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WASHINGTON – German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not attend an in-person summit of G7 leaders that US President Donald Trump has suggested he will host despite concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, the Politico website quoted her spokesman as saying on Friday. Leaders from the Group of Seven, which the United …

TEHRAN – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Thursday dismissed U.S. threats as “foolish claims” to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions if the U.N. Security Council is not extending an arms embargo on Tehran. The U.S. special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, on Wednesday publicly confirmed the …

ANKARA – The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) said Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic would cause migration from low-income countries into the EU. In the medium term, people living in low-income countries with limited access to medical care may search for better opportunities in EU countries, according to an EASO …

WASHINGTON – In the U.S., the nation with the largest death rate in the world, President Donald Trump was strongly attacked by his predecessor, Barack Obama, who claimed on a leaked tap that Trump ‘s management of the epidemic was a “real dysfunctional failure,” losing more than 78,000 lives in …

MOSCOW – According to data compiled by John Hopkins University, a dramatic increase in the number of cases in Russia has seen the nation becoming host to the fifth-highest number of confirmed infections worldwide. Over the past 24 hours, the nation recorded 10,699 new cases, for a total of 187,859 …

WASHINGTON – United States President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that he may seek damages from China over the coronavirus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan. “We are not happy with China. We are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been …

Following strong U.S. opposition, two of its main European allies, France and Germany, have criticized Iran’s launch of a military satellite into space. In what many see as a violation of a UN Security Council resolution, Iran launched a ballistic missile on April 22, taking what it said was a …

BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country should remain “smart and cautious” in dealing with the coronavirus crisis, because “this is not the final phase but it is only the beginning”. “We will be with her for a long time,” she warned the Parliament, before an EU video …

UNITED NATIONS – UN chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday urged governments to use their economic responses to the coronavirus pandemic to tackle the “even deeper urgency” of climate change, in a message for the 50th anniversary of the Day of the earth. As global battle lines emerge between investors supporting …

Another horror day of the coronavirus pandemic saw the death toll worldwide exceed 94,000, although there are tentative signs of hope that the crisis was peaking in the United States and Europe. The picture of the unfolding economic disaster has also become clearer with the IMF’s warning of a Great …