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Iran, EU top diplomat meet seeking to save nuclear deal

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini as the Europeans seek to keep the Iran nuclear agreement. Zarif said little to reporters Tuesday but suggested he wanted to discuss the deaths of dozens of Palestinians in...

Turkey detains 54 suspected Daesh members: police

Turkish authorities have detained 54 suspected Daesh (ISIS) members in Istanbul who were believed to be preparing to travel to conflict zones in Syria, police said Tuesday. All of those detained were foreign nationals, it said, without giving details on when the detentions took place....

Sadr takes surprise lead in Iraq polls

Nationalist religious scholar Moqtada al-Sadr, a longtime adversary of the United States, led in Iraq’s parliamentary election with more than half the votes counted Monday, the electoral commission said, in a surprise turn of fortune for the Shiite leader. In the first election since...