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Bahrain cleric nationality repeal unjust: UN
The UN rights arm denounces the Bahraini regime's decision to strip top Shia cleric of his citizenship.

The UN rights arm denounces the Bahraini regime's decision to strip top Shia cleric of his citizenship.

Over 200 Iranian lawmakers condemn the UN for removing Saudi Arabia from list of children’s rights violators.

Boeing has confirmed that it has signed a deal with Iran Air to sell planes to Iran’s flag-carrier airline.

A German court rejects an appeal by Turkey's President Erdogan for an injunction against a publisher.

UNICEF censures the living conditions of refugee kids in Germany.

Iraqi armed forces purge Daesh terrorists from two neighborhoods in the strategic city of Fallujah.

A surge of aircraft accidents has cost the US military billions of dollars over the past months.

David Beckham says that together, the UK and Europe will be stronger.

The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) pays 7.5 billion euros as part of promised bailout money to Greece.

Teenage recruits into the Australian military had been subjected to horrendous physical and sexual abuse, an inquiry finds.

Turkey and Israel are to announce an agreement on the normalization of their bilateral ties, a report says.

Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) speaker says the recent intensification of a crackdown on Shia Muslims in Bahrain signals the looming demise of the Al Khalifah regime.

The Taliban kidnap at least 27 bus passengers in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province.

Donald Trump should be tried in a military court, and summarily executed over his suggestion of profiling Muslims in the United States, an American scholar says.

Four American troops deployed to Syria were wounded in a militant attack, a new report says.

Israel, which is widely believed to possess hundreds of atomic bombs, says it is not yet ready to ratify a UN pact on banning nuclear tests adopted nearly 20 years ago.

An Egyptian court voids a maritime border deal signed with Saudi Arabia that would hand over the control of two strategic Red Sea islands to Riyadh.

China’s largest shipping company plans to launch cruise travels in the disputed South China Sea next month.