Tehran has still around one year and a half to resolve the issue of permanent membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), as a three-year provisional pact between the two parties entered into force in October 2019, Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian told Sputnik

The European Union has slapped sanctions on a few high-ranking Russian officials over opposition figure Alexey Navalny, acting in coordination with the Biden administration but stopping short of more hawkish approaches, like those promoted by opponents of the Nord Stream 2 project

The European Union positively assesses the progress made by South Sudan in building democratic institutions over the past year, but the situation in the country remains unstable and "too little" is done to recover from the conflict, EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell said on Thursday