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‘US killed Daesh leader in Afghanistan’
The Daesh leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a US drone strike, the Pentagon says.

The Daesh leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a US drone strike, the Pentagon says.

Donald Trump’s foreign policy is “a thinly veiled return to gunboat diplomacy and unbridled US imperialism,” Professor Dennis Etler says.

The US Department of Justice sentences an African-American woman to 12 years in prison for seeking to support Daesh.

The Philippines’ former president says Manila is keen to hold formal talks with China amid the South China Sea dispute.

Figures released by Eurostat statistics agency show growth in eurozone declined sharply in the second quarter.

The UNHCR warns against demonizing refugees, saying the "law should be applied to all."

An analyst says Turkey does not any longer trust the United States as an ally and joining Russia in attacking Daesh is a big shift.

India blames Pakistan for the rise of tension in Kashmir.

Canada reports its first case of a baby born with birth defect linked to Zika virus.

The UN says Israel has demolished more Palestinian homes and other structures so far this year than in entire 2015.

Uganda will not contribute troops to a regional protection force formed to enforce the UN Mission in South Sudan.

Russia’s Ambassador to Tehran Levan Dzhagaryan says the level of trade between Russia and Iran increased by a whopping 70.9 percent after the removal of sanctions against the Islamic Republic in January.

Black Lives Matter movement expresses solidarity with Palestinians in the occupied territories.

Daesh Takfiri terrorists have kidnapped nearly 2,000 civilians in the crisis-hit northern Syrian city of Manbij.

The UN Committee Against Torture urges Burundi to address abuses in the country, including extrajudicial killings.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Ankara is ready to increase gas imports from Iran.

Egypt’s state TV says 23 Egyptian workers kidnapped in Libya have been freed.

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 46 points among Latino voters in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential race, a poll shows.