Iran has signed $1.35 billion of deals to process natural gas extracted at its oilfields and develop another oilfield in its resource-rich Khuzestan province, Ministry of Petroleum Javad Owji says.

North Korea says it may consider resuming “all temporarily suspended” nuclear and long-range weapons tests to boost its defenses against Washington’s “military threats,” amid growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula and renewed US sanctions against Pyongyang.

The Biden administration has slapped sanctions on five North Korean officials over Pyongyang’s latest ballistic missile test.

US senators say sanctions against Europe's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline could harm relations with Germany.

Venezuela has rejected calls for dialog with the US-backed opposition as hypocritical as long as Washington maintains pressure on Caracas, including in the form of foreign asset freezes.

EU foreign affairs ministers gathered in Brussels on Monday for their final scheduled meeting of 2021.

In draft documents presented to the signatories of the nuclear agreement, Iran is calling for the removal of all US sanctions that violate the deal signed in 2015, known officially as the JCPOA.

The United States imposes an entry ban on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his government officials, following the Central American country's presidential election earlier this month, which Washington has denounced as "rigged" and "undemocratic."

Some 100 days since the inauguration of the new administration, Iran has boosted its oil exports to the extent that credits Owji with having achieved his promise.

The US slaps new sanctions on the Eritrean military and other individuals over Ethiopia's Tigray conflict.