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UN new aid chief makes 1st Syria visit
The United Nations (UN)’s new humanitarian aid chief visits Syria for the first time since taking office.

The United Nations (UN)’s new humanitarian aid chief visits Syria for the first time since taking office.

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is set to attend scheduled peace talks with rival groups in Ethiopia.

Russia’s energy giant, Gazprom, is grappling with major challenges as its production slumps on the back of decreasing oil prices.

Young Iranian practitioner Farzan Ashourzadeh Fallah wins gold at the 2015 WTF World Taekwondo Grand Prix Series 1 in Russia.

North Korea threatens to take military action against South Korea over loudspeakers broadcasting anti-Pyongyang messages on the border between the two countries.

Republican presidential contender Donald Trump says he would deport all illegal immigrants if he is elected to the White House.

A delegation of UAE businesspeople visits Iran Kish Island, declaring readiness to make investments in various economic activities on the island.

A new report says the UK conservative government is plotting against the Labour leadership.

Ecuador declares a state of emergency and orders an evacuation over volcanic eruption by Mount Cotopaxi.

A group of militants that receives training from the US military to fight the Syrian government calls al-Qaeda terrorists “brothers.”

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has criticized President Obama’s foreign policy.

An Indonesian plane carrying 54 people has lost contact with air control over the Papua region.

A senior Iranian official says the main duty of the resistance axis in the region is to block the influence of the United States.

Iran hosts the 8th summit of the General Assembly of Islamic Radio and Television Union in Tehran.

At least eight civilians are killed and over a dozen injured in the latest round of cross-border clashes in the disputed Kashmir region.

Julian Bond, a prominent US civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of the NAACP, died on Saturday night.

Hundreds of tonnes of highly-poisonous sodium cyanide are detected at the site of two giant explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin.

A new book says the British queen made a reference to the brakes in Diana’s car upon hearing of the late princess’s road accident.