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Egypt rejects damning HRW report
Egypt's permanent human rights committee criticizes HRW report as lacking credibility.

Egypt's permanent human rights committee criticizes HRW report as lacking credibility.

Foreign ministers of the African Union hold a preliminary meeting in Johannesburg to discuss the agenda of the continental bloc’s 25th summit.

Israel denies an injured Palestinian photographer medical treatment in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).

A record total of 3,415 of Americans renounced their US citizenship last year, according to US government data.

New software is being sold to schools to monitor pupils searching for radical material.

The property services group warns house prices across the UK are set to rise further.

Iran has allocated $10 billion to harness cross-border water resources as the country is struggling with a growing water shortage problem, Vice President Mohammad Shariatmadari said on Thursday.

Activists occupy Greece’s Finance Ministry in protest at new austerity cuts demanded by international creditors.

Diplomats from Iran and the P5+1 continue talks in the Austrian capital, Vienna.

Azerbaijani pro-government demonstrators stage a protest rally in Baku against the EU's policies regarding Azerbaijan.

At least 35 people are killed in a devastating landslide in northeast Nepal.

Russian forces launch an operation in the volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan.

A new poll says Americans support a military strike in response to a Russian attack on a NATO country.

The Gaza Strip faces a pollution crisis along its coastline due to the Israeli blockade.

A militant attack in Pakistan claims two lives and leaves six people wounded in the country’s volatile northwest.

Iran’s National Orchestra resumes its activities after a 3-year hiatus in the capital, Tehran.

Al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front militants execute 40 civilians in the northwestern Syrian village of Qalb Loze.

A new investigation finds that more than 20 mobile phone towers in the United Kingdom are fake and in fact espionage tools.