IRAQ
Iraqi forces liberate city near Fallujah
Iraqi forces liberate the city of al-Karmah in the western Anbar Province from Daesh, in their first major advance toward the nearby city of Fallujah.
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INTERVIEWS
US desired status quo ‘flipping away’
Washington’s concerns over “a resurgent Russia and a very, very aggressive China" indicate that the US is losing more ground in areas where Beijing and Moscow exert an influence, an analyst says.
TURKEY
Can you spot this Turkish banknote error?
A Turkish Nobel laureate says the country's five-lira banknote has a scientifically wrong depiction of a DNA helix.
RUSSIA
US spy plane endangers civilian flight
Russia calls on US to avoid endangering civilian passenger flights with their "unprofessional" reconnaissance missions.
INTERVIEWS
US not apologetic for ‘past harms’
President Obama does not want to apologize to Japan because that would mean Washington is acknowledging its own past crimes, says an analyst.
FOREIGN POLICY
Kerry blasts Russia over Syria ‘strikes’
The Obama administration says Russia has a "special responsibility" over the crisis in Syria.
POLITICS
Trump horror show stars Clinton as rapist
GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump has released an ad portraying Bill Clinton as a rapist as part of an attack on his wife.
PAKISTAN
US envoy summoned over Pakistan attack
Islamabad summons Washington's envoy over a US drone attack that killed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
ECONOMY
Bank of America ducks penalty for crisis
A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court order that Bank of America pay a $1.27 billion penalty for fraud in 2008.
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi soldier dead in border mine blast
A Saudi soldier is killed and three others injured in a landmine explosion near the border with Yemen, Saudi state media say.
DEFENSE
Iran helped Syria hold Daesh back
Iran’s Major General Qassem Soleimani says Syria would be overrun with Daeshis if it were not for Iran’s assistance.
RUSSIA
Russia: Cold War era not bygone
Russia vows to respond to NATO’s military build-up up on its eastern borders and the Baltics, saying the Western military alliance’s actions are reminiscent of its Cold War-era rhetoric.
HUMAN RIGHTS
You can’t speak so how do we know?
Because of a law in the US state of Oregon, no one is being held accountable for abusing one-year-old Jacob although the perpetrator has confessed, parents say.
INTERVIEWS
Why US doesn’t want peace in Afghanistan
The US is not interested in establishing peace in Afghanistan rather it is trying to use it as a “staging ground for intervention throughout the region,” says Professor Dennis Etler.
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Clashes with police kill one in Kenya
Kenyan police fire tear gas at opposition demanding the dissolution of the country’s electoral commission, with at least one killed in clashes.
GERMANY
'Raids on German refugee homes soar'
Nearly 1,000 offenses were perpetrated in the country against refugee shelters in 2015, a senior German official says.
HUMAN RIGHTS
US court cancels black man's death penalty
US Supreme Court overturns a black man's death penalty over racial discrimination on jury selection process.
ECONOMY
Iran says euro conversions now possible
Hamid Baeedinejad, a high-ranking Iranian Foreign Ministry official, says restrictions on the conversion of foreign currencies into euro for Iran have been lifted.
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