Monthly Archive:: June 2015
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(CNN)With Indonesia, the question is not whether an earthquake will occur but when. The Southeast Asian archipelago nation is reeling after yet another powerful earthquake struck Friday, followed
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Middle East
IRBIL/SULAIMANIA, Iraq: Kurds began voting in a parliamentary election in their semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq on Sunday, a year after a failed bid for independence. With opposition
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IRBIL/SULAIMANIA, Iraq: Kurds began voting in a parliamentary election in their semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq on Sunday, a year after a failed bid for independence. With opposition
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NEW YORK: The US will pursue “a strategy of isolation,” including sanctions, with its allies if President Bashar Assad holds up a political process aimed at ending Syria’s
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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, there have been calls to reject the use of electronic voting machines in December's general election. A coalition of opposition leaders says
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A landmark peace deal which for two decades allowed Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region to be an island of stability in an otherwise turbulent Middle East is unravelling today.
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Macedonians have begun voting in a key referendum on whether to re-name their country North Macedonia in a bid to settle a long-running row with Greece and unlock
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World
Amazon's latest retail concept looks a lot like your online shopping cart brought to life. It's a physical store that offers only products with high customer ratings, including
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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket company just scored a major contract. His company's BE-4 engines will power United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur, a new suite of rockets that
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Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)Rescue workers in Indonesia continued a desperate search for survivors Sunday, two days after a powerful earthquake hit the island of Sulawesi and triggered a tsunami,
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Middle East
NEW YORK: The US will pursue “a strategy of isolation,” including sanctions, with its allies if President Bashar Assad holds up a political process aimed at ending Syria’s
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Russia accuses West of undermining Astana peace talks, begins missile system delivery to Syria UNITED NATIONS: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday Moscow had started delivering
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NEW YORK: The US will pursue “a strategy of isolation,” including sanctions, with its allies if President Bashar Assad holds up a political process aimed at ending Syria’s
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Tens of thousands people marched in cities across Brazil on Saturday as part of a women-led protest against far-right, frontrunner presidential candidate Jair
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Qatar's emir is scheduled to tour a number of Latin American countries as Doha seeks new alliances in the face of the Gulf blockade. Emir Sheikh Tamim bin
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Educators in Morocco are asking what language is more important to be taught in schools. Some say its classical Arabic, while others prefer the more local version. The
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(CNN)Pope Francis has defrocked a Chilean priest formerly convicted of sexual abuse, the Vatican said in a statement Friday. "Pope Francis has dismissed from the clerical state Fernando
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(CNN)Despite what your social media feeds are telling you, an asteroid shaped like a skull is not going to zip by Earth this Halloween.Asteroid 2015 TB145 looked like
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Bitcoin's big stock market debut is coming at a bad time. Three of the world's top makers of cryptocurrency technology are planning to sell shares, giving investors a
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Middle East
KHAN YOUNIS: Thousands of Gazans on Saturday thronged the funerals of seven people killed by Israeli troops during mass protests the previous day, chanting anti-Israel and anti-US slogans
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NEW YORK: The US will pursue “a strategy of isolation,” including sanctions, with its allies if President Bashar Assad holds up a political process aimed at ending Syria’s
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NEW YORK: The US will pursue “a strategy of isolation,” including sanctions, with its allies if President Bashar Assad holds up a political process aimed at ending Syria’s
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In a dramatic speech, Syria's top diplomat has told the world that his country's "battle against terrorism is almost over" and that, after more than seven years of
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India and Pakistan exchanged barbs at the United Nations on Saturday after plans for a rare meeting between the foreign ministers in New York fell through. India cancelled
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Nearly 400 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that hit Indonesia's central Sulawesi island. The national disaster agency put the current death toll
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(CNN)Here's a look at the International Criminal Court, a court comprised of 123 states from around the world. Facts:Although created by the Rome Statute, a treaty first brought
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