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Maduro slams US for 'financial blockade'
President Maduro censures the "financial blockade" imposed on Venezuela by an American bank.

President Maduro censures the "financial blockade" imposed on Venezuela by an American bank.

A United Nations spokeswoman says escalating fighting in Syria’s Aleppo has cut off 300,000 people from humanitarian supplies.

Thousands of people attend 'Black Lives Matter' protest in Manchester.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani says airstrikes will fail to uproot terrorism.

Iraqi troops liberate two villages in southern Mosul from the grip of Daesh terrorists.

Iranian tennis players have defeated rivals from Pacific Oceania at the 2016 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III in Tehran.

Pornography in the United States has become “a public health crisis” and a “public menace” that is destroying the lives of millions, Republican delegates say.

A top Iranian governmental body has approved the text of the country’s new oil sector contracts after addressing criticisms that they undermine national interests.

Singapore imprisons four Bangladeshi workers for their role in financing terrorist activities in their homeland.

Saudi Arabia arrests a senior cleric from the country’s minority Shia community.

At least 27 people are killed when two passenger trains collide head-on in southern Italy.

The Venezuelan government says it has taken control of the Venezuela-based facilities belonging to a US firm.

Dozens of Bahraini and international rights groups urge the Al Khalifah regime to free prominent activist Nabeel Rajab.

Most American voters think President Obama was wrong when he said Hillary Clinton is the best candidate to succeed him.

The United Nations (UN)’s cultural body has called on Israel to halt all its archaeological and restoration activities in the occupied Old City of al-Quds (Jerusalem).

All terrorist acts are a chain of decisions by individuals; why are such decisions being made in a terrorist’s brain?

The International Monetary Fund cut the growth forecasts for Italy’s economy after the UK’s vote to leave the EU.

A court in Japan upholds an order to keep two reactors at the Kansai nuclear plant closed.