Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
UK summons Iran ambassador over case of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe LONDON: The UK's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt summoned Iran's ambassador in London over the jailed British-Iranian
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Pompeo cuts MidEast tour short to attend family funeral after talks with Saudi king, crown prince DUBAI: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will cut short his Middle
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Pompeo cuts MidEast tour short to attend family funeral after talks with Saudi king, crown prince DUBAI: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will cut short his Middle
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A court in China has sentenced a Canadian man to death on drug trafficking charges, after his previous 15-year prison sentence was deemed too lenient, a ruling likely
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An explosion has rocked the Afghan capital, Kabul, causing a number of casualties, the country's health ministry has said. More than 40 people were wounded in the explosion
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Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - Protesters in Zimbabwe barricaded the main roads into major cities on Monday to protest a fuel price rise announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. In the
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World
Melbourne (CNN)If this was the final match of Andy Murray's career, the Briton made sure his swansong was a memorable one -- losing a four-hour, five-set thriller to
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Dubai (CNN Business)Saudi Arabia's energy minister says that OPEC and its allies are prepared to quickly respond to a global economic slowdown.Khalid Al Falih told CNN Business' Emerging
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(CNN)Biking on the sand is hard enough but imagine doing it for five days across the desert.This was the challenge for competitors in the inaugural E-Bike Desert Challenge,
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Middle East
DUBAI: Oman has seen a more than 65 percent drop in the number of Indian expat workers coming into the country as the ban on foreign labor continues,
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DUBAI: Oman has seen a more than 65 percent drop in the number of Indian expat workers coming into the country as the ban on foreign labor continues,
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DUBAI: Oman has seen a more than 65 percent drop in the number of Indian expat workers coming into the country as the ban on foreign labor continues,
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World
(CNN)There's just no stopping "Champion of Champions" Marcel Hirscher.The Austrian skier won his eighth and ninth World Cup races of the season on the Chuenisbärgli in Adelboden over
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San Francisco (CNN Business)After three hours wandering through endless aisles of gadgets at CES, the world's largest consumer technology conference, the products start to blend together. Was this
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Las Vegas (CNN)More companies are sharing ambitious plans about how we'll live in a 5G world.This week at CES, the annual tech convention in Las Vegas was filled
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Middle East
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump warned Sunday that if Turkey attacks US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria, the United States will “devastate Turkey economically.”Trump’s decision to pull American troops out
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While US Mike Pompeo is in Riyadh, he is expected to bring up sensitive issues like the wars in Yemen and Syria and the backlash against the murder
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Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honours by his former laboratory after doubling down on controversial remarks he made on the relationship between race
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Middle East
Tunisia is often touted as the Arab Spring's only success story - and for good reason. Since 2011, the North African country has held free and fair elections,
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World
(CNN)Twelve people have been arrested in Costa Rica and Spain in connection with the suspected kidnapping of an American businessman, authorities said. William Sean Creighton Kopko, the owner
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World
(CNN)Ole Gunnar Solskjaer faced his first real test as Manchester United's caretaker manager against a top four English Premier League side on Sunday and passed it with flying
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New York (CNN Business)Starbucks wants its new location to be a tourist destination. The Starbucks Dewata Coffee Sanctuary, which opens January 13 in Bali, Indonesia, is more than
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Middle East
DUBAI: Three years ago, the world came together to design a blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all in the backdrop of a litany of
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DUBAI: Three years ago, the world came together to design a blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all in the backdrop of a litany of
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DUBAI: Three years ago, the world came together to design a blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all in the backdrop of a litany of
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Children's organisations in Indonesia are urging the government to include disaster education in the school curriculum. Many children died during an earthquake last year because they didn't know
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Thousands of asylum seekers from Haiti who were denied entry in the United States two years ago have established a community on Mexico's northwestern border. Many have been
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