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Wood Group cuts jobs on oil price slump
The Scotland-based Wood Group energy company has laid off 13 percent of its employees since the end of 2014.

The Scotland-based Wood Group energy company has laid off 13 percent of its employees since the end of 2014.

A Boko Haram ambush claims the lives of up to 150 people in northeastern Nigeria.

The Red Cross says it is very concerned over the growing number of unattended corpses in Yemen.

The Iranian foreign minister says Tehran supports the Iraqi government’s fight against Daesh.

South Sudan's government censures the African Union-mediated peace deal as a "sell-out."

A team of scientists in Russia develop a physical model of a brain with the capacity to educate itself.

An analyst says that deploying arms in European countries is another vain US policy that is derived from the Cold War mentality.

The Syrian army and Hezbollah fighters are in the final stage of their push to fully liberate Zabadani.

Dubai's Emirates Airline says it is planning to resume flights to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

Two separate US drone strikes kill seven people in the central-eastern region of Afghanistan.

A senior Iranian official says Iran’s ties with Syria are the "backbone" of Tehran's regional relations.

Amnesty International calls for a UN-commissioned inquiry into potential war crimes committed by Saudi Arabia in Yemen.

An anti-war activist says US lawmakers, who are opposed to the Iran nuclear agreement, are under influence of AIPAC.

Iranian female futsal players rout the Uzbek side 7-2 in a friendly match held in Tehran.

Iraqi ambassador to Tehran says his country mulls joint venture investment in Iran’s Azadegan oil field.

Over 100 people have lost their lives in a blistering heatwave across Egypt in the past two weeks.

A Palestinian hunger striker gives the Israeli regime 24 hours to resolve his case.

A shocking video shows US police arresting a handicapped homeless black man in San Francisco, mistaking his crutches for guns.