Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
Slated to deliver the annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night, US President Donald Trump will renew calls for a wall on the US-Mexico border, less
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Middle East
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren have poked the B-hive. That's B as in billionaire! Higher taxes! On the rich. The two billionaires with presidential ambitions who are associated
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World
Hodeidah, Yemen (CNN) – Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners have transferred American-made weapons to al Qaeda-linked fighters, hardline Salafi militias, and other factions waging war in Yemen,
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World
London (CNN)John Cantlie, a British journalist who was taken hostage in Syria in 2012 and appeared in a number of ISIS propaganda videos during his time in captivity,
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World
(CNN)Scientists who visited one of the world's newest and most unique islands last year discovered a mysterious, sticky mud, said NASA.The island is located in the South Pacific
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Middle East
ABU DHABI: It was impossible not to be moved as Pope Francis entered Sheikh Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, ripples of excitement among the worshippers building
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Middle East
ABU DHABI: It was impossible not to be moved as Pope Francis entered Sheikh Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, ripples of excitement among the worshippers building
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Middle East
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he had not yet seen an acceptable plan for the creation of a safe zone in northeastern Syria, three weeks after US
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Madrid, Spain - Six of the nine jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders have asked for a three-week delay in their trial over the bid to make the region independent from Spain. Lawyers
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Middle East
The Central African Republic (CAR) initialled a peace deal with 14 armed groups on Tuesday following two weeks of talks in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The peace deal
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Middle East
The Taliban has killed at least 47 people in separate attacks in Afghanistan, despite the beginning of peace talks with Afghan officials in Moscow. The armed group launched
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World
(CNN)Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is visiting the flood-stricken northern state of Queensland Tuesday, where supermarkets are sending in supplies by barge amid fears of food shortages. According
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World
New York (CNN Business)Facebook is bad for democracy and its executives have put profits over their civic responsibilities, an early investor in the company charges in a new
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World
London (CNN Business)The British government promised Nissan up to £80 million ($104 million) as it sought to reassure the Japanese carmaker about the future of its UK operations
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Middle East
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is expected to declare near-total triumph over the Daesh group in Syria in his State of the Union address, but US defense officials are
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Middle East
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is expected to declare near-total triumph over the Daesh group in Syria in his State of the Union address, but US defense officials are
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Middle East
MOSUL: Ashraf Al-Atraqji carefully stepped around tufts of weeds sprouting in a mountain of rubble in Iraq’s Mosul, found a seat on a sun-soaked rock, and struck a
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Middle East
The Taliban have killed at least 21 people in their latest attacks in Afghanistan, despite the beginning of peace talks with Afghan officials in Moscow. Among the dead
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Middle East
The US president will give his second State of the Union Address on Tuesday. Donald Trump was initially scheduled to deliver his speech in January but Speaker of
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Middle East
Heavy rain and melting snow caused rivers to burst their banks and cause flooding across Bosnia, damaging houses and blocking roads. A bridge in the capital, Sarajevo, collapsed
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World
New York (CNN Business)Google's ad sales machine is still going strong even as regulators and consumers scrutinize the tech industry's data-privacy practices.Alphabet (GOOGL), the parent company of Google,
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World
(CNN)When top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi met Cameroon President Paul Biya in the capital Yaounde last month and wrote off a chunk of the African country's debt, the
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World
Hong Kong (CNN)Adeline Chan's nose crinkled at the market's pungent, briny smell.Chan and her mother were once regulars at Hong Kong's Dried Seafood Market, in Sheung Wan, where
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Middle East
ABU DHABI: He may have arrived at Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in a Kia, but surely even this most humble of pontiffs could not fail to have been
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Middle East
ABU DHABI: Thousands of Catholics will take part Tuesday in the biggest worship of any non-Islamic faith in the Gulf region, when they attend a mass led by
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Middle East
ABU DHABI: Thousands of Catholics will take part Tuesday in the biggest worship of any non-Islamic faith in the Gulf region, when they attend a mass led by
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Middle East
Saudi Arabia and its coalition partner the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reportedly transferred US-made weapons to al-Qaeda linked groups and a Salafi militia whose commander who once "served
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