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Rouhani says Iran budget set to resist US sanctions by curbing oil dependence 08 Dec 2019 - 09:34 am
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani makes a speech during 26th National Conference on Insurance and Development in Tehran, Iran on December 04, 2019. ( ?ran Cumhurba?kanl??? / Handout - Anadolu Agency/ IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / HANDOUT )
Report: Iranian soldier shot 3 policemen to death 07 Dec 2019 - 07:40 pm
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Iraqi officials raise toll to 25 killed in Baghdad bloodshed 07 Dec 2019 - 05:02 pm
Iraqi protesters mourn and pray at the site where 17 people at least were killed and dozens more wounded overnight at Al-Khilani square in the capital Baghdad, amid ongoing anti-government demonstrations on December 7, 2019.  AFP / SABAH ARAR
Air strikes kill 12 civilians in northwest Syria: monitor 07 Dec 2019 - 04:38 pm
TOPSHOT - Residents check the damage following reported air and helicopter raids by Russian and Syrian regime forces in the town of Al-Bara in the south of Syria's Idlib province on December 7, 2019. / AFP / Omar HAJ KADOUR
United States and Iran swap prisoners in rare act of cooperation 07 Dec 2019 - 03:33 pm
FILE PHOTO: People attend a vigil for Xiyue Wang at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. September 15, 2017.
Drone targets Al-Sadr's home in Iraq 07 Dec 2019 - 02:48 pm
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'Laugh at what's hurting you': Lebanon cartoonists stir debate 07 Dec 2019 - 02:20 pm
Lebanese cartoonist Mohamad Alameddine works at his studio in the capital Beirut on December 6, 2019. AFP / Joseph Eid
Iran's Zarif says jailed Iranian and Chinese-American will be swapped soon 07 Dec 2019 - 01:55 pm
FILE PHOTO: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, October 29, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Iraqi officials raise death toll to 25 protesters killed 07 Dec 2019 - 11:12 am
Iraqi demonstrators wave national flags as they take part in an anti-government demonstration in the capital Baghdad's Tahrir Square, on December 6, 2019. AFP / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE
Algeria tries top figures for corruption as opposed election looms 04 Dec 2019 - 06:34 pm
People carry national flags during a protest to demand the removal of of the then president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers, Algeria, March 29, 2019. Reuters / Ramzi Boudina
UN envoy urges Iraqi leaders to respond to people's demands for change 03 Dec 2019 - 07:54 pm
Iraqi men carry a wounded protester into a Tuk-Tuk during a demonstration against state corruption failing public services and unemployment in central Khellani Square, Baghdad on October 4, 2019. AFP / Ahmad Al-Rubaye
Twenty-three killed in ceramics factory fire in Sudan 03 Dec 2019 - 05:32 pm
A burning gas tank at the scene of a fire at a tile manufacturing unit in an industrial zone in sudan's north Khartoum. December 3, 2019 / AFP / Ebrahim HAMID
16 killed as fire hits Sudan factory: doctors 03 Dec 2019 - 04:04 pm
A Sudanese paramedic walks with a stretcher as others search for victims at the scene of a fire at a tile manufacturing unit in an industrial zone in north Khartoum, on December 3, 2019. AFP / Ebrahim Hamid
Iran state TV says ‘rioters’ shot and killed amid protests 03 Dec 2019 - 08:31 am
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Death toll nears 100 in Syria's Idlib: monitor 02 Dec 2019 - 11:24 am
A Syrian youth walks through rubble and debris in a building that was damaged by a reported government forces' air strike in the village of al-Haraki in the northwestern Idlib province on December 1, 2019. / AFP / Omar Haj Kadour
Thirteen Pakistanis killed in Jordan valley farm fire: civil defence statement 02 Dec 2019 - 10:10 am
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After US decision, Israel plans new Hebron settlement 01 Dec 2019 - 07:43 pm
An Israeli soldier detains a Palestinian boy during an anti-Israel protest in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank November 29, 2019. Reuters/Mussa Qawasma
Israel slams new European recruits to Iran barter system 01 Dec 2019 - 07:43 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister for Social Equality Gila Gamliel (L) and Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman (R) attend the weekly cabinet meeting at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem in Jerusalem December 1, 2019. Abir Sultan/Pool via Re