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China summons US ambassador
China summons the US ambassador to Beijing to protest against US naval patrol in the South China Sea.

China summons the US ambassador to Beijing to protest against US naval patrol in the South China Sea.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says sanctions against Iran will be lifted by the end of 2015.

The European Commission president urges EU member states to fulfill their pledges concerning the refugee crisis.

Syria's Presidency says no initiative could be taken in the country before the elimination of terrorism.

Iranian sportsmen pick up three more medals at 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Qatar.

Egyptians are heading to the polls to cast their votes in the run-off parliamentary elections.

A new report says the UK economy growth has slowed in the third quarter of the year mainly due to the fall in construction output.

Saudi Arabia’s oil minister says global oil prices should be determined by market factors.

UK Defence Secretary says the country is set to extend its military presence in Afghanistan by a year.

The Persian Gulf region, the center of a high-rise building craze, could experience “intolerable” levels of heat in the decades ahead, because of global warming, according to a scientific finding.

US Vice President Joe Biden, like many other US politicians, is "funded by Corporate America,” a writer and political activist says.

Pentagon top leaders are considering some options to bolster the military campaign against Daesh in Iraq and Syria, according to two US officials.

Kuwait is set to deport nearly two dozen foreign nationals for allegedly beating a citizen.

The Iranian president underlines the need for the resolution of the Muslim world’s predicaments through non-military means.

A senior Iranian official calls for urgent action to avert a humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov’s Renaissance Capital says Iran’s banking looks more like an emerging market than a frontier market sector in terms of penetration of services.

More than 90 percent of voters in a referendum in the Republic of the Congo approve a bid by the president to extend his term, the government says.

At least seven Pakistani soldiers are killed in cross-border fire from Afghanistan.