Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
In November 1979, a group of Iranian students took over the United States embassy in Tehran. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days, in what
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World
(CNN)A man who allegedly stabbed the elderly rector of a church in Canada during a televised Mass as shocked parishioners watched will appear in court Saturday. The attack
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(CNN)There were emotional scenes at the Sydney Cricket Ground as players from the Crusaders and the New South Wales Waratahs formed a huddle ahead of Saturday's Super Rugby
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(CNN)Many Americans and Canadians have a great chance to see the northern lights on Friday night and early Saturday morning.A solar flare that erupted on March 20 is
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Middle East
ALGIERS: Hundreds of Algerian lawyers protested again on Saturday in the capital to demand the immediate resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika who has been for 20 years in
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Middle East
ALGIERS: Hundreds of Algerian lawyers protested again on Saturday in the capital to demand the immediate resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika who has been for 20 years in
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Middle East
A gun battle between Somalia's security forces and the armed group al-Shabab in the capital, Mogadishu, has ended, leaving 15 people dead, including the country's deputy labour minister,
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Middle East
As Algeria's oil wealth dries up, people are demanding to know where the money has gone. Corruption, youth unemployment and inequality have been at the centre of protests
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Middle East
As Jacinda Ardern walked up to the microphone, the weight of the world seemed to fall squarely on her shoulders. "Asalamu alaikum!" New Zealand's prime minister uttered the
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World
(CNN)Some 20,000 kilometers of roads separate Twickenham Stadium, the site of the 2015 Rugby World Cup final, and Tokyo Stadium, which will host the opening game of this
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World
(CNN) — The Airbus A380 might be on the out, but Japanese airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) has just taken delivery of the first of three snazzy new
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World
Written by Elizabeth Stamp, CNN Say "doomsday bunker" and most people would imagine a concrete room filled with cots and canned goods. The threat of global annihilation may
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Middle East
BEIRUT: Now the Daesh group's "caliphate" has fallen, the hard-won limited autonomy of Syria's Kurds will be left in peril if their key US ally goes ahead with
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Middle East
BEIRUT: Daesh has been defeated at its final shred of territory of Baghouz in Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Saturday, announcing the end of
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Middle East
The Saudi-led Arab coalition targeted Houthi military camps in Sanaa on Saturday, Al-Arabiya TV reported on Saturday. Eyewitnesses from the area said that the coalition air force targeted
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Middle East
The full extent of the ferry disaster in the Iraqi city of Mosul is becoming clearer. Civil Defence says the number of dead is now at least 120,
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Middle East
Chimanimani, Zimbabwe - A week since Cyclone Idai made landfall in eastern Zimbabwe, authorities and aid groups are stepping up relief efforts on the ground as the hardest-hit
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Middle East
Two explosions went off inside a stadium hosting an agricultural show in southern Afghanistan killing four people and wounding 31, government officials said. The blasts took place in Lashkar
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World
"You will conquer Rome and own the world," ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi told his followers in July 2014.
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)Ethiopian Airlines unveiled plans last October to build a mega-airport south of Addis Ababa. The new hub, it claimed, would handle 80 million passengers a
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World
Beirut (CNN)When Mike Pompeo landed in Beirut from Tel Aviv on Friday morning, barely a handful of demonstrators took to the streets to protest the US Secretary of
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Middle East
Trump declares all Daesh-held territory eliminated in Syria but SDF continue fighting BAGHOUZ, Syria: Daesh militants in eastern Syria still held out late on Friday, the US-backed militia
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Middle East
Pompeo urges Lebanon to move away from Iran and Hezbollah’s ‘dark ambitions’ BEIRUT: On the last leg of his Middle East tour in Beirut, US Secretary of State
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Middle East
Christchurch, New Zealand – Christchurch's Al Noor mosque has reopened its doors, eight days after they were shuttered in the wake of the killing of 50 Muslims during
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Middle East
US-backed fighters in Syria's east have declared their final victory over ISIL, ending a four-year battle against the group that once held territory spanning a third of Syria and
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Middle East
Washington - At least seven top Democratic and presidential candidates running in the 2020 election will not attend next week's American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual policy conference. The
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World
(CNN)More than 1,000 days after the British public voted to leave the European Union, EU leaders have agreed to allow Britain a delay to the withdrawal process so
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