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‘ISIL bigger threat to US than al-Qaeda’
The ISIL terrorist group is a bigger threat to the United States than al-Qaeda, says the FBI director.

The ISIL terrorist group is a bigger threat to the United States than al-Qaeda, says the FBI director.

A Turkish daily sacks one of its senior writers for criticizing President Erdogan’s policy on ISIL.

Five members of a family have been found dead in the US state of Oklahoma.

Alzheimer’S disease is incurable but new drug could delay the pace of brain decline for patients.

A prisoner was released and now on the run after a mistake at the Wandsworth Prison in South London.

Iran’s gold output is estimated to rise to 7 metric tons by 2017 which could significantly improve the country’s place among the world’s producers of the precious metal.

Amnesty International says Burundian security forces shot fleeing protesters opposed to President Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term in office.

Hundreds of protesting miners in Bolivia clash with police in the country’s capital.

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrives in Iraq for talks over ISIL.

Soccer fans who racially abused a black commuter at Paris Metro are banned from football matches for up to five years.

A top UN official resigns after failing to follow up on allegations of child sex abuse by French soldiers in the Central African Republic.

A group of pro-Israel supporters in New York City protest against the recent nuclear conclusion between Iran and the P5+1 group.

The US and Turkey are to work together in a declared attempt to tighten security on the Turkish border with Syria.

A British-Sudanese linked to a group of medical students who joined ISIL in Syria has been killed.

President Rouhani says the main message of the recent Iran-P5+1 talks was that threats against Tehran should be set aside.

Iran has fully designed, engineered and constructed a water turbine for the first time, etching a niche in the renewable energy industry.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari slams the US for refusing to arm his soldiers in their fight against Boko Haram militants.

The White House is in the "final stages" of drafting a plan to close the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison.