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Reuters – European powers are facing huge pressure from the United States to drop its proposed trade channel with Iran and it will also not succumb to ultimatums from Tehran, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday. Britain, France and Germany, which signed a 2015 nuclear deal with ... read more

MNA – The United Nations has expressed concern about the US’ increasingly confrontational rhetoric with Iran and called for calm. “We are concerned about the rising rhetoric,” said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric. “We would ask all parties to lower the rhetoric and lower the threshold of action as well,” Dujarric ... read more

The 24-year-old goalkeeper guarded the goal of his team in four of six matches played by Russia at this championship ... read more

In early April, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called a snap presidential election for June 9 ... read more

After Tesla shares plunged below $200 for the first time in years yesterday with Wedbush calling the company a "code red situation", another sell side analyst has taken the machete to his numbers this morning and is embracing the cold reality as long time bull Morgan Stanley slashed its bear ... read more

Twitter agreed to censor the westerners’ translated versions, invoking Al Jazeera’s copyright. ... read more

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz sought on Tuesday to oust the far-right interior minister who he says is compromised by the scandal that wrecked their coalition, while trying to avoid a chain reaction in which lawmakers could sack him too. ... read more

Malawians on Tuesday voted in presidential and parliamentary elections seen as a tough test for President Peter Mutharika who is running against the deputy president and a former pastor who heads the opposition. ... read more

Four jailed Catalan separatists, 24 far-right lawmakers, a record number of women and the biggest Socialist group in years on Tuesday inaugurated a parliament that reflects Spain's divisions and diversity like no other in recent memory. ... read more

Muslims in Nayabans, an unremarkable village in northern India, say they remember a time when their children played with Hindu youths, and people from either faith chatted when the frequented each other's shops and went to festivals together. ... read more

Ali al-Ahmed and his family fled on foot through the fields when the bombs began raining down on their house in northwestern Syria, escaping a major offensive by the Syrian army and its Russian allies. ... read more

The token holders were reportedly promised profits from the work of the company ... read more

The employees expressed their discontent over the decision made earlier to dismiss their colleagues from the politics department ... read more

Argentina's populist former leader Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, fresh from shaking up the country's national election race with a vice presidential bid, will be at the center of more drama on Tuesday as a corruption trial against her gets under way. ... read more

As if more tariff threats weren't enough, China Eastern Airlines has become the first major carrier to petition Boeing for compensation for the grounding of its 737 MAX 8 jetliners, which began two months ago. Chinese media reported Tuesday that the company has lodged an official claim with Boeing over ... read more

What do you do if you have borderline hyperinflation coupled with accelerating capital flight and a collapse of international confidence in your country's institutions? In Turkey, the answer is apparently to cut rates. That's what the Turkish central bank did early on Tuesday when it effectively rolled back a limited ... read more

Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios has vividly expressed his view over the second Grand Slam tournament of the season – Roland-Garros – saying that it “absolutely sucks� in comparison with Wimbledon. Read Full Article at RT.com ... read more

On Monday, the Ukrainian president called on the US to continue to tighten sanctions against Russia ... read more

Ukraine may hold a snap parliamentary election on July 21, an adviser to new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday after Zelenskiy held consultations with lawmakers. ... read more

An Australian government employee will reportedly face court today over his alleged misuse of government IT systems to mine cryptocurrency for personal gain ... read more

The spiraling economic meltdown in Zimbabwe is expected to worsen in 2019, partly due to the out-of-control inflation, the country’s Treasury statistics show. Read Full Article at RT.com ... read more

A top member of Austria’s right-wing Freedom Party (FPO) suggested there could be a no confidence motion in Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, after FPO ministers resigned en masse amid a party corruption scandal. Read Full Article at RT.com ... read more

Arsenal have confirmed midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan will not travel with the team to next week's UEFA Europa League final at the Baku Olympic Stadium against Chelsea over fears for the Armenian's safety in Azerbaijan. Read Full Article at RT.com ... read more

Hong Kong's leader said on Tuesday that her administration was determined to push through an extradition bill that could see individuals sent back to mainland China for trial, despite mounting opposition locally and internationally. ... read more

Leftoids had total meltdowns in response. ... read more