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Senate discusses future of NSA spying
The US Senate is meeting for discussions on extending the NSA’s controversial spying program, which allows collection of Americans’ phone data.

The US Senate is meeting for discussions on extending the NSA’s controversial spying program, which allows collection of Americans’ phone data.

The Iranian men’s national volleyball team has started its second match against the US in 2015 FIVB Volleyball World League.

Athens raps its international creditors for offering “absurd” proposals in talks over the country’s bailout program.

Most of the ISIL terrorists were recruited by the US and its allies to advance their agenda in the Middle East, an antiwar activist says.

The Burundian government has welcomed a call by EAC leaders to postpone the upcoming votes.

Iraqi PM has acknowledged that security forces have lost 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles to ISIL in Mosul.

Kurdish forces recapture a dozen villages from ISIL terrorists near their de facto capital Raqqa.

A former White House counterterrorism official says the NSA’s domestic surveillance program will likely expire on Sunday night.

Palestinian protesters face harsher unconditional jail terms under a new bill approved by Israeli cabinet.

US police confirmed that three people have been killed in two separate shooting incidents.

Iran says it is preparing to export 400,000 bpd of oil to Europe once sanctions lifted.

A rocket attack on a school in Afghanistan has claimed lives of at least three people.

A week of clashes in villages near Somalia’s border with Ethiopia leaves at least 35, mostly civilians, killed.

Egypt's state human rights agency says at least 2,600 people were killed following the ouster of former president, Mohamed Morsi.

Figures show successful economic performance for Indian PM Modi.

Iran criticizes Canada’s discriminatory move to stop verifying the authenticity of Iranian medical credentials.

Britain’s child protection chief says the country is shy of enough land to lock up all of its child sex abusers.

The Syrian army foils an ISIL attack on its military posts in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakah.