Monthly Archive:: June 2015
World
Davos, Switzerland (CNN Business)China has a message for the Davos crowd: Fear about an economic slowdown is overblown.In a speech at the World Economic Forum, Vice President Wang
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Middle East
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s state TV says the army has launched an annual infantry drill involving some 12,000 troops.It quotes Gen. Nozar Nemati as saying the two-day exercise will
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Middle East
HASAKAH, Syria: Any deal between Syria’s Kurds and Damascus should respect the “special status” of Kurdish-led forces who fought the Daesh group, a top Kurdish commander of those
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Middle East
Turkey court orders release of hunger striking Kurdish MP /node/1441641/middle-east Updated 2 min 59 sec ago January 25, 2019 07:29 0 Turkey court orders release of hunger striking
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Middle East
Myanmar's army chief should be prosecuted for genocide against the Rohingya, a United Nations' human rights investigator has said. Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights
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Middle East
Roger Stone, a confidant of US President Donald Trump, was arrested on Friday morning as part of the special counsel's Russia investigation and was charged with lying to
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Middle East
Queen Elizabeth II has urged Britons to seek a "common ground" in remarks widely interpreted as an appeal to resolve the crisis over the United Kingdom's departure from
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World
I’ll be blunt: This year’s Davos was better because US President Donald Trump (and others) stayed away. 2018 was a historic low for Davos. Trump was here, and
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World
(CNN) — Istanbul maybe the city where continents meet, but it's also where they meat -- its chaos of culinary influences defined by their myriad recipes for the
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World
Davos, Switzerland (CNN Business)Airbus and Ford have issued stark new warnings about the dire consequences of Britain crashing out of the European Union without a deal to protect
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Middle East
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 16-year-old Israeli with manslaughter after he allegedly threw a stone at a car in the occupied West Bank and killed a
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Middle East
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has called home all Venezuelan diplomats from the United States and closed its embassy and consulates there after the US declared his government "illegitimate". He also ordered
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Middle East
Rights groups have called on Saudi Arabia to grant them access to detainees in the kingdom a day after British parliamentarians threatened to publish their own report detailing allegations of
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Middle East
For Vietnamese activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen, it was supposed to be just another day in Hanoi. In the morning, he dropped off his son at elementary school and
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World
Yokosuka, Japan (CNN)The first time 22-year-old Akiko Hirayama stepped on board a navy ship, she was transfixed by the hardware."I was so amazed by all the torpedoes and
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World
Hong Kong (CNN Business)China's economy may be slowing down, but the country is still set to eclipse the United States as the world's top retail market for the
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World
(CNN) — The words "cruise holiday" and "rock star" don't usually go together. Unless you're talking about Virgin Voyages' first ship, the adults-only Scarlet Lady, which will depart
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Middle East
JENDOUBA, Tunisia: Tunisian divorcee Latifa counts herself lucky — she has a modest home that boasts a neat vegetable garden, a fig tree, and a pomegranate tree, along
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Middle East
UNITED NATIONS: The head of a United Nations mission tasked with overseeing a peace deal in Yemen’s Hodeidah port city plans to step down next month and will
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Middle East
UNITED NATIONS: The head of a United Nations mission tasked with overseeing a peace deal in Yemen’s Hodeidah port city plans to step down next month and will
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Middle East
For the first time this year, the United States has sent two warships through the strategic Taiwan Strait, according to the Taiwanese government. The move risks further heightening
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Middle East
The Afghan Taliban has named one of its co-founders as the leader of its political office in Qatar, as part of a major reshuffle that comes as talks with
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Middle East
Rescuers in Indonesia are racing to find more than two dozen people still missing after torrential rains unleashed flash floods and landslides that killed at least 30 people in South
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World
New York (CNN Business)Under Armour makes sporting equipment, workout clothes, sneakers — and now, astronaut apparel. Virgin Galactic, which plans to use a rocket-powered plane to fly groups
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World
Hong Kong (CNN Business)Western governments may be piling the pressure on Huawei but that's not holding back its fast-growing smartphone business.A senior executive at the Chinese tech company
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World
Brussels, Belgium (CNN)Three years ago last week, the Iran nuclear deal came into effect, limiting the country's nuclear program in return for sanctions relief. But in the wake
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Middle East
Politicians in the United States have discussed a temporary funding proposal aimed at ending a record-long partial federal government shutdown, after two competing measures to terminate the impasse
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