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Suspect detained over China bus fire
China detains a man suspected of setting a bus on fire and killing 17 people in the incident.

China detains a man suspected of setting a bus on fire and killing 17 people in the incident.

Turkish authorities say they have found the bodies of 21 refugees whose boat recently drowned in the Aegean Sea.

The Danish foreign minister says his country seeks win-win trade with the Islamic Republic.

Fresh Saudi airstrikes kill three Yemeni civilians in the northwestern province of Sa’ada.

Kuwait recalls its ambassador from Tehran following Saudi Arabia's decision to sever diplomatic relations with Iran.

Iranian President Rouhani says Saudi Arabia will not be able to distract from its crime of killing a religious leader by severing its ties with the Islamic Republic.

An Iranian official says carmakers mostly from Europe will take part in Iran’s auto sector.

Israeli military forces re-arrest former Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan in the occupied West Bank.

Security forces indiscriminately fire on buildings and cars in a Shia town in eastern Saudi Arabia.

Iraqi PM Haidar al-Abadi says Daesh and similar Takfiris attacked Iraqi mosques to drag Shia and Sunni Muslims into a sectarian conflict.

A new report shows the Saudi currency has taken a tumble after cutting ties with Iran.

The UN Security Council urges Saudi Arabia and Iran to maintain dialogue and reduce tensions in the wake of Riyadh's execution of a prominent cleric.

A blast occurs near foreign consulates in a city in eastern Afghanistan.

Four Egyptian soldiers are killed in a shelling attack by militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

The international chemical weapons watchdog has published the results of a probe demanded by Damascus into chemical arms use by militants in Syria.

The execution of Sheikh Nimr is a desperate move which shows that the Saudi regime is on its last legs, a US analyst says.

Israeli troops shoot dead a Palestinian near Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.

In a rare instance of Turkish criticism of Saudi Arabia, Ankara says Riyadh’s execution of prominent Shia cleric Nimr was politically motivated.