Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. (AFP)
These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:
- Iran’s foreign minister reacts to offensive remarks by the Saudi top cleric, saying there is no resemblance between Islam of Iranians and bigoted extremism preached in Saudi Arabia.
- The Syrian army retakes control of several villages around the western city of Hama as it pushes ahead with its battle to liberate the city from foreign-backed militants.
- The refugee crisis in France has reached shocking levels. We’ll have a report from Paris about how the government's failure to address the issue has caused misery among the refugees.
- The UN says the Israeli occupation and Tel Aviv’s oppressive polices have inflicted serious damage to the Palestinian economy.
- Newly-released documents show the US spying agency has used a British military base in its ‘capture-kill operations’ across the Middle East.
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