
RUSSIA
Pro-Putin party storms to big win in elections
The results of Sunday parliamentary elections put Vladimir Putin on track for a fourth term as Russia's president in 2018 polls.

The results of Sunday parliamentary elections put Vladimir Putin on track for a fourth term as Russia's president in 2018 polls.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, who considers running for a fourth term next year, has come under fire since almost 1.1 million refugees arrived in Germany in 2015.

The FBI is looking for possible links to terrorism in Saturday night’s stabbing spree at a Minnesota shopping mall.

UK business confidence reaches its lowest in the past four years in the wake of Brexit.

The 17th Non-Aligned Movement summit wraps up with calls on the UN to include more states in the Security Council.

US airstrikes that killed dozens of Syrian troops could not have been a technical error, says Syria’s envoy to the UN.

Hillary Clinton censures three attacks carried out in the US states of New Jersey, New York and Minnesota earlier.

Attacking an army that is battling terrorism means backstabbing, says Iran’s Amir-Abdollahian.

US President Barack Obama’s call on black voters is “out of desperation” as there is no enthusiasm to vote for Hillary Clinton.

Syrian troops open fire at an American drone plane over the country’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.

'Travel to Syria and see what embarrassed means,' Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman tells the US envoy to UN.

US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose ties have been at odds for a while, are finally set to meet.

Mehdi Assali, an Iranian oil expert and former ministerial official, says the Islamic Republic should join an oil freeze plan that will be raised in the upcoming OPEC summit in Algeria.

Iranian sitting volleyballers win gold in Rio Paralympics.

Another Muslim place of worship has been targeted by a hate attack, this time in Scotland.

Forty families have been cleared to come back following background checks.

The Iranian president says the OIC and NAM must fulfill their responsibility to promote regional peace and stability.

"None of the facts on the ground show that what happened was a mistake or a coincidence," says a senior adviser to Syrian President Bashar Assad.