Europe

BRUSSELS, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The European Parliament will on Friday urge Britain “to urgently revise its negotiating position” to avoid a breakdown in post-Brexit trade talks.

A draft resolution says London must agree that future UK-EU ties be governed by “a single, comprehensive and horizontal governance mechanism” to oversee compliance with a “level playing field” of economic regulations.

PARIS, June 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — The French government has decided to end the state of health emergency on July 10, two weeks ahead of the previously scheduled date, and expected to retain certain power to restrict freedom in the next months to contain the spread of coronavirus, French daily Le Monde reported.

“Given the positive development of the health situation at this stage, the government wishes to end the state of health emergency, which must remain an exceptional case,” le Monde quoted the prime minister’s office as saying.

AMMAN, June 11 (NNN-PETRA) – German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, said on Wednesday that, the EU supports the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and rejects any annexation plans.

Maas made the remarks at a joint press conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Ayman Safadi, in Jordan’s capital, Amman.

“We are worried about the repercussions of the (Israeli) annexation decision,” he said, adding, the priority is “to bring the two sides to the negotiating table.”

10 June 2020; MEMO: A fixer in some of the most lucrative deals involving Gulf monarchies is in a legal battle against Barclays Bank over a multi-billion-dollar fundraising in 2008 which included the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar.

10 June 2020; MEMO: Russia and China have started making the case at the United Nations against Washington’s claim that it can trigger a return of all sanctions on Iran at the Security Council, with Moscow invoking a 50-year-old international legal opinion to argue against the move.

MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/: Russia is not interfering in the Belarusian presidential election and calls on other countries not to meddle in the polls, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday.

"Certainly, we are observing with great attention how the election campaign is held and we wish our Belarusian partners to successfully hold this election," Peskov said, stressing that the Kremlin saw nothing "that would discredit these polls."

MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/: The Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering Rubin has completed research into a robotized system called Surrogat, which is capable of simulating nuclear and non-nuclear submarines, Rubin’s CEO Igor Vilnit told TASS in an interview.

"Research into Surrogat was our own initiative. It has been completed and the results forwarded to the Defense Ministry’s organizations concerned. Consultations are underway," Vilnit said.

MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/: Western countries are responsible for unrest in Hong Kong, they send money and weapons there to back the protests, Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui told an online briefing Wednesday.

He stressed that the West as led by the United States is "playing a malicious role" in Jong Kong developments. "I can honestly tell you that all these demonstrations and protests, this chaos, were organized by the west. They are sending funds and even weapons [there]. They prepped [protesting] students, radicals and separatists," the envoy noted.

MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/: Russia does not have any oligarchs who wield their financial clout in order to influence politics, said Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov Wednesday.

The press secretary’s reply came on the heels of a reporter’s request to comment on a statement by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko who earlier said that "money from Russian oligarchs" is allegedly being used to bankroll the opposition in the former Soviet republic.

"We do not know about any oligarchs, or about their existence," the presidential press secretary said.

MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/: It is unreasonable for Russia to withdraw from the World Trade Organization (WTO) now, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said addressing the State Duma’s deputies on Wednesday.