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President Barack Obama has said Iran should agree to at least a decade-long freeze on its nuclear activity if a landmark deal is to be finally reached. In an interview with Reuters, Mr Obama also said the odds were still against such an agreement happening. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

The prime minister has defended the security services amid criticisms they failed to stop Mohammed Emwazi, known as ‘Jihadi John’, from joining Islamic State in Syria. David Cameron said the security services made “incredibly difficult judgements” on the UK’s behalf. His comments came after it emerged Emwazi was known to …

A knife-wielding mob has hacked to death a US-Bangladeshi blogger whose writing on religion had brought threats from Islamist hardliners. Avijit Roy, an atheist who advocated secularism, was attacked in Dhaka as he walked back from a book fair with his wife, who was hurt in the attack. No-one has …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, said that President Barack Obama would decide soon the level of US troops in Afghanistan. President Obama is on the right track, Kerry told lawmakers during a Congressional hearing. However he added that decision regarding pullout plan from Afghanistan would …

The retrial of two Al Jazeera English journalists over alleged links to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is set to resume in Cairo. The Court of Cassation ordered the retrial of Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed after overturning a lower court’s verdict which found them guilty of aiding the outlawed group. …

Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced that his government will tighten immigration laws and crack down on groups that incite hatred under a raft of counterterrorism measures introduced in a bid to combat the threat from “home-grown terrorists”. The measures announced on Monday would revoke or suspend Australian citizenship …

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said that the need for a joint Arab military force is growing every day as the region faces the escalating threat of armed factions. Sisi also said on Sunday in a recorded address aired by state television that Egypt’s military has no interest in …

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in towns and cities across Denmark to commemorate the victims of weekend gun attacks in the capital. People holding candles and torches observed a minute’s silence at the start of the main event in Copenhagen. Two people were killed and five police were …

Greece’s Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis declared he was ready to do “whatever it takes” to reach agreement over its bailout after the collapse of talks with EU finance ministers. Mr Varoufakis spoke after Greece rejected an EU offer to extend its current €240bn (£178bn) bailout, a plan he called “absurd” …

Ukraine’s government and separatist rebels have failed to begin withdrawing heavy weapons from the front line, despite a Monday deadline. The two sides were given until not more than two days after the latest truce came into effect to start the pullout. The government said it would not pull back …