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Russia has reiterated its commitment to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), dismissing threats by the United States to impose sanctions on Moscow over alleged violations of the treaty. US media reported on Friday that Washington was planning “economic and military” sanctions against Russia over violations of the arms ...

European Union President Donald Tusk has warned Britain about the difficulty of the next level of the Brexit talks. “The most difficult challenge is still ahead. We all know that breaking up is hard but breaking up and building a new relation is much harder,” Tusk said on Friday after ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has censured the joint military exercises conducted by the United States and South Korea, saying the drills could provoke North Korea to carry out more missile tests. Lavrov made the remarks on the sidelines of the 24th Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and ...

Britain is concerned about US President Donald Trump’s plan to recognize Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as Israeli capital, foreign minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday. A senior US official says Trump will make the announcement later today, ignoring warnings from US allies around the world that the move could trigger unrest in the ...

Pope Francis Wednesday defended the “status quo” of Al-Quds (Jerusalem), hours ahead of an announcement by US President Donald Trump in which officials said he will recognize the holy city as Israeli capital. “I cannot silence my deep concern over the situation that has emerged in recent days. At the ...

British Prime Minister Theresa May is facing growing pressure from within her own Conservative Party to reveal the true cost of leaving the European Union and settling the Brexit “divorce bill.” Conservatives lawmakers in Parliament, as well as former cabinet ministers, say the time has come for the premier to ...

Thousands took to relief camps in Sri Lanka and southern India on Saturday to escape rising floodwaters after a cyclone killed at least 26 people. Cyclone Ockhi has left 13 people dead in Sri Lanka and killed an equal number in India’s Kerala and Tamil Nadu states since Friday as ...

The European Union (EU) says the articles of a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six other countries are highly technical and there is no possibility of renegotiating the agreement — even partially. “The deal has been negotiated and finalized in a way that actually contains so many provisions and so ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An American political analyst described Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei as a “man of spiritual wisdom”, noting that his letter to the youth in the West in 2015 “shows a path upon which people can walk toward the light” in a world filled ...

British Prime Minister Theresa May has reportedly called on Saudi Arabia to ease a cruel blockade on its war-torn neighbor, Yemen, in order to “avert a humanitarian catastrophe” there. May made the appeal as she met with King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday night during a ...