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After 17 days of tough negotiations, diplomats on Monday night agreed on a landmark deal aimed at preventing Iran’s nuclear program for at least a decade. Negotiators from Iran, the United States, France, Britain, Germany, Russia and China managed to strike an agreement that resolves the security threat by applying unprecedented scrutiny to Tehran’s nuclear complex.

It has been 20 years since Serbian fascism massacred 8,000 Muslims all together in Srebrenica. An international ceremony was held in Srebrenica for this anniversary. 

At least 15,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 30,000 wounded during the armed conflict in Iraq since the start of 2014, the United Nations announced.

The UN on Monday published its "Report on the Protection of Civilians in the Armed Conflict in Iraq."

At least 15,000 civilians have been killed and twice as many wounded in Iraq's armed conflict since the start of 2014, the United Nations said in a report July 13.

The world body's mission in Iraq published the figure in the latest instalment of its "Report on the Protection of Civilians in the Armed Conflict in Iraq."  

Iran and major powers will seek on July 13 to put the finishing touches to a historic nuclear deal, with both sides saying an accord ending a 13-year standoff lies tantalisingly within reach.

In 1989, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), an organization seemingly devoted to British English, declared July 11 World Population Day, a day to focus on population issues. They usually choose a different leitmotif each year.

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on July 12 by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world leaders to invest in "books not bullets". 

Saudi-led air strikes and heavy shelling between warring factions shook several cities in Yemen on July 11, residents said, violating a United Nations humanitarian truce which took effect just before midnight. 

World powers talked deep into the night on July 11 seeking to break a deadlock in marathon negotiations with Iran and strike a historic deal to rein in Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Turkey's president and prime minister have released messages of peace on the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.

8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica by Serb troops in 1995. The massacre in the town, which was declared by the United Nations a safe haven for civilians, was later defined as genocide by two international courts.