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The announcement comes as Iran and the other signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal are gearing up for another round of talks to revive the agreement, which is designed to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons – an aim it denies pursuing. This year Iran has already produced a small amount …

“The agreement has expired… any of the information recorded will never be given to the IAEA and the data and images will remain in the possession of Iran,” Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said during a parliament session on Sunday. Those recordings were made in offline format and they’re going to be …

The monitoring agreement allowed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to collect data on some of Iranian nuclear activities after Tehran’s decision to reduce cooperation with the agency in February. But it expired overnight, with Iran leaving unanswered last week’s letter from the UN nuclear watchdog on prolonging the deal …

According to a Transparency International UK paper released on Thursday, over 20% of the £18 billion in public money spent by Boris Johnson’s administration – or one in five government Covid contracts – between February and November last year has at least one link to possible corruption. Claiming the government …

The vote to penalize Syria took place on Wednesday at the conference of the states that are parties to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague. Syria was punished for allegedly violating the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), of which the OCPW is the guardian, based on …

The media watchdog group took the step to challenge Facebook over what it described as “misleading commercial practices” and a “massive proliferation” of problematic content on the company’s platform. The legal action focuses on a section of Facebook’s policies that pledge to provide “a safe, secure and error-free environment” for …

All entry points into Israel by land, sea and air remain shut tight since January 25 as part of the Benjamin Netanyahu government’s measures to prevent the new coronavirus variants from getting into the country. No one may come or go, except the few who have received a special permission …

In a statement on Friday, DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz announced that his office will be “initiating a review to examine the role of and activity of DOJ and its components in preparing for and responding” to the events that unfolded at the US Capitol on January 6. Horowitz …

The US Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (OIG) said it plans to evaluate the policies and programs aimed at curtailing “ideological extremism within the US Armed Forces.” The OIG will be specifically looking into how the Pentagon and its branches have implemented the policies of weeding out “active …

Call me paranoid, but I think my son’s wearing a wire.  He keeps asking me questions about how to get his hands on a gun. Yes, he means from ToysRus, but still. And my daughter? Why is she always going on about buying that high-end chemistry set? Does she want …