Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
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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Middle East
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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Middle East
Preliminary results in Georgia's presidential runoff show the ruling party-backed candidate Salome Zurabishvili is ahead with nearly 60 percent of the votes. Wednesday's runoff is the last time
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Middle East
South Korea's top court ruled on Thursday that Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries must compensate 28 South Koreans for forced labour during World War II in a ruling that
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Middle East
A Philippine court on Thursday sentenced three police officers to up to 49 years in jail for the murder of a 17-year-old high school student, the first to
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World
(CNN) — There's a shark on the runway. No, it's not some nightmare scenario brought about by severe flooding, but a real-deal Embraer E190-E2 aircraft, painted up in
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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
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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Middle East
Kiev, Ukraine - Russia seized three Ukrainian military vessels after they attempted to pass through the Kerch Strait off the coast of Crimea, Ukraine's peninsula annexed by Moscow in
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Middle East
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday sanctioned the wife of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and one of his aides under a new executive order allowing Washington to target
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Middle East
Washington, DC - The US Senate, angered by the murder of writer Jamal Khashoggi, voted 63-37 on Wednesday to take up a war powers resolution that would curtail the Trump
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World
(CNN)Climate change is here and affecting our health, with extreme heat in particular also having effects on productivity, food supply and disease transmission, a new global report finds.More
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World
(CNN)An award-winning Chinese photographer has disappeared in China after reportedly being taken away by authorities in Xinjiang province. Lu Guang's disappearance was revealed by his wife, Xu Xiao,
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World
(CNN)Rachel always thought it was best to hide her religion from her high school students. The trouble started a few years ago when she let slip to a
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Middle East
ANKARA: Some Arab tribes in Manbij have called for Turkish military intervention in the northern Syrian town against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), Syrian sources told Arab
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Middle East
ANKARA: Some Arab tribes in Manbij have called for Turkish military intervention in the northern Syrian town against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), Syrian sources told Arab
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Middle East
GAZA CITY: A local businessman on Wednesday seized the Gaza Strip’s only grand piano, claiming he owned the instrument, just days after it made its public debut in
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Middle East
Politicians from nine countries gathered at the British Parliament for a hearing on misinformation and fake news. They left an empty chair for the Chief Executive of Facebook
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Middle East
Support is growing in the Senate for a resolution aimed at limiting US involvement in the war in Yemen. The Senate voted 63-37 on Wednesday to advance the
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Middle East
Brazil withdrew its offer to host the COP25 United Nations climate conference next year citing budget constraints and presidential transition. In a statement on Wednesday, Brazil's foreign ministry said:
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World
New York (CNN Business)Chinese tourists in the United States slowed their spending at Tiffany during its most recent quarter, a troubling sign for the jeweler. Tiffany's (TIF) stock
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World
Hong Kong (CNN Business)President Donald Trump is considering new tariffs on China that could make iPhones way more expensive for Americans. Trump said this week that he won't
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World
On a lone tree in the Nordmarka forest just north of Oslo, there's a sign that reads "Framtidsbiblioteket - Future Library." In the year 2114, the wood from
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Middle East
The Bank of England has warned a no-deal Brexit would trigger a financial crisis in the United Kingdom, causing the pound to plunge by 25 percent. The UK's central
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Middle East
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that downgrading US ties with Saudi Arabia would be a mistake for national security and would not push Saudis in
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Middle East
Geneva, Switzerland - The Afghan government has formed a 12-member team to hold peace talks with the Taliban, President Ashraf Ghani announced in the Swiss city of Geneva
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World
(CNN)The pilots of Lion Air Flight 610 were engaged in a futile tug-of-war with the plane's automatic systems in the minutes before it plunged into the ocean, killing
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