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‘Israel steps up detention of journalists’
Tel Aviv jails 43 journalists in the occupied Palestinian lands since last October, a rights organization says.

Tel Aviv jails 43 journalists in the occupied Palestinian lands since last October, a rights organization says.

Iran urges expansion of constructive cooperation with Venezuela in international circles.

At least 233 people die in a magnitude-7.8 quake in Ecuador’s northwest Pacific coast.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu harshly criticizes a UNESCO resolution that refers to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound solely as a Muslim site.

A new poll finds that most Americans are angry or dissatisfied with the US government.

An American foreign policy analyst says the United States is trying to rekindle a new Cold War with Russia.

The Pentagon says a US Air Force reconnaissance plane has been intercepted by a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea.

The Muslim world’s worst enemies are “terrorism and Zionism”, says Iran's President Rouhani.

US military sends nine Yemeni captives in Guantanamo prison to Saudi Arabia ahead of Obama's visit.

A new poll shows US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is up to beat his rivals in Tuesday’s New York GOP primary.

The French president visits Lebanon first in his tour of the Middle East, pledging a $113 million in mostly military aid to Beirut.

The Israeli regime is to hold a cabinet meeting in the occupied Golan Heights in an intransigent move to defy international law.

French and German foreign ministers make surprise Libya visit amid intense battles east of the country.

UN warns that infighting between Takfiri factions in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria is deeply affecting residents.

Saudi Arabia has threatened to sell off about $750 billion in US assets if Congress passes a bill making Riyadh liable for 9/11-related lawsuits.

US House Speaker Paul Ryan has denounced President Barack Obama’s refugee program.

Ethiopia says gunmen have killed at least 140 civilians in a raid on an area near border with South Sudan.

Pentagon is considering a set of 'new' strategies to intensify its war against Daesh in Iraq and Syria.