Monthly Archive:: June 2015
World
London (CNN)In an era marked by divided opinions in the US, a crop of NFL players is quietly trying to bridge the cultural divide with messages of inclusion
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World
Dubai (CNN Business)Oil prices have crashed 30% in a matter of weeks but Saudi Arabia isn't hurting just yet. The OPEC kingpin and world's leading oil exporter would
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Middle East
BEIRUT: “Why is terrorism becoming more widespread and complex?” That was the question posed by Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, the general director of Lebanese General Security, to security
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Middle East
DUBAI: Houthi militias are using civilians as human shields in Hodeidah, Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed told the UN humanitarian coordinator in Yemen during their meeting on Tuesday.
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Middle East
TORBAT-E HEYDARIYEH: The laborers edge their way across a field of bright purple flowers gathering up the world’s most expensive spice, a bounty that makes this dusty corner
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Middle East
The leadership of Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen is in doubt after her ruling party was defeated in last week's election. Worsening relations with China seem to have contributed
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Middle East
A Syrian man who had been stranded at a terminal at a Malaysian airport for the past seven months has finally arrived in Canada, ending a long ordeal that
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Middle East
The Chinese scientist who claims to have created the world's first genetically-edited babies has paused the trial following an international outcry over the highly controversial procedure. Geneticist He
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World
(CNN)If there is one consistent message about climate change that has been made abundantly clear in a flurry of recent major assessments on the topic, it is that
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World
London (CNN Business)It's official: The British government's plan for leaving the European Union will be bad for the economy. The government has published a report that outlines the
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World
Hong Kong (CNN)The Chinese scientist who sparked an international outcry after alleging to have helped create the world's first genetically edited babies, has raised the possibility of a
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Middle East
TORBAT-E HEYDARIYEH: The laborers edge their way across a field of bright purple flowers gathering up the world’s most expensive spice, a bounty that makes this dusty corner
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Middle East
TANNOURINE: High up in Lebanon’s mountains, the lifeless grey trunks of dead cedar trees stand stark in the deep green forest, witnesses of the climate change that has
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Middle East
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s broken electricity sector is planning a long-awaited overhaul to both meet US pressure to halt Iranian power imports and head off summertime protests over chronic cuts.With
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Middle East
Nineteen leaders of the world's biggest economies and a representative of the European Union are set to meet on Friday and Saturday in Buenos Aries, Argentina as part
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Middle East
Mexico's outgoing government has conferred the country's highest civilian honour for foreigners to US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, a decision that has caused a social media outcry. President Enrique
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Middle East
An award-winning Chinese photographer is missing and may have been detained by state security officers while visiting China's far-flung western Xinjiang region, his wife said, as she appealed
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World
(CNN)Ajax reached the Champions League knockout phase for the first time in 13 years but the Dutch club's 2-0 win at AEK Athens was marred by violent clashes
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World
(CNN)Rice University is investigating bioengineering professor Michael Deem after he was quoted in media reports as having been involved with the work of He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher
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World
Washington (CNN)White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Tuesday dangled the possibility of a "breakthrough" between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart on trade at their upcoming
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Middle East
BEIRUT: A well-known British radio presenter who had been living in Lebanon for years was found dead in his apartment in a mountain town near Beirut on Tuesday after
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Middle East
BEIRUT: A local official in Raqqa says more than 500 bodies have so far been exhumed from one of the largest mass graves discovered near the Syrian city,
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Middle East
Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith won a US Senate special election runoff in Mississippi on Tuesday, defeating a black challenger after a campaign that recalled the history of racist violence
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Middle East
Philippine leftists reacted with dismay on Wednesday to a threat by President Rodrigo Duterte to create a "death squad" to hunt what he said were Maoist assassins. Critics
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Middle East
More than 200 employees comprising engineers, designers and managers at Alphabet Inc's Google published an open letter demanding the company end development of a censored search engine for
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World
Jamna Devi got her first cellphone about a year ago. It's one of those with a tiny screen and a numbered keypad, the kind that are becoming increasingly
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World
(CNN)Ukraine's President said late Tuesday he's concerned about a possible full-scale confrontation with Russia following a maritime clash between the two countries over the weekend.President Petro Poroshenko told
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