Tongan PM retains job after royal ‘sacking’ Nuku’alofa, Tonga, (MILLAT ONLINE):Tonga’s Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva has been returned to power for a second term, just months after the Pacific island’s king effectively sacked him by dissolving parliament and calling a snap election. Pohiva won a parliamentary ballot late Monday to decide the prime ministership by […]
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Tongan PM retains job after royal ‘sacking’
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Multiple’ deaths as train derails over Washington state highway
Multiple’ deaths as train derails over Washington state highway DuPont, United States, (MILLAT ONLINE):An Amtrak passenger train traveling on a new route for the first time derailed Monday in Washington state, killing “multiple” people as cars plunged off a bridge onto a busy highway at the height of morning rush hour, officials said. The train, […]
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Four police killed by separatists in anglophone Cameroon
Four police killed by separatists in anglophone Cameroon Yaoundé, (MILLAT ONLINE):Four police officers were killed in an attack by suspected separatists in Cameroon’s English-speaking region on Monday, a government minister said, the latest violence to strike the country’s troubled west. “Unfortunately an attack took the lives of four of our police officers, coldly murdered this […]
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Chile swings back to right as billionaire returns to power
Chile swings back to right as billionaire returns to power Santiago, (MILLAT ONLINE):Chile’s political landscape once again swung back from left to right, after billionaire businessman Sebastian Pinera beat an independent backed by outgoing center-leftist President Michelle Bachelet. The latest swing of the political pendulum came as Pinera, who ran the South American copper giant […]
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Trump to lay out ‘America First’ security strategy
Trump to lay out ‘America First’ security strategy Washington, (MILLAT ONLINE):President Donald Trump is set to lay out Monday a new National Security Strategy built upon his trademark “America First” slogan, which is expected to have economic security at its core. The US leader, who has dismantled the legacy of Barack Obama on issues ranging […]
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Down syndrome Palestinian to receive support in Turkey
Down syndrome Palestinian to receive support in Turkey ISTANBUL, (MILLAT ONLINE):Mohamed al-Tawil, a 29-year-old Palestinian with Down syndrome who was detained for an hour by Israeli troops in Hebron on December 10, was brought to Turkey to receive social and psychological support. Tawil was brought to Istanbul with his parents with the help of the […]