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The EU’s foreign policy chief said on Friday that he believed there had been enough progress during consultations between his envoy and Iranian officials in Tehran this week to relaunch nuclear negotiations after two months of deadlock. Talks to revive Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers have been on …

A train has derailed south of Austria’s capital Vienna, Austrian news agency APA reported on Monday. Newspaper Krone said two deaths and 15 injuries have been reported, without citing sources.

Iran and the five remaining signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal have held a new round of talks in the Austrian capital of Vienna focused on the removal of all sanctions imposed on Tehran after Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the agreement. Representatives of Iran and the P4+1 group of countries …

Tens of thousands of people, many of them far-right supporters, protested in Vienna on Saturday against coronavirus restrictions a day after Austria’s government announced a new lockdown and said vaccines would be made compulsory next year. Whistling, blowing horns, and banging drums, crowds streamed into Heroes’ Square in front of …

German police on Wednesday raided the living quarters of two possible accomplices of the jihadists who went on a deadly shooting rampage in Vienna last November, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said. Police searched the homes of Kosovan national Blinor S. and German Drilon G., who is suspected of failing to …

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations says a guarantee by the United States that it will never unilaterally withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal again is crucial to a successful conclusion of the ongoing talks in Vienna aimed at reviving the agreement. Speaking to reporters after a United Nations Security …

The Iranian spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday urged the parties in the Vienna talks to make their decisions on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “We have made and announced the decisions we should have …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned Iran that it will become “very hard” to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement if negotiations in Vienna on a potential revival of the multilateral deal continue without progress.

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the United States should first lift all the sanctions it has imposed on Iran in order to return to the 2015 nuclear deal as negotiations continue in the Austrian capital to revive the agreement, which was abandoned by the US three …

Iran’s top negotiator to Vienna talks on the revival of the landmark nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and world powers says despite intense efforts made by all involved parties to reach a conclusion in the ongoing fifth round of talks, he is not sure that this will be the …

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that negotiations in Vienna have made good and significant progress, but key issues remain. Speaking in his weekly press conference on Monday, Saeed Khatibzadeh answered questions on a wide range of topics. Good progress made in Vienna talks, but key issues remain Answering a question …

Austrian Muslim groups slam the government over map identifying locations of mosques and Islamic associations around the country. A leading Muslim group in Austria has said it plans to file a lawsuit against the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for unveiling a controversial “Islam map”, according to Austrian media reports. …

US President Joe Biden and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will meet in Switzerland for their first summit, newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported on Monday, citing “reliable sources”. An advanced U.S. mission has already arrived in Geneva for that purpose, the newspaper added. Plane spotters reported on Twitter seeing an unusual U.S. cargo …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the parties in Vienna talks have accepted to remove all main sanctions targeting the country’s oil, petrochemical, shipping, and insurance sectors as well as the Central Bank of Iran. “We have taken the main big step, and the primary agreement has been reached,” Rouhani said …

The top Iranian negotiator says “good progress” has been made in Vienna talks between the remaining parties to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but participants need to return to their respective countries for further consultations on certain remaining issues. “Over the past two weeks, which were the fourth round of …

Austria is investigating whether the weekend killing of a Chechen dissident was politically motivated, the prosecutors’ office handling the case said on Monday after two suspects were arrested. The 43-year-old, whom police have declined to identify, was shot dead on Saturday near a shopping center on the edge of Vienna. …

American and Russian negotiators have concluded a round of nuclear arms control talks in Vienna, aimed at producing a new agreement to replace the New START treaty that expires in February — the last remaining pact constraining the arsenals of the world’s two major nuclear powers. U.S. negotiator Marshall Billingslea …

The Hofburg, the official residence and workplace of Austria’s President Alexander Van der Bellen, has been evacuated after a bomb threat, a police spokesman said in a statement. Shortly after 3 p.m. local time (1 p.m. GMT), police started the evacuation and erected extensive barriers at the site. Bomb detection …