Monthly Archive:: June 2015
World
Written by Oliver Giles, CNN Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is one of the world's most reproduced and reinterpreted paintings -- but no one has done it quite
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Middle East
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations envoy for Syria announced on Wednesday he will step down at the end of November after more than four years in the key
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Middle East
ISTANBUL: There has been some withdrawal of militants from the demilitarization zone in Idlib following the Russia-Turkey deal on the northwestern Syrian region, the US special representative for
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Middle East
TEHRAN: Iran called new US sanctions against its paramilitary Basij group an act of “blind vindictiveness” on Wednesday.“America’s new sanctions are a clear insult to international and legal
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Middle East
Several border crossings between Syria and neighbouring countries have reopened in recent weeks. It has eased years of political and economic isolation for the country during a seven-year
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Middle East
A team of Turkish investigators has entered the residence of the Saudi consul general in Istanbul as part of an investigation into the disapperance and suspected killing of
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Middle East
The names of the North Korean defectors have been changed in this article to protect their identities. Gilze en Rijen and Musselkanaal, The Netherlands - Kyung-Ae Choi*, a
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World
(CNN) — While exploring Japan in 2016, Parisian photographer Romain Veillon discovered the eerily deserted "Western Village" amusement park, themed around 1800s America. Veillon's photographs of the Western
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World
New York (CNN) — Just a little while ago, I was on the complete other side of the planet. After touching down at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International
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World
(CNN)Now that his Formula One career is coming to an end, Fernando Alonso admits he's starting to get a little sentimental. The 37-year-old Spaniard announced in August he
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Middle East
BAGHDAD: Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith, worshippers bathe themselves in
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Middle East
BAGHDAD: Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith, worshippers bathe themselves in
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Middle East
JERUSALEM: Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered the closure of both of Israel’s border crossings with Gaza on Wednesday after a Palestinian rocket attack hit a southern city prompting
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Middle East
At least 13 people have died in a blast in a vocational school in the Russian-annexed peninsula Crimea, local media reported on Wednesday. The explosion, which was initially
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Middle East
India's junior foreign minister has announced his resignation following allegations of sexual harassment by a string of women, as the country's fledgling #MeToo movement gathers pace. "Since I
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Middle East
As a candidate, Donald Trump railed against corruption on the campaign trail. And he used the perception of many Americans that their political system is rigged against them
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World
(CNN)If you were a Formula One fan who attended the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis in 2005, it could be argued you witnessed one of the strangest races
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World
(CNN)The main auction ring at Tattersalls, Europe's leading bloodstock auctioneers, is packed as Lot 325 nervously enters.The yearling pricks up his ears as he walks next to his
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World
(CNN) — In the little more than 100 years of commercial air travel, thousands of airlines have come and gone as casualties of oil prices, politics, mismanagement or
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Middle East
DUBAI: More than 3.2 billion people, or two in every five, are affected by land degradation today and up to 143 million could move within their countries by
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Middle East
JEDDAH: Protest strikes in Iran by truckers and bazaar storekeepers have spread to the country’s schools. Thousands of teachers have been on strike for the past three days
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Middle East
An Afghan election candidate is among four people killed by a bomb planted under his chair in the southern province of Helmand days before the parliamentary elections, officials said. Abdul
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Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan has executed a man convicted for having raped and murdered a six-year-old girl in the eastern district of Kasur, jail authorities and the girl's family
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US defence chief James Mattis on Wednesday visited the former Bien Hoa storage depot for Agent Orange, a toxic defoliant widely used during the Vietnam War, ahead of
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World
(CNN)Harry and Meghan's royal tour of Australia took in a visit to a struggling, drought-stricken farming area of New South Wales Wednesday, after stopping by the Royal Flying
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Brussels (CNN)British Prime Minister Theresa May will face EU leaders Wednesday in a critical summit, as European Council President Donald Tusk warned of an increased risk that Britain
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)"Crazy Rich Asians" is finally getting a run in China's lucrative movie market. The romantic comedy is scheduled to hit theaters in mainland China on
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