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Saudis fighting Yemen needn't fast: Mufti
Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti exempts Saudi soldiers on Yemen's border from observing regular fasting.

Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti exempts Saudi soldiers on Yemen's border from observing regular fasting.

The lineup of powerful military forces by the US and Russia so close to each other has raised fears about a major conflict.

An activist says the United States was built on white imperialism and colonization of African Americans.

Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt resigns as Social Democratic Party leader after conceding defeat in parliamentary elections.

The US Senate has passed an annual $612 billion defense policy bill President Barack Obama has threatened to veto.

Saudi jets reportedly pound an area in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah with cluster bombs.

The Spanish PM blames the economic crisis and corruption scandals for his party’s losses in local elections.

Some zoo animals from Georgia that left their cages in a flood “may still be on the loose,” authorities say.

Pentagon has said that the US is struggling to train the so-called moderate militants in Turkey and Jordan to fight the ISIL Takfirir terrorists.

Russia says the food ban on European and US food products will remain in place.

The defense lawyer for Egypt's ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, appeals his sentencing to 20 years in prison.

Turkey's newly-elected parliament will convene for the first time next week.

Palestinians are due to submit their first file to the ICC to open criminal proceedings against Israel.

France freezes Russian state assets to cover a court settlement compensating Yukos shareholders.

Germany’s central bank says Greece does not have "much time left" for a deal to rescue Athens from default.

President Obama has said the Charleston church shooting rekindled memories of a "dark part of our history," renewing his call for more gun control in the US.

A mine explosion on the Saudi-Yemeni border leaves a senior Saudi officer dead.

China bans civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan.