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Washington: The United States is ready to lift sanctions imposed on Iran so as to resume mutual compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement, said State Department spokesman Ned Price.In a press briefing on Wednesday Price said “We are prepared...

Washington: The Biden administration is considering expelling Russian diplomats over alleged meddling in the US presidential election and cyber attacks against the United States, Bloomberg reported citing three people familiar with the matter.The report on Wednesday said the US...

Wellington: New Zealand on Thursday temporarily imposed a travel ban for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, following the surge in COVID-19 cases.The temporary suspension will start from April 11 and will remain in place until April...

Moscow: Russia can provide a tit-for-tat response if its diplomats are expelled from the United States, Vladimir Dzhabarov, the first deputy head of the Russian upper chamber's international affairs committee, told Sputnik on Thursday.Earlier in the day, Bloomberg reported,...

Washington: Ukraine has aspired to join NATO for many years but it is up to the alliance to decide whether it will accept the country, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said in a press briefing on Wednesday."One, that has...

Tel Aviv: Israel notified the US that it is responsible for the Tuesday attack on an Iranian cargo ship affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps off the coast of Eritrea in the Red Sea, an American official told...

Moscow/Vienna: A representative of Iranian opposition tried to attack the country's deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, who is currently in Vienna, but the attack was foiled, Mehr news agency reported Tuesday.According to the agency, an opposition member began insulting...

Moscow: The Cuban Foreign Ministry has summoned the US charge d'affaires to reject the allegations regarding Cuba in the US State Department's annual report on the human rights situation in the world.On March 30, US State Department published its...

Donetsk: Kiev is waiting for Washington's go-ahead to resort to the forceful scenario in Donbas, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Foreign Minister Natalya Nikonorova told Sputnik."Kiev is hyping up the escalation in the media field in order to ask the...

Moscow: Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus cannot have any effect on the human genome or genetic inheritance, Alexander Gintsburg, the head of the Gamaleya institute that developed the vaccine, said in an interview with Sputnik."No, it cannot,...