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New Orleans reels 10 years after Katrina
New Orleans is still suffering from problems 10 years after Hurricane Katrina severely damaged the city, killing 2,000 people.

New Orleans is still suffering from problems 10 years after Hurricane Katrina severely damaged the city, killing 2,000 people.

At least 36 Yemeni people are killed in an airstrike by Saudi Arabia on Yemen’s southwestern province of Hajjah.

Iran's president says the Vienna nuclear agreement has facilitated the expansion of Iran’s international relations.

The inadequate judicial oversight of NSA spying programs is leading the US toward a “type of fascist state,” says a former intelligence linguist.

Turkey’s opposition parties warn that the ruling AKP may resort to anything, even a civil war, to delay the November polls and remain in power.

Afghan security forces liberate a strategic region from the control of the Taliban militants.

Colombia president visits border city amid rising tensions between Caracas and Bogota.

Malaysians take to the streets in central Kuala Lumpur to continue their an anti-government protest for a second day.

Daesh Takfiri militants kidnap 200 civilians in Iraq’s western province of Anbar.

South Africa says it wants to import natural gas from Iran as LNG and GTL once the sanctions against the country are lifted.

Yemeni forces destroy a number of Saudi military vehicles in a retaliatory attack on Saudi Arabia’s positions in the southwestern province of Jizan.

The idea of using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan, as reportedly examined by the US following the 9/11 attacks, was a “silly” plan, says an analyst.

A teenage migrant is killed during a shootout off the Greek island of Symi, the government says.

Iran's parliament speaker is in New York to attend an Inter-Parliamentary Union conference on global peace and democracy.

Republicans are devising new plan to increase pressure on Tehran as President Obama is moving closer to implementing the Iran accord.

The World Bank says it expects the lifting of sanctions against Iran to create an economic windfall for the country.

Five Palestinian prisoners continue hunger strike at an Israeli jail in protest against the Tel Aviv regime's policy of so-called administrative detention.

The Syrian information minister says resistant media outlets are countering the spread of false news about Syria.