LOS ANGELES, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Rain washed out all matches scheduled Tuesday at the US Men’s Clay Court Championship, the ATP tournament in Houston, Texas. Organizers said all remaining first-round singles matches would be completed on Wednesday. That incudes fifth-seeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco taking on South African veteran Kevin Anderson and sixth-seeded Feliciano Lopez taking […]
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Rain washes out play at ATP Houston tournament
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White House spokesman apologizes for ‘insensitive’ Hitler remark
WASHINGTON, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – White House press secretary Sean Spicer apologized Tuesday for “insensitive” remarks during a press briefing in which he asserted that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons on his own people. “Frankly, I mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive comment about the Holocaust and there is no comparison,” Spicer told CNN. […]
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Congo police arrest dozens after protest ban
KINSHASA, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Police have detained dozens of people accused of violating a ban on protests against DR Congo President Joseph Kabila, police said Tuesday. “Police have arrested and detained 34 people in Kinshasa,” after Monday’s protests, said national police spokesman Pierre-Rombaut Mwanamputu. “Some wanted to breach the ban on a march, the others […]
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Dybala stars as Juventus outclass Barcelona
TURIN, Italy, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Argentine striker Paulo Dybala upstaged his illustrious compatriot Lionel Messi with a brace as Juventus outclassed Barcelona 3-0 in their Champions League quarter-final first leg in Turin on Tuesday. Dybala scored twice in the first 22 minutes for the Italian champions and Giorgio Chiellini made it 3-0 10 minutes into […]
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Chile students clash with police at demo
SANTIAGO, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Clashes erupted Tuesday as Chile’s raucous student movement held its first protest of the year for free education, with students hurling stones and police firing tear gas. Tens of thousands of students flooded the streets of central Santiago, protesting an education reform bill they say does not go far enough in […]
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Corruption probe targets nine Brazilian ministers: court
BRASMLIA, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday authorized corruption probes against nine ministers in President Michel Temer’s government, court documents showed. The probes are related to suspected links by the ministers to the massive “Car Wash” embezzlement and bribery scandal shaking Brazilian politics.