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Ali Khamenei bans further talks with US, citing 'numerous disadvantages' for Iran
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is reportedly imposing ban on negotiations with the United States, stressing that talks with the "Great Satan'' brought only disadvantages to Iran.

South Carolina braces for another round of massive flooding as more heavy rains seen
At least 19 people has reportedly died as a result of heavy rainfall in South Carolina, which has stopped Tuesday but inundated rivers and dams that pose further threats to the residents in the neighbourhood.

Religious leaders, rights advocates urge Obama to declare ISIS acts as 'genocide'
Religious leaders and activists are urging President Barack Obama to formally declare the killing and displacement of Middle Eastern religious minorities by the Islamic State militants as genocide.

Oklahoma, Arkansas come out strongly in defence of students' right to pray in school
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said the ban on prayers at high school sporting events is too broad and the activity should be allowed.

Amish girl's cancer court battle ends
Judge formally ends hospital's attempt to give her chemotherapy - parents say God will triumph

4 Israelis and 22 Palestinians have died in under 2 weeks in violent upsurge
Latest incident sees Palestinian woman and child killed in Gaza

NATO soldiers targated by Taliban in Afghan suicide attack
Bombing breaks a period of relative calm in Kabul after a series of bombings in August

China all set to join Russian offensive vs. Islamist, other anti-Assad forces in Syria
China is reportedly preparing to team up with Moscow to bolster the offensive launched in the war-torn country and against the Islamic State.

Planned Parenthood more concerned about profit than women's healthâformer chief
A former manager at a Planned Parenthood facility in Iowa said the organization was more focused "about its bottom line than it is about the health and safety of women."

'Even war has rules': US airstrike on MSF hospital an 'attack on Geneva conventions'
US Pres. Barack Obama has reportedly vowed to conduct a full investigation into the aerial bombings apparently launched by US military forces on a facility of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which killed 22 people and wounded hundred others last week.

Saudi double whammy: Woman who gets cheated by her husband may face jail time
A Saudi wife who posted a footage online of her husband groping their house help could be put behind bars because of the Kingdom's defamation laws, Emirates 24/7 reported.

Experts to present new evidence on Noah's Ark on Oct. 15 in special Christian event
On October 15, Ahmet Ertugrul, the Turkish expert and discoverer who led a group of explorers to the site of the remains of Noah's Ark will be part of a special Christian event organized by Southern Evangelical Seminary (SES).

Families of 3 students who died after being hypnotised by principal to get $600,000
The board of the Sarasota County School has approved the $600,000 legal settlement to the bereaved loved ones of Wesley McKinley, 16, Brittany Palumbo, 17, and Marcus Freeman, 16.

Heard the one about the Pope and the Rabbi? It's no joke!
Pope Francis has an official comedy adviser... who is a rabbi.

70 years of oppression: Why it's still so dangerous to be a Christian in North Korea
North Korea is a police state in which dissent is punishable by death.

Teen arrested for threatening to 'kill all the girls' in his Idaho school over nude photos
Police arrested a 15-year-old student in Pocatello, Idaho, after he made threats on Facebook that he would "kill all the girls" when no one sent him nude photos.