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Iran rejects US accusation it long violated nuclear deal
Iran rejected on July 2 a White House accusation that Tehran was long violating the terms of its nuclear deal with world powers, after the Islamic Republic said it had amassed more low-enriched uranium than permitted under the accord.
Turkey, Russia preparing another Syria summit: Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan holding another trilateral summit on Syria including Iran, the Kremlin said on June 1.
Turkey stockpiling weapons parts against US sanctions, Bloomberg reports
Turkey has been stockpiling parts for F-16 fighter jets and other military hardware in anticipation of American sanctions, Bloomberg has reported, citing two Turkish officials familiar with their country's defense strategy.
PM, Mitsotakis ramp up campaign messages
In the final straight before Sunday's snap election, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis ramped up their campaign messages on Monday.
Speaking from Iraklio, Crete, Tsipras defended his government's policies, saying its decision to support poor Greeks was not a class-driven policy but one aimed at offering social justice.
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Opposition tables constitution revision draft
The parliamentary opposition parties on Monday lodged a constitution revision draft that transposes the outcome of a May 26 referendum on justice matters and fully complies with the National Pact on Romania's European Path initiated by President Klaus Iohannis, according to National Liberal Party (PNL) MP Raluca Turcan.
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President will not signgov’t court nominations
Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos will not sign a presidential decree green-lighting the appointment by the outgoing SYRIZA government of the new prosecutor and president of the Supreme Court, leaving the selection to the administration that will emerge after the July 7 snap election.
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ALDE's Tariceanu: By Wednesday, at the latest, PSD-ALDE to bring proposals for revising Constitution
The PSD-ALDE (Social Democratic Party-Alliance of Liberals and Democrats) ruling coalition is going to come up with a series of proposals for revising the Constitution in the next interval, in response to the result of the vote given by the people at the [May 26 - editor's note] referendum, Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, the leader of ALDE, said after the meeting of the governing coa
Non-historical day for Edi Rama
The elections were held in the tense atmosphere due to the fear of potential incidents, that were avoided.
Apart from the low turnout, those elections will be remembered by the boycott of the opposition that happened for the first time after the fall of the Communist regime in the country back in 1990, Macedonian web portal a1on reports.
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Tariceanu on presidential elections: Ponta and I have assessed options, we believe best solution, single candidate
Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu believes that the best solution for the presidential elections is a single candidate from PSD - ALDE - PRO Romania (the Social Democratic party, major at rule, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, minor at rule, ed.n.), a proposal announced by Victor Ponta (the Pro Romania leader).
Greek conservatives tipped to oust leftists in early election
Greece's opposition conservatives are expected to ride a wave of anger over continuing austerity measures to seize power from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' leftists in next Sunday's election.