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Iran volleyballers defeated by Poland
Iranian men’s national volleyball team has been defeated by world champion Poland in the 2015 FIVB World League.

Iranian men’s national volleyball team has been defeated by world champion Poland in the 2015 FIVB World League.

A top Pentagon official reveals that the US-led airstrikes nearly targeted Iraqi forces 100 times.

At least two people are killed and over 100 others injured in two blasts during a pro-Kurdish rally in Turkey.

Eight of the militants behind the attempted murder of Malala Yousafzai are acquitted, it has emerged.

The French foreign minister voices Paris’ opposition to any boycott of Israel following a request by the Israeli premier.

The United Sates will launch new wars around the world regardless of who is voted as president.

Israel is urging the US to soften the June 30 deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran since it is providing Tehran leverage in the negotiations.

A top Iranian military commander says the Islamic Republic will not allow any inspection of its military sites.

US intelligence agencies are tearing up the Constitution on a daily basis, an American investigative journalist says.

The UN human rights office calls for the immediate release of Shia opposition cleric Sheikh Ali Salman in Bahrain.

The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, warns Israel against potential military strikes against Lebanon.

Romania’s President Klaus Werner Iohannis urges Prime Minister Victor Ponta to resign over corruption allegations.

Thousands of people hold a rally in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, to condemn the military strikes by Saudi Arabia against their country.

China has denounced US hacking accusations as “groundless and irresponsible” after Washington blamed Beijing for stealing data of millions of Americans.

More Americans are viewing President Obama’s performance negatively, according to a new survey.

The Chinese foreign minister says Beijing seeks the establishment of strategic relations with Tehran.

Disaster teams put a cruise ship back in the upright position days after it capsized on the Yangtze River in China.

OPEC decides to maintain its current output of 30 million barrels per day, the Saudi oil minister says.