Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
DUBAI: The centuries-old sectarian Sunni-Shiite divide is arguably so entrenched that many — even Muslims — would be hard-placed to pinpoint the source of the largest cultural dispute
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Middle East
Erik Prince, founder of the private American security company Blackwater, has admitted to meeting with members of the Trump campaign in August 2016 after, according to a public
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Turkish police have fired tear gas at thousands of people who gathered in central Istanbul for a march to celebrate International Women's Day in defiance of a protest
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Middle East
The baby son of a British teenager stripped of her citizenship after joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) armed group in Syria
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Middle East
NEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria: Defeated but unrepentant, some militants limping out of their besieged final bastion in eastern Syria still praise Daesh and promise bloody vengeance against its enemies.
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Middle East
JEDDAH: The Iranian-backed Houthi militia committed 18 violations against the Swedish cease-fire agreement in Hodeidah during the last 24 hours, the Arab coalition said on Friday. The Stockholm Agreement
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Middle East
AMMAN: A row over an Israeli ban on a top cleric entering Islam’s third-holiest site failed to prevent thousands of Muslims flocking to Friday prayers. More than 40,000
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Middle East
Guatemala City - Marcia Mendez carried a photograph of her older sister Luz Hayde around with her all day. For Mendez and many others in Guatemala, Friday marked much
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Middle East
Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who served seven years in prison for leaking one of the largest troves of classified documents in US history, has been sent
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Middle East
Caracas - I arrived to Venezuela on Thursday just a few hours after a massive power cut left most of the country in complete darkness. At the airport, long
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World
(CNN) — Despite its impressive Mayan ruins and inviting climate, bite-sized Belize has long been overshadowed by Mexico and Costa Rica for sun seekers looking for an affordable
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World
Fatick, Senegal — Marie Diouf, 35, is on her cellphone speaking swiftly in Wolof, a lyrical Senegalese language, as salt flies past her. Dressed in a red boubou,
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World
(CNN) — Picture the scene: you're driving through the arid American desert. There's been nothing around for miles. Suddenly, up ahead, you spot a gigantic concrete arrow. No,
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Middle East
KASSERINE/TUNISIA: Souad Gharsalli lives in a rented flat in the center of Kasserine, in western Tunisia, baking and selling artisanal bread to make money. But she should be
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Middle East
KASSERINE/TUNISIA: Souad Gharsalli lives in a rented flat in the center of Kasserine, in western Tunisia, baking and selling artisanal bread to make money. But she should be
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Middle East
MOSUL: A car bomb blast in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday killed at least two people — a child and a member of the security
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Middle East
Tens of thousands of Algerians have defied large contingents of riot police and resumed mass demonstrations against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid to extend his 20-year rule. A
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Middle East
Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian man and wounded more than 40 as thousands protested near the Gaza Strip's perimeter fence, the enclave's health ministry has
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Middle East
Jordan, Amman - Thousands of shoppers have descended on central Amman in a show of support for business owners whose stores were badly affected by heavy rains last
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World
(CNN)A court in Germany has sentenced a 57-year-old man to life imprisonment for poisoning his colleagues' sandwiches.The man, identified under local law as Klaus O, added dangerous heavy
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World
(CNN)Meghan, Britain's Duchess of Sussex, has admitted she doesn't engage with Twitter or read newspapers, in an effort to avoid "getting muddled" by the "noise," the UK's Press
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World
(CNN)Posters claiming Michael Jackson is innocent of sexual abuse allegations have gone on display on London buses, after the documentary "Leaving Neverland" aired in Britain.In the four-hour documentary,
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Middle East
ALGIERS: Several lawmakers of Algeria's ruling FLN party have resigned to join mass anti-government protests, the private Ashourouq TV station said on Friday. Tens of thousands of Algerians defied
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Middle East
CAIRO: Hundreds of protesters chanted anti-government slogans after leaving prayers at a major mosque near Sudan's capital on Friday, drawing tear-gas volleys from police, eyewitnesses said.The demonstration in
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Middle East
JERUSALEM: Palestinians prayed at a building in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound Friday, defying Israeli efforts to bar access to that part of the flashpoint holy site.There have recently
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Middle East
Pakistani authorities have begun a crackdown on groups it claims are linked to banned organisations. So far, more than 100 people have been arrested and the government's also
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Middle East
Tens of thousands of Algerians have taken to the streets of the capital, Algiers, as part of the biggest rallies yet against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a
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