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JCPOA ‘serves Iran’s national interests’
A senior Iranian official says the recent agreement between Iran and the P5+1 serves the Islamic Republic ’s interests.

A senior Iranian official says the recent agreement between Iran and the P5+1 serves the Islamic Republic ’s interests.

Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger has urged the United States to treat Russia as a “great power” and stop making efforts to break it.

Hunger-striking Bolivian prisoners manage to get higher food allowances and end a protest after three days.

Former US president Jimmy Carter says his liver cancer has spread to his brain, adding he is “at ease with whatever comes."

North Korea puts its frontline forces on alert for potential war with the South.

Around 25 million birds are killed in the Mediterranean region annually, a conservation group says.

Brazil's attorney general files a lawsuit against two prominent politicians over corruption charges.

Russia is a "very, very significant threat" to the national security of the United States, says Pentagon chief Ashton Carter.

The death of a German man due to eating poisoned zucchini sparks health warnings in the country.

At least 54 civilians, mostly women and children, are killed after Saudi jets strike Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta'izz.

Seven PKK militants are killed as Turkish forces carry out two separate operations in the country’s Hakkari and Adiyaman provinces.

Iran's atomic energy agency rejects as speculation an AP report that Iranian experts, instead of the IAEA staff, will inspect the country’s nuclear sites.

St. Louis police chief has unapologetically defended the fatal shooting of an African American man on Wednesday.

France’s far-right party, National Front, expels Jean-Marie Le Pen, its founder and honorary president.

Iraq’s top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, urges real reform to avoid dire consequences in the country, including possible partition.

Slovakia says it will only accept 200 migrant Christians from Syria into the country.

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says Turkey should "do more" in fight against Daesh militants.

At least 53 militants are killed in clashes with the Pakistani army in the country’s northwestern tribal region.