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NEW YORK – The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has called on US President Joe Biden’s administration to lift all sanctions against Iran, as agreed as part of a 2015 deal to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. In a report to the UN Security Council, Guterres also urged the …

VIENNA, Austria – Negotiators from Iran and six world powers will adjourn talks on resuming their 2015 nuclear deal on Sunday and return to their respective capitals for consultations, as the remaining differences cannot be easily bridged, the chief of Iranian delegation, Abbas Araqchi, said. “We are now closer than …

GENEVA – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that the war, violence, persecution and human rights abuses have driven nearly 3 million people to flee their homes last year, despite the Covid-19 crisis restricted movement around the world as countries closed borders and ordered closures. In its …

GENEVA – Washington and Moscow released a rare joint statement Wednesday saying “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought” after a meeting between the US President, Joe Biden, and Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in Geneva. Released by the White House, the statement recognized the major accomplishment …

BEIJING – Politicizing the origins of Covid-19 would hamper further investigations and undermine global efforts to stop the pandemic, the Chinese embassy in the United States said after the US President, Joe Biden, ordered a review of U.S. intelligence about how and where the virus first emerged. “Some political forces …

VIENNA – A fourth round of talks between participants in the nuclear deal is set to resume Friday in Vienna, with Washington saying a “quick” return to the deal is possible. Washington is ready to “do whatever it can” to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons if the Vienna talks …

WASHINGTON – The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said Washington wants a stable relationship with Moscow, but that will depend on the Kremlin’s policies and how aggressively it decides to act, US secretary of state said this on Monday after meeting his British counterpart, Dominik Raab, in London, Radio …

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister’s spokesperson, Saeed Khatibzadeh, on Monday dismissed media reports of a suspected prisoner swap deal between Tehran and Washington. “Reports on prisoner exchanges with the United States do not correspond to reality … The issue of prisoners has been and remains a humanitarian problem and they …

MOSCOW – Russia notices signals from the United States that Washington is ready to discuss strategic stability issues and is ready for dialogue, but insists on its defense concerns, spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, told Sputnik. “We don’t yet know from what angle [US President’s] Joe Biden’s administration …

NUR-SULTAN – Russia has not received any official notification from the United States regarding its position on the Open Skies Treaty, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said on Thursday. “As for the Open Skies Treaty, I have not seen this note, no one has written to us, even though we …