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Fresh protests rock Beirut over garbage
Hundreds of demonstrators gather in downtown Beirut in fresh protests against Lebanon's garbage crisis.

Hundreds of demonstrators gather in downtown Beirut in fresh protests against Lebanon's garbage crisis.

NASA says it has discovered blue skies and frozen water on Pluto.

The Syrian army, backed by allied forces and the Russian Air Force, makes advances against militants in different parts of the country.

John Kerry calls Sergei Lavrov to express American concerns about the targets the Russian fighter jets have been striking in Syria.

Senior Russian officials say the number of the Takfiri Daesh militants in Afghanistan has now reached 3,500.

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says Russia will soon begin to suffer casualties in Syria.

Arab League chief, Nabil al-Arabi, slams Israel over its “racist and aggressive” practices towards the Palestinians.

Russia and Bolivia sign a memorandum of understanding as prelude to a possible nuclear agreement.

Unnamed US military officials have claimed that some cruise missiles fired from Russian ships at targets in Syria landed in Iran.

Russia's Defense Ministry denies US claims that a number of Syria-bound Russian cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea have crashed in Iran.

Israel bans Palestinian men under the age of 50 from attending Friday prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque.

A news survey shows that most Americans have less than $1,000 in their bank accounts and 1 in 5 of them has none.

MSF says at least 33 people are still missing five days after a deadly US airstrike on its hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz.

Much of the controversy surrounding former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s private email server is mere political hype, says an analyst.

At least 20 people are killed in a huge car bomb near the northwestern Syrian city of Aleppo.

The Denmark-based global cement major FLSmidth has teamed up with a local Iranian company to launch its business in Iran.

At least 27 people are killed in mortar attacks in Iraq’s eastern city of Baqubah.

A Russian envoy to Afghanistan says Taliban groups refusing to join Daesh have been set up to be targeted by US airstrikes.