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UN urges Gambian president to cede power
Yahya Jammeh, who has governed the Gambia for 22 years, initially accepted the results of the presidential polls but later reversed his position.

Yahya Jammeh, who has governed the Gambia for 22 years, initially accepted the results of the presidential polls but later reversed his position.

The US is determined to continue diplomatic relations with Russia, despite the Kremlin’s view that ties have been reduced to a minimum.

An official from the Turkish Ministry of Education said 1,980 teachers and school employees had been placed under suspension.

A senior Iranian official says a recent UN resolution on Aleppo will fuel tension in Syria.

About 4,000 British soldiers are prepared to end a strike by railway workers.

There are 60 buses prepared to take some 3,000 militants and civilians out of eastern Aleppo.

An activist says Turkey conducts military operation in Syria to implement a US-Israeli plan for Balkanizing the Arab state.

Rouhani says the Karabakh dispute cannot be settled through military options.

Iranian female referee Saltanat Norouzi and lineswoman Samaneh Mohseni have officiated a 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship qualification match.

"People inside the market were struck, causing four deaths and different degrees of injury to many people," said a police statement.

Fears are growing about the eruption of new violence across the country.

The accident prompted an angry mob to beat the driver to death.

The US has returned a large part of Okinawa’s soil to Japan but is not willing to pull out its troops from there.

Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, says Moscow does not believe that the gunman acted on his own.

It was not clear whether German authorities had contacted the Tunisian government on the case.

The Russian police chief said "heavy trucks" would be used to close off "major junctions" leading into areas where Christmas events are held.

The US will regularly deploy strategic weapons to South Korea to counter nuclear and missile threats from the North, officials say.

A former Bahraini lawmaker says the Al Khalifah dynasty is trying to make Sheikh Isa Qassim silent, because the regime is afraid of the top cleric’s influence on the Bahraini society.