Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
AMMAN: Libya military commander Khalifa Haftar is in Jordan for crucial reconciliation talks with Libya’s Fayez Sarraj head of the Presidential Council, Arab News has learned.Senior government sources told
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AMMAN: Libya military commander Khalifa Haftar is in Jordan for crucial reconciliation talks with Libya’s Fayez Sarraj head of the Presidential Council, Arab News has learned.Senior government sources told
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KAFRANBEL: Gunmen may have killed their most charismatic activist, but Syrians in Kafranbel are determined to keep the northwestern town’s revolutionary spirit alive.The gunning down of Raed Fares
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Yemen's warring parties have suggested they will attend the United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Sweden next week as efforts aimed at ending a conflict that has pushed millions
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"What's good for General Motors..." once upon a time was "... good for the USA". That's a reasonable paraphrase of what Charlie Wilson, the then CEO of General
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Shadi Farrah, one of the youngest Palestinian children imprisoned in Israel has been released. Now 15, he spent almost three years in jail on the charge of plotting
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World
London (CNN Business)Deutsche Bank's head office and other locations in Frankfurt were raided by 170 police officers and tax investigators on Thursday as part of a money laundering
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London (CNN Business)Bayer plans to slash thousands of jobs as part of a corporate overhaul following its acquisition of Monsanto.The chemicals and pharmaceuticals group said it would cut
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New Delhi (CNN Business)One of India's richest men is pushing ahead with a controversial coal mine in Australia, but the project will be scaled back after plans for
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LONDON: Jordanian King Abdullah II has received the 2018 Templeton Prize at a ceremony held at the Washington National Cathedral. The event earlier this month was attended by
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BAGHDAD: A former Iraqi trade minister and two senior ministry officials have been sentenced in absentia to seven years in jail on graft charges, a Baghdad court said
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LONDON: Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said Thursday that he was personally threatened by the Ennahda party.Essebsi’s comment came as he presided over a National Security Council meeting
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Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer of US President Donald Trump, has pleaded guilty to lying to the Congress about a work he did on a Trump real
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An international medical aid group says the vast number of patients treated for gunshot wounds from months of border protests has overwhelmed Gaza's already fragile healthcare system. Doctors
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It has been the most violent year for the Indian-administered Kashmir in nearly a decade. According to rights groups, 535 people have been killed this year so far,
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World
Twin Falls, Idaho (CNN)A simple project to help a family in need stopped Luke Mickelson in his tracks.In 2012, he and his family were inspired to build and
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Carson City, Nevada (CNN)Florence Phillips was born in New York to Jewish parents who fled Europe before the Holocaust.Growing up, she experienced first-hand the burden of being a
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(CNN)Come summertime, the harbors of the Dalmatian Coast, French Riviera and Amalfi Coast fill with luxurious superyachts.These incredible vessels are owned and enjoyed by celebrities, royalty and titans
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German investigators looking for evidence of possible money laundering have searched multiple offices belonging to Deutsche Bank. A total of 170 officers from the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office,
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Some of the world's most unique buildings are competing for top honours at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam. One of them is an apartment building in New
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There are now more than 6,000 people in a makeshift camp in Tijuana, looking to cross the border from Mexico into the United States. There are warnings that
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World
(CNN)Over the top challenges, elbows, spitting, constant name calling and homophobic songs sung in their faces.Over the last three decades it's been a tough and winding journey for
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New York City - A Jewish professor's office at a university in New York City has been vandalised with anti-Semitic graffiti, including swastikas and an anti-Semitic slur, underlining recent
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Georgia's ruling party-backed candidate, who favours balancing the ex-Soviet republic's relations with Moscow and the West, has won the presidential runoff, according to partial results published on the electoral body's website on
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All eyes will be on Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday and Friday as leaders from 19 of the world's top economies, as well as representatives from the European
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World
Written by Stephy Chung, CNNHong Kong This story is part of " Smart Creativity," a series exploring the intersection between high-concept design and advanced technology. The field of
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GENEVA: UN war crimes investigators called on Syria on Wednesday to tell families what happened to their relatives who disappeared and provide the medical records and remains of
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