This August 14,2008 file photo shows a man as he crosses the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) logo in the lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. AFP
- Several rights organizations call for a probe into torture and other violations of law in connection with the CIA’s detention and interrogation program.
- Pressure mounts for the withdrawal of the Confederate battle flag across the US after South Carolina lawmakers called for its removal from the state house.
- The UN receives fresh accusations that its peacekeepers sexually assaulted children in the Central African Republic.
- A leaked autopsy report on a Baltimore African-American man who died in police custody has revealed that the victim's death was a result of QUOTE high-energy injury.
- Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has released new documents which reveal the US National Security Agency spied on France’s last three presidents.
- The UN says its peacekeeping mission to the Central African Republic has once again received allegations that its troops sexually assaulted children in Bangui.
- Researchers are warning that human society could collapse in just 25 years due to acute food shortages.
- Iran's leader says all banking, financial and monetary sanctions against Iran must be lifted simultaneously with signing of a nuclear agreement with the P-five-plus one group of countries.
- The Iranian foreign minister says failing to reach a nuclear deal with the P5+1 group of countries WILL NOT be the end of the world.
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the Minsk agreement on resolving the crisis in eastern Ukraine must be fully implemented.
- Saudi Arabia continues its relentless airstrikes on Yemen as the civilian death toll from the military campaign mounts.
- Israel has carried out a number of airstrikes on the besieged Gaza strip.
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