Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
The number of civilians harmed in last month's parliamentary elections was higher than in four previous elections in Afghanistan, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said in a
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Middle East
Democrats have the reason to be optimistic. Young voters, a key demographic for the party, say they plan to show up.
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Middle East
The first voting centres have opened in US midterm elections largely seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump's first two years in office. The first polls opened
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World
Hong Kong (CNN)Spending on prisons and security-related construction in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang doubled between 2016 and 2017 new research has revealed, undermining China's denial of
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World
Jakarta (CNN)The doomed Lion Air flight that crashed into the sea, killing 189 passengers last month, was found to have a malfunctioning air speed indicator for its last
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World
(CNN)It was just a silly dare among teenage boys. What could it hurt to eat a small slug?So Australian teenager Sam Ballard grabbed the slimy creature and gulped
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Middle East
MOSCOW: Russia said it deployed its new frigate with long-range Kalibr cruise missiles to the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, a few months after Moscow had reinforced its naval
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Middle East
TEHRAN: US National Security Adviser John Bolton said there will be additional US sanctions on Iran after the Trump administration on Monday re-imposed oil and economic sanctions, but
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Middle East
DUBAI: Regional observers will watch the midterm elections in the US on Tuesday with added interest because of two separate, but pivotal, issues: Republican losses could alter the
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Middle East
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said he regrets the continuation of conflict with other Arab states, but added that "crises will pass", outlining the nation's
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Middle East
China's mass detention of ethnic Uighurs and its crackdown on civil liberties will likely figure high on the agenda on Tuesday when countries meet at the UN in
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Middle East
China's spending on security-related construction in Xinjiang jumped in 2017 even as funds put towards vocational training declined amid claims the country is holding as many as one
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World
Tokyo (CNN)More Japanese children and teenagers killed themselves between 2016 and 2017 than in any year since 1986, according to a new government report. The latest survey shows
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World
(CNN)Lewis Bennett and his wife Isabella Hellman had just welcomed a new daughter when they set sail last April with the intention of sailing from St. Maarten to
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World
Washington (CNN)A US Navy reconnaissance aircraft flying in international airspace over the Black Sea was intercepted by a Russian fighter jet Monday in an unsafe and unprofessional manner,
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Middle East
TEHRAN: US National Security Adviser John Bolton said there will be additional US sanctions on Iran after the Trump administration on Monday re-imposed oil and economic sanctions, but
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Middle East
BAGHDAD: Explosions in several Shiite-majority districts in Iraq’s capital late Sunday killed six people, most of them civilians, and wounded several others, police and medical sources said.In northern
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Middle East
MOSCOW: Russia said it deployed its new frigate with long-range Kalibr cruise missiles to the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, a few months after Moscow had reinforced its naval
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Middle East
There are few more difficult places for a foreign journalist to report from China than Xinjiang. Especially now. Security has been bolstered amid a new campaign, which the
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Middle East
An Afghan army officer penned an emotional letter of condolence to the family of an American military trainer and Utah mayor who was killed in an "insider attack"
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Middle East
With midterms less than a day away, right-wing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's seven-year grip on the state could be slipping away. Walker and his opponent, Democrat Tony Evers,
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World
Seoul, South Korea (CNN)It takes Park Hyun-suk, a widow who lost her husband to gwarosa -- the Korean word for death by overwork -- a long time to
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World
(CNN) — There are few things more liberating than travel -- although some passports offer more freedom than others. A new report published in October 2018 reveals just
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Middle East
YARMUK: After years of fighting, crippling siege and bombardment, what was once the Palestinian diaspora’s largest urban settlement in southern Damascus has been reduced to a sea of
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JEDDAH: Battles raged on Monday around the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah as the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said it was committed to de-escalating hostilities amid growing calls
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Middle East
JEDDAH: Battles raged on Monday around the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah as the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said it was committed to de-escalating hostilities amid growing calls
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Middle East
NBC, Fox News and Facebook pulled a widely-condemned anti-immigrant ad by President Donald Trump's campaign as a bitter election fight for control of the US Congress headed on
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