Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
As many as 1,000 Bedouin Palestinian families are threatened with forced displacement by the Israeli government under plans for a major new highway in the Naqab (Negev) region.
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Middle East
Venezuela postponed a showdown with the United States by suspending a demand that US diplomats leave the country, as Washington called on the world to "pick a side" in
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World
(CNN)A Banksy mural painted on a fire door at the Bataclan theater in Paris has been stolen, the concert hall said in a tweet on Saturday. "It's a
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Middle East
DAMASCUS: The Syrian regime on Saturday condemned Turkey’s military presence in northern Syria as a violation of a 1998 protocol between the two countries.Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Middle East
JEDDAH: A new diplomatic spat between Iran and France on Saturday threatened Tehran’s ability to find a way round punishing US sanctions. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian
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Middle East
At least 15 people have been killed in two explosions in southern Philippines. The blasts happened in front of a Catholic Church just after mass in Jolo -
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Middle East
Israeli attacks earlier this week in Damascus killed dozens of people, reported to be Iranian and pro-Syrian government fighters. The open animosity between the two countries is no
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Middle East
Turkey has resumed flights to the Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah after a 16-month boycott, officials in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region have said. A Turkish Airlines flight arrived at
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World
(CNN)One Venezuelan official has very publicly switched sides in the nation's power struggle.Venezuela's military attaché in Washington, Col. Jose Luis Silva Silva, told CNN on Saturday that he's
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World
São Paulo, Brazil (CNN)At least 34 people have been confirmed dead and hundreds are missing Saturday after a dam burst a day earlier at a Brazilian iron mine,
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World
(CNN)Japan and South Korea are engaged in a heated military dispute that analysts say could damage the already tenuous geopolitical situation in northeast Asia if the two sides
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Middle East
ALGIERS: Algeria’s main conservative party, the Movement for the Society of Peace (MSP), said on Saturday it has decided to take part in April’s presidential election. During the
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Middle East
The US peace envoy for Afghanistan has hailed "significant progress" in six days of talks with the Taliban in the Qatari capital, Doha, aimed at finding a solution to end
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Middle East
A Palestinian man has been shot dead, and dozens others have been wounded in the occupied West Bank during a confrontation with Israeli soldiers and settlers in the
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Middle East
The US secretary of state has called on countries to "pick a side" on Venezuela, urging them to back opposition leader Juan Guaido and calling for free and
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Middle East
ALGIERS: Algeria’s main conservative party, the Movement for the Society of Peace (MSP), said on Saturday it has decided to take part in April’s presidential election. During the
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Middle East
TUNIS: Syria’s “natural place” is within the Arab League, Tunisia’s foreign minister said Saturday, ahead of the organization’s annual summit in Tunis in March.“Syria is an Arab state,
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Middle East
TUNIS: Syria’s “natural place” is within the Arab League, Tunisia’s foreign minister said Saturday, ahead of the organization’s annual summit in Tunis in March.“Syria is an Arab state,
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Middle East
Brazilian firefighters said on Saturday that at least 34 people were killed when a dam burst at an iron ore mine owned by Vale, as rescuers continued to
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Middle East
A UN rights group has unearthed more than 50 mass graves in the western Democratic Republic of Congo, after a spate of killings were reported in the region
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Middle East
US President Donald Trump had warned the longest US government shutdown in history could go on for years unless Congress gave him money to build a border wall
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World
(CNN)Rescuers have recovered the body of a toddler who fell down a 360-foot (110-meter) well almost two weeks ago, according to local officials in Andalusia, southern Spain.Two-year-old Julen
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World
(CNN)"This used to be the greatest country on Earth, but we've lost the plot."It might just be a commercial -- Australian Lamb's annual advertisement ahead of Australia Day
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World
(CNN)Lionel Messi has urged those tasked with overseeing the search for missing soccer star and fellow Argentinian Emiliano Sala not to give up while there is still hope.In
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Middle East
The Houthis have not kept to the Hodeidah ceasefire agreement signed in Stockholm by refusing to hand over control of the city and its ports to the UN,
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Middle East
TUNIS: Syria’s “natural place” is within the Arab League, Tunisia’s foreign minister said Saturday, ahead of the organization’s annual summit in Tunis in March.“Syria is an Arab state,
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Middle East
JUBA: Tracing his fingers over the metal fencing at a United Nations protected site in South Sudan’s capital, Nhial Nyuot Nhial hung his head as he contemplated going
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