Monthly Archive:: June 2015
World
(CNN)Here's a look at the life of Amr Moussa, Egyptian diplomat, ambassador and former minister of foreign affairs.Personal:Birth date: October 3, 1936Birth place: Cairo, Egypt
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World
(CNN)Here's a look at the process of impeachment, a misconduct charge that leads to a trial to determine whether a public official is guilty of abuse of power
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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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Middle East
CAIRO: An Egyptian court Saturday handed a two-year suspended jail sentence to a woman human rights activist arrested in May after posting a video criticising sexual harassment in Egypt,
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Middle East
CAIRO: An Egyptian court Saturday handed a two-year suspended jail sentence to a woman human rights activist arrested in May after posting a video criticising sexual harassment in Egypt,
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Middle East
The Trump administration is trying to get support for an anti-Iran alliance between Gulf states, Egypt and Jordan. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has met foreign ministers
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Middle East
Iraq has said it "regrets" the decision of the United States to shut its consulate in the southern city of Basra which has been rocked by weeks of
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Middle East
Senegal's government is considering legalising witchcraft as a traditional medicine. Politicians say the move will ease the burden on already overcrowded hospitals. But doctors say the move is
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World
(CNN)An offer of free beer to supporters of President Donald Trump has sparked an international brouhaha.Scottish craft brewery BrewDog canceled a series of planned events with US brewery
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World
(CNN)People in Greece and Turkey are bracing themselves for a rare and powerful hurricane-type storm in southern Europe's Mediterranean region, due to hit this weekend.The storm, often called
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World
London (CNN)It was a day in which Brett Kavanaugh did himself few favors. After the US Supreme Court nominee's hearing on Thursday, even commentators on Fox News portrayed
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Middle East
TUNIS: Efforts to rescue Tunisia’s ailing economy face the prospect of fresh turmoil after the president declared his alliance with the Ennahda party at an end, deepening divisions
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Middle East
TUNIS: Efforts to rescue Tunisia’s ailing economy face the prospect of fresh turmoil after the president declared his alliance with the Ennahda party at an end, deepening divisions
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Middle East
SARAQIB, Syria: Turkish troop reinforcements entered Syria’s rebel bastion of Idlib on Tuesday, an AFP correspondent reported, a week after a deal between Ankara and Moscow averted a
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Middle East
Europe's increasingly hardline refugee policy is raising concerns about the transparency of search and rescue in the Mediterranean, now that all vessels operated by aid organisations have been
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Middle East
World leaders have descended on New York to take part in the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Iran nuclear deal, a response to the Rohingya
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Middle East
Africa seems to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. People around the world associate the continent with extreme poverty, hunger, drought, civil wars and terrorism. Generations of
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World
The founders of Instagram have resigned from the business they started eight years ago in San Francisco and built into a global phenomenon used by a billion people.
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World
Food photographers and brand ambassadors, move aside: Goldman Sachs is joining Instagram. The investment bank's official account, launching Tuesday, will feature content designed to endear the Goldman brand
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Middle East
In South Sudan, there is only one head surgeon who serves a population of 200,000 in the country's northeastern region He is this year's winner of the UNHCR
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Middle East
More than 1,700 families have been displaced by fighting in Libya's war-ravaged capital over the last 48 hours, the UN has said, as clashes between rival groups intensify.
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Middle East
Ban expected to be implemented within six months after Beijing’s ban on plastic waste imports made waves worldwide.
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Middle East
GENEVA: When your job has been labelled “mission impossible,” failure may be the most likely outcome.There is no doubt that the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan
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Middle East
GENEVA: When your job has been labelled “mission impossible,” failure may be the most likely outcome.There is no doubt that the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan
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Middle East
Oil prices hit a four-year high of $81.48 a barrel on Tuesday after Saudi Arabia and Russia appeared to reject calls from the US to increase production amid
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Middle East
Thousands of people have poured out on to the streets of the Argentinian capital, Buenos Aires, to protest President Mauricio Macri's economic policies, a day before a nationwide
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Middle East
The US State Department has approved the sale of $330m-worth of military parts to Taiwan, according to officials, as President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs on Chinese
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