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EU sees must-not-miss chance to revive Iran nuclear deal

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EU targets Venezuela envoy in tit-for-tat expulsions

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European Union Ambassador to Venezuela Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa is presented with a letter of &quot;persona non grata&quot; from Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza at his office in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. The meeting was called after the EU sanctioned an additional 19 Venezuelans for &quot;undermining democracy and the rule of law&quot; in Venezuela and the National Assembly declared the EU ambassador &quot;persona non grata.&quot; (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Sanctions prompt Venezuela to expel head of EU delegation

By JORGE RUEDA - Associated Press

Csaba Lengyel, President of the University of Szeged's Szent-Gyorgyi Albert Clinic Center shows a vial of the vaccine against COVID-19 produced by Chinese Sinopharm at the university in Szeged, Hungary, Wednesday, February 24, 2021. (Tibor Rosta/MTI via AP)

Hungary rolls out China’s Sinopharm jab amid lagging trust

By JUSTIN SPIKE - Associated Press

An healthcare worker walks at the infectious ward of the Bulovka hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. The Czech prime minister Andrej Babis said the pandemic situation in one of the hardest-hit country in the European Union, is &quot;extremely serious&quot; and his government will have to impose more restrictive measures to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

A shot in the arm: EU vaccine program struggles to speed up

By LORNE COOK and RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Boxes containing Russian vaccine Sputnik V are unloaded in San Marino, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021.The Republic of San Marino, a city state surrounded by Italy, is welcoming the arrival of the first 7,500 Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines after its plans to get its doses from Italy got delayed. A pink and yellow truck escorted by police cars brought the vaccines across the frontier into San Marino on Tuesday. Eventually, officials said the Russian doses will be enough to vaccinate some 15% of the microstate’s population of around 33,800. (Andrea Costa/IssRSMarino via AP)

San Marino finally gets vaccines, but goes with Sputnik V

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks to the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, Feb 22, 2021. European Union foreign ministers on Monday will look at options for imposing fresh sanctions against Russia over the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny as the 27-nation bloc considers the future of its troubled ties with the country. (Yves Herman, Pool via AP)

EU weighs troubled Russia ties, fresh sanctions

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Demonstrators march holding a banner reading &quot;you have taught us that being peaceful is useless&quot; during a protest condemning the arrest of rap artist Pablo Hasél in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. The imprisonment of a rap artist for his music praising terrorist violence and insulting the Spanish monarchy has set off a powder keg of pent-up rage this week in Spain. The arrest of Pablo Hasél has brought thousands to the streets for different reasons. The majority march under the banner of freedom of speech, but Hasél's lyrics also tap into a debate about the role of Spain's parliamentary monarchy after financial scandals involving the royal house. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Angry youths rattle Spain in support of jailed rap artist

By JOSEPH WILSON and HERNÁN MUÑOZ - Associated Press

Microsoft, EU publishers seek Australia-style news payments

By KELVIN CHAN - Associated Press

FILE- In this file photo dated Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, a mortuary employee wearing full PPE checks coffins containing the remains of COVID-19 victims in a refrigerated container in Johannesburg. The World Health Organization Monday Feb. 15, 2021, granted an emergency authorization to the coronavirus vaccine made by AstraZeneca, a move that should allow its partners to ship millions of doses to countries worldwide as part of a U.N.-backed program to stop the pandemic.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay, FILE)

EU to double COVAX vaccine funding to 1 billion euros

By LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Australia's Treasurer Josh Frydenberg speaks at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Frydenberg amended draft legislation after weekend talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google, to make it clear the platforms would not be charged per news snippet or link. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australian media law raises questions about ‘pay for clicks’

By ROD McGUIRK and KELVIN CHAN - Associated Press

Prime ministers from central Europe Igor Matovic of Slovakia, left; Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland, center; The Czech Republic's Andrej Babis, second right and Viktor Orban of Hungary, right, with European Council President Charles Michel, second left, taking a family photo following a news conference at a meeting marking 30 years of central Europe's informal body of cooperation called the Visegrad Group, at a conference center in Krakow, Poland, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Central European leaders push for faster vaccine deliveries

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In a blow to Ryanair, EU court approves state help measures

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Renate Schulz, left, receives a Moderna COVID-19 vaccination by Dr. Laura Tosberg, right, at a new coronavirus, COVID-19, vaccination center at the "Velodrom" (velodrome-stadium) in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool)

EU hails deals to get more COVID-19 vaccine shots, tackle variants

By Frank Jordans and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Ex-Brexit negotiator Frost to lead UK’s relations with EU

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In this Jan. 18, 2021, file photo, a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 is prepared at a vaccination center of the 3rd district, in Paris. Japan's COVID-19 vaccinations are beginning Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, after the government granted belated first approval to a shot co-developed by Pfizer Inc. that the United States and many other countries started using two months ago.(AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Pfizer-BioNTech to get EU 200 million more COVID-19 shots

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FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2017 file photo, actor Ian McKellen poses on the red carpet at the 12th edition of the Rome Film Festival. In an open letter from actors’ union Equity, Tuesday Feb. 16, 2021, more than 100 U.K. performers including Ian McKellen, are warning that the U.K. culture sector faces irreparable damage unless artists can tour the European Union without visas.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

UK performers say post-Brexit visa rules spell disaster

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Boxes containing vaccines are unloaded from a Hungarian Airbus 330 cargo plane as the first batch of the vaccine against the new coronavirus produced by Sinopharm of China arrives at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. The vaccine will not be used without its examination and approval by the National Public Health Center of Hungary. (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP)

Chinese vaccine arrives in Hungary, a first in the EU

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP) **FILE**

Russia says it’s open to better ties with EU despite chill

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Supporters of the left-wing Self-Determination Movement party react in Pristina, the capitol of Kosovo, on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Kosovo’s voters defied freezing weather to vote in a parliamentary election Sunday to form a new government amid the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/ Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo’s leftist opposition party gains landslide win

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press