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Iran routs US in FIVB World League
Iran’s national volleyball team has blanked US at the 2015 FIVB World League.

Iran’s national volleyball team has blanked US at the 2015 FIVB World League.

The EU is set to approve the launch of a military mission against migrant smugglers in the Mediterranean.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says his country is open to the world and will continue economic cooperation with the West.

NAACP President Cornell Brooks says Wednesday’s shooting in South Carolina “was an act of racial terrorism.”

North Korea claims to have produced a single miracle drug that can cure MERS and AIDS among other deadly diseases.

Nearly 40 Taliban militants are killed in Afghan army operations in Helmand Province.

Ukraine pledges to make an interest payment on the Russian debt in the coming days.

Anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders will show cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in public TV air time.

South Carolina is home to 19 known hate groups, including two factions of the Ku Klux Klan and four "white nationalist" organizations.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt offers incentives to GPs in the hope of extending their working hours and easing the burden on the NHS.

David Cameron has called on Muslim communities to do more to tackle ISIL threat.

A high-ranking Iranian commander rules out access to or inspection of the Islamic Republic’s military sites.

US officials say a man has been arrested in New York for supporting the ISIL terrorist group.

Yemeni political factions fail to reach an agreement in indirect negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva.

The United States and its NATO allies are edging toward a high-risk military standoff with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, an annalist says.

Tunisia says it will close its consulate in Libya, following an attack on the diplomatic mission.

At least 70 have been killed and some 500 others wounded during weeks of violence in Burundi, a rights group says.

An American police officer in New York City has fatally shot a man who allegedly pulled a knife on him.