
POLITICS
Clinton’s lead over Trump shrinks
A new poll shows Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has shrunk to 4 points in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential race.

A new poll shows Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump has shrunk to 4 points in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential race.

An Egyptian military court sentences 418 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to prison terms ranging from 2 years to life imprisonment.

Turkey’s Bosphorus Gaz is warning that the country could face gas shortages if a pipeline from Russia called the Turkish Stream is not built as soon as possible.

More than two dozen people are injured in clashes between Indian government forces and pro-independence Kashmir demonstrators.

Four US Olympic swimmers are accused of laying about a robbery to cover their rude behavior at a gas station in Rio, Brazilian authorities say.

Russia’s Technopromexport has announced a tender for designing a thermal power plant that it plans to construct in southern Iran.

Russia says its warplanes have launched a third day of anti-terror strikes in Syria from an Iranian air base.

Ukraine says it has recorded the heaviest shelling by pro-Russians in the east in a span of one year.

Conservative politicians in Austria urge a ban on Muslim women wearing full body Hijab.

Pakistan's military kills 11 militants in the restive region of Khyber near Afghanistan's border.

Hundreds of firefighters are struggling to contain one of the biggest fires in the history of this western US state.

Minister of Economy and Financial Affairs Ali Tayyebnia hails Chinese investments in Iran's non-oil projects.

Twin car bomb attacks kill at least 10 fighters with forces loyal to Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) near Sirte.

Russia says it is ready to support a UN proposal for weekly 48-hour ceasefires in Aleppo in a bid to allow aid deliveries to the Syrian city.

More than six in 10 people in the United States say racism against African Americans is widespread in the country, according to a new poll.

Racial minorities in the UK are in a severely disadvantaged position compared to white people, a new study shows.

Thailand detains at least 15 suspects following last week’s deadly bomb and arson attacks in tourist resort towns.

Scuffles erupt between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting in support of hunger striking prisoners in the West Bank.