FOREIGN POLICY
Blair urges 'proper ground war' on Daesh
The former Labour PM says an air campaign alone would not destroy Daesh, calling for more Western troops on the battlefield.
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SPORTS
Iranian volleyball team sweeps Slovenia
The national Iranian men's junior volleyball team dominate Slovenia in a friendly match.
POLITICS
Iran FM to visit Finland next week
The Iranian foreign minister will make an official visit to Finland next week for talks.
SPORTS
Shahrdari Tabriz top Asian cycling team
Iranian Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Continental cycling team Shahrdari Tabriz has been named the best cycling team in Asia.
EU
Belgium anti-austerity demo turns violent
Police clash with people protesting in the Belgian capital against the government’s cost-cutting policies.
MEXICO
Mexico starts exhuming 116 bodies
Mexican forensic officials begin the exhumation of over 100 corpses found in a mass grave in the state of Morelos.
TURKEY
New Turkish PM unveils cabinet line-up
Turkey’s incoming Prime Minister Binali Yildirim unveils his cabinet line-up, which has received the endorsement of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
FOREIGN POLICY
US to militants: Respect Syrian truce
The US Special Envoy for Syria has urged militants groups to observe a tenuous nationwide ceasefire.
FRANCE
France police attack oil workers’ protest
French police fire tear gas to break up a protest by refinery workers angry at the government-proposed labor reforms.
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Tornado jets join Turkey war games
The Saudi Arabian air force dispatches a number of its Tornado warplanes to multinational aerial war games underway in Turkey.
PALESTINE
Palestinians spurn direct talks with Israel
An official with the Palestinian Authority dismisses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for direct talks between Palestinian and Israeli officials.
SYRIA
Russia urges 3-day ‘calm’ near Damascus
Russia calls for a three-day ‘regime of calm’ in Eastern Ghouta and Daraya near the Syrian capital from Tuesday.
POLITICS
'Trump taps into racism in US society'
Former US President Jimmy Carter says Donald Trump is tapping into “inherent racism” in in American society.
GERMANY
German rightists quit talks with Muslims
Germany’s anti-refugee right-wing political party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), break off talks with Muslim activists.
EGYPT
‘Remains point to blast on EgyptAir flight’
An Egyptian forensic official says human remains retrieved from EgyptAir 804 crash site point to an explosion on board.
FOREIGN POLICY
US backs Vietnam in S China Sea dispute
US President Barack Obama has called for the peaceful resolution of territorial disputes in the South China Sea during a speech in Vietnam.
BRAZIL
Leaked ‘plot’ shakes new Brazilian govt.
A minister with the new Brazilian government has been forced to resign after he was reportedly caught on tape talking about an anti-Rousseff plot.
SYRIA
‘Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist allowed US trip’
A top figure from the Ahrar al-Sham terrorist group visited the US without trouble in December last year, a new report says.
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