NEW YORK, May 17 (APP): At least 50,000 (fifty thousand) US troops would be required under the new Afghanistan war strategy approved last month by President Donald Trump’s top military and national security advisors to stop the advance of the Taliban and save the government in Kabul, according to an opinion piece published by Bloomberg, […]
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Atleast 50,000 US troops needed to combat Taliban advance in Afghanistan: report
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Trump: ‘very productive’ 100 days in office, ‘great battles’ ahead
HARRISBURG, United States, April 30 (APP/AFP) – Donald Trump on Saturday hailed his “very productive” first 100 days as America’s president and told a cheering crowd of supporters “great battles” lay ahead. In an enthusiastic, campaign-style rally in Pennsylvania — a key state in his election win — Trump said the record of his first […]
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Trump invites Philippines’ Duterte to Washington for talks
WASHINGTON, April 30, (APP/AFP) – US President Donald Trump on Saturday invited his Philippine counterpart to Washington in a “friendly” call in which the leaders discussed Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs and their countries’ alliance, the White House said. Duterte has faced international condemnation for his brutal crackdown on crime, which has claimed thousands of […]
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Eight military personnel die in Cuba plane crash
HAVANA, April 30, (APP/AFP) – A plane crash in western Cuba on Saturday killed eight military personnel, the ministry in charge of the island’s armed forces said. The Russian-made AN-26 aircraft crashed in a mountainous region of western Artemisa province, killing all eight on board including the plane’s crew, the Revolutionary Armed Forces ministry said […]
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China ‘putting pressure’ on North Korea: Trump
WASHINGTON, April 30, (APP/AFP) – Donald Trump thinks Chinese President Xi Jinping is “putting pressure” on North Korea, the US president said in an interview to air Sunday, as tensions mount over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs. If North Korea carries out a nuclear test “I would not be happy,” Trump told the CBS television […]
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No end in sight for Japan ‘crisps crisis’
TOKYO, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Legions of Japanese crisps addicts are suffering and it doesn’t look like they’ll be getting their full fix anytime soon. The country is in the midst of a dire crisps shortage after violent typhoons wiped out potato crops in top tuber producing Hokkaido. The unprecedented series of storms last year has […]