Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
The pilot of a doomed Bangladeshi airliner was disoriented and tried to land in "sheer desperation" after finding the aircraft misaligned with the runway, an investigation report said. US-Bangla
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Middle East
Turkey is aiming to form safe zones in northern Syria so that Syrian refugees hosted by Turkey could return to their home country, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Speaking
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World
London (CNN)Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim leader, Juan Guaidó, has called on British authorities to prevent President Nicolas Maduro from removing any of the country's gold held in the UK's
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London (CNN)An increase in online abuse directed at British Duchesses Kate and Meghan has prompted one of the UK's leading celebrity magazines to launch a campaign calling for
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(CNN)The southern Philippines city of Jolo is on lockdown after a deadly double bombing Sunday, as the authorities try to ensure security and investigate the attack that killed
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Middle East
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday offered to resign, his spokesman said, amid efforts by president Mahmud Abbas to form a new government.Such bids
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DUBAI: Iran said on Monday it cannot confirm holding secret talks with France over Tehran’s disputed ballistic missile program as French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had said
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CAIRO: French President Emmanuel Macron is to hold talks Monday with his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo, saying beforehand that he wants to boost ties with the Mideast country
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Middle East
Bahrain's Supreme Court on Monday upheld a life sentence for Shia opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman over charges of spying for neighbouring Qatar, according to a judicial source. Salman,
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Middle East
People in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry have been marching to remember Bloody Sunday, the day British troops killed 14 unarmed civilians. The incident in 1972 took
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Middle East
UN investigators carrying out the probe of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi arrive in Istanbul on Monday and will seek to enter Saudi Arabia's consulate where he was
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World
Kitzbuhel, Austria (CNN)"The Terminator" Arnold Schwarzenegger says US President Donald Trump is making a "big mistake" on environmental policy.Making his annual pilgrimage to the famous ski races in
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World
(CNN Business)Long haul flights, sleep deprivation and the pressures of work can make business travel stressful and exhausting. It's hard to keep your health goals on track when
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World
Tokyo (CNN Business)In the blink of an eye, Carlos Ghosn's jet-setting world fell apart. The 64-year-old auto executive's private jet landed in Tokyo on November 19, with Ghosn
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Middle East
TAIZ, Yemen: The sound of music fills the halls at a school in the Yemeni city of Taiz, where little Nazira Al-Jaafari sits at a keyboard as a
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Middle East
TAIZ, Yemen: The sound of music fills the halls at a school in the Yemeni city of Taiz, where little Nazira Al-Jaafari sits at a keyboard as a
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Middle East
TAIZ, Yemen: The sound of music fills the halls at a school in the Yemeni city of Taiz, where little Nazira Al-Jaafari sits at a keyboard as a
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Middle East
Singapore - A pristine white statue of a man in Western clothes, arms folded with the air of a conquering hero, stands on the banks of the Singapore
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Middle East
President Rodrigo Duterte and his top security officials are scheduled to visit the southern Philippines where twin bomb blasts at a Roman Catholic cathedral during a church killed
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Middle East
In a show of force, embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has met members of the armed forces and overseen the display of military hardware as opposition leader Juan
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World
São Paulo, Brazil (CNN)The number of deaths from a collapsed dam at a Brazilian iron mine rose on Sunday from 37 to 58, a spokesperson for the Civil
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Sandino, Cuba (CNN)Parishioners wiped away tears and gave thanks to God as the first Roman Catholic church built since the 1959 Cuban revolution opened its doors on Saturday."To
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World
(CNN)Davos, Switzerland — The crisp white snow sparkles off stunningly high mountain peaks, a gorgeous backdrop for the thousands of the world's elite gathered here every year for
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Middle East
Venezuela has had a long and mostly tragic history of suffering under strongman rule. Caudillismo, the system of personalised power and governance which the country has experienced for decades did
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Middle East
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday praised Saint Petersburg's "unbroken" spirit as Russia marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the World War II siege of Leningrad,
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Middle East
The UN's Middle East envoy has termed the killing of a Palestinian man by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank "shocking and unacceptable". Nikolay Mladenov on Sunday
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Middle East
SARAJEVO: Toys, house keys and diaries hang suspended from the ceiling or sit on plain white pedestals at Sarajevo’s War Childhood Museum in a simple tribute to the
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