India may pursue a case for resumption of oil imports from sanction-hit Iran and Venezuela once the Joe Biden administration takes charge in the US.

The assassination of an Iranian scientist “puts difficulties” on the road to revive the Iran nuclear deal, the EU’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell told Euronews.

The European Union told Britain on Friday it was time to decide what kind of future relationship it wanted as EU officials suggested negotiators could strike a post-Brexit trade deal as early as the weekend.

Authorities in Moscow arrested a physicist on suspicion of state treason for allegedly passing classified information about Russia’s aviation industry abroad, news agencies reported late on Thursday.

The United Nations said on Friday that fighting continued “in many parts” of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, complicating efforts to deliver humanitarian aid despite an agreement granting the UN access to territory under federal control.

The United Nations General Assembly approved five anti-Israeli resolutions, which are part of a package of 20 pro-Palestinian texts that the 193-member body adopts on an annual basis.

Beijing on Friday lashed out at a claim by the US intelligence chief that China is the “greatest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide”, calling it a “hodgepodge of lies”.

By Alanna Durkin Richer*

By Gareth Porter*

President Hassan Rouhani said the recent assassination of a senior Iranian nuclear scientist was a grave and inhumane crime aimed at curbing the nation’s march toward scientific progress.