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Lozano signs with Iran volleyball federation
Argentine volleyball coach Raul Lucio Lozano signs a contract to steer the Iranian men’s national team.

Argentine volleyball coach Raul Lucio Lozano signs a contract to steer the Iranian men’s national team.

Iraqi military and pro-government forces retake more districts from Daesh in Ramadi.

A study shows Daesh has lost 14 percent of the territory it had had under control in Iraq and Syria.

Police in the United States have killed about 1,150 people as of December 15 of this year, an activist group says.

An Iranian nuclear official says Russia will start constructing two nuclear power plants in Iran next week.

The Turkish PM criticizes a visit to Russia by the leader of the main Kurdish opposition party.

Russia says it is ready to supply Iran with over a dozen Tu-204SM planes as well as a key state export loan in the near future.

The UK government has sent military personnel to Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand.

The British authorities are under fire for taking a “Scrooge-like approach” to the jobless and disabled people on Christmas Eve.

President of the French Senate has criticized recent visa restrictions against Iran in the United States as unacceptable.

Counter-terrorism forces in Turkey kill two women in an operation against a cell of suspected militants in the city of Istanbul.

Iran has been chosen as a top tourist destination for the coming year.

At least three Pakistanis are killed in bombing attacks in the tribal region.

Suspected Israeli extremists fire smoke grenades into the house of a Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank, police say.

A grand jury will not indict anyone in connection with the mysterious death of African American Sandra Bland in jail.

Iran’s President Rouhani will pay an official visit to Italy and France in late January, the official IRNA news agency says.

Tehran and Moscow are set to ease bilateral commercial transactions by striking a monetary accord, says minister.

Syrian army forces inflict heavy losses on foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants across Syria.