Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
JEDDAH/CAIRO: Russia’s defense ministry said it had lost contact with a military surveillance aircraft with 14 servicemen on board near Syria’s Hmeimim air base, Russian and Syrian
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LONDON: The Turkish opposition have ‘questioned the honor’ of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after the leader admitted accepting a luxury jumbo jet as a “gift” from Qatar. Erdogan has
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Kaduna, Nigeria - Denouncing God can be a dangerous thing in Nigeria, where religion is the rhythm of life. Atheism, considered blasphemy by many, is a largely underground
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Long Beach, Southern California - Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit has discovered that a self-deleting messaging app called Tiger Text has been adopted by at least one US police department,
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Middle East
An investigation has uncovered new details about Maldives government corruption days before a presidential election and weeks after the European Union moved to sanction its leaders. Published on
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World
If you don't have enough cash to buy a new iPhone with X in its name, you can freshen up your existing device with Apple's newest mobile operating
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World
Jaguar Land Rover has put 1,000 workers at one of its UK plants on a three-day work week because of plummeting sales of diesel vehicles and fears over
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The leader of Samsung's sprawling business empire will visit North Korea this week along with the heads of other top South Korean corporations. Jay Y. Lee, Samsung's billionaire
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Middle East
BEIRUT: Missiles were fired at several locations in the Syrian coastal province of Latakia on Monday but were intercepted and downed by air defenses, Syrian state media said.Explosions
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Assad ordered to call off Idlib offensive after ‘demilitarized zone’ deal in Sochi JEDDAH/SOCHI: Russia ordered the Assad regime on Monday to call off a planned offensive in
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BASRA: A health crisis in the Iraqi city of Basra has claimed an unexpected victim — a top football club from Baghdad is 10 players down and unable
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US President Donald Trump has said he will impose 10 percent US tariffs on about $200bn worth of Chinese imports, but he spared some consumer products. The new
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Guatemala City - Guatemalan activists and politicians warn of a breakdown in constitutional order following the government's rejection of a court ruling overturning the president's decision to ban
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Middle East
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former vice president and rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for bribing witnesses during his war
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World
Hong Kong (CNN)More than three million people have been moved to safety in southern China as Typhoon Mangkhut moved northward and continued to wreak havoc across the region.
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Middle East
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday decided to allow 1,000 Ethiopians to immigrate to Israel, his office announced, in a rare intake of the Falashmura community.The Falashmuras
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TAJI: German forces will be needed in Iraq for a long time to help rebuild the country’s military as it struggles to ensure that Daesh terrorists do not
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TAJI: German forces will be needed in Iraq for a long time to help rebuild the country’s military as it struggles to ensure that Daesh terrorists do not
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the United States would cap the number of refugees allowed into the country at 30,000 for fiscal year 2019, a
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Middle East
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has shown support for same-sex marriage, saying that discrimination of any kind should be eliminated. The 57-year-old leader said on Sunday he backed marriage
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Middle East
Honduras's supreme court has indefinitely suspended the start of a trial of eight men accused in the 2016 killing of prize-winning Honduran indigenous and environmental rights activist Berta
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World
(CNN)Typhoon Mangkhut, known locally as Typhoon Ompong, has cut a swath of destruction across Guam, the Marshall Islands, the Philippines and China. Aid groups are responding. You can
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World
Written by Bard Wilkinson, CNN Typhoon Mangkhut's mauling of Hong Kong this weekend has raised questions over the city's long term ability to withstand storms, which many fear
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World
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Sharon Okpoe has lived her entire 17 years in Makoko—known as the world's largest "floating slum"—built on a lagoon in Lagos, Nigeria.Rickety shacks stand on stilts
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Middle East
Clan complains to UN over ‘discrimination, torture, illegal imprisonment’ by Qatar regime GENEVA: A prominent clan in Qatar has complained to the UN over systematic ill-treatment by Qatari authorities,
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