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Palestinian government to resign: Abbas
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that his government will resign within the next 24 hours.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that his government will resign within the next 24 hours.

Washington says it is working on a mechanism to deal with Chinese and Russian veto power after Iran deal.

Hezbollah condemns a Bahraini court’s ruling against Sheikh Ali Salman as politically-motivated.

The CIA’s torture program “is a core feature of imperial conquest and imperial domination going back hundreds of years,” said a political analyst.

A civilian is killed and a dozen others injured in two militant mortar attacks in and around Syria’s capital, Damascus.

Hezbollah forces and the Syrian army make fresh gains in the battle for Qalamoun.

The Taliban warns ISIL terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi against meddling in Afghanistan.

Iran's minister of roads and urbanization says the country needs 400 passenger planes in the next 10 years.

Albania is to vote in local elections on June 21, widely viewed as a key test of democracy for the Balkan state.

Saudi Arabia beheads two more citizens, bringing to 102 the number of people executed in the kingdom in 2015.

The leader of Yemen’s Houthi movement says resistance in the face of plots by the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia will culminate in victory for Yemenis.

A court in South Africa gives the government a week to explain why it let Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir depart the country despite his arrest order.

Officials launch a security clampdown in Chad's capital after recent terrorist attacks in the city.

Families of three missing British mothers say they are not receiving any help from police regarding the fate of the missing sisters.

The United States is escalating tensions with Russia because it needs enemies for distracting the American people, a US military veteran says.

Iranians hold a massive funeral procession for 270 soldiers martyred during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

The Norwegian energy giant, Statoil, plans to slash up to 1,500 more jobs amid plunging oil prices.

A new report suggesting that 41 percent of donations provided to British political parties over the past five years were made by 76 people.