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Iran para team shines in ping pong event
Iran’s national para-table tennis team finishes runner-up at the 2015 Asia Regional Championships in Jordan.

Iran’s national para-table tennis team finishes runner-up at the 2015 Asia Regional Championships in Jordan.

A delegation from the Port of Antwerp visited Iran on an exploratory mission to develop relations between Iran and the port community.

One in 14 American children have at least one parent behind bars, a new report shows.

Iraq's finance minister says the country plans to recruit thousands of new military forces for the battle against Daesh.

China says it will respond to any violation of its territorial waters by the US Navy in the South China Sea.

Iran is looking into a plan to pipe its natural gas to Oman and have it liquefied there for exports to international markets.

The United States says ‘Brexit’ would leave the UK to face same tariffs as emerging economies.

Saudi airstrikes kill 13 more people in Yemen’s southwestern Ta’izz province.

GOP candidates slam US media over attempting to trigger a conflict between them during the third Republican debate.

Japan resumes construction work on the relocation of a US base on the Okinawa Island amid protests by angry residents.

Indian security forces have killed a senior commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group during a gun battle in the Indian-administered Kashmir region.

Senior Iranian official Ali Shamkhani praises the decision by Pakistan not to join Saudi Arabia’s deadly war against Yemen.

A Saudi blogger sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes wins the EU’s prestigious Sakharov Prize for human rights.

Israeli forces kill two more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil.

Police used anti-terror law to seize the laptop of a BBC journalist to access his communications with ISIL terrorist in Syria.

The US feels "a sense of power" through police brutality against African Americans, says a human rights activist.

China is holding two Japanese nationals on spying charges.

A roadside bomb claims the lives of four police officers in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Paktia.