Floods leave hundreds of thousands homeless in Kenya NAIROBI, Kenya, (MILLAT ONLINE+AA/APP):Hundreds of thousands of people across Kenya, especially those settled close to Tana River in the northern part, were displaced by heavy floods in the country. According to Red Cross officials, the elderly, women and children are the most affected as their flimsy houses […]
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Floods leave hundreds of thousands homeless in Kenya
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UN urges African countries to promote gender parity in education
UN urges African countries to promote gender parity in education NAIROBI, (MILLAT ONLINE+Xinhua/APP)::African governments should enact policies that promote gender parity in school enrollment to help catalyze economic growth and social renewal, a senior UN official said late Thursday during the launch of 2018 Global Education Monitoring Report Gender Review. a Manos Antoninis, a senior […]
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Seven killed in Cape Town train crash
Seven killed in Cape Town train crash Cape Town, (MILLAT ONLINE+AFP/APP):Seven people were killed in South Africa on Friday when a train ploughed into a pickup truck at a crossing where 10 children were killed in a similar accident in 2010, officials said. The seven victims, all men in their 30s, were reportedly travelling to […]
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Kremlin says US, UK accusations of Russian hacking ‘groundless’
Kremlin says US, UK accusations of Russian hacking ‘groundless’ Moscow, (MILLAT ONLINE+AFP/APP):The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed as “groundless” warnings from Britain and the United States that Russian state-sponsored hackers were threatening their crucial computer networks. “We don’t know what these new accusations are based on,” said President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “As before, neither […]
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Syria strikes ‘for honour of international community’: Macron
Syria strikes ‘for honour of international community’: Macron Strasbourg, France, (MILLAT ONLINE+AFP/APP):France, Britain and the United States carried out air strikes targeting chemical weapons sites in Syria to defend the “honour of the international community”, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. “Three countries have intervened, and let me be quite frank, quite honest — this […]
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Philippines VP sorry for Holocaust memorial photo
Philippines VP sorry for Holocaust memorial photo Manila, (MILLAT ONLINE+AFP/APP):The vice-president of the Philippines issued a public apology on Tuesday for a photograph showing her and members of her political party posing and smiling at a German Holocaust memorial. Leni Robredo, who was elected separately from President Rodrigo Duterte, attracted widespread criticism over the photo, […]