Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
The United States was the last major nation to perform invasive testing on chimpanzees, infecting them with HIV, tuberculosis and other diseases. It stopped in 2015 because of
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Middle East
The body of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was likely burned in a large oven at the Saudi consulate general's residence in Istanbul, an Al Jazeera investigation revealed.
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World
Hong Kong (CNN)Tensions on the border between India and Pakistan last week pushed the two nuclear-powered South Asian adversaries closer to conflict than at any point in the
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World
London (CNN)The world is moving towards legal gender equality -- but it's moving very, very slowly. Only six countries currently give women and men equal rights, a major
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London (CNN Business)The United States is giving the United Kingdom a preview of what it can expect from take-no-prisoners trade negotiations after Brexit. The Trump administration on Thursday
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Middle East
BAGHOUZ, Syria: Daesh militants are desperately fighting to hang on to the last tiny piece of territory they hold on the riverside in eastern Syria, deploying snipers, guided
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BAGHOUZ, Syria: Daesh militants are desperately fighting to hang on to the last tiny piece of territory they hold on the riverside in eastern Syria, deploying snipers, guided
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Middle East
CAIRO: Egyptian football club Pyramids FC announced a 10 million Egyptian pound donation for the victims of a deadly train crash that hit Egypt last week. In a
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Middle East
At least 23 people were killed after a tornado slammed into the state of Alabama in the United States and destroyed numerous homes with a death toll that
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Makassar, Indonesia - Earlier this month Sajad Jacob, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan who had been living in an Indonesian detention centre for nearly two decades, died in hospital.
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Middle East
Opposition leader Juan Guaido called for nationwide demonstrations on Monday to coincide with his planned return to Venezuela, a challenge expected to escalate his power struggle with President
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World
(CNN)The four men in green walk calmly down the street, to gentle clapping from the people around them. They appear to be defectors, shown on a video posted
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World
Seoul (CNN)The US and South Korea have canceled major war games that have long been a source of tensions on the Korean Peninsula in order to "support diplomatic
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World
(CNN)The State Department on Sunday publicly confirmed that the US Consulate General in Jerusalem would merge with the US Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday."We will continue to conduct
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World
London (CNN)The son of a woman killed after a Novichok attack against ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to hand over two suspects to
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World
(CNN)Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has promised to continue the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, almost five years to the day since it disappeared. Speaking to
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World
(CNN)UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is unharmed after he was pelted with an egg during a visit to a North London mosque Sunday, a Labour Party source confirmed
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Middle East
ABU DHABI: A high-profile meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has pledged its commitment to establishing an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem
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Middle East
LONDON: The Stockholm Agreement is now in “last chance saloon,” British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said in a statement during a visit to Yemen on Sunday. "The process could be
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JERUSALEM: The United States has officially shuttered its consulate in Jerusalem, downgrading the status of its main diplomatic mission to the Palestinians by folding it into the US
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Middle East
Just as students across Algeria on Sunday began gathering once again to demand their country's president step down, thousands of kilometres away, on the other side of the Mediterranean,
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Police in Israel have extended bans on top Palestinian officials who oversee Jerusalem's Al Aqsa compound from entering the holy site, in a move analysts warned could further
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A Huawei executive is suing the Canadian government, its border agency and the national police force, alleging that they detained, searched and interrogated her before informing her she
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AMMAN: Jordan’s waqf minister has slammed the Israeli government for barring a top cleric from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site, for 40 days. Jordanian Minister of Waqf
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CAIRO: The Egyptian government has approved tough new laws to fight terrorism in the wake of recent deadly attacks in the country. One of the latest key changes
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Middle East
ABU DHABI: A high-profile meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has pledged its commitment to establishing an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem
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Middle East
Algiers, Algeria - The campaign manager of Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been facing nearly two weeks of protests demanding him to not seek a fifth term, says the
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