Four US hikers rescued off Mexico volcano, one missing Puebla, Mexico, (MILLAT ONLINE):The Mexican military and high-altitude alpine experts rescued four of five American hikers injured while climbing the tallest volcano in North America, officials said Sunday. Initial reports said that eight people had gone missing on the country’s highest peak, an inactive volcano known […]
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Four US hikers rescued off Mexico volcano, one missing
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Cubans vote in municipal elections with eye to leadership change
Cubans vote in municipal elections with eye to leadership change Havana, (MILLAT ONLINE):Cubans choose municipal councilors Sunday in island-wide local elections that are the first step in a Communist Party-supervised process meant to culminate next year with the election of a successor to President Raul Castro. Castro, 86, cast his ballot at a voting station […]
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Trump administration eyes easing student debt protections
Trump administration eyes easing student debt protections Washington, (MILLAT ONLINE):Thousands of students who ran up unpayable debts at for-profit schools are anxiously waiting to see if US President Donald Trump’s administration does away with anti-fraud protections put in place by his predecessor Barack Obama. Some 95,000 cases of former students seeking forgiveness of their debt […]
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Modified PC-I for Smart Schools Project in process of approval
London, Nov 26 (APP):Capital Administration and Development Division (CA&DD) has submitted a modified PC-I for implementation of Smart Schools Project to the Planning Division for seeking approval which is in process. According to the official source, the idea of transforming 34 public educational institutions across the country into smart schools was conceived and launched by […]
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Petra, BTA sign cooperation programme on exchange of news
AMMAN,Nov 26 (APP/AA):Jordan News Agency Petra and the Bulgarian News Agency BTA signed in Amman, a cooperation programme on the exchange of news and expertise between the two agencies. Under the cooperation programme, which was signed by Petra’s Director General Faisal Al Shboul and BTA’s Director Maxim Minchev in the presence of Jordanian Consul in […]
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New Kenyatta term to open with country bitterly divided
Nairobi, Nov 26 (AFP/APP):Uhuru Kenyatta will be sworn in for a second term as Kenya’s president on Tuesday, the final act of an electoral saga that exposed deep and lasting divisions in the country. His inauguration comes ahead after Kenya’s Supreme Court last Monday validated his poll victory, although the country’s political crisis is not […]