Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
Geneva, Switzerland - The lives of 70,000 Syrian refugees in makeshift camps across Lebanon are at risk as the country faces extreme weather conditions and flooding, the UN's
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New Delhi (CNN)A Nepali mother and her two children were found dead Wednesday morning, after being exiled from their family home as part of a criminalized practice where
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(CNN)New evidence shows that three Russian journalists killed in the Central African Republic last year were victims of a well-planned ambush involving a senior police officer with shadowy
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(CNN)Nearly a dozen Americans who had surgery in Tijuana, Mexico, have returned home with dangerous antibiotic-resistant infections, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. All
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Middle East
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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International community should push Houthis to implement Sweden agreement: Yemen FM Yemen's foreign Minster Khalid Al-Yamani called on the international community to push the Houthis militia to implement the UN peace agreement.
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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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Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed a general accused by the United Nations of war crimes to the country's second-highest army ranking, evoking outcry from rights groups. Major
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Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has reiterated its call for an international probe into the killing of Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The rights monitor
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New Delhi, India - India's federal investigation police chief has been removed from his post by a committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi just 48 hours after he was
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World
New York (CNN Business)Fiat Chrysler will pay about $800 million to settle charges that its diesel vehicles sold in the United States had improper software that allowed it
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New Delhi (CNN Business)Britain's biggest carmaker is cutting thousands more jobs. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will reduce its global workforce by 4,500 as part of a plan to
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London (CNN Business)Ford is cutting thousands of jobs, ending production of some models and closing a plant in Europe ahead of a possible alliance with market leader Volkswagen.The
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Middle East
ANKARA:Turkey’s foreign minister says a planned Turkish military offensive against US-allied Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria doesn’t depend on whether the United States withdraws its troops from the
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TEHRAN: Iran’s president said Thursday the Islamic Republic soon will send two new satellites into orbit using Iran-made rockets, despite US concern the launch could help further develop
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Houthi drones on Thursday attacked a Yemeni government military parade in Lahaj province, killing several people, Saudi and Houthi media reported. The parade was taking place in Al-Anad
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A federal judge in the US city of Los Angeles has dismissed actress Ashley Judd's sexual harassment claim against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein but said she could proceed with a
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The trial of a man accused of shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Belgium in 2014 has started in Brussels amid high security. Mehdi Nemmouche,
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Middle East
Felix Tshisekedi has vowed to be the president "of all Congolese" after the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) electoral commission declared him the winner of the country's long-delayed
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World
Seoul (CNN)A group of prominent North Korean defectors called on the Italian and South Korean governments to provide protection for Pyongyang's former envoy to Italy Wednesday, as his
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(CNN) — There's never been a more exciting time to travel to Asia. Home to more than half the world's population, the Asia-Pacific region is responsible for 37%
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Written by Stella Ko, CNN With their pleasing colors and playful compositions, Nguan's images of Singapore portray the city-state as a dreamy wonderland. But this is somewhat at
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Middle East
BEIRUT: The main extremist alliance in Syria’s Idlib region reached a deal on Thursday ending days of deadly fighting with rival rebels and extending its influence over the
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BEIRUT: The Lebanese finance ministry is preparing a “financial correction” plan that includes restructuring public debt and will propose solutions to spare Lebanon “dramatic developments,” the finance minister
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BEIRUT: The main extremist alliance in Syria’s Idlib region reached a deal on Thursday ending days of deadly fighting with rival rebels and extending its influence over the
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Middle East
A Houthi drone attack has hit a Yemeni government military parade in Lahij Province, killing several, according to medical sources. The attack on the airbase in southern town
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Middle East
Turkey will go ahead with an offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters in Syria if the United States delays the withdrawal of its troops from the war-torn country, Turkish
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