August 20, 2022

Reuters. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday (August 20) the United Nations is working with the United States and European Union to overcome obstacles to Russian food and fertilisers reaching world markets.   Guterres said that under a U.N.-brokered deal agreed in Turkey last month to resume Ukraine’s grain exports cut off since Russia’s…

Iran has officially dropped a key “red line” demand that had been a major sticking point in efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal, a senior administration official told CNN.   In its Monday response to a draft nuclear deal agreement proposed by the European Union — which the EU has described as a “final”…