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Riyadh fuelling tension while Tehran trying to defuse it: Zarif

Iran’s foreign minister says Riyadh is fueling tension while Tehran is trying to defuse it.

1 Iran’s foreign minister says Saudi Arabia’s execution of Sheikh Nimr cannot be justified. He also says Riyadh is fueling tension while Tehran is trying to defuse it.

2 Saudi Arabia keeps bombing people’s homes in Yemen. We have an exclusive field report.

3 In Iraq, dozens of families are rescued by the army in the capital of Anbar province as the mop-up and rescue operations in the central city of Ramadi continue.

4 In Afghanistan, troops continue to fight Taliban militants in the country’s Helmand province where an American soldier died on Tuesday.

5 In the UK, almost 45-thousand junior doctors are set to go on a strike after talks with the government break down once more.