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Egypt minister arrested for corruption
Egypt’s agriculture minister is arrested on charges of corruption shortly after he announces his resignation.

Egypt’s agriculture minister is arrested on charges of corruption shortly after he announces his resignation.

The French president announces a plan to launch surveillance flights over Daesh positions inside Syria.

The Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, Ali Tayeb Nia, says Iran and Czech Republic are working on an economic roadmap aimed at boosting bilateral ties between the two countries.

Daesh Takfiri militants are turning US military vehicles, seized as spoils of war, into bombs, a new report says.

Water shortage in Gaza strip has become more catastrophic after three wars and an eight-year Israeli blockade.

A US-led airstrike kills 17 counter-narcotics police officers in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand.

The refugee crisis in Europe nears critical conditions as the number of asylum seekers grows incrementally.

The Iraqi defense minister emerges unscathed from an assassination attempt.

A Cambodian Cham man recounts Muslims’ ordeal at the hands of Khmer Rouge cadres.

Crude prices have fallen amid increasing supply glut as well as weakening Chinese equities.

UK’s North Sea energy sector has lost 5,500 jobs in less than a year over oil market downturn.

Pakistan has deployed its first domestically-developed armed drone dubbed Burraq in the restive northwest, killing 3 militants.

PKK says it has killed 31 Turkish soldiers in an attack and ensuing clashes in southeast Turkey.

Hundreds of British soccer fans protest against the Israeli regime during the Euro 2016 Israel-Wales match in Cardiff.

A new report says UK soldiers are set to sue defense ministry over anti-Malaria drug.

Greece says it is considering a US request to shut its airspace to Russian planes carrying aid to Syria.

The Iranian president warns that the consequences of regional problems will affect the entire world.

Standard Chartered is facing heavy fines and possible criminal prosecutions over alleged breaches of US sanctions against Iran.