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Sending jets to China islands 'next step'
The Pentagon says the US is ready to test China's claims over artificial islands in the South China Sea by sending spy aircraft and naval ships to the area.

The Pentagon says the US is ready to test China's claims over artificial islands in the South China Sea by sending spy aircraft and naval ships to the area.

Clashes break out in Chile between anti-government protesters and the police during a presidential speech northwest of the capital, Santiago.

The shooting of two unarmed African Americans by a police officer on Thursday provoked new protests in Olympia, Washington.

Lebanese army arrests three people over transferring huge sums of money from Lebanon to militants in Syria.

At least seven people are killed and dozens other injured across Syria by Takfiri militants' mortar shells.

The ISIL Takfiri group executes at least 17 people after seizing the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.

Hundreds of leading migration experts condemn the EU’s plans for a military operation to fight human smugglers in the Mediterranean.

A US grand jury has indicted all six officers charged in the case of Freddie Gray, who died of injuries he suffered in police custody.

The Pentagon says a US airstrike in Syria’s northwestern city of Harem last November killed two children.

Researchers develop a new kind of brain implant that helps patients move robotic arms.

Iraqi army forces kill 52 ISIL Takfiri militants during cleanup operations in Iraq.

The Greek government plans to hold a parliamentary vote on recognizing Palestine as an independent state.

The US is manufacturing weapons considered by the American military officials as “plausible” for a possible war on China, says an analyst.

A senior official of the PLO criticizes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s "racist and extremist” policies towards Palestinians.

The Iranian Army launches the first leg of a major military drill in the western province of Kermanshah.

Israeli forces shoot and critically injure a Palestinian child in al-Quds (Jerusalem).

New documents released by Edward Snowden show the NSA and its allies developed plans aimed, in part, to prevent "another Arab Spring".

Israel has dismissed a Swiss court’s order for $1.1 billion of compensation to Iran over a joint venture before the Islamic Revolution.