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Obama most ‘frustrated’ by gun laws
US President Barack Obama says he has been most frustrated by the issue of gun control during his two terms of presidency.

US President Barack Obama says he has been most frustrated by the issue of gun control during his two terms of presidency.

At least three people have died and nine others injured during a shooting at a movie theater in the US state of Louisiana, reports say.

Most Americans say race relations in the US are bad and are further getting worse, a poll shows.

The UN says 500,000 Palestinian children may be kept out of school due to limited funding.

The UN Human Rights Committee urges the Canadian government to stop discrimination against indigenous people.

At least three people are killed in Yemen as Saudi Arabia keeps bombarding the impoverished Arab country .

The IMF will possibly provide Ukraine with as much as USD 1.7 billion in bailout funds later this month, a spokesman for the fund says.

Militants affiliated with the ISIL Takfiri group claim responsibility for a deadly roadside bombing in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula.

ISIL Takfiri militants decapitate a Muslim preacher in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Pentagon chief Ash Carter has said the United States is willing to do more to help Iraq defeat the ISIL terrorist group.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) spots an Earth-like planet 1,400 light years away.

President Rouhani says time is ripe for Tehran and Paris to bolster bilateral cooperation in different fields.

Gun production has more than doubled during the Obama administration, according to a new report.

The Maldives approves law allowing foreign ownership of land for the first time.

At least 40 migrants are feared dead after their boat sank off the coast of Libya as they were seeking to reach Europe, the UN refugee agency says.

The Israel lobby in the US is expending numerous resources to scupper Iran accord, says an ex-US congressional staffer.

US Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio says the nuclear agreement might only stand while President Obama is in office.

Boko Haram Takfiri militants shoot dead at least eight people during a raid on a village in the troubled northeast Nigeria.