A Swedish Coast Guard official said that there are two leaks on the Swedish side and two leaks on the Danish side. The official added that the two leaks on the Swedish side are "close to each other". The Swedish coast guard could not immediately say why the latest leak...

European Union also plans to expand its travel blacklist and asset freezes to include high-ranking Russian defense officials and organizers of widely derided annexation votes in occupied Ukrainian territories. "Last week, Russia has escalated the invasion of Ukraine to a new level," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said....

Any deliberate disruption of European energy infrastructure is utterly unacceptable and will be met with a robust and united response, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned in a statement. Borrell called for an investigation into the leaks from the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, saying: "All available...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wants EU sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine lifted by year end, a pro-government daily newspaper said. Orban, who has sought close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent years, has frequently railed against the sanctions, saying they are hurting Europe more...

Over 100 countries have signed on to the Roadmap for Global Food Security. Many are already acting on those commitments. Action is crucial because the current crisis is one that no individual country or even group of countries can solve alone. We have to get emergency aid to the people...

Musk had initially announced that the Starlink satellite internet service had been made available on every continent "including Antarctica" with the company planning to launch up to 42,000 satellites to boost connectivity.

Iran wants billions of dollars in US assets to be unfrozen and returned to it, while the US says money must go to victims of terrorist attacks blamed on Tehran. Tehran took Washington to the Hague-based ICJ in 2016 after the US Supreme Court ordered some $2 billion in Iranian...

Less than a month after signs emerged of a possible signing of the nuclear deal, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that negotiations to bring Iran and the US back are in stalemate. He has been the main driver for more than a year to try to revive the...

Russia said visas had been issued for Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and members of his delegation to attend the UN General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York from September 20 to 26. Moscow had earlier expressed alarm that US entry visas had not been issued for 56 representatives of...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Iran has failed to agree to proposals from European countries on reviving a deal on restricting its nuclear program, warning this would derail any accord in the near future. Meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid visited Germany to persuade Western powers to ditch the pact...

The US Treasury said it had placed Tehran-based Safiran Airport Services on its sanctions blacklist, two months after the White House divulged intelligence that Russia was seeking Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for its war on Ukraine.

Pointing to rising energy prices in Europe ahead of winter, Putin insisted Russia would supply nothing outside of existing contracts, quoting a Russian fairy tale: "Freeze, freeze, the wolf tail". Capping prices, as some Western countries are considering, "would be an absolutely stupid decision," Putin said.

Erdogan told reporters before departing for a three-nation swing through the Balkans that European nations were "harvesting what they sowed" by imposing economic restrictions on Russia.

In spite of the Western sanctions, Russia has raked in some $158 billion in energy exports in the six months since the war, with the EU accounting for more than half. Natural gas prices have jumped to record levels in Europe as Russia cut off supplies.

The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has imposed sanctions on the owner and general manager of an exchange house in the country for breaking regulations of the bank.

The two uneasy NATO neighbors have long-standing sea and air boundary disputes which lead to near-daily air force patrols and interception missions mostly around Greek islands near Turkey's coastline.

Turkey's finance minister told businesses on Friday they should not be concerned by the threat of sanctions that Washington warns will follow if they do business with sanctioned Russians. Nureddin Nebati's Twitter comments represent Ankara's first official response to a letter the US Treasury sent to Turkish businesses on Monday.

The United States remains adamant that Tehran cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency to clear up suspicions about earlier work at three undeclared sites. In June, the IAEA's board of governors adopted a resolution censuring Iran for failing to adequately explain the previous discovery of traces of enriched uranium...

Russian President Vladimir Putin announces on February 24, 2022 a "special military operation" to protect the Russian-speaking self-declared separatist republics of Lugansk and Donetsk in the east, whose independence he has just recognized. He says he wants to "de-Nazify" Ukraine, a former Soviet state, and demands a guarantee it will...

Many believe Russian President Vladimir Putin is using energy supplies as a strategic weapon to put pressure on nations that have applied sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.

Russia has come under increasingly tough sanctions since its February invasion of Ukraine, while Iran has faced stringent sanctions reimposed in 2018 when the United States unilaterally pulled out of a nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.

Negotiations in Vienna began in April 2021 to restore the deal, but have stalled for the past five months amid differences between Tehran and Washington on several issues. The two sides have negotiated indirectly through the European Union coordinator in a bid to bring the US back into the deal...

