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181. Britain calls for European naval mission to counter Iran's 'piracy'

It is unclear how much influence Britain may have in Europe given it is about to have a new prime minister, widely expected to be Boris Johnson, who takes over a country divided over Brexit, its planned departure from the European Union. ...

182. Britain says Iran attempted to block its oil tanker

Three Iranian vessels tried to block the passage of a British ship through the Strait of Hormuz but withdrew after warnings from a British warship, the British government said on Thursday. ...

183. When necessity becomes history

184. Trump calls off Iran strikes at the last minute

185. US drone shot down by Iranian missile

186. Motive behind tanker attacks unclear

187. Family detained at Larnaca airport

A family from Iran was arrested on Tuesday at Larnaca International Airport as they were attempting to travel on fake passports, with police later discovering their genuine documents in their hotel room...

188. Cyprus scolded for unlawful detention

ECHR orders Cyprus to pay €30,000 in damages for the unlawful detention and degrading treatment of an Iranian national, mounting more pressure as MP's are debating a new asylum bill currently stuck under review...

189. US charges Huawei with bank fraud, theft of trade secrets

190. How Trump's phone call to Erdogan changed the Syrian war

191. Wess Mitchell sends clear message to Turkey over Cyprus

192. US official sends clear message to Turkey over Cyprus drilling

193. US reimposes oil and financial sanctions against Iran

194. Turkey searches Saudi consulate again, as world condemns Saudi Arabia

195. INTERVIEW WITH THE FRENCH MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

196. Russia, Iran and Turkey have different visions for Syria but all three face US sanctions

197. Trump warns Syria, Russia and Iran not to attack Idlib

198. Turkey says countries should not follow US on Israel embassy move

Muslim countries must together ensure that other nations don’t follow in the path of the United States and open embassies in Israel’s Jerusalem, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Friday, at the start of a summit to address the issue...

199. Greece's Souda Bay naval base is ‘world-class’

Greece’s military base in Souda Bay, Crete, is an “essential hub” for NATO operations in the Mediterranean, combining world-class facilities with access to North Africa, the Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples and US Naval Forces Europe and Africa, US Navy Admiral James Foggo....

200. Russia backs off supplying Syria with S-300 missiles

Russia is not in talks with the Syrian government about supplying advanced S-300 ground-to-air missiles and does not think they are needed, the Izvestia daily cited a top Kremlin aide as saying on Friday, in an apparent U-turn by Moscow...

201. EU can't save Iran deal after Trump nuked it

European countries are powerless to salvage the nuclear deal with Iran after the United States pulled out, the deputy head of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said ...

202. Iran targets Israeli bases across Syrian frontier

Iranian forces in Syria launched a rocket attack on Israeli army bases in the Golan Heights early on Thursday, Israel said, prompting one of the heaviest Israeli barrages against Syria since the conflict there began in 2011...

203. Chemical attack accusations ‘a farce’ Assad tells Kathimerini

In an exclusive interview with Kathimerini, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied that the Syrian Army used chemical weapons against civilians while taking aim at both Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US President Donald Trump...

204. Global impact of US withdrawing from Iran nuclear deal

President Donald Trump has made his decision. The United States is going to withdraw from what he called Tuesday a "defective deal"...

205. Europe urges US not to block it from sticking to Iran deal

Britain, Germany and France urged the United States not to take steps that would make life harder for other countries that still want to stick to the Iran nuclear deal that US President Donald Trump has spurned...

206. Iran poses a 'threat' in the East Med

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Iran constitutes a threat against every country in the Mediterranean and it is in the interest of everyone to “prevent the aggression.”...

207. Israel says Iran lied on nuclear arms, pressures US to scrap deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled what he said was evidence of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program that could step up pressure on the United States to pull out of a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran...

208.  North Korea hails summit as Trump presses for full denuclearisation

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would maintain sanctions pressure on Pyongyang ahead of his own unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong Un...

209. Macron tells it like it is

Capping a three-day visit, Macron repeatedly criticized Trump’s isolationist principles in a speech to a joint meeting of Congress, an honour given to a small number of visiting foreign leaders...

210. Trump and Macron seek stronger measures on Iran

With a May 12 deadline looming for Trump to decide on restoring US economic sanctions on Tehran, Macron said he spoke to Trump about a “new deal”...