Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
ALGIERS: Algeria’s prime minister on Monday insisted voters would determine if ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika gets a fifth term at the ballot box, after major protests against his
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Middle East
Kabul, Afghanistan - The United States and the Taliban sat down for the highest level of negotiations yet in the Qatari capital Doha aimed at finding a solution to
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Middle East
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met Iranian officials in his first visit to the Islamic Republic since the start of the Syrian conflict, Syrian state media reported. Assad met
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Middle East
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir banned public gatherings and protests in a series of emergency decrees issued on Monday as he faces the most sustained anti-government street unrest of his
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Middle East
NEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria: US-backed forces evacuated over 40 truckloads of people from Daesh’s last Syria redoubt on Monday, as they sought to clear out civilians before a final
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Middle East
NEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria: US-backed forces evacuated over 40 truckloads of people from Daesh’s last Syria redoubt on Monday, as they sought to clear out civilians before a final
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Middle East
Fourteen French nationals accused of fighting for the Daesh group were transferred to Iraq by US-backed forces squeezing the extremists’ final Syrian bastion, an Iraqi government source told
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Middle East
The UN's highest court has called on Britain to quickly cede control over a chain of islands in the Indian Ocean, the largest of which houses a strategically
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Middle East
A group of former US national security officials are set to release a statement arguing there is no justification for US President Donald Trump to use a national
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Middle East
Iraqi President Barham Saleh has said that 13 French Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) detainees who were transferred to Iraq last week from Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
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Middle East
Beirut, Lebanon - "Write to us if you are a domestic worker, or know a domestic worker, who is being abused in Lebanon. We will try to help."
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Middle East
There are times when one tragedy tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us understand how much of the world is run
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Middle East
The United Kingdom has said it would ban Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, adding the group, including its political wing, to its list of banned "terrorist" organisations. "Hezbollah is
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World
(CNN)One year ago Kristina Vogel graced the famous Berlin Six Day cycling event with the powerful dominance of a two-time Olympic gold medalist.This year she returned in a
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World
Any doubts as to whether Alex Honnold was the greatest rock climber of all time were doused when the American did something that no one thought was humanly
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Middle East
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman joined leaders from Europe and the Middle East in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on Sunday night for the
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Middle East
A controversial cartoon of American tennis star Serena Williams widely condemned as "racist" and "sexist" did not breach media standards, an Australian press watchdog has ruled. The artwork,
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Middle East
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is facing growing international pressure after his troops repelled foreign aid convoys at the country's borders, with the United States threatening new sanctions and
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Middle East
A Bangladeshi man who was shot dead after he tried to hijack a plane had been carrying a toy gun and did not have any explosives on him,
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Middle East
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman joined leaders from Europe and the Middle East in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on Sunday night for the
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Middle East
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman joined leaders from Europe and the Middle East in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on Sunday night for the
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Middle East
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman joined leaders from Europe and the Middle East in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on Sunday night for the
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Middle East
Green Book, the tale of a celebrated black pianist who befriends his white driver as they tour the segregated American South in the 1960s, has overcome controversy to
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Middle East
Violent clashes have taken place between Venezuelans and Venezuelan authorities on the border with Brazil. The unrest came soon after trucks carrying basic aid supplies crossed the border
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Middle East
Hanoi, Vietnam - As Vietnam's capital gears up to host the second US-North Korea summit, it's not just the beefed-up security, sold-out hotels and fluttering flags across Hanoi that
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World
With the 2019 awards calendar reaching its grand finale at the Oscars Sunday evening, so too does a season of show-stopping red carpet fashion. While the tone was
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World
When a Qatari sheikh asked a concierge at the Raffles Dubai hotel to deliver a present to his wife, the concierge nodded. "Of course, sir. What gift?"
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