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Brazil’s Vale posts $12.13bn loss in 2015
Brazil’s Vale mining company has reported a loss of $12.1 billion for 2015.

Brazil’s Vale mining company has reported a loss of $12.1 billion for 2015.

Lloyds Banking Group has announced a 59-percent slump in its annual net profits.

Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) picks five Iranians to join different committees at the continental governing body.

A US police officer and an armed man are killed during a shooing in Colorado.

The Russian FM says crises in the Middle East will not be settled as long as terrorists are used as pawns.

The United States warns American banks against buying Russian government bonds.

Syrian government forces take control of a strategic town in the country’s northern province of Aleppo.

Iranian chess player Sara Sadat Khadem al-Sharieh finishes second at FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Tehran, Iran.

Greece says it will not agree to any EU refugee deal if it does not envision the distribution of the refugees among other members.

Daesh is using non-military components from the US and other countries to make bombs and IEDs, a study finds.

A nuclear plant operator in Japan says a meltdown in the crisis-stricken Fukushima plant was announced late.

Iran taekwondo practitioners collect two medals in the 4th edition of the Fujairah Open 2016 in the United Arab Emirates.

South Koreans have held a holographic "ghost protest" in Seoul against the “erosion of free speech.”

Iranians across the country will go to the polls on Friday to vote in two key elections.

Iran’s Tractor Sazi Tabriz football club thrashes the Emirati Al Jazira 4-0 in an AFC Champions League match.

Egypt's president says the Russian plane crash in Sinai in late October was caused by “terrorism” to harm Egypt's tourism industry and ties with Moscow.

The US administration has placed a ban on goods produced under slavery.

Public workers have held a national strike in Argentina to fight for their “rights.”