Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
A court in Myanmar has rejected an appeal by two Reuters news agency reporters sentenced to seven years in jail for breaking the country's Official Secrets Act, in a case that
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Tokyo (CNN Business)Carlos Ghosn's wife says she is "fearful and very worried" for the auto executive's health after he developed a fever in a Tokyo jail.Ghosn, the former
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New York (CNN Business)Shortly after they were married, MacKenzie Bezos drove her husband, Jeff, across the country from New York to Seattle while he typed out a business
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London (CNN)The remains of six unidentified Holocaust victims are to be given a formal Jewish burial after being stored at London's Imperial War Museum (IWM) for decades.The victims
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NEW ADMINISTRATIVE CAPITAL, Egypt: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday praised Egypt’s religious freedoms as he visited a vast cathedral and a mosque in the country’s
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ANKARA: A day after American officials visited Turkey to discuss and coordinate the US military withdrawal from Syria, Ankara on Wednesday said preparations to eliminate Daesh and other terrorist
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DUBAI: More than four decades ago, the Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild. But today, thanks to efforts spearheaded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, experts are
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The amount of land being used to grow opium poppies continues to decline in Myanmar, but ongoing conflicts are hampering efforts to stamp out the trade at a
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Taiwan will appoint the ruling pro-independence party's former chairman as premier, according to official media, after incumbent William Lai said he would resign along with the entire cabinet
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Attackers disguised as state security staff have killed four paramilitary volunteers guarding a school in conflict-hit southern Thailand, police said. The gunmen approached the armed territorial defence volunteers
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Hong Kong (CNN)China claims to have deployed missiles "capable of targeting medium and large ships" days after the latest US Navy "freedom of navigation" operation near contested islands
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New Delhi (CNN)Authorities in Nepal raided one of the ashrams of a spiritual leader -- whose supporters believe he is the reincarnation of Buddha -- while investigating the
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(CNN)Las Vegas police investigating a rape allegation against Cristiano Ronaldo have sent a warrant to authorities in Italy requesting a sample of the Portuguese football superstar's DNA, a
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Middle East
JERUSALEM: Israel inaugurated a new highway in the occupied West Bank on Thursday that features a large concrete wall segregating Israeli and Palestinian traffic.One side of Route 4370
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BEIRUT: Emergency relief operations are underway in Lebanon in a desperate bid to prevent thousands of Syrian refugees freezing to death as another icy storm heads their way.Aid
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JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities on Thursday released to house arrest four of five Jewish minors held on suspicion of involvement in a fatal stone-throwing attack on a Palestinian woman,
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US President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress if he can't reach a deal with Democrats to fund his promised border
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Riding on a bullet-proof train, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrived this week in Beijing just in time to spend his 35th birthday alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping. The surprise
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President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen said on Thursday he has agreed to testify publicly before a US House of Representatives committee on February 7. Cohen said
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(CNN)Remember when you said you wanted to move to Canada? Now is a good time to start packing your bags.The Canadian Parliament has announced plans to add more
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Moscow (CNN)BBC's Russian-language website is being investigated by Russia's telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor for possible "terrorist content."Roskomnadzor said Thursday it would probe whether the British public broadcaster was in
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Goma, Congo (CNN)The Congo's Catholic Church has rejected the results of the Central African nation's presidential election, saying they don't match the data collected by its observers.There was
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Middle East
Khalid bin Salman says aid to Yemen will continue despite Houthis’ burning food supplies DUBAI: Support will continue to be sent to Yemen, despite attacks by Houthis that
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DAMASCUS: In the National Museum of Damascus, archaeologist Muntajab Youssef works on an ancient stone bust from Palmyra, one of hundreds of artefacts his team is painstakingly restoring
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ANKARA: A day after American officials visited Turkey to discuss and coordinate the US military withdrawal from Syria, Ankara on Wednesday said preparations to eliminate Daesh and other terrorist
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More than half of the land on Earth can be classed as critically endangered, according to a report by a US-based scientific journal. The report, published on Thursday
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Washington, DC - As US President Donald Trump headed to the country's southern border with Mexico on Thursday, federal workers, unions and some Democrats rallied in the nation's
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