Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
‘It’s a challenge’: Raya Al-Hassan, the Middle East’s first female interior minister BEIRUT: “What, it’s been two weeks? Wait, three weeks? No!” Lebanon and the Arab world’s first
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Middle East
‘It’s a challenge’: Raya Al-Hassan, the Middle East’s first female interior minister BEIRUT: “What, it’s been two weeks? Wait, three weeks? No!” Lebanon and the Arab world’s first
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Middle East
Wife of imprisoned Qatari royal tells of suffering of children at hands of regime JEDDAH: Asma Al-Rayyan, the wife of Sheikh Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al-Thani, an imprisoned member
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Middle East
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - For a legion of armchair enthusiasts, the disappearance of MH370 is an opportunity to spin increasingly far-fetched conspiracy theories about what happened to the plane
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Middle East
Jakarta, Indonesia - Psychologist Jackie Viemilawati wakes up at 5:30am every day to get her eight-year-old son, Noah, ready for school. She makes sure he showers and eats
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Middle East
Bangkok, Thailand - "The country that points a gun at your throat. Claims to have freedom but no right to choose." Rap Against Dictatorship, a Thai hip-hop group,
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World
(CNN)Thirty-six countries have signed an open letter criticizing Saudi Arabia's human rights record. The letter, read Thursday at a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, is
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World
(CNN)The Milky Way is even weightier than imagined. Using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, astronomers have determined the most accurate
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World
(CNN)Danish police have launched prosecutions against 14 people who allegedly shared a video showing the murder of a young woman in Morocco.Police inspector Michael Kjeldgaard at East Jutland
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Middle East
TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday appointed ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, a one-time presidential hopeful, as head of the judiciary, the leader’s website said.Former judge
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Middle East
TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday appointed ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, a one-time presidential hopeful, as head of the judiciary, the leader’s website said.Former judge
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Middle East
‘It’s a challenge’: Raya Al-Hassan, the Middle East’s first female interior minister BEIRUT: “What, it’s been two weeks? Wait, three weeks? No!” Lebanon and the Arab world’s first
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Middle East
The US House of Representatives on Thursday voted to condemn anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim discrimination and other bigotry against minorities, with Democrats trying to push past a dispute that has
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Middle East
Rights groups have voiced concern over the targeting of journalists, activists, and lawyers who have aided or represented migrants at the southern border by the United States government.
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Middle East
Ilopango, El Salvador - Alba Lorena Rodriguez embraced her 11- and 14-year-old daughters as a free woman for the first time in nearly a decade on Thursday. Since
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World
London (CNN Business)Mark Zuckerberg has put Facebook on a collision course with European regulators. The CEO wrote Wednesday in a lengthy blog post that he plans to integrate
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World
London (CNN Business)China's Huawei shunned the spotlight as it grew to become one of the world's top tech companies. Now it's going on the offensive to counter a
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World
London (CNN Business)It's official: Mario Draghi has missed his chance to raise European interest rates. The president of the European Central Bank steps down in October after eight
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Middle East
LONDON: The Houthis have “killed the Stockholm Agreement” that they signed with the Yemeni government in Sweden last December, the Yemeni army’s spokesman Brig. Abdo Abdullah Majali said
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Middle East
ALGIERS: Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika issued his first warning on Thursday to protesters who have taken to the streets in thousands to demand an end to his 20-year rule,
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Middle East
The medical charity Doctors Without Borders has criticised the humanitarian response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It said not enough's been done to
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Middle East
Israel's Central Elections Committee has disqualified an alliance of Palestinian-Israeli parties from running in next month's election. It follows a petition filed by the prime minister's Likud party
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Middle East
Human-rights lawyers have urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open a preliminary investigation into alleged mass deportations by Syrian authorities, in an attempt to hold President Bashar
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World
(CNN) — Dubbed an engineering marvel, the highly anticipated Raffles City Chongqing project in China is nearly complete. Devised by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie, it measures a staggering
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World
"I just got out of a meeting with the Secret Service. I'm still in the parking lot," said Rich "RJ" Rappaport at the beginning of our phone interview.
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World
On a lone tree in the Nordmarka forest just north of Oslo, there's a sign that reads "Framtidsbiblioteket - Future Library." In the year 2114, the wood from
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Middle East
NEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria: US-backed Syrian forces prepared for another outpouring of civilians and suspected militants Thursday from the remnants of the Daesh group’s “caliphate,” which is teetering on
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