A worker passes a facility in the South Pars natural gas field in Asalouyeh, Iran in 2015. The French oil giant Total said it would pull out of a $2 billion venture in the South Pars if President Trump doesn’t give it a waiver from economic sanctions re-imposed on Iran last week. (AP ...
Firms mull Iran exit as EU heads discuss how to keep them there * EU leaders agree to stick to Iran deal (Updates after leaders’ discussion) SOFIA, May 16 (Reuters) - European Union leaders agreed on Wednesday to try to keep the Iran nuclear deal alive and maintain their reviving economic ...
Iran's foreign minister said Tuesday that efforts to save the nuclear deal after the abrupt US withdrawal were "on the right track" as he began talks with European powers in Brussels. Mohammad Javad Zarif met EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini ahead of evening talks with his counterparts ...
rench oil major Total may turn its back on its $1bn (£740m) Iranian gas project within six months unless it can clinch a sanctions waiver for the project from the US government. The French state-backed oil group said that without an exemption from the US it would halt work at the world’s largest ...
French oil giant Total is preparing to pull out of Iran to avoid risking US sanctions. The company said on Wednesday that it was unable to proceed with a $2 billion project to develop the country's giant/ said it "will have to unwind all related operations" before November 4, unless it's granted ...
SOFIA/PARIS (Reuters) - French energy giant Total joined other European companies in signaling on Wednesday they could exit Iran, casting doubt on whether European leaders meeting to try to salvage the Iran nuclear deal can safeguard trade with Tehran./ Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad ...
EU leaders meet in Sofia to try to safeguard deal * Total says may leave multi-billion-dollar gas project SOFIA/PARIS, May 16 (Reuters) - French energy giant Total joined other European companies in signalling on Wednesday they could exit Iran, casting doubt on whether European leaders meeting ...
Total will pull out of a multibillion-dollar gas project in Iran if it cannot secure a waiver from U.S. sanctions, the French energy company said on Wednesday./ FILE PHOTO: The logo of French oil giant Total is seen at a gas station in La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie, ...
SOFIA/PARIS (Reuters) - French energy giant Total joined other European companies in signaling on Wednesday they could exit Iran, casting doubt on whether European leaders meeting to try to salvage the Iran nuclear deal can safeguard trade with Tehran./ Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad ...
European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini (R) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Brussels, Belgium, May 15, 2018. (Xinhua/European Union) TEHRAN, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tuesday that he had a "good and ...
European and Iranian foreign ministers are working to salvage the nuclear deal, after President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the pact. European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said European and Iranian officials held talks to address various challenges — from maintaining and ...
Position shows Big Oil’s fear of breaching U.S. sanctions/ Pedestrians pass a public monument showing the face of Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in Tehran./ said it will not risk investing in Iran following the return of U.S. sanctions, unless it can secure a waiver ...
From Total to Maersk, companies are responding to U.S. warnings after the Trump administration began reimposing new sanctions on Tehran/ LONDON—European firms have started pulling back investment and abandoning commitments in Iran, responding to a decision last week to reimpose broad American ...
Total will pull out of a multibillion-dollar gas project in Iran if it cannot secure a waiver from U.S. sanctions, the French energy company said on Wednesday./ FILE PHOTO: The logo of French oil giant Total is seen at a gas station in La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie, ...
French oil and energy company Total said on Wednesday that may pull out of the Iran South Pars 11 (SP11) energy project, in light of a decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw from an international nuclear deal with Iran./ FILE PHOTO: The logo of French oil giant Total is seen at a ...
Tasnim/ LONDON (Reuters) - Iran’s foreign minister said he had a constructive meeting with EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini on Tuesday, and he was optimistic Iran’s interests in the nuclear deal could still be preserved despite the U.S. withdrawal from the pact. “It was a nice and ...
Major European powers sought Tuesday to keep Iran in a landmark international nuclear agreement even after President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the pact and promised tough economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Foreign ministers from Britain, France and Germany — signatories ...
Iran’s foreign minister said he had a constructive meeting with EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini on Tuesday, and he was optimistic Iran’s interests in the nuclear deal could still be preserved despite the U.S. withdrawal from the pact./ Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ...
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A top European Union official branded President Donald Trump selfish and capricious Wednesday as EU leaders gathered to count the likely economic damage U.S. policies might inflict on the bloc and to try to rescue the Iran nuclear deal. In a striking rhetorical assault on ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy poses at the French National Assembly before his address to lawmakers, Friday, June 7, 2024 in Paris. Switzerland’s president says 90 countries and organizations, half from Europe, have registered to take part in a Ukraine peace summit on June 15 and 16, ...
Umm Hudaifa, the first wife of the late IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is now in prison in Iraq/ In a rare interview from prison, a widow of the Islamic State group’s leader has shared her account of their life. Umm Hudaifa was the first wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and was married to him while ...
) – One person was killed in a crash along a busy Lower Valley corridor on Sunday afternoon, June 9, police said. The crash happened shortly before 1 p.m. at Americas South at Zaragoza, fire dispatch said. El Paso Police said one person was killed in the crash./ Fire dispatch said two people ...
Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has quit the emergency government in a sign of deepening divisions over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's post-conflict plans for Gaza. Speaking during a news conference in Tel Aviv on Sunday where he announced his resignation, Mr Gantz said the ...
right National Rally (Rassemblement National - RN) party members react after the polls closed during the European Parliament elections, in Paris/ PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron rolled the dice on his political future on Sunday, calling snap legislative elections for later this ...
Almog Meir Jan embraces a family member after his rescue from Gaza/ The father of an Israeli hostage rescued during a military operation in Gaza died a day before he could be reunited with his son, a relative has said. Almog Meir Jan, 22, was held in Gaza for eight months after being kidnapped ...
The MAKS 2021 air show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow/ KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces have for the first time hit a latest-generation Russian Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jet at an air base inside Russia, Kyiv's GUR defence intelligence agency said on Sunday, showing satellite pictures which it said ...
run health ministry has so far named 86 people it says were killed as Israeli forces fought Hamas in and around the Nuseirat refugee camp/ Palestinians living in the densely populated area where Israeli hostages were being held by Hamas have described the terror of coming under intense ...
ATHENS (AP) — The body of missing British TV presenter Michael Mosley was found on a Greek island Sunday morning after a days-long search, his family said. A police spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of an ongoing investigation, said a body was found on a rocky coast by a ...
Reunions after four Israeli hostages freed in IDF raid/ Four hostages have been rescued by the Israeli military from central Gaza, in an operation that was weeks in the planning. For Israelis it brought celebration and relief. For Palestinians it brought more suffering, with hospitals saying ...