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Five people and two companies are to be added to the EU's blacklist over the Ukraine crisis, the Wall Street Journal wrote on Monday.

Sberbank and VTB Group, which are among Russia's largest banks, will reportedly be affected.

A Greek Orthodox church in Gaza is providing refuge for dozens of Palestinian families fleeing Israeli bombing, international media reported on Tuesday.

The church in downtown Gaza City is hosting about 600 people in total and only two out of all the families there are Christians, the Wall Street Journal’s Middle East correspondent Tamer El-Ghobashy reported.

Iran and world powers enter a critical fifth round of nuclear talks in Vienna on June 16 amid reports Tehran and Washington may use the occasion to discuss cooperation in Iraq.

A recording of a restaurant conversation leaked Saturday rocked Poland's center-right government and prompted Prime Minister Tusk to hold a news conference later on Monday.

The prime minister of Iraq's Kurdistan regional government is in Tehran for talks with Iranian officials, media reported on June 16, amid efforts to thwart a Sunni insurgent offensive north of Baghdad.

Iranian troops have helped Iraqi government forces re-take most of the town of Tikrit, the Wall Street Journal reports Iranian security sources as saying.

The source said that two battalions of Iran's Quds force, the overseas branch of the country's Revolutionary Guard, helped battle the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in the city.

Recent Government Moves Raise Concerns About Moscow's Influence in Former Client

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Concerns are growing in some Western capitals that Bulgaria, for decades one of the Soviet bloc's most loyal members, could be falling back under Moscow's spell despite having been accepted years ago into Western alliances.

The United States could impose a USD 10 B penalty on French bank BNP Paribas for violating sanctions against Iran, Cuba, and Sudan.

If this is to happen, it will be the highest ever penalty imposed on a bank, by a margin of over USD 8 B, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay EUR 90 M over the invasion of Cyrpus in 1974.

Monday's judgment also says the damages ascribed to Ankara were a compensation for losses the island's population suffered during the invasion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Rating agency Moody's has increased Portugal's rating to Ba2, in a first such move since the debt-ridden country embarked on a bailout program in 2011.