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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 …

The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) 2020 Nuclear Safety Index on Wednesday ranked Pakistan as the “most improved country” with nuclear materials usable in weapons. According to the report, Pakistan improved its score by seven points with its Security and Control Measures score increasing by 25 points due to actions to …

KABUL – Twelve countries, including 10 in the region and two in Europe, have offered to host intra-Afghan peace negotiations, Afghan Acting Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar said on Thursday. The countries include Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, China, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Qatar, Indonesia, Japan, Norway and Germany, Atmar said at a press …

TEHRAN – Tuesday marked the fifth anniversary of the signing of Iran’s Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA) nuclear deal. This agreement promises relief from sanctions on Tehran in exchange for a commitment not to pursue nuclear weapons. The United States withdrew from the deal in 2018 and reintroduced severe energy …

NEW YORK – Members of the UN Security Council overwhelmingly rejected Russia’s draft resolution on humanitarian aid crossing borders to Syrian rebel fortresses, DW reported Thursday. Russia wanted to reduce the number of border crossings to bring aid to Syria, devastated by the war. Her proposal only got four votes. …

BERLIN – Germany’s interior minister on Tuesday called on his European Union colleagues to agree on a better and fairer solution for the distribution of rescued migrants as they attempt to cross the Mediterranean. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said before a video conference with his EU counterparts that all European …

NEW YORK – Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Majid Takht Ravanchi, said that the United States will once again listen to the world supporting the July 2015 nuclear deal at the UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday. Ravanchi made the remarks in an interview in New …

BRUSSELS – Asylum claims to the European Union (EU) rose for the first time last year since the 2015 migration crisis, according to the latest report from the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). The EASO report shows that migration trends in the EU vary considerably from country to country and …