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UN demands ‘workable humanitarian pause’ in Aleppo

The UN asks a Russian delegation for a 48-hour weekly halt to attacks to deliver food and other aid as intensifying fighting for Aleppo chokes the civilian population

Iran executes nuclear scientist for spying for US

Shahram Amiri said in 2010 he was held in the US for more than a year after being "kidnapped" at gunpoint in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia intercepts two missiles fired from Yemen, Al Arabiya says

An undated official handout file photograph shows the test-firing of new-type large-caliber multiple launch rocket system by the North Korean military. The image was released in March 2016. Picture: EPA/KCNA

The attack follows renewed airstrikes by a Saudi-led military coalition on Houthi-controlled Sanaa, 13 civilians were killed when bombs a snack food factory

Rebels break long seige of Aleppo

A coalition of rebels and jihadists surged through regime territory to recapture parts of Aleppo

Funerals begin for 80 killed in suicide attack during protest in Kabul

The attack on a Hazara procession was among the worst in Afghanistan since the fall of the former Taliban regime in 2001


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