- Title: Highlights of main world events 2014-2016
- Date: 19th December 2019
- Summary: KATHMANDU, NEPAL (FILE - APRIL 27, 2015) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** PEOPLE STANDING, LOOKING AT THE RUINS OF DHARAHARA TOWER KATHMANDU, NEPAL (FILE - APRIL 28, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SIFTING THROUGH RUBBLE ON STEPS OF A FORMER BUILDING IN DURBAR SQUARE, A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE RESCUE WORKERS AND PEOPLE CARRYING BODY ON STRETCHER DOWN STEPS OF FORMER BUILDING KATHMANDU, NEPAL (FILE - APRIL 25, 2015) (REUTERS) INJURED PEOPLE LYING ON HOSPITAL BEDS INJURED WOMAN LYING ON HOSPITAL BED KATHMANDU, NEPAL (FILE - APRIL 30, 2015) (REUTERS) EARTHQUAKE SURVIVOR PEMA LAMA ON STRETCHER BEING PULLED OUT FROM RUBBLE BY NEPALESE ARMED POLICE FORCE Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal on July 14, 2015 capping more than a decade of negotiations with an agreement that could transform the Middle East. "It's a great honour for us to announce that we have reached an agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue," European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told media at the talks venue in Vienna. Under the deal, sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations would be lifted in return for Iran agreeing long-term curbs on its nuclear programme. The West has suspected the programme was aimed at creating a nuclear bomb, this denied by Tehran. The final round of talks involved nearly three weeks of intense negotiation between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Zarif took to talking to reporters from the balcony of his hotel, at one point reporting: "Sleepy and overworked." VIENNA, AUSTRIA (FILE - JULY 13, 2015) (REUTERS) PALAIS COBURG, VENUE OF NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS DELEGATIONS AND FOREIGN MINISTERS FROM THE UNITED STATES, FRANCE, CHINA, RUSSIA, BRITAIN AND GERMANY AND EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF, FEDERICA MOGHERINI SEATED FOR MEETING MOGHERINI AND U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE, JOHN KERRY, SEATED IRAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER, MOHAMMAD JAVAD ZARIF, STANDING ON BALCONY, SAYING: (English) "Sleepy and overworked" WHEN ASKED BY REPORTERS HOW HE IS FEELING MOGHERINI, MAKING A THUMBS UP GESTURE FROM BALCONY WHEN ASKED BY REPORTERS IF THE TALKS ARE MAKING PROGRESS VARIOUS OF GROUP OF U.S. TOURISTS FROM GEORGIA STANDING IN SQUARE OUTSIDE PALAIS COBURG SHOUTING (English) "NO DEAL, NO DEAL" VIENNA, AUSTRIA (FILE - JULY 14, 2015) (REUTERS) MINISTERS SEATED FOR ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION MOGHERINI SPEAKING, ZARIF ALONGSIDE KERRY AND BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY, PHILIP HAMMOND, SEATED VIENNA, AUSTRIA (FILE - JULY 14, 2015) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF, FEDERICA MOGHERINI, SAYING: "It's a great honour for us to announce that we have reached an agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue."
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