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Turkey arrests 47 tied to Ankara blast
Police in Turkey arrest nearly 50 people in an anti-terror operation to find suspects linked to the Ankara blast.

Police in Turkey arrest nearly 50 people in an anti-terror operation to find suspects linked to the Ankara blast.

A top US official will be in China this week to discuss new sanctions against North Korea.

Iran and Vietnam are set to cooperate on information and communications technologies.

Iran’s president says the country’s ballistic missiles are designed to defend it against potential threats.

Terrorist bombings in a northern Nigerian mosque kill at least 22 people and injure 35 more.

At least 25 people are killed in clashes between Afghan forces and Taliban militants in Uruzgan Province.

The US will not lift sanctions against Moscow following the announcement that it would pull out forces from Syria.

Iran rejects as “politically-motivated” and "biased" a UN report on human rights situation in the country.

Jordan bans the sale and rent of properties to Israelis in the city of Petra.

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has urged Egypt to relax its restrictions on the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip.

Turkish police arrest 20 people in an 'anti-terror operation' in Istanbul.

South Korea's imports of Iranian crude oil have surged by 91 percent.

The Russian Foreign Ministry blasts the European Union (EU) for setting conditions for its normalization of ties with Moscow.

A Brazilian senator accuses the country’s president of having indirectly offered him money in exchange for silence on a snowballing corruption scandal.

Top military officials warn that the US armed forces are not ready to respond to an unexpected crisis.

Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran’s missile tests neither violate the JCPOA nor a UN resolution.

Seven people stand trial in the United Arab Emirates over 'affiliation to Lebanon's Hezbollah'.

The UN’s human rights chief slams the EU because of its demand that Turkey take back refugees reaching Europe from its shores.