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After a week of fruitful discussions between the parties to the Joint Comprehensive Program of Action – the JCPOA, better known as the Iranian nuclear agreement – and the United States (who, since May 2018, was no longer a party, and as such sat in as an observer), it looked …

Despite its superhuman efforts to tie the violence to domestic extremism – the agency’s favorite new bugaboo, supposedly lurking around every corner and under every bed – the Boulder shooting culprit bore not even a passing resemblance to the domestic extremist threat FBI director Christopher Wray has attempted to outline …

The admission was made by Timmermans in an interview with German daily Der Tagesspiegel, published on Sunday. It is too early to draw any conclusions, though, and currently the priority is to ensure that “all of Europe gets vaccines,” the official stressed. “I am ready to take stock at the …

Fourth-graders hoping to get into the Advanced Work Classes (AWC) program are out of luck, after Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius called for a one-year hiatus for the program this week. The district’s website now says “admission information will be available during the winter of 2021.” “There’s been a …

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took to Twitter on Friday, urging Washington to drop all the sanctions imposed on the country under the Donald Trump administration. While the US signaled it was ready to talk with Tehran about the landmark nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan …

“The leadership [of Iran] has explicitly stated that the production of nuclear weapons is against Sharia law, and the Islamic Republic forbids it, but if a cat gets backed [into a] corner, it may act as it wouldn’t have acted while free,” Alavi said, as cited by Iranian media. If …

“We believe this approach has the potential to respond quickly when misleading information spreads, adding context that people trust and find valuable,” Twitter Vice President Keith Coleman said on Monday. Birdwatch is starting out as a pilot project in the US only. During the pilot’s first phase, notes will only …

The beginning of the vaccination program, scheduled for December 27, 28 and 29, is “a touching moment of unity,” EU Commission President von der Leyen said in an address published on Saturday, a day ahead of the rollout. She said that the vaccine had been delivered to all EU nations …

Projected US President-elect Biden may try to return to the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers before wider talks that could include Iran’s ballistic missiles, but Rouhani said on Monday that Tehran will not accept any preconditions. He also noted that he has not heard from Biden that …

“Unfortunately, the medical team did not succeed in reviving him, and a few minutes ago, this manager and scientist achieved the high status of martyrdom after years of effort and struggle,” the statement said. Fakhrizadeh was attacked during an armed clash between his bodyguards and unknown assailants in Absard city, …