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Bahrainis demand Sheikh Salman’s release
Bahrainis take to the streets to demand the release of senior opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman.

Bahrainis take to the streets to demand the release of senior opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman.

Kazakhstan says Syrian opposition groups are set to meet in Astana next week.

The German railway operator Deutsche Bahn says train drivers in the country have agreed to end their strike.

President Rouhani says Iran will never seal a nuclear deal that gives access to its scientific and military secrets.

A senior Iranian military official says Iranian forces are monitoring the activities of US vessels and planes in the Persian Gulf region.

The Chinese navy has warned a US surveillance plane flying over disputed islands in the South China Sea.

An analyst says the prospects of the UN-sponsored talks on Yemen succeeding are dim.

Thousands of fast-food workers call for a pay raise during a protest outside McDonald's headquarters in Chicago.

The Australian prime minister rules out allowing Rohingya Muslims to be resettled in his country.

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro says his country is ‘today and forever’ in solidarity with Palestine.

Former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe is to run in the country’s upcoming presidential election.

Representatives of German and French agricultural industries are in northeastern Iran to discuss transfer of technology and equipment, provincial officials say.

Israel and India are concluding a deal to jointly develop a missile system for the Indian army.

The Malaysian prime minister has ordered search and rescue operations for Rohingya Muslims.

Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai has won the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.

An analyst says it is time for the West to take a realistic stance toward Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

South Korea's president names the current justice minister as new prime minister.

Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters take control of al-Tuwal heights in the Jizan region of southwestern Saudi Arabia, says report.