursday sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council calling for the launch of the …

WASHINGTON – The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned Russia and China not to ignore the reimposition of all United Nations sanctions on Iran, which President Donald Trump ordered him to trigger Thursday in the United Nations Security Council in New York. Pompeo will meet with Indonesian United …

TEHRAN – The Iranian government spokesman said a seven-way online summit of permanent members of the UN Security Council, Germany and Iran, proposed by the president of Russia, is unlikely to produce results because the US government has no sincere intentions. In a response to questions from Iranian journalists at …

PARIS – France announced on Wednesday that it would temporarily increase its military presence in the eastern Mediterranean in the coming days, Anadolu reported Thursday. French President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussed the latest situation in the region, Macron’s office said in a statement. Highlighting the …

WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump postponed the Group of Seven (G7) meeting on Monday until the end of the U.S. election in November, after a previous delay due to COVID-19 concerns, CNN reported Tuesday. “I’m much more inclined to do this sometime after the election,” Trump told reporters at …

NEW YORK – China and Russia are likely to veto a US effort to extend a United Nations arms embargo against Iran, before it expires in October, according to the United States Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft. Although the United States circulated a resolution to Security Council members last …