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Europeans to test Iran's appetite for nuclear compromise as sanctions loom

By John Irish and Parisa HafeziPARIS (Reuters) -France, Britain and Germany will hold face-to-face talks with Iran on Friday for the first time since U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in June, aiming to gauge Tehran's appetite for a compromise to avert sanctions, diplomats say.The three European countries, along with China and Russia, are the remaining parties to a 2015 deal - from which the U.S. withdrew in 2018 - that lifted sanctions on Iran in return for restrictions on its nuclear programme.
Source: Al Monitor
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French holiday camp accuses Vueling of discrimination against Jewish teens

Holiday camp organisers are to file a legal complaint against Spanish airline Vueling over a decision a day earlier to make French Jewish teenagers disembark from a Paris-bound flight, a lawyer said Thursday."We are going to file a complaint for physical and psychological violence, as well as discrimination on the basis of religion," Club Kineret's lawyer Julie Jacob said, adding that those involved were mostly under 15 years old.
Source: Al Monitor
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Columbia ends uncertainty with Trump deal, head says

(Reuters) -Columbia University's agreement to pay over $200 million to the U.S. government in a settlement with President Donald Trump's administration to resolve federal probes and restore most of its suspended federal funding ends a period of "institutional uncertainty," the university's acting president said.Trump has targeted several universities since returning to office in January over the pro-Palestinian student protest movement that roiled college campuses last year.
Source: Al Monitor
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