Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
BEIRUT: The powerful Lebanese Shi'ite militia Hezbollah believes a solution to be "very close" for the country's impasse over forming a new government, one of its senior officials
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Middle East
Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has announced plans to "worsen" conditions for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The plans, which were the result of a committee Erdan
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Middle East
Ankara, Turkey - A team of US officials is due to arrive in Ankara on Thursday for a visit that Turkey hopes will pave the way for the
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Middle East
Donald Trump and US congressional leaders from both political parties are set to meet for a White House border security briefing on Wednesday, the 12th day of a
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World
Copenhagen, Denmark (CNN)Six people were killed and 16 injured when a crowded commuter train and a truck trailer that apparently fell from a freight train collided on the
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World
(CNN)The Democratic Republic of Congo has reached a grim new milestone in the Ebola outbreak that began August 1: The total number of probable patients is 608 as
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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
CAIRO: Sudan’s largest opposition bloc has joined calls by a wide array of political groups for President Omar Al-Bashir to step down, turning up the pressure on the
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Middle East
DUBAI: The Arab coalition issued 10 permits for ships heading to Yemeni ports carrying food and oil, according to Saudi state-news channel Al-Ekhbariya reported. The Saudi-led coalition pointed
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Middle East
DUBAI: The Arab coalition issued 10 permits for ships heading to Yemeni ports carrying food and oil, according to Saudi state-news channel Al-Ekhbariya reported. The Saudi-led coalition pointed
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Middle East
Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential candidate and incoming US senator from Utah, sharply criticised President Donald Trump and said the US leader had caused dismay around the
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Middle East
US authorities fired tear gas into Mexico on Tuesday as about 150 asylum seekers tried to breach the border fence. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in
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Middle East
French President Emmanuel Macron had no shortage of challenges last year. Perceived as being out of touch, anger with his government came to a head with often violent
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World
Hong Kong (CNN Business)Global stock markets kicked off 2019 with more steep falls triggered by new signs of economic weakness in China.Major stock indexes in Europe and Asia
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World
New York (CNN Business)After such a volatile 2018, predicting what the US stock market will do in 2019 is like guessing where a single piece of paper will
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World
Written by Ming Liu, CNNSaikai National Park, Japan Off the coast of Japan's verdant Saikai National Park, the Kujukushima Islands lie scattered amid a sprawling network of narrow
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Middle East
BEIRUT: The powerful Lebanese Shi'ite militia Hezbollah believes a solution to be "very close" for the country's impasse over forming a new government, one of its senior officials
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Middle East
JERUSALEM: With little resistance from a friendly White House, Israel has launched a new settlement push in the West Bank since President Donald Trump took office, laying the
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Middle East
JEDDAH: Yemen’s Information Minister Muammar Al-Iryani on Tuesday praised the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) for revealing the misuse and theft of food aid by Houthi militia, who have
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Middle East
The Lebanese Shia movement, Hezbollah, believes a solution to the country's political impasse is "very close", a senior official in the organisation said. "We believe the solution is
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Middle East
The stories spill out in the sitting rooms of Catholic convents, where portraits of Jesus keep watch and fans spin quietly overhead. They spill out in church meeting
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Middle East
Tropical Storm Pabuk has formed within a mass of thunderstorms that have already brought torrential rain to southern Vietnam. As a cyclone, it presents a current danger to
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World
Moscow, Russia (CNN)A baby boy was plucked alive Tuesday from the rubble of an apartment building leveled a day earlier by a suspected gas explosion in the Russian
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World
(CNN) — A trip to the already pricey city of Venice, Italy, will now leave your wallet even emptier than before. Venetian officials have announced plans to charge
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World
(CNN) — It's easy to forget that barely more than a century has passed since Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first successful airplane in Kitty Hawk, North
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Middle East
SHARBOTY SAGHIRA, Iraq: Dark skies were threatening rain over an Iraqi Kurdistan village, but one woman refused to budge from outside a house where two girls were at
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Middle East
JEDDAH: Yemen’s Information Minister Muammar Al-Iryani on Tuesday praised the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) for revealing the misuse and theft of food aid by Houthi militia, who have
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