EU plans to set up joint list of tax havens

These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:

• Iran’s president describes his country as the standard-bearer of fighting terrorism, saying without Tehran’s efforts, Daesh terrorists would have taken over Damascus and Baghdad.
  
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she’s pushing for creating special security zones in Syria near the border with Turkey where refugees could find shelter.
  
• Israel gives notices to Palestinians in a village in the occupied West Bank as it plans to confiscate over 1,200 acres of their private land.
  
• Thousands of demonstrators in the German city of Hannover protest a planned US-Europe free trade deal, a day before President Obama’s visit to the city.
  
• EU finance ministers propose a series of measures, including a joint blacklist of tax havens, to combat tax evasion in the wake of the Panama Papers leak.