Monthly Archive:: June 2015
World
Written by Dan Tham, CNNJunko Ogura, CNN A massive wave threatens to engulf three fishing boats, its foam crown extending like claws, menacing the rowers below. It's an
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Middle East
JEDDAH: Syria exploded into new violence on Sunday with an Israeli airstrike on a military base near Damascus, a rocket attack aimed at the occupied Golan Heights, and
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Middle East
BEIRUT: Lebanon used an Arab economic summit on Sunday to urge the return of refugees to safe areas of Syria after eight years of war. President Michel Aoun
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Middle East
JEDDAH: Syria exploded into new violence on Sunday with an Israeli airstrike on a military base near Damascus, a rocket attack aimed at the occupied Golan Heights, and
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Middle East
01/21/2019: Correction: This story stated the monsoon 'moved to' northern Australia. That was incorrect. The monsoon developed there. Australia is having an unusually hot summer as the heatwave
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Middle East
The Israeli military carried out overnight attacks on Iranian targets in Syria, while Syrian state media reported that the country's air defences have shot down "hostile targets". Russia's
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Middle East
Bangkok, Thailand - In the latest of a series of fatal attacks in Thailand's southernmost provinces, a group of assault rifle-wielding attackers on Friday stormed a Buddhist temple,
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World
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie recently announced their 25-year marriage is ending in divorce."We've had such a great life together as a married
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World
New York (CNN Business)Netflix typically keeps its viewership numbers a secret, but the company offered the public a rare glimpse of how some of its original programming fared
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World
New Delhi (CNN Business)Narendra Modi swept into power in 2014 with promises to take the Indian economy to new heights and to create jobs for millions of young
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Middle East
KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas on Sunday at protesters ahead of a planned march on Parliament in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum, witnesses said. Security forces
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Middle East
Manila, Philippines - Nearly three million Filipinos from the country's Muslim-majority southern region are set to decide on a new law which would place them under a substantially more
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Middle East
China's economy expanded by 6.6 percent last year, according to official data. That's the slowest growth rate in 28 years. The figure was in line with many economists'
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Middle East
Turkey is ready to take over security in Manbij, a town in northeast Syria held by Kurdish forces where four US personnel died in a bombing last week,
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Middle East
ROME: A private rescue boat with dozens of migrants aboard sought permission for a second day to enter a safe port Sunday, but said so far its queries
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ROME: A private rescue boat with dozens of migrants aboard sought permission for a second day to enter a safe port Sunday, but said so far its queries
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Middle East
BEIRUT: Lebanon used an Arab economic summit on Sunday to urge the return of refugees to safe areas of Syria after eight years of war. President Michel Aoun
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Middle East
Syrian air defences have shot down "hostile targets", according to state news agency SANA. The location of the reported incident in the early hours of Monday was not
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Middle East
The political crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo deepened on Sunday when the Constitutional Court confirmed the win of Felix Tshisekedi, rejecting claims of fraud, and runner-up
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Middle East
At least 10 United Nations peacekeepers from Chad have been killed and 25 others wounded in an attack in northern Mali, according to the UN Mission. Sunday's attack targeted
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ROME: A private rescue boat with dozens of migrants aboard sought permission for a second day to enter a safe port Sunday, but said so far its queries
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ROME: A private rescue boat with dozens of migrants aboard sought permission for a second day to enter a safe port Sunday, but said so far its queries
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Middle East
ROME: A private rescue boat with dozens of migrants aboard sought permission for a second day to enter a safe port Sunday, but said so far its queries
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Middle East
Nationwide protests have been taking place in Sudan almost every day for a month. They are the longest in decades and the most significant in the country's recent
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Middle East
Beirut, Lebanon - Arab leaders have agreed a 29-item economic agenda in addition to encouraging the safe return of Syrian refugees to their homeland at the conclusion of the Arab Economic and
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Middle East
Gaza, Palestine - Gaza's health ministry has made an urgent appeal for help amid an ongoing fuel crisis in the coastal territory, warning of a "catastrophic situation" at
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World
(CNN)It was almost three years ago that Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather fought in the "Fight of the Century" and now the 40-year-old Pacquiao wants to avenge his
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