Monthly Archive:: June 2015
World
(CNN)When Sergio Perez takes to the track at this weekend's Mexican Grand Prix, the eyes of the world won't be on him but, should everything go to plan,
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Middle East
BEIRUT: The Syrian government has accused Turkey of failing to meet obligations set out in an agreement with Russia to create a demilitarised zone free of extremists in
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Middle East
BEIRUT: The Syrian government has accused Turkey of failing to meet obligations set out in an agreement with Russia to create a demilitarised zone free of extremists in
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Middle East
DUBAI: UAE’s visa amnesty scheme might be extended according to immigration sources in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. The three-month scheme is set to end this October 31, but
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Middle East
Search teams scoured the sea off Indonesia on Tuesday for any signs of life and evidence to determine what brought down a Lion Air flight with 189 people
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Middle East
The US is ratcheting up pressure on Saudi Arabia to restore relations with Qatar, Bloomberg has reported, as the kingdom comes under increasing international scrutiny for its role
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Middle East
Three Palestinian boys aged between 13 and 14 have been killed in an Israeli air raid in the southeastern Gaza Strip, according to health officials. The children were
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World
(CNN)Eight individuals dressed in Ku Klux Klan uniforms posed for photographs outside an Islamic center in Northern Ireland on Sunday evening, sparking condemnation from politicians and Muslim leaders.
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World
(CNN)It was a heartbreakingly happy Facebook post.Early Saturday evening, British pilot Eric Swaffer posted a picture of his smiling girlfriend and regular co-pilot, Polish-born Izabela Lechowicz at a
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World
Hong Kong (CNN Business)China's private space industry has suffered a setback after a leading startup failed in its first attempt to put a satellite in orbit.LandSpace, a three-year-old
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Middle East
REMADA: Tunisian Zubair Abdel-Moula lost his work selling smuggled fuel on the streets of a poor southern town after the government tightened controls with Libya to stop militants
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Middle East
DUBAI: History was made on Monday as the first satellite to be fully engineered and developed by Emiratis was successfully launched into space from an island south of
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Middle East
DUBAI: History was made on Monday as the first satellite to be fully engineered and developed by Emiratis was successfully launched into space from an island south of
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Middle East
The United States is preparing to announce tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports by early December if talks next month between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping fail
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Middle East
A British academic charged with espionage in the United Arab Emirates has been temporarily released until his court date next month. Matthew Hedges, a 31-year-old doctoral student at
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Middle East
Unbridled consumption has decimated global wildlife, triggered a mass extinction, and exhausted Earth's capacity to accommodate humanity's expanding appetites, a conservation group warned on Tuesday. From 1970 to
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World
Jakarta (CNN)A day after Indonesian Lion Air flight 610 crashed into the sea minutes after takeoff from the capital Jakarta, questions are being asked as to what caused
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World
(CNN) — Some people buy houses. Some people buy apartments. Some people, perhaps, buy an entire abandoned town in New Zealand. Lake Waitaki Village, located on the South
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World
(CNN)Global wildlife populations have fallen by 60% in just over four decades, as accelerating pollution, deforestation, climate change and other manmade factors have created a "mindblowing" crisis, the
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Middle East
DUBAI: History was made on Monday as the first satellite to be fully engineered and developed by Emiratis was successfully launched into space from an island south of
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Middle East
ROME: The Syrian opposition on Monday presented a “road map” to peace, including steps to be taken ahead of an election and guidelines for a plan to write
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Middle East
A week out from the US midterm elections, the Pentagon said on Monday it is sending 5,200 troops, some armed, to the Southwest border to respond to a
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Middle East
New York City - Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent talk of "preparing for war and combat" is just the latest example of feisty language that has stoked fears of a
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Middle East
London - The fiancee of the murdered Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi has demanded that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reveal the whereabouts of his body. In an
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World
Leicester, England (CNN)No words can soothe heartbreak, which is why Leicester has fallen silent. It is a city stunned, a city grieving.On an October day cold enough to
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World
Jakarta (CNN)After retrieving six bodies from the sea where an Indonesian passenger plane crashed near Jakarta Monday, search and rescue officials say they fear there will be no
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World
(CNN)Real Madrid has sacked coach Julen Lopetegui after just two months in charge with the side ninth in La Liga following a humiliating defeat to Barcelona.The 5-1 El
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