Monthly Archive:: June 2015

ISTANBUL: A Russian military aircraft thunders into the sky at 4.47 p.m. from Russia’s air base at Hmeimim in western Syria, veering to the east. An observer takes

This interview took place on September 10 at Basmanny Court in Moscow and September 11 at a cafe nearby the courthouse. Verzilov fell ill late on September 11.

The outer reaches of Hurricane Florence began lashing coastal North Carolina with heavy winds and flooded roads on Thursday ahead of an expected landfall that will bring walls

Riyadh-based carrier Flynas has announced plans to recruit Saudi women to work as co-pilots and flight attendants for the first time. Women are not legally barred from working

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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Arab coalition member state officials review efforts to ease Yemeni suffering caused by Houthis The ambassadors of the member states of the Saudi-led Arab coalition met in Tunisia

Britain's mass surveillance programme has violated people's right to privacy, Europe's human rights court ruled on Thursday. Judges voted six to one the effort by its intelligence agency

Last week, the respected and well-known American artist Hank Willis Thomas' work was exhibited by the prestigious South African gallery, the Goodman, at the Johannesburg Art Fair. One

TEHRAN: Just one shop among the thousands in Tehran’s sprawling Grand Bazaar can offer a tableau of the darkening mood descending across Iran as American sanctions again take

Brazil's presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro needs more surgery as he recovers from a stabbing attack last week. Bolsonaro, a far-right candidate in Brazil's October 7 presidential election, was

Tesla is losing another top executive. This time, it's the electric car company's vice president of worldwide finance and operation. Justin McAnear said in a statement Wednesday that

AMMAN: When the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, and his deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, stepped foot on US soil in September 1993, the PLO was considered