Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
Sheila often thinks back to the day more than two decades ago when her mother, Theresa, sat with her in the driveway outside her home in Kentucky and
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The Philippines has suspended all mining operations in seven regions of the country after a new landslide killed at least 29 people near a limestone quarry on Cebu
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JERUSALEM: Israel will cut the tax revenue it transfers to the Palestinian Authority if it pays the family of the killer of an American-Israeli settler, Finance Minister Moshe
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GENEVA: Members of a tribe persecuted for more than 20 years by authorities in Qatar appealed for help on Friday from the special rapporteur on the rights of
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It is Global Alzheimer's Disease Awareness day - and as people live longer, more and more are developing the disease later in life. Caring for Alzheimer's patients is
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Coffee prices are at a 12-year low, and as a result, Colombian farmers are struggling to make a decent wage. Speculators, overproduction and the power of multinationals, are
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Barely 24 hours after India agreed to talks with Pakistan on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, the government reversed its
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World
(CNN)Australian filmmaker James Ricketson is set to be released from prison in Cambodia Friday after receiving a royal pardon, his attorney has told CNN. The 69-year-old was arrested
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Middle East
TEHRAN, Iran: Across Iran’s capital, rush-hour traffic always grinds to a halt, a sea of boxy Renault four-doors and Peugeot coupes all idling their way through the streets
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DUBAI: The Permanent Representative of Oman to the United Nations, Khalifa Al-Harthy, has rejected and condemned Israel’s decision to demolish the Palestinian village in East Jerusalem. “I would
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TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s official IRNA news agency says the country’s air force is carrying out a drill near the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Arabian Gulf, the
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A Saudi court has ruled in favour of a woman who challenged her father's decision to not let her have a passport, stirring an online debate on the
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Hurricane Florence has left its mark on the southeastern United States. Now, there's a danger lurking in its aftermath. Rising floodwaters are now carrying pollution and toxic chemicals
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An investigation by the Associated Press news agency shows a systematic campaign by the Chinese government to strip young Uighur Muslims of their language and culture. The UN
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Middle East
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s official IRNA news agency says the country’s air force is carrying out a drill near the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Arabian Gulf, the
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ANKARA: Turkish police on Friday detained 85 military personnel in countrywide raids over alleged links to the group blamed for the 2016 failed coup, state media reported.Prosecutors in
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Middle East
Updated 5 min 59 sec ago September 21, 2018 08:08 0 Turkey detains 85 military personnel over Gulen ties Prosecutors in Ankara issued arrest warrants for 110 active
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China has urged the United States to withdraw punitive sanctions imposed on the Chinese military over its purchase of fighter jets and missiles from Russia or "bear the
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Tanzanian rescue workers have resumed the search for survivors feared drowned after a passenger ferry capsized in the south of Lake Victoria killing nearly 100 people. Dozens of bodies
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has called the deteriorating situation in Libya as desperate, citing constant fighting, the collapse of the economy, and the destruction of basic infrastructure.
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World
First it was HSBC. Then ING. Now Danske Bank. European banks are still uncovering money laundering on a vast scale. Danske Bank (DNKEY), Denmark's largest bank, admitted Wednesday
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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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World
Google is defending its policy to allow third-party apps to access and share data from Gmail accounts, according to a letter made public Thursday. Gmail, which has over
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Middle East
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court on Thursday released a prominent lawmaker from the main opposition party who had been sentenced to more than five years in prison for revealing
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An Arab Israeli woman jailed for five months for incitement to violence and support for a terrorist organization in online poems and other social media posts was released
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London - Why is it that one person can smoke a cigarette occasionally and another will stop only when the pack is in ashes? Is the brain of a
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A woman killed three people in the United States at a warehouse in northeast Maryland before taking her own life, police said on Thursday. Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey
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