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Iran, Japan play out draw in friendly
The national football teams of Iran and Japan have played out to a 1-1 draw in a friendly match.

The national football teams of Iran and Japan have played out to a 1-1 draw in a friendly match.

People in Turkey hold demonstrations in the wake of Ankara bombings despite bans on gatherings.

Twitter says it is going to cut 336 jobs as messaging platform puts into gear its restructuring plan.

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran and Japan should improve relations in all fields.

Almost half of US Democrats want Vice President Joe Biden to enter the field and challenge front-runner Hillary Clinton, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The Palestine Liberation Organization will send new petitions to the ICC against Israeli crimes.

A commentator says Israeli forces shoot parts of the body of Palestinian protesters that brings an “immediate kill.”

Iran's president hails the parliamentary bill endorsing the nuclear agreement between Tehran and the P5+1.

A senior Iranian official calls for an immediate end to ongoing wars in Yemen and Syria.

The head of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in Syria urges militants in Caucasus to attack Russians.

“Putin is trying to expose Western involvement in the creation and maintenance of ISIL," an American analyst says.

The International Energy Agency says global demand for crude oil will grow slowly in 2016.

A Czech human rights observer says conditions at a local detention center for refugees are worse than those in a jail.

Three survivors of the CIA’s brutal torture program have sued the psychologists who designed it and helped the agency to implement it.

A Yemeni military official says Saudi Arabia has used chemical weapons in a recent attack against Yemen.

Two Iranian commanders have been killed in the fight against terrorist groups in Syria.

The Taliban says its militants are pulling back from the northern city of Kunduz.

Former US President Lyndon B. Johnson was involved in a “coup d'etat” to assassinate former President John F. Kennedy, a scholar says.