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NDB issues first bonds to fund green plans
The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) has issued its first bonds through China’s interbank to raise funds internationally for clean energy projects in member states.

The BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) has issued its first bonds through China’s interbank to raise funds internationally for clean energy projects in member states.

Clerics in Bahrain attend a protest in support of Sheikh Isa Qassim.

Britain's new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has met US Secretary of State in London to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Syria.

Tunisia’s president extends a nationwide state of emergency.

Iran’s Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohsen Pak Ayeen says the country has released $400 million of the assets of the Islamic Republic that had been frozen in one of its banks due to sanctions.

Several European envoys say the Israeli army mistreats the Palestinian Bedouin communities in the occupied West Bank.

A senior Iranian nuclear official says the US was urged during a JCPOA commission meeting to facilitate banking transactions with Iran.

The IRGC forces arrest a former Iranian banker and one of his deputies over a massive fraud.

African-American men who live below the poverty line have the greatest mortality risk of any ethnic group in the US, according to new research.

A subsidiary of Russia’s Rosatom nuclear corporation has signed a deal to supply nuclear fuel to a US power plant.

The UN slams North Korea for its recent missile tests.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman denounces a bloody terrorist attack in Kazakhstan.

There are hundreds of hate groups in the US, but the US establishment is more interested in targeting Muslims, a political analyst says.

Turkey’s Ministry of National Education says it has fired over 15,000 of its employees from their jobs over last week’s failed coup.

At least a dozen Malian soldiers are killed in an attack by militants on an army base in Nampala.

The Iranian men’s national volleyball squad maintains its position as the best Asian team in the latest FIVB rankings.

Iran rejects "consciously biased" remarks by the French ambassador to the UN.

UNICEF warns that malnutrition threatens some 49,000 children in northeastern Nigeria.