SYDNEY, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – A massive clean-up was in full swing Monday as floodwaters receded across parts of Australia devastated by a cyclone, with residents and business owners returning to thick mud, piles of debris and ruined property. At least two people were killed and three remain missing after torrential rain and powerful winds pummelled […]
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Big clean-up under way in flood-ravaged Australia
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Colombia mudslide death toll rises to 254, including 43 children: president
MOCOA, Colombia, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Devastating mudslides in the Colombian town of Mocoa killed at least 254 people, 43 of them children, President Juan Manuel Santos said Sunday, in yet another sharp rise in the death toll. “Unfortunately, these are still preliminary figures,” tweeted Santos, who traveled to the southern town Sunday to personally supervise […]
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Socialist Moreno leads Ecuador vote count: partial results
QUITO, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Socialist candidate Lenin Moreno had a slim lead over conservative ex-banker Guillermo Lasso in Ecuador’s runoff presidential vote Sunday, according to partial results, setting up a tense wait for the final count. Moreno, the designated heir to a decade of President Rafael Correa’s “21st-century socialism,” had 51.07 percent of the vote […]
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Opposition candidate Lasso alleges fraud in Ecuador vote
QUITO, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Right-wing opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso alleged fraud Sunday in Ecuador’s presidential runoff election and said he would contest the result after a partial count showed him losing. “We are going to defend the will of the Ecuadoran people in the face of an attempted fraud that aims to install what would […]
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New Emirati bank listed on Abu Dhabi stock exchange
ABU DHABI, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – A new Emirati bank, the First Abu Dhabi Bank, was listed on the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange on Sunday after the merger of two UAE-based banks, its officials said. The listing came after the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) and the First Gulf Bank (FGB) agreed to merge last […]
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Serbian PM Vucic elected president: IPSOS pollster estimate
BELGRADE, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Sunday was elected president of Serbia in the first round of voting, according to an estimate by the IPSOS research institute. “We can say that he is elected president,” Marko Uljarevic of IPSOS told AFP. IPSOS estimated Vucic won more than 55 percent of votes, followed […]