Having pledged to help especially the poor, the ultraconservative cleric now faces runaway consumer prices that have sparked protests.

Iran said Monday it remains "optimistic" about a possible revival of the 2015 nuclear deal after the European Union tabled a proposal aiming for a compromise in the talks stalled since March.

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has suggested that his country, Africa's largest natural gas exporter, could join the BRICS economic group that includes Russia and China.

The European Union said Wednesday it has lifted sanctions against Syria's private airline Cham Wings, after the company was blacklisted last year for its alleged role in illegal migration to Europe. "On 18 July, Cham Wings was removed from the list of entities subject to EU sanctions in respect of...

Iran's president will host his Russian and Turkish counterparts on Tuesday for talks on the Syrian war in a three-way summit overshadowed by fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The summit is the first hosted by Iran's ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisi since he took office last year, and the...

Russian oil firm Zarubezhneft will take over its remaining 20 percent stake in the Kharyaga project in the Arctic pending approval by Russian authorities.

Iran and Turkey share a land border, while Russia shares a maritime border with Iran and Turkey across the Black Sea and Caspian Sea respectively.

The United States and the Taliban plan talks Thursday in Qatar on unlocking some of Afghanistan's reserves following a devastating earthquake, officials said, with Washington seeking ways to ensure the money goes to help the population.

Major oil producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia are expected to stick to a previously decided output boost at their meeting on Thursday, despite pressure to further increase production. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated concerns about oil supplies, sending prices to record highs this year.

United States is seeking to crack down on Russians seeking to skirt existing sanctions by "covertly" acquiring US, Japanese and European defence components.

Talks to revive the nuclear deal began in Vienna in April last year but hit a snag in March this year amid differences between Tehran and Washington.

Iran said Thursday that it remains "serious" about reaching a revived nuclear deal with major powers that end economic sanctions and to which the United States is again a party.  Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was speaking at a joint news conference with visiting Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov as talks between...

Leaders at the upcoming G7 summit in Germany will announce new measures aimed at pressuring Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, a senior US official said Wednesday.

There is a new sight on the streets of Havana: increasing numbers of electric vehicles whizzing among the old American cars so emblematic of the Cuban capital.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday that Russia should be held "accountable" if it keeps blocking the export of vitally needed grain from Ukraine.

Inflation is making an unwelcome comeback globally -- stoked by high energy and food prices, driven largely by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a major wheat producer, and by related sanctions on Moscow. But Iran has been wrestling with rampant price growth for years, exceeding 30 percent annually every year since...

Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said that Moscow will play by its own rules after cutting daily gas supplies to Germany and Italy.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro met Wednesday with Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani in the gas-rich Gulf nation, his fifth stop of a regional tour. The two heads of state discussed "developing relations of friendship and prospects of joint cooperation" between the two countries, the Qatar News Agency said.

Iran on Tuesday said it still believes that negotiations can succeed to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, despite a recent rebuke from the UN nuclear watchdog.

The International Atomic Energy Agency on Sunday urged Iran to resume talks "now" to avoid a crisis that could make it "extremely more difficult" to salvage the 2015 nuclear accord. Iran this week disconnected some cameras allowing international inspectors to monitor its nuclear activities in response to a Western resolution...

Iran and Venezuela signed a 20-year deal on cooperation between the two allies subject to US sanctions during a visit Saturday to the Islamic republic by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

A flare-up in tensions between the UN nuclear monitor and Iran this week has left US President Joe Biden in an increasingly tight jam.

Sanctions imposed on Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine are rolling back more than a decade of economic progress and three decades of integration with the West, according to an analysis Wednesday. But economists at the Institute for International Finance caution that the impact is a "moving target" since more...

The United States, Britain, France and Germany have submitted a motion to the UN atomic energy watchdog to censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the agency, diplomats said Tuesday. The resolution urging Iran to cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the first since June...

Major European countries and the United States are expected to seek to censure Iran when the UN atomic watchdog meets this week amid stalled talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.

At the gates of the Black Sea, trade is in full swing as freighters and oil tankers sail from the heart of Istanbul to Russian and Ukrainian ports.

With billions of dollars in financial reserves and money still coming in from oil and gas exports, Russia has yet to feel the full impact of the barrage of Western sanctions imposed over its offensive in Ukraine.

European Union leaders agreed on Monday to ban more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports as part of the sixth package of crippling sanctions on Moscow. Media reports said OPEC was considering whether to remove Russia from an agreement that has locked producers into limited output increases.