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New Delhi, Jun 25 (PTI) Pakistan continues to remain in the 'Grey List' of FATF as the global body against money laundering and terror financing on Friday said that Islamabad has failed to take action against UN-designated terrorists like India's most wanted Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar.

The FATF also said that Pakistan should continue to work to address its strategically-important deficiencies.

BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations said 12 German troops and a Belgian soldier serving in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali were wounded Friday in an attack in the country’s restive north.

The U.N. mission in the country, MINUSMA, had earlier said that 15 peacekeepers were wounded when a temporary operational base in the Gao region was targeted with a vehicle bomb. Later, it corrected the numbers.

MOSCOW, June 25. /TASS/: Russia’s Sputnik Light single-component coronavirus vaccine has been registered in Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Friday.

"RDIF announces registration of the Russian Sputnik Light single-component vaccine against coronavirus by the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan," the Fund says.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 25. /TASS/: The Russian Podsolnukh-E over-the-horizon radar station possesses unique properties compared to its foreign rivals and can simultaneously track over 300 surface and air targets on an area of about 150,000 sq. km, Podsolnukh-E Chief Designer at the Research Institute of Long-Range Radio Communications Mikhail Skolotnev told TASS on Friday. 

BRUSSELS, June 25. /TASS/: Heads of states and governments of the European Union took a political decision at the two-day summit in Brussels to extend economic sanctions against Russia that expire at the end of July, a source in the delegation of one of European countries in the European Council told TASS on Friday.

MOSCOW, June 25. /TASS/: The position of the Baltic states and Poland, which are amassing NATO forces on their territories while speculating about a Russian threat, is illogical and harmful, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.

These are the countries opposed to the idea of holding a summit between Russia and the European Union (EU), Peskov emphasized.

BARCELONA, June 25 (Reuters) - Prison has only strengthened the political convictions of Catalan civil disobedience advocate Jordi Cuixart, one of the nine separatist leaders pardoned by the Spanish government earlier this week, he told Reuters two days after his release.

Cuixart, 46, is overjoyed to have unlimited time with his two sons, aged one and four, as he could only see them once every two weeks while behind bars. But, were any of the various appeals against the pardons to succeed, he would go back to jail with his head held high. 

BERLIN, June 25 (Reuters) - Germany's parliament approved changes on Friday that will make it easier for descendants of people who fled Nazi persecution to obtain citizenship, a move Jewish groups described as an important signal in the country responsible for the Holocaust.

The amendments approved by the Bundestag lower house of parliament ensrhine in law decrees from 2019 already in force, which followed a campaign by relatives of Nazi-era refugees.

25 June 2021; MEMO: Anti-immigrant discourse which is dehumanising displaced people is on the rise in Danish government circles and Syrian refugees are bearing the brunt, EUobserver reports today.

This comes as parliament yesterday passed a law that allows the nation to relocate asylum seekers outside of Europe to have their refugee claims assessed.

The UN opposed Denmark's bill for fear it would erode refugee rights and encourage other EU states to follow suit.

PARIS, June 25 (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron defended on Friday a failed attempt by France and Germany to hold an EU summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, after eastern European leaders shot down the initiative they said would send the wrong message to Moscow.

The meeting proposed by Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which have both sought to take a less confrontational attitude with Russia in recent years, fractured EU leaders gathered in Brussels along an old East-West divide.