Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
DUBAI: Jailed Iranian-British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said she would go on hunger strike from Jan. 14, 2019 after being refused access to medical help, UK website The
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Middle East
The House and Senate convened for the 116th US Congress on Thursday with the most diverse class of politicians in history. The House is returning the first woman
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Middle East
Brazil’s new far right President Jair Bolsonaro has been busy since he was sworn in. Among other things, he signed an order to make it impossible to create
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Middle East
Many Congolese were kept from voting in the December 30 presidential election because polling stations often opened late, closed early and voting machines sometimes did not work, a
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World
(CNN)A lawyer for Paul Whelan, an American citizen charged in Russia with espionage, said Thursday he filed an appeal in court against Whelan's detention because he believes the
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Middle East
DUBAI: Iran’s health minister has resigned over proposed budget cuts, the official news agency IRNA reported, amid an economic crisis wrought by the reimposition of US sanctions on
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Middle East
WASHINGTON: The United States issued a pre-emptive warning to Iran on Thursday against pursuing three planned space rocket launches that it said would violate a UN Security Council resolution
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Middle East
DUBAI: Iran’s health minister has resigned over proposed budget cuts, the official news agency IRNA reported, amid an economic crisis wrought by the reimposition of US sanctions on
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Middle East
New US legislators are set to be sworn in on Thursday, with a number of "firsts" taking their seats in the 116th Congress. Democrats will assume majority control
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Middle East
Al Jazeera has seen evidence of food meant for starving Yemenis being sold at a marketplace in the capital Sanaa. The World Food Programme (WFP) has accused both
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Middle East
India has rejected US President Donald Trump's comments mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for funding a library in Afghanistan, saying New Delhi has provided $3bn in development assistance to
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World
New Delhi (CNN Business)Apple is not the only smartphone maker suffering from a slowdown in China. CEO Tim Cook partially blamed weaker than expected iPhone sales at the
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World
(CNN) — Whether you want to relax on a beach in the Caribbean, hike the world's most famous canyon, explore ancient ruins, eat world-famous cuisine or learn more
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World
London (CNN Business)Qatar Airways is buying into the one market no major airline can ignore: mainland China. The state-owned Gulf airline said Wednesday that it has acquired 5%
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Middle East
BEIRUT: With the end of the holiday period, Lebanese politicians have revived efforts to form a government before the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit in Beirut on
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Middle East
Dhaka, Bangladesh - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's astronomical victory in Bangladesh's general elections, analysts and opposition leaders say, will turn the South Asian country into a "one-party state". The
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Middle East
Saudi Arabia's state media says the 11 suspected killers of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi have attended their first court hearing in the capital, Riyadh. The official Saudi Press
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Middle East
India's so-called "cow protection gangs" display antithetical qualities to the ones they attribute to their sacred animal - they are unholy, ungentle, frenzied and violent. According to data
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World
Hong Kong (CNN Business)From iPhones to autos, global brands rely on China for growth. Now the country's economic slowdown is putting their earnings at risk. Apple (AAPL) on
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World
London (CNN Business)What's the price of censoring one episode of a Netflix show in Saudi Arabia?Though Netflix has not released specifics on the number of subscribers in the
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World
(CNN)Slovakia's Petra Vlhova brought Mikaela Shiffrin's unbeaten World Cup slalom run to a halt by claiming the Oslo city event on New Year's Day, beating the American in
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Middle East
The US Congress starts its new two-year session on Thursday. While the Republicans have retained control of the Senate, Democrats have retaken control of the House of Representatives,
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Middle East
United States President Donald Trump said that his country would get out of Syria slowly "over a period of time", describing the situation in the war-torn country "sand and
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Middle East
Results from the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) long-delayed presidential election could be pushed back past Sunday's deadline, the country's electoral commission has said, as ballots trickle in
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World
(CNN) — Air travel is a struggle under the best of circumstances. Legroom seems to shrink with every trip, and the argument about whether it's rude to recline
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World
(CNN)Under the lights of a quickly-emptying Stade de France, Fiji's rugby players came together for a huddle, a hymn, and a thanks to God. As the song drifted
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World
(CNN)It wouldn't look out of place on the set of Robocop but this motorbike could be coming to a street near you.BigRep, a German manufacturing company, has created
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