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3 refugees drown in Macedonia river
Three refugees drown in a river near the Greece-Macedonia border.

Three refugees drown in a river near the Greece-Macedonia border.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrives in Australia for a two-day visit.

Iranian skier Abolfazl Savehei earns a silver medal at the 2016 Asian Championships of Ski Mountaineering in South Korea.

US prosecutors have declined to bring charges against officers facing allegations of civil rights violations in 96 percent of such cases.

Tehran’s benchmark TEPIX index rises above the 80,000-point mark for the first time in two years.

UNICEF says one in every three Syrian children has seen nothing but war.

The Pakistani disaster management authority says the death toll from recent flooding has jumped to 42.

Bahrain’s Interior Ministry has announced the deportation of a number of Lebanese nationals over ties to or support for Hezbollah.

Japan says it has protested to the US over the alleged rape of a woman by an American sailor on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.

Russia says it is ready to cooperate with the US-led coalition in Syria in a bid to liberate the Daesh stronghold of Raqqah.

At least four people were killed after severe thunderstorms moved through the US states of Louisiana and Mississippi.

Iran slams as 'unjust' a US court ruling against Tehran over the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

People take to the streets of the Moroccan capital to protest comments by the UN chief regarding Western Sahara.

The UN special envoy for Syria says he expects the talks on Syria to result in a clear roadmap, if not an agreement.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran is interested in long-term economic relations with New Zealand as he visits Wellington.

Turkish fighter jets target Kurdish militant bases in northern Iraq a day after a deadly bomb attack in the capital, the army says.

A US gunman has shot and killed a police officer outside a police station in a Landover, Maryland, near Washington, DC.

Iran’s president says Tehran and Hanoi have decided to boost the volume of trade exchanges nearly six-fold to $2bn in five years' time.