Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
Britain's opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn would push ahead with Brexit and seek to renegotiate the terms if he won a snap election next year, he said in an
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Middle East
Demonstrators in Hungary have rallied again to protest against a new amendment to the labour laws. What critics are calling "The Slave Law" would allow employers to force
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World
(CNN)Paddy Ashdown, the former leader of Britain's Liberal Democrats and former United Nations high representative for Bosnia, died Saturday evening after struggling with a short illness, according to
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Middle East
BEIRUT: The six Sunni deputies allied with Hezbollah have opposed the candidate Jawad Adra, whom they had agreed earlier as their representative in the next Lebanese government, which
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BEIRUT: The six Sunni deputies allied with Hezbollah have opposed the candidate Jawad Adra, whom they had agreed earlier as their representative in the next Lebanese government, which
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Middle East
JEDDAH: The US envoy to the global coalition fighting Daesh has resigned in protest at President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from Syria. Brett McGurk was appointed
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Middle East
The US Senate adjourned on Saturday with no deal to end a partial government shutdown, which is now expected to last until at least Thursday. US President Donald
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Middle East
Thousands of people took to the streets of the Serbian capital Belgrade for the third consecutive week to protest against the government of President Aleksandar Vucic. More than
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Middle East
Saudi Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a vocal supporter of reform in the kingdom, has died aged 87, the royal court said on Saturday. Prince Talal, the senior member of
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Middle East
ADEN: The head of a United Nations advance team tasked with monitoring a ceasefire between the Iranian-aligned Houthi militia and Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen's Hodeidah has arrived
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Middle East
ISTANBUL: Nearly 300,000 Syrians have returned to their country after Turkey’s two cross-border operations in northern Syria, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu was quoted as saying on Saturday.Turkey has
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Middle East
ISTANBUL: Nearly 300,000 Syrians have returned to their country after Turkey’s two cross-border operations in northern Syria, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu was quoted as saying on Saturday.Turkey has
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Middle East
Kinshasa, DRC - An election official confirmed on Saturday that voting will take place in Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern region on December 30, despite concerns that opening
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Middle East
Brett McGurk, the US envoy to the global coalition fighting ISIL, resigned this week over his disagreement with President Donald Trump's surprise decision to pull US troops out
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Middle East
Recent polling has indicated two-thirds of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank want Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to resign, as well as an increase of support for
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Middle East
ISTANBUL: Nearly 300,000 Syrians have returned to their country after Turkey’s two cross-border operations in northern Syria, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu was quoted as saying on Saturday.Turkey has
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Middle East
UNITED NATIONS, United States: The UN envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, on Thursday acknowledged that a committee tasked with writing a new constitution for the war-wracked country
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Middle East
UNITED NATIONS, United States: The UN envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, on Thursday acknowledged that a committee tasked with writing a new constitution for the war-wracked country
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Middle East
Cuba has begun a modernisation campaign and part of that effort is both a new constitution and allowing ordinary citizens to weigh in on the document's contents. Cubans
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Middle East
Opposition candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo are urging supporters to show restraint, as large protests grip cities across the country. The latest unrest follows this week's
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Middle East
Jakelin Caal was a seven-year-old child from Guatemala who fled outrageous poverty conditions with her father. Last week, she died at Providence Children's Hospital in El Paso in
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Middle East
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: An 18-year-old Palestinian shot by Israeli forces died of his wounds Saturday, the fourth fatality in clashes along the Gaza border a day earlier,
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Middle East
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: An 18-year-old Palestinian shot by Israeli forces died of his wounds Saturday, the fourth fatality in clashes along the Gaza border a day earlier,
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Middle East
DUBAI: Yemen’s army killed and wounded 30 members of the Iran-backed Houthi militia on Friday in clashes that took place in the southern province of Dalih, Saudi state-news
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The head of a United Nations mission tasked with monitoring a fragile ceasefire in the Yemen's strategic port city of Hodeidah has arrived Aden. Patrick Cammaert, a retired
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Supporters of overthrown South Korean president Park Geun-hye are turning to online video sites to demand her release. Geun-hye was jailed in April for 24 years for corruption
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Residents of a luxury, high-end neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro awoke Friday to the unpleasant odour of 13 tonnes of dead fish floating in the water of the
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