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California Senate OKs assisted suicide
The California legislature has approved a bill that would allow doctors to help some patients end their own lives.

The California legislature has approved a bill that would allow doctors to help some patients end their own lives.

Tens of thousands of pro-refugee demonstrators rally in European capitals in solidarity with asylum seekers.

Ukraine's prime minister warns Western governments against lifting sanctions on Russia.

The government of Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab submits its resignation to the country’s presidency.

Iran is on course to assert its place as the world’s largest producer of pomegranates with one million metric tons of the crop this year, an Agriculture Ministry official says.

US VP Joe Biden will definitely run for president because Democrats believe Hillary Clinton is going to crash and burn Scott Bennett says.

Fourteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has warned of a similar attack pending against the country.

British politician Jeremy Corbyn has become the country’s new Labour Party leader.

Iran says the UN approval of a proposal to raise the Palestinian flag proved the world body’s support for Palestine.

US drone kills 15 pro-Taliban Pakistani militants in southeastern Afghanistan, Press TV reports.

Scores of anti-regime protesters stage rallies in Bahrain, demanding the release of senior opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman.

Fresh gunfight between police and armed men kills three people in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.

Turkey’s lira is headed for its longest stretch of weekly losses in this century amid political turmoil ahead of November elections and a worsening security situation.

RAF jets scramble to intercept a couple of Russian strategic bombers over the North Sea.

An Iranian nuclear official says no inspections of Iran’s military sites are on the IAEA's agenda.

The US-led military coalition has bombarded ISIL positions in Iraq and Syria 30 times, the Pentagon says.

At least 104 people are killed after a gas cylinder blew up at a restaurant in central India.

Australia conducts its first raid in Syria after joining the so-called anti-Daesh US-led coalition there.