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‘No more cuts to NHS social care’
UK health service chiefs warn that more spending cuts to the NHS social care funding would load extra pressure on the health service.

UK health service chiefs warn that more spending cuts to the NHS social care funding would load extra pressure on the health service.

Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian fishing boats, injuring at least three fishermen off the coast of Gaza.

Russia says the US’s refusal to coordinate its airstrikes against purported ISIL positions in Syria with Damascus is a “mistake.”

Iran and France discuss investment in Iran's gas projects during the World Gas Conference in Paris.

At least four people are killed after a helicopter crashed in a mountainous region in northeast Nepal.

An Iranian official says the West is making a miscalculation by creating crises in the Mideast in an attempt to provide security for Israel.

Omar al-Bashir is sworn in as Sudan’s president for another five-year term.

An Egyptian court says it will announce it final ruling on the preliminary death sentence handed down to Mohamed Morsi in mid-June.

The US State Department says John Kerry remains focused on nailing down a nuclear deal with Iran and plans to join the final talks in late June despite breaking his leg in an accident.

More than twice as many Americans stand with Sen. Rand Paul in wanting to see the end of NSA spying.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says his country has made “difficult concessions” to its international creditors.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warns of "strong backlash" if the UK decides to withdraw from the European Union.

An Iranian oil industry official says the country has acquired technology to build offshore drilling rigs.

Bangladesh says it will be working to bring Bangladeshi migrants at foreign camps or those stranded at sea back to the country.

A senior Hezbollah official says the Lebanese resistance movement is protecting Lebanon against the Takfiri ISIL terrorists.

A new study says that the war in Afghanistan has killed almost 100,000 people since 2001.

Iran’s Mahan Air will begin Wednesday using the first of eight Airbus aircraft purchased recently on the international route, the Fars news agency reported.

Ukraine Contact Group is expected to hold a meeting on restoring previously-reached peace accords.