Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
Doha, Qatar - Mewa Singh is a 50-year-old labourer from the Indian state of Punjab. With a family of five to feed, he moved to Qatar 14 years
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Middle East
Seventy-five people have been sentenced to death in Egypt for protesting the 2013 coup by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. There's been strong condemnation from human rights groups for the
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Middle East
BUYUKADA ISLAND, Turkey: Each morning, Erol Baytas checks for further damage on the imposing but derelict timber building on an island off Istanbul that for decades housed orphans
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Middle East
BUYUKADA ISLAND, Turkey: Each morning, Erol Baytas checks for further damage on the imposing but derelict timber building on an island off Istanbul that for decades housed orphans
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Middle East
CAIRO: A Lebanese tourist who was sentenced to eight years in prison for posting a video on Facebook the authorities claimed had insulted the country is set to
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Middle East
Sweden's centre-left governing bloc is neck-and-neck with the centre-right opposition alliance in the country's general elections, according to official results, which also showed gains for an anti-immigration party
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Middle East
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has dissolved the government in a bid to fix the country's troubled economy. A presidential statement late on Sunday said that the move included
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Middle East
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) confirmed on Sunday that it had launched deadly missile attacks against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq a day earlier. Rockets struck the headquarters of
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World
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Middle East
Antakya, Turkey - Russian-backed Syrian government forces have pounded rebel-held areas in northwest Syria, killing at least five people in a second day of heavy bombardment, according to rescuers.
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Middle East
Kosovo's leader urged calm as the Serbian president spoke to thousands of people in a majority-Serb area in Kosovo's north. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received a warm welcome
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Middle East
Sweden's centre-left governing bloc is neck-and-neck with the centre-right opposition alliance in the country's general elections, according to an exit poll, which also projected large gains for an
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World
(CNN)The Spix's macaw achieved onscreen fame in Disney's "Rio" as a charming parrot named Blu who travels thousands of miles in an attempt to save his species.But a
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World
(CNN)If you think burning calories is the best strategy to preserve you from extinction, well, we may have bad news. Using more energy on a daily basis increases
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World
(CNN)A tenth black rhino has died in Kenya after wildlife workers relocated the animals to a new national park, a major setback for a critically endangered species. The
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Middle East
CAIRO: A new image of Hosni Mubarak circulated on social media just weeks after a rare photo emerged that sparked furious speculation about the former Egyptian president. The
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Middle East
AMMAN: Russian and Syrian jets resumed intensive strikes in Idlib and Hama on Sunday, residents and rescuers said, as Damascus stepped up its assault on the rebels’ last
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Middle East
CAIRO: A new image of Hosni Mubarak circulated on social media just weeks after a rare photo emerged that sparked furious speculation about the former Egyptian president. The
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Middle East
Dozens of people have reportedly been killed in clashes and air raids around the Yemeni city of Hodeidah following the collapse of United Nations-sponsored peace talks between the internationally recognised government
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Middle East
Mauritania's ruling party has taken the lead in legislative, regional and local elections held earlier this month, the electoral commission said Sunday. "The Union for the Republic is
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Middle East
On March 30, 2016, members of Libya's UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) sailed into Tripoli in an effort to unite rival factions and bring stability to the
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World
(CNN)Here's a look at violence against UN peacekeeping forces. This is a selected list of incidents from 1990 to the present. Facts:Since 1948, the United Nations has authorized
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Middle East
THE HAGUE: The Hezbollah defendants are still on the run and have never even spoken to their lawyers, but the special UN tribunal into the 2005 assassination of
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Middle East
DAMASCUS: Abu Abdo eases himself into the driver’s seat, itching to try out freshly laid train tracks between two suburbs of Syria’s capital, Damascus.“I’ve been waiting for this
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Middle East
Almost two decades after a massive popular uprising triggered Argentina's record $100bn default of 2001-2002, the country finds itself back in a major economic crisis. With the peso
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Middle East
At least 19 people died in South Sudan when a small aircraft carrying passengers from Juba International Airport to the city of Yirol crashed, a local official said.
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Middle East
A suicide bomber has blown himself up close to a procession commemorating the death of a former anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban commander, wounding at least two people, a police
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