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Obama blamed for rise of ISIL in Mideast
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has blamed President Barack Obama for the rise of ISIL in the Mideast.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has blamed President Barack Obama for the rise of ISIL in the Mideast.

NASA says New Horizons spacecraft is nearly 10 days away from Pluto.

The Bahraini attorney general has called for a tougher sentence against prominent opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman.

At least 35 ISIL members are killed by the Iraqi army airstrikes, authorities say.

A Saudi official has set a prize for someone who manages to murder Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

US foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski has called on the United States to seal a nuclear agreement with Iran.

Turkey calls for a meeting of troop commanders aimed at discussing possible military intervention in Syria.

At least 12 people have died due to swimming accidents across Germany.

Germany and France applied pressure for a voting process to grant the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

The US and other P5+1 countries are very close to reach a deal with Iran over its nuclear program, an American journalist says.

South Sudan's government is set to investigate claims by the UN that its troops raped then burnt girls alive.

Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande call for an EU summit following Greece ‘No’ vote to accept another austerity package.

Yemeni forces destroy a Saudi tank in a rocket attack on a military base in Jizan.

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump says former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is out of touch with the American people.

Iraqi forces liberate a strategic bridge and three areas of a city in the province of Anbar, the country’s Badr Organization says.

The EU foreign policy chief says a final nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 is "very close."

Russian scientists discover a new method of DNA repair by which neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s may be cured.

Thirty people, including a 7-year-old boy, were shot in Chicago in less than 8 hours, according to police.