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Iran athletes fail to win Olympics medals
Iranian athletics contenders have so far failed to win a medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Iranian athletics contenders have so far failed to win a medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Iran criticizes the US for pursuing the policy of imposing economic sanctions against independent states.

At least 17 civilians are killed in about 90 airstrikes carried out by Saudi warplanes on Yemen in 24 hours.

Turkey rejects allegations of rights abuse made by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Donald Trump says the only way Clinton would win Pennsylvania is by electoral "cheating."

Yemen's parliament convenes for the first time since the onset of the conflict in the impoverished country.

Turkey's prime minister says Washington’s attitude to the extradition of Gulen has improved since July 15.

A New Mexico police officer has died after being shot in the neck during a traffic stop.

Donald Trump is going back and forth on his statement that President Obama and Hillary Clinton “founded” Daesh.

Syrian army forces and their allies recapture a village east of the capital, Damascus.

Boeing representatives are currently in Tehran, discussing the US planemaker’s planned sale of commercial aircraft to Iran, an Iranian minister says.

Lebanese authorities arrest three Saudi women and their seven children as they were trying to join the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group in Syria.

UK food bank charities have sharply criticized the poverty “scandal” in Britain.

Pakistan says six crew members of a helicopter, who were taken hostage after the aircraft crash-landed in Afghanistan, have been released.

Brazilian police arrest 50 protesters in Rio de Janeiro following scuffles near the Olympics venue.

A senior Iranian official says the presence of the United States and Saudi Arabia in Syria is illegal.

Zambia's main opposition leader takes an early lead over president Edgar Lungu in a tight presidential poll.

The UN human rights body voices concern about reports of abuse in the Australian-run detention facility on the Pacific island of Nauru.