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Steady progress made in building of CPEC: Head of NDRC

  • Steady progress made in building of CPEC: Head of NDRC BEIJING, (MILLAT ONLINE):China’s top economic planner has said that steady progress was made in the building of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship project under the Belt and Road Initiative. The Mombasa-Nairobi railway has been put into operation, construction has begun on the Belgrade […]

  • Cholera cases in Yemen surpass one million: WHO

    Cholera cases in Yemen surpass one million: WHO UNITED NATIONS, (MILLAT ONLINE):The total number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has crossed one million, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Friday, urging greater efforts to tackle the outbreak and deal with the deteriorating health situation in the war-torn nation. “The epidemic is not yet over […]

  • Nursing home workers win big in Spain’s Christmas lottery

    Nursing home workers win big in Spain’s Christmas lottery Madrid, (MILLAT ONLINE):Spain’s annual Christmas lottery on Friday showered over 10 million euros on employees of a nursing home in a struggling town where one in five people is out of work. Celebrating employees of the “Sagrado Corazon” nursing home in the central town of Campo […]

  • What’s for Christmas? $300,000 in marijuana, says elderly couple

    What’s for Christmas? $300,000 in marijuana, says elderly couple Chicago, (MILLAT ONLINE):An elderly American couple’s Christmas plans went up in smoke after they were caught by police with a giant stash of pot — which they said they planned to give as gifts. Patrick Jiron, 80, and his wife Barbara, 70, went on a cross-country […]

  • Peru’s Kuczynski dodges impeachment, but is badly weakened

    Peru’s Kuczynski dodges impeachment, but is badly weakened Lima, (MILLAT ONLINE):A much-weakened Pedro Pablo Kuczynski embarked on a cabinet reshuffle Friday, a day after the Peruvian president narrowly staved off impeachment over allegations of corruption linked to disgraced Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht. But the failure to topple the 79-year-old president has also opened a serious […]

  • Retirement home workers win big in Spain’s Christmas lottery

    Retirement home workers win big in Spain’s Christmas lottery Madrid, (MILLAT ONLINE):Spain’s annual Christmas lottery on Friday showered over 10 million euros on employees of a retirement home in a struggling town where one in five people is out of work. Celebrating employees of the “Sagrado Corazon” in the central town of Campo de Criptana, […]