In Turkey, following the recent earthquakes, many lives have been saved due to an abundance of heavy lifting machinery, yet in Syria, due to a dearth of equipment as a result of western sanctions, many lives were needlessly lost.

iran's Raeisi slams "desperate" measure of the European Parliament in blacklisting the IRGC.

EU leaders agreed on Thursday to impose fresh sanctions on Russia.

Press TV has strongly denounced the double standards of the European Union with regard to freedom of expression, saying a plan by the leading European satellite carrier to remove the English news network is part of Western “media terrorism” against Iran.

The EU has unveiled a series of new sanctions on what it alleges to be the use of Iranian drones in Russian strikes against Ukraine.

Gazprom has stopped sending gas to Latvia, adding the country to the list of countries which had already been excluded from Russian energy supplies.

European Union (EU) members have agreed to reduce gas consumption as a European energy crisis deepens with Russia's latest decision to tighten the squeeze on the flow of gas to the continent.