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Republican Party needs to allow 'dissent'
Rand Paul says the Republican Party has banned him but he refuses to be silenced and that the party needs to allow "dissent."

Rand Paul says the Republican Party has banned him but he refuses to be silenced and that the party needs to allow "dissent."

Palestinians hold a funeral for a Palestinian man shot dead by Israeli forces near the city of al-Khalil.

The US Coast Guard says it's responding to a report of two US military helicopters crashing off the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

Russia says it is now engaged in humanitarian operations in Syria.

Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to pay an official visit to Iran next week, Chinese Foreign Ministry says.

The United Nations documents cases of sexual violence against women by Burundian security forces.

Iraq's top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani condemns bombings on Sunni mosques in the province of Diyala.

The ICRC warns about the dire situation of Yemeni patients in the war-torn Arab state.

Turkey arrests 12 people for signing a petition, calling for an end to violence in the country's southeast.

A report says Saudi King Salman plans to install his son Mohammed, the current deputy crown prince, as the monarch.

The UK foreign secretary says his country is getting closer to a compromise with the EU over curbing welfare payments to the block's migrants.

US presidential hopeful Donald Trump says he stands by his comment that Muslims must be banned from entering the US.

The Iranian envoy to Lebanon urges stronger Muslim unity in the face of terror threats gripping the Middle East.

British teachers have slammed government for its harmful move in education field.

Al-Shabab militants attack an African Union peacekeepers base in Somalia, claiming to have killed dozens of soldiers.

The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns against the use of food as a weapon against the Syrian people.

Authorities in the US State of Michigan urge Washington to declare a state of disaster over a water crisis there.

Thousands of people stage a rally in the Tunisian capital to mark the fifth anniversary of 2011 revolution.