SAN FRANCISCO, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP): San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey took a fastball to the head in the first inning of a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday and exited the contest. Posey, batting with a runner at third and two outs in the bottom of the first, couldn’t avoid the pitch from Arizona’s […]
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Baseball: Giants’ Posey takes fastball to helmet
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Huge fire hits France’s Grande-Synthe migrant camp
GRANDE-SYNTHE, France, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP): A huge fire tore through at least half of the Grande-Synthe migrant camp outside the northern French city of Dunkirk on Monday night, an AFP correspondent reported. Firefighters said at least ten people had been injured in the blaze, which witnesses said broke out after a row between migrants. The camp […]
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El Nino can warn on cholera outbreaks in Africa: study
WASHINGTON, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – El Nino, the cyclical climatic phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, is linked to shifts in cholera cases in Africa, providing an early warning that could save lives, scientists said Monday. During the years when El Nino is warming the eastern Pacific, East Africa has about 50,000 additional cholera cases a year, […]
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US unemployment rate near 10-year low, but job creation falters
WASHINGTON, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – The US unemployment rate fell in March to 4.5 percent, its lowest level in nearly 10 years, but job creation tumbled unexpectedly, underscoring the challenges President Donald Trump faces to fulfill his 25-million-job pledge. After months of pumping out new jobs at a steady clip, the world’s largest economy added only […]
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Thousands protest in Senegal against President Sall
DAKAR, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Thousands of people took to the streets of the Senegalese capital Dakar on Friday to protest against President Macky Sall and call for the release of political opponents. The protesters, many dressed in black, demanded the release of Dakar Mayor Khalifa Sall, who had been seen as a presidential candidate for […]
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Defense stocks, oil boosted by US attacks on Syria
NEW YORK, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Wall Street stocks finished modestly lower Friday following a disappointing US jobs report, while Pentagon missile strikes on Syria lifted defense shares and oil prices. Gold prices, a traditional safe haven in times of turbulence, also rallied following the Syria action, while global stock markets were mixed. The Labor Department […]