POLITICS
Ayatollah Jannati to head Experts Assembly
Iran's Assembly of Experts elects Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati to head the body tasked with appointing the “Leader of the Islamic Revolution” and overseeing his work.
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ECONOMY
Brexit may damage health care: NHS chief
Britain’s separation from the EU could damage the country’s publicly funded health care system, according to a senior NHS official.
POLITICS
Bahrain refuses to let toddler out of jail
Bahraini authorities deny the request of a female political prisoner to let her baby boy out of jail due to her illness.
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Peru declares environmental emergency
Peru declares emergency over mercury contamination caused by illegal gold mining in a remote area of the Amazon region.
DEFENSE
‘Iran arrests terrorists sent by Saudi’
A senior Iranian official says that Iran has arrested a number of terrorists tasked by Saudi Arabia with carrying out operations inside the Islamic Republic.
SYRIA
Riyadh, Ankara, Doha ‘escalate Syria war’
Syria accuses Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar of being responsible for a “dangerous escalation” in the Syrian conflict following deadly bomb attacks in two Syrian cities.
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Europe urges 'immediate' peace in Ukraine
Leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine call for an "immediate" restoration of peace to eastern Ukraine after fresh clashes in the volatile region.
POLITICS
Clinton backs out of California debate
US Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has declined to debate rival Bernie Sanders, ahead of the state's primary.
SOCIETY
Top TSA official removed from post
A top TSA official has been removed from his position after the agency was criticized for long lines at airport security checkpoints.
IRAQ
Iraqi forces liberate city near Fallujah
Iraqi forces liberate the city of al-Karmah in the western Anbar Province from Daesh, in their first major advance toward the nearby city of Fallujah.
INTERVIEWS
US desired status quo ‘flipping away’
Washington’s concerns over “a resurgent Russia and a very, very aggressive China" indicate that the US is losing more ground in areas where Beijing and Moscow exert an influence, an analyst says.
TURKEY
Can you spot this Turkish banknote error?
A Turkish Nobel laureate says the country's five-lira banknote has a scientifically wrong depiction of a DNA helix.
RUSSIA
US spy plane endangers civilian flight
Russia calls on US to avoid endangering civilian passenger flights with their "unprofessional" reconnaissance missions.
INTERVIEWS
US not apologetic for ‘past harms’
President Obama does not want to apologize to Japan because that would mean Washington is acknowledging its own past crimes, says an analyst.
FOREIGN POLICY
Kerry blasts Russia over Syria ‘strikes’
The Obama administration says Russia has a "special responsibility" over the crisis in Syria.
POLITICS
Trump horror show stars Clinton as rapist
GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump has released an ad portraying Bill Clinton as a rapist as part of an attack on his wife.
PAKISTAN
US envoy summoned over Pakistan attack
Islamabad summons Washington's envoy over a US drone attack that killed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
ECONOMY
Bank of America ducks penalty for crisis
A federal appeals court has reversed a lower court order that Bank of America pay a $1.27 billion penalty for fraud in 2008.
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