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19 June 2017 • 06:18 AMT
IFAB proposes 30-minute halves in football games

The organisation responsible for the Laws of the Game hopes to increase the fairness and attractiveness of the sport with a number of changes.

19 June 2017 • 06:08 AMT
Iran launches missiles into Syria in revenge for attacks

It was the first missile attack by Iran outside its own territory in 30 years, since the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88.

17 June 2017 • 14:34 AMT
Macron’s party on course for landslide parliamentary win

The election will see Macron’s party Republic on the Move win an overwhelming majority of 400-470 seats in the 577-seat national assembly, pollsters forecast.

17 June 2017 • 14:14 AMT
Turkey frees PM advisor detained over Gulen links

Birol Erdem, a former senior justice ministry official, was released under judicial supervision which means he should still face trial.

17 June 2017 • 13:42 AMT
“Concussion” director to helm “Filthy Rich” bestseller adaptation

“Filthy Rich” is Patterson’s 2016 nonfiction true-crime best-seller about Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who employed underage girls as masseuses.

17 June 2017 • 13:42 AMT
UN envoy targets fresh Syria talks for July 10

“(De Mistura) wishes to announce he will convene a seventh round of the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva,” his office said in a statement.

17 June 2017 • 13:37 AMT
Libyan coastguard rescues more than 900 migrants

“A coastguard patrol intercepted five inflatable boats and a wooden vessel carrying 906 migrants at dawn on Friday,” General Ayoub Qassem said.

17 June 2017 • 13:22 AMT
Guillermo del Toro’s “Book Of Life” getting a sequel

Director Jorge R Gutierrez’s original story of a childhood love triangle was a surprise smash, and even earned a prestigious Golden Globe Award nomination.

17 June 2017 • 13:19 AMT
Iran expects to sign gas deal with Total “within weeks”

“Iran and Total are summing up the discussions on signing the contract for the development of phase 11 of South Pars,” said Zanganeh.

17 June 2017 • 13:06 AMT
U.S. alerts citizens of heightened security in Istanbul

The statement released on late June 16 said the Turkish security presence was increased in the central district of Mecidiyekoy.

17 June 2017 • 13:02 AMT
Yemen govt. agrees to UN Hodeidah plan, Houthis still skeptical

FM Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi said his government renewed its acceptance of the proposals made by UN Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed in May.

17 June 2017 • 12:47 AMT
Iraq captures border crossing with Syria from IS

Tribal forces and border police, supported by Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition aircraft, took part in the operation to take the al-Waleed crossing

17 June 2017 • 12:40 AMT
Fitzwilliam Museum buys newly discovered Gérôme portrait

Gérôme is one of the most important French painters of the 19th century, yet his work is only represented in six British public collections to date.

17 June 2017 • 12:22 AMT
Armenia opposition bloc talks security with Karabakh president

The members of the political alliance are attending the 3rd Forum of Armenian Political Parties, currently underway in Karabakh.

17 June 2017 • 12:07 AMT
Rijksmuseum stages retrospective of 19th-century photography

Three hundred photos from the museum’s own collection will show just how varied photography was immediately after its invention in 1839.

17 June 2017 • 11:47 AMT
BET acquires comedy “Fat Camp” from Los Angeles Film Fest

“Fat Camp” is centered on Hutch, a 20-year old spoiled, ungrateful man that thinks looks are everything.

17 June 2017 • 11:46 AMT
Al-Jazeera says Twitter account temporarily ‘suspended’

A spokesman for the channel said the cut may have been due to a technical problem and that all Twitter accounts affected were back online.

17 June 2017 • 11:38 AMT
Putin says early to speak about retaliation against new U.S. sanctions

Putin said new sanctions under consideration by the United States would damage relations between the two countries.

17 June 2017 • 11:35 AMT
EU Delegation head VS Armenian authorities

During a conference titled “Electoral Developments in Armenia: Lessons Learned and Steps Ahead” held in Yerevan on June 15, 2017, the head of the European Union Delegation to Armenia, Ambassador Piotr Switalski, announced that the recent parliamentary elections “were not perfect.”

17 June 2017 • 11:16 AMT
Iraqi forces remove IS fighters from vicinity of U.S. base in Syria

The capture of al-Waleed removes Islamic State fighters from the vicinity of a U.S. base located on the other side of the border, in Syrian territory.

17 June 2017 • 10:47 AMT
Guns N’ Roses play first UK gig under classic line-up in 24 years

The setlist featured no big surprises, with GnR classics set alongside covers of the likes of Wings, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and The Who.

17 June 2017 • 10:38 AMT
Father John Misty reacts to Fleet Foxes’ new album

The former Fleet Foxes drummer left the group in 2012, explaining years later that “We all started hating each other.”

17 June 2017 • 10:07 AMT
Samsung rolls out art-inspired Frame TV

The TV is not Samsung’s first attempt at trying to make your TV less TV-like — its Serif TV was meant to blend in with your furniture.

17 June 2017 • 09:20 AMT
Amazon nabs Ai Weiwei’s refugee crisis doc “Human Flow”

Filmed in 23 countries over the course of more than a year, Human Flow chronicles the staggering breadth of the global refugee crisis.

17 June 2017 • 09:08 AMT
Armenia’s Tsarukyan bloc says may vote against new govt. program

“If the content has no fundamental changes and fails to present a realistic approach by sectors, we’ll be against it,” Vahe Enfiajyan said.

17 June 2017 • 09:01 AMT
Comic book artist Jack Kirby to be named “Disney Legend”

Kirby will be one of two initial Marvel honorees for the Disney award — Stan Lee being the other; both men will receive the award during the July 14 event.

17 June 2017 • 08:50 AMT
YouTube’s heatmaps show where and when people look in VR videos

Google is also announcing an upcoming training course for virtual reality content creators called the VR Creator Lab.

17 June 2017 • 08:45 AMT
Dual-screen YotaPhone 3 coming later this year

The dual-screen smartphone will come in 64GB and 128GB versions and will be available in Russia and China this fall.

17 June 2017 • 08:29 AMT
Azerbaijan’s truce violations leave one more Karabakh soldier dead

Karabakh vowed targeted retaliation against the operations of the rivals who are encouraged by the int’l community’s unaddressed statements.

17 June 2017 • 08:24 AMT
Diane Kruger joins Steve Carell in Robert Zemeckis movie

The project centers on a man who recovers from an assault by building a miniature World War II-era village in his backyard.