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China’s COFCO to buy Noble Group agri-arm
China's largest food company COFCO reveals plans to buy agricultural arm of top Asian trader, Noble Group.

China's largest food company COFCO reveals plans to buy agricultural arm of top Asian trader, Noble Group.

A new report says Britain’s economy has grown slower than expected in the third quarter.

Israeli police shoot and kill two Palestinians in al-Quds.

President Rouhani says Iran will implement a nuclear deal it clinched with the P5+1 despite foreign plots.

Iranian female para-canoeist Shahla Behrouzi Rad aims to earn a medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Syrian forces retake a key height in the northwestern province of Latakia near the Turkish border.

A Turkish opposition party leader describes as a mistake Ankara’s recent downing of a Russian fighter jet.

Nearly 70 percent of Americans see big government as the biggest threat to their country, according to a new Gallup poll.

The leader of Houthi Ansarullah movement says the US and Israel seek to enslave the Muslim Ummah.

Former British foreign secretary warns that the UK could break up with Scotland going its own way if Britons vote to leave the European Union.

Turkmenistan opens its new East-West gas pipeline hoping to claim a bigger share of European energy markets.

The UK’s Labour party leader has called the soaring homelessness a disgrace blaming the Tory government for the deteriorating trend.

As many as 100 lawmakers have written to President Hassan Rouhani to put him on notice over lingering recession.

Iran and Mongolia express willingness to expand bilateral cooperation in different fields.

Daesh Takfiri militants execute at least 17 young men in Iraq’s embattled northern city of Mosul over using the internet.

At least eight civilians are killed and three dozen others injures in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq.

Cameroonian troops are said to have killed at least 70 Nigerian villagers while chasing Boko Haram militants into Nigeria.

A US ship reportedly unloading 10,000 tonnes of rice in Iran has drawn criticism in a country which is seeking to curb imports of American goods.