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Iran defeats Palestine in FIBA Asia match
The Iranian basketball team defeats Palestine 94-48 at the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship in China.

The Iranian basketball team defeats Palestine 94-48 at the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship in China.

The UN confirms the death of 135 people in a Saudi airstrike on a wedding in Yemen.

The Saudi government confirms the death toll in the recent Hajj tragedy has reached 4,173, reports say.

Iran plans to attract $15 billion of foreign investment in its vast but largely underdeveloped mines and mining industry sector, an official says.

Syrian army forces kill at least 30 al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front militants in a series of operations across Aleppo Province.

Indonesia says Saudi authorities obstructed access to those Indonesians killed or injured during the Mina crush.

The UN says nearly 40 people have been killed and tens of thousands forced to flee violence in the Central African Republic in recent days.

Activists in Lebanon block access to the Electricity Ministry building in the capital, Beirut, in protest at high electricity prices.

The US criticized a top adviser to the EU's high court for his comments on a data privacy deal between the US and the EU.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US President Barack Obama have shaken hands at the UN headquarters in New York.

At least seven people are killed in a car bomb attack at a busy commercial district of Baghdad, Iraq.

Iran’ President Rouhani calls for further cooperation with China in resolving regional crises.

Afghan forces launch an operation to regain the city of Kunduz from the Taliban militants.

Saudi Arabia has withdrawn as much as $70 billion of its assets held abroad as the kingdom’s lavish spending and its destructive war on Yemen is burning through reserves at a blistering pace.

At least three people are killed as clashes between police and protesters over a mine project turns violent.

The brother of a former Iranian diplomat, missing since the crush outside Mecca, talks to Press TV.

Sen. Ted Cruz was blocked from offering an amendment to a bill which would ban the Obama administration from implementing the Iran deal.

Gunmen kill an Egyptian police officer and injure another in an attack in the central province of Giza.