BRUSSELS, (APP/AFP) – The departure hall at Brussels airport, hit in March by a deadly double suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group, will partly reopen on Sunday, the management said. The twin explosions on March 22 killed 16 people and devastated the departure hall, shattering the building’s glass facade, collapsing ceilings and destroying […]
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Bombed Brussels airport departure hall to partly reopen Sunday
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Kenya torches world’s biggest ivory bonfire to save elephants
NAIROBI, (APP/AFP): Eleven giant pyres of tusks will be set on fire Saturday as Kenya torches its vast ivory stockpile in a grand gesture aimed at shocking the world into stopping the slaughter of elephants. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who will be the first to light the semi-circle of tusks expected to burn for days […]
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Rouhani allies set for Iran parliament win
TEHRAN, (APP/AFP): Reformist and moderate Iranian politicians allied with President Hassan Rouhani won second round parliamentary elections, unofficial results said Saturday, opening the door to them controlling the legislature. The outcome, if confirmed officially, would represent a dramatic realignment in the republic, with conservative MPs likely being outnumbered by their rivals for the first time […]
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Fourteen killed in Nairobi floods and building collapse
NAIROBI, (APP/AFP): Torrential rainstorms in the Kenyan capital have left at least 14 people dead, police said Saturday, including at least seven crushed when a six-storey building collapsed, as rescue teams shifted rubble in a desperate search for survivors. One survivour was pulled from the huge pile of debris shortly after dawn, Kenya Red Cross […]
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Seven dead in Kenya building collapse: police
NAIROBI, (APP/AFP) – At least seven people were killed when a six-storey building collapsed in the Kenyan capital amid torrential rainstorms, police said Saturday, as rescue teams shifted rubble in a desperate search for survivors. “We have lost seven people after the house collapsed last night,” Nairobi police chief Japheth Koome told AFP. “We have […]
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Britain’s Hammond, Cuba’s Castro agree on debt restructuring
HAVANA, (APP/AFP) – Visiting British foreign minister Philip Hammond reached an agreement on restructuring Cuban debt payments in a meeting Friday with President Raul Castro, officials in Havana said. The agreement deals with Cuba’s mid and long-term debt with Britain, according to a Cuban government statement. The agreement “should contribute to the development of economic, […]