Monthly Archive:: June 2015
World
Driving full speed into a turn at the Sonoma Raceway, GoPro VP Rick Loughery flipped his go kart and crashed spectacularly, grinding to an upside-down halt on the
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World
Business is worried enough about Britain crashing out of the European Union. Now it has a new nightmare: a blind Brexit that could extend the uncertainty over trade
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Middle East
MOSCOW: Russia’s military Sunday blamed “misleading” information from the Israeli airforce for the downing of one of its planes in Syria last week, and denounced the “adventurism” of
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Middle East
BASRA: Hajjar Youssif was on her daily commute to work, staring at her phone and flicking through her Instagram account when she looked up to find herself in
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Middle East
BASRA: Hajjar Youssif was on her daily commute to work, staring at her phone and flicking through her Instagram account when she looked up to find herself in
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Middle East
The Swiss region of St Gallen has voted in favour of a "burqa ban", prohibiting all face-covering garments in public spaces, a decision that a local Islamic organisation has
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Middle East
A severely injured Indian solo sailor is waiting to be rescued nearly 3,300km from the Australian coast. Indian Navy officer Abhilash Tomy suffered a serious back injury on Saturday
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Middle East
Residents of Armenian capital Yerevan, where almost half the country's population resides, have gone to municipal polls in the first vote since the country saw mass protests to push
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Middle East
BASRA: Hajjar Youssif was on her daily commute to work, staring at her phone and flicking through her Instagram account when she looked up to find herself in
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Middle East
NABEUL, Tunisia: Flash floods in Tunisia’s Cap Bon peninsula have killed at least four people, authorities said Sunday, as surging waters caused by heavy rains carried away homes,
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Middle East
They are more than 1,000 coral islands scattered across the Indian Ocean. They are the Maldives - loved by tourists from all over the world for their beaches, blue
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Middle East
A temporary ban on quarrying has been imposed in the Philippines following two major landslide disasters in the past week. The latest killed at least 45 villagers when
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Middle East
Iran's Revolutionary Guard has vowed to revenge the attack on a military parade that killed 29 people, including the four attackers, and wounded 70 others. The Iranian elite
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World
(CNN)A major New Zealand supermarket chain is removing Australian-brand Choice strawberries from shelves across the country after needles were found in a container of strawberries from Western Australia
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World
(CNN)Australian police have confirmed that a mango was sold with a small needle in it, prompting fresh fears over the country's fruit.A spokesman for police in New South
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World
(CNN)Panic over needles found in strawberries in Australia has provoked fury from politicians and fears for the country's multi-million dollar fruit industry.At least 100 reported cases of needles
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Middle East
ANKARA: The partial transfer of control of the airspace over the de-escalation zone in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib from Moscow to Ankara is being discussed by the two
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Middle East
ANKARA: The partial transfer of control of the airspace over the de-escalation zone in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib from Moscow to Ankara is being discussed by the two
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Middle East
BEIRUT: More than 3,000 civilians have been killed in US-led coalition air strikes against the Daesh group in Syria since they began four years ago, a monitor said
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Middle East
Maldives opposition has claimed victory in the tense presidential election after its officials and an independent newspaper reported results from 90 percent of the ballot boxes which showed Ibrahim
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Middle East
Istanbul, Turkey - American Kathryn Balleh sang the country classic Jolene at a rooftop bar in Istanbul, while her Syrian husband Bashar Balleh strummed the guitar. She closed
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Middle East
Nepal is set to become the first country to double its tiger population as part of the World Wildlife Foundation's (WWF) "Tx2" programme which aims to double the
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World
(CNN)A major New Zealand supermarket chain is removing Australian-brand Choice strawberries from shelves across the country after needles were found in a container of strawberries from Western Australia
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Middle East
Macedonia's President Gorge Ivanov has decried an agreement that would change the country's name to end a long-standing dispute with Greece, calling on his compatriots to boycott the vote
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Middle East
Male, Maldives - Counting is underway in the Maldives following a contentious presidential election seen as a test of democracy on the troubled island nation. Ahmed Akram, spokesperson for the
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Middle East
The best 12 golfers from the United States against the best 12 from Europe - the Ryder Cup can be a pretty big deal. But generally not in
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Middle East
JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities issued a notice to residents of a Bedouin village in a strategic spot in the occupied West Bank on Sunday informing them they have until
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