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Iran beats Japan in William Jones Cup
The Iranian men’s national basketball team defeats Japan at the 2016 William Jones Cup in Taiwan.

The Iranian men’s national basketball team defeats Japan at the 2016 William Jones Cup in Taiwan.

Turkey arrests 17 journalists over links to opposition cleric Gulen blamed for the July 15 failed coup attempt.

The FBI has turned over "thousands of documents" to the State Department recovered during its investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server, a report says.

Russia is set to allocate a USD one-billion loan to Iran for the construction of a power plant.

Junior Iranian chess players top-rank the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2016 in Slovakia.

An officer is shot dead and over 70 people are injured in new clashes between police and protesters in the Armenian capital.

The Iranian men’s national snooker team picks up the trophy at the end of the 2016 International Billiards & Snooker Federation (IBSF) World 6Red and Team Snooker Championship in Egypt.

Bangladesh police say a Canadian citizen was one of the masterminds behind the July 1 deadly hostage crisis in Dhaka.

Minister of Communication Mahmoud Vaezi has said Iran plans to hold talks with Russia on resuming Russian search engine Yandex’s Iranian operations.

Two Indian soldiers and two suspected militants are killed in armed clashes in Indian-administered Kashmir.

A number of militants in Syria's eastern Aleppo surrender themselves to the government forces and lay down weapons.

Hundreds in Canada attend a funeral of a black Muslim man who died after his arrest by police.

Turkish forces say they have killed 35 militants with a separatist Kurdish militant group who attempted to storm a military base in southeastern Turkey.

A senior Iranian official has called on Japan to move faster on rolling out a credit package worth $10 billion for investment in Iran.

Saudi-backed militiamen in Yemen have destroyed the centuries-old mausoleum of a Sufi Muslim in the southwest of the country.

An explosion rips through Afghanistan’s western city of Heart, leaving one civilian dead and five others wounded.

French Muslims and Christians attend Friday prayers at a Normandy mosque to pay tribute to a priest, who was recently killed by terrorists.

The UN Security Council decides to deploy a police force to violence-hit Burundi.