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16 killed in US hot air balloon crash
At least 16 people have been feared killed after a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in Texas.

At least 16 people have been feared killed after a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in Texas.

The Iranian national basketball team qualifies for the 2017 FIBA U19 World Championship.

The UN envoy to Yemen urges Yemeni warring sides to pursue peace talks in Kuwait for another week.

The Pentagon says a US military aircraft has had an emergency landing in a Russian airstrip.

People in Burundi take to the streets to protest a UN decision to deploy forces to the country.

The IAEA denies leaking confidential information about Iran’s long-term nuclear program.

Australians protest against the maltreatment of minors in the country’s detention centers.

Three people have been killed and one injured in a shooting in north Seattle.

More than 50 people are killed and millions affected by monsoon-triggered floods in eastern India.

The Iranian men’s national basketball team defeats Japan at the 2016 William Jones Cup in Taiwan.

Turkey arrests 17 journalists over links to opposition cleric Gulen blamed for the July 15 failed coup attempt.

The FBI has turned over "thousands of documents" to the State Department recovered during its investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server, a report says.

Russia is set to allocate a USD one-billion loan to Iran for the construction of a power plant.

Junior Iranian chess players top-rank the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2016 in Slovakia.

An officer is shot dead and over 70 people are injured in new clashes between police and protesters in the Armenian capital.

The Iranian men’s national snooker team picks up the trophy at the end of the 2016 International Billiards & Snooker Federation (IBSF) World 6Red and Team Snooker Championship in Egypt.

Bangladesh police say a Canadian citizen was one of the masterminds behind the July 1 deadly hostage crisis in Dhaka.

Minister of Communication Mahmoud Vaezi has said Iran plans to hold talks with Russia on resuming Russian search engine Yandex’s Iranian operations.