Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
GAZA CITY: Ramadan has arrived under very harsh conditions in the Gaza Strip, the result of the 13-year siege and waves of Israeli military escalation, as well as
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Middle East
DUBAI: Mental-health campaigners in the Middle East say it is high time for teachers, parents and policymakers to encourage young people to open up about their feelings and
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Middle East
At least one protester and one army major have been killed in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, hours after protest leaders and the ruling generals reached a deal on transitional
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Middle East
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 gathering in Japan next month.
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World
(CNN)American conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has admitted he was "destroyed" in a TV interview this week with British journalist Andrew Neil after being widely mocked for storming out
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World
San Diego (CNN)Ruth Henricks has served thousands of customers at her small diner, but she will never forget one man who walked into The Huddle 30 years ago."(He)
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Middle East
DAMASCUS: Fighters fired rockets into a regime-held town in northwestern Syria on Sunday, killing six people, including five children who were playing near a monastery and wounding several
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Middle East
JERUSALEM: The US moved its Israel Embassy to Jerusalem nearly a year ago in the culmination of a diplomatic rupture that coincided with a bloodbath on the Gaza
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Middle East
Filipinos are voting in midterm elections that are expected to strengthen President Rodrigo Duterte's grip on power, opening the way for him to deliver on promises to rewrite
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Middle East
The United Nations has said the first full day of the Houthi withdrawal from three of Yemen's Red Sea ports went "in accordance with established plans", while an
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World
Istanbul (CNN)The call to prayer at Emine Inanc mosque brings together immigrants who have found sanctuary in Istanbul's working-class Zeytinburnu neighborhood.With no room inside the overcrowded mosque, dozens
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World
Seoul, South Korea (CNN)Kim Joon-hyup recently went on his first date in three years. But the 24-year-old student wasn't looking for a girlfriend, he was completing a college
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Middle East
CAIRO: “Why are women and girls coming to church if they’re wearing revealing and inappropriate clothes?” That was the message of the sermon delivered by Father Daoud Lamei
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Middle East
KHARTOUM: One month after ousting veteran President Omar Al-Bashir, Sudan’s military rulers show no sign of handing power to a civilian administration and talks with protest leaders remain
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Middle East
A new political party led by British eurosceptic Nigel Farage appears to be on course to scoop more support in elections for the European Parliament than the United
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Middle East
Every day, thousands of people risk their lives by crossing borders to escape wars and natural disasters. But many more have no choice but to stay in their
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World
Paris (CNN)A French hostage in Burkina Faso, freed in an overnight rescue this week in which two soldiers were killed, described the experience as "hell."Laurent Lassimouillas was freed
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World
(CNN)The governments of 187 countries have agreed to control the movement of plastic waste between national borders, in an effort to curb the world's plastic crisis -- but
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Middle East
JERUSALEM: Salaheedin, the main business street in East Jerusalem, was busy but not extremely full around noon on Tuesday, the second day of the holy month of Ramadan.
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Middle East
JERUSALEM: Salaheedin, the main business street in East Jerusalem, was busy but not extremely full around noon on Tuesday, the second day of the holy month of Ramadan.
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Middle East
Yemen's Houthi group has unilaterally agreed to withdraw forces from three key ports, the United Nations said on Friday, a move needed to pave the way for political negotiations
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Middle East
A top House Democrat on Friday issued subpoenas for six years of US President Donald Trump's tax returns, giving Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig
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World
Rockets aren't on time very often. Delays getting things to orbit is an "under-appreciated" problem in the industry. "It really snarls things up and costs the payload customers
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World
Hong Kong (CNN Business)Just days after they appeared to be on the verge of brokering a deal, the United States and China are fighting a trade war again.
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Middle East
UNITED NATIONS: A key architect of the long-awaited US plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace lashed out at the UN’s “anti-Israel bias” Thursday while urging support for the Trump administration’s
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Middle East
UNITED NATIONS: A key architect of the long-awaited US plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace lashed out at the UN’s “anti-Israel bias” Thursday while urging support for the Trump administration’s
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Middle East
The US State Department has cleared a potential $3bn sale of 24 Apache attack helicopters and related equipment to Qatar, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. The proposed
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