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40% of GOPers want to derail Trump
A sizable number of Republican insiders want the party to change the rules to disrupt Donald Trump’s nomination at the GOP convention in July.

A sizable number of Republican insiders want the party to change the rules to disrupt Donald Trump’s nomination at the GOP convention in July.

Takfiri militants kill at least three people in several attacks against residential areas in Syria's Aleppo.

The UN criticizes Israel’s cancellation of entry permits for Palestinians as ‘collective punishment’.

South Korea is expected to increase purchases of the ultra light oil from Iran by more than 50 percent in June.

US Senator Elizabeth Warren has endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

At least 13 Kurdish PKK militants have been killed during a series of counter-terrorism operations in southeastern Turkey.

Iraq's counter-terrorism forces are some three kilometers away from the center of the strategic city of Fallujah, a senior military commander says.

US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has held one of his final campaign rallies in Washington, DC.

At least four people are killed and 40 others wounded when an explosion rocked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan.

Iraqi sources say the leader of the Daesh terrorist group, Ibrahim al-Samarrai, also known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been wounded in an airstrike in Iraq.

An alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces cut off Daesh main supply route to Turkey amid operations to liberate the border town of Manbij.

A political analyst says the world is increasingly getting familiar with the backwardness of Saudi Arabia.

The US Navy has lifted some restrictions for its service members in Japan’s Okinawa Island.

Russia says it will respond to a recent move by the US military to deploy a destroyer, upgraded with a new missile system, to the Black Sea near Russian borders.

Kazakhstan security forces kill five terrorists suspected of being behind the Aktobe attacks.

French riot police intervenes to halt clashes between British soccer fans and locals in the French port city of Marseilles, ahead of a soccer event.

Tel Aviv’s forces temporarily bars all Palestinians from entering Israel.

Iran’s top security chief says a trilateral meeting of defense ministers in Tehran indicates that Russia, Syria and Iran are determined in countering Takfiri terrorists.