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Four Killed in Shooting in Canada

Two police officers were among four people killed Friday in a shooting that sparked panic and a police lockdown in a sleepy eastern Canadian city, as the nation grapples with rising gun violence.
News ID: 71696    Publish Date : 2018/08/11

Russia Downs Another Hostile Drone near Airbase in Syria

Russian air defenses in Syria have shot down yet another unmanned aerial vehicle that was approaching the Hmeimim air base from terrorist-controlled territory, Russia's military said
News ID: 71695    Publish Date : 2018/08/11

China Says Business Ties with Iran No Breach of UNSC Resolutions

China’s business and energy ties with Iran do not harm the interests of any other country, the country’s Foreign Ministry said, after US President Donald Trump said companies doing business with Iran would be barred from the United States.
News ID: 71694    Publish Date : 2018/08/11

Iranian MPs Draft Motion to Set Up Anti-Corruption Organization

The Iranian Parliament’s Judicial and Legal Commission has drafted a motion to found an organization for countering economic corruption and ensuring financial transparency in the country, the chairman of the commission said.
News ID: 71693    Publish Date : 2018/08/11

Cleric calls for vigilance in face of US, Zionist regime, S Arabia economic war

Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani stressed that in the face of the US, Zionist regime, and Saudi Arabia’s economic war, people should remain vigilant, calling on the authorities and private sector to do their own duties to confront the plots.
News ID: 71692    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Spokesman Condemns OIC's Anti-Iran Statement

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman condemned a recent statement by the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) against Iran in the absence of the Islamic Republic's representative.
News ID: 71690    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Ankara Attempting to Annex Occupied Lands in Northern Syria

Ankara has embarked on changing streets' names and numbers in the occupied town of Afrin under fresh attempts to annex the region to its soil, local sources said Friday.
News ID: 71689    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Abbas Appeals for Int'l Assistance to Halt Israeli Attacks on Gaza

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held intensive meetings with international contacts at all levels to stop the Israeli military escalation against the people of Gaza.
News ID: 71688    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Hamas Calls on Palestinians for Peaceful Protests along Border with Israel

Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) called on Gazans to participate in 20th Friday of “March of Return” protests that will be held today near the border with the Zionist regime of Israel.
News ID: 71687    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Colombia to Recognize State of Palestine

Colombia decided to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state only days before Ivan Duque took office, according to an official letter by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Aria Angela Holguin, to the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad al-Malki.
News ID: 71686    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Fresh Clash Reported Between US-Backed Militias, Civilians in Northeastern Syria

People in a village in Northwestern Raqqa engaged in fierce clashes with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), local sources reported on Friday, adding that several militants and civilians were wounded in the clash.
News ID: 71685    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Syria in Last 24 Hours: Army Strengthens Positions in Aleppo

The Damascus Army dispatched fresh military convoys to its positions in Western Aleppo on Thursday after the terrorists continued offensives army units in the region.
News ID: 71684    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Russia, China Block US Bid for North Korea Sanctions

Russia and China have blocked a US request to add a Russian bank to a UN sanctions blacklist along with a North Korean official.
News ID: 71683    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Over 6,300 Refugees Return to Syria from Lebanon over Past Three Weeks

The number of Syrian refugees who returned home from Lebanon since July 18, has exceeded 6,300 people, Colonel Samer Mkhan, a spokesman for the coordination committee to repatriate Syrian refugees, said at a joint meeting of the Russian and Syrian Centers for Receiving, Relocating and Accommodating Refugees.
News ID: 71682    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Russian Air Defense Units Destroy UAV Launched by Militants at Syria's Humeimim Base

Russian air defense units at the Humeimim airbase shot down an aerial drone launched by militants operating in Syria's province of Lattakia, the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation said.
News ID: 71681    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

UN Patrols Buffer Zone in Syrian Side of Golan Heights for First Time Since 2011

UN troops on Friday patrolled the Syrian side of the demilitarized Golan Heights buffer zone with Israel for the first time since the war broke out in 2011, the deputy commander of Russian forces in Syria said.
News ID: 71680    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Russian PM Compares Further Anti-Moscow Sanctions to Economic Warfare

Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned the United States on Friday that sanctions it plans to impose in August over the ex-spy poisoning might be treated as a declaration of economic war.
News ID: 71679    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Ove 70 Militants Including Foreigners Killed, Wounded in Clashes with Afghan Forces in Paktia

More than seventy militants including foreign insurgents hailing from Pakistan were killed during the latest clashes with Afghan forces in Southeastern Paktia province of Afghanistan.
News ID: 71678    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

UN Chief Calls for Independent Probe into Saudi Airstrike Hitting Bus in Yemen

The UN Secretary-General called for an “independent investigation” into the Saudi coalition strike on a bus in Yemen which killed at least 50 people, mostly children, and injured over 70 others.
News ID: 71677    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

Iranian President’s Chief of Staff Meets Erdogan in Ankara

The Iranian president’s Chief of Staff, Mahmoud Vaezi, held talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on a range of issues, including ways to offset the US sanctions against the two neighboring countries.
News ID: 71676    Publish Date : 2018/08/10

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