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Bahrainis demand activists release
Demonstrators in Bahrain take to the streets and demand reforms and the release of all political prisoners in the country.

Demonstrators in Bahrain take to the streets and demand reforms and the release of all political prisoners in the country.

A commission probing into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland has asked it to make a public apology over the sex abuse scandal within the church.

Iran's deputy oil minister says neighboring countries are the Islamic Republic’s top priority for developing gas trade.

Iran’s Paykan Tehran volleyball team qualifies to the third round of the 2015 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship in Taiwan.

Sweden calls on hundreds of young campers returning back from an event in Japan to undergo check-ups for meningitis.

Sen. Bob Corker has said Congress should reject the Iran nuclear accord, arguing it is not in "our national interests."

A rights group says Mexico has not allowed its members to interview military personnel over a case of missing students.

Attackers seriously wound a Pakistani opposition leader in the southern port city of Karachi.

Japanese military forces launch four-day live-fire drills near Mount Fuji.

The Iraqi premier postpones a planned visit to China to address security situation and reforms at home.

Seven militants, including two commanders, are killed in airstrikes in Afghanistan, local media say.

A hack of the Internal Revenue Service first reported in May was far larger than previously reported, the agency said Monday.

Saudi fighter jets conduct a series of airstrikes against several areas across conflict-stricken Yemen.

UNRWA staff in the Gaza Strip hold a rally against the agency’s decision to cut its services in the territory.

Israeli army uproots dozens of olive trees in a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank.

Rains and thunderstorms are expected to spread pollution and complicate rescue operations at China’s Tianjin blasts site.

The government of South Sudan has refused to sign a peace deal with rebels in the country.

A letter of support by 340 American rabbis to US lawmakers shows that a great majority of American Jews support the nuclear accord with Iran, says an analyst.