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Iran defeats Japan in basketball demonstration
The Iranian men's national B volleyball team defeats Japan 73-69 in a friendly match.

The Iranian men's national B volleyball team defeats Japan 73-69 in a friendly match.

CIA awarding a medal to a Saudi sponsor of terrorism is a tremendous hypocrisy in Washington's fight on terror, a political analyst says.

Officers in the crisis-hit southeastern Espirito Santo State continue to be inactive amid a strike.

Arabic-language Bahrain Mirror news website reported that the jail terms were issued by Bahrain’s appeals court on Saturday.

Influential cleric Moqtada al-Sadr calls on his followers to withdraw from a central square in Baghdad where they gathered to demand political reforms on Saturday.

The Iran men's national under-19 basketball team has been drawn along with the US in Group D of the 2017 FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup.

Americans stage rallies in several cities to protest President Trump’s immigration policy after hundreds of immigrants were arrested.

Palestinian media report that the Trump administration has told the Palestinian Authority that the US embassy would not be moving to Jerusalem al-Quds.

Polling stations opened early on Sunday in an election that is highly expected to hand a third term in office to incumbent President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov.

Anti-riot forces use tear gas against protesters in the Paris suburb of Bobigny.

Speaking to Israel’s Channel 2, the firebrand minister for military affairs said all Palestinians living in Israeli cities and towns should be made to go and live in the West Bank.

South Korea, which detected and reported the launch, says the missile is believed to have fallen into the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.

Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem says Saudi Arabia and other regional countries have dismissed Tehran’s initiative for closer ties.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says North Korea's most recent missile launch is "absolutely intolerable."

US veteran return to Standing Rock, vowing to shield indigenous protesterd opposing the Dakota Access pipeline from police attacks.

A report reveals that Trump has slammed Mexico in tweet as top adviser Jaraed Kushner was negotiating with Mexican officials in the White House.

Turkish forces enter the Daesh-held Syrian city of al-Bab, says a UK-based monitoring group.

US defense chief is to meet numerous counterparts during an upcoming visit to Europe amid plans to deploy more troops to Afghanistan and counter ISIS.