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Golf: Kerr, Mason join Icher atop LPGA leaderboard

  • LOS ANGELES, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Cristie Kerr and Caroline Masson joined Karine Icher atop the ANA Inspiration leaderboard on Friday after completion of the weather-hit first round of the year’s first major golf championship. The trio were tied at five-under 67 as the second round got underway at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, […]

  • FBI releases 9/11 Pentagon photos

    WASHINGTON, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Never-seen photographs from the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon released by the FBI this week show the massive devastation that faced first responders. Twenty-seven pictures from that day depict the crushed walls, blazing fires and eviscerated interiors of the seat of the US Department of Defense. The American Airlines […]

  • Moscow denounces NATO ‘slander’

    MOSCOW, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Moscow on Friday denounced NATO “slander”, accusing the alliance of using “the myth of Russian aggression” as a way to unify its members. To maintain unity, NATO uses “the myth of the Russian threat, the slander of Russian aggression, the endless repeating of the need to confront it together,” said Russia’s […]

  • Judge approves Trump University $25 mn lawsuit settlements

    NEW YORK, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – A California judge on Friday approved a $25 million deal between US President Donald Trump and former students who accused his now-defunct Trump University of fraud. The ruling from Judge Gonzalo Curiel, seen by AFP, ends three lawsuits relating to Trump University, affecting around 4,000 claimants. Two class-action suits were […]

  • Soros-backed university is ‘cheating’: Hungary PM

    BUDAPEST, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Hungary’s combative Prime Minister Viktor Orban deepened his row with George Soros on Friday, saying a prestigious Budapest university founded by the US billionaire was breaking rules and cheating students. Orban, 53, personally received a Soros grant in the 1980s to study abroad, but has long since accused the Hungarian-born 86-year-old […]

  • Army regains territory lost in central Syria: monitor

    BEIRUT, (MILLAT ONLINE/APP/AFP) – Syria’s army and allies have regained most of the territory they lost during an assault by rebels and jihadists earlier this month in the country’s centre, a monitor said Friday. “The regime has recaptured 75 percent of the territory it lost in the north of Hama province,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, […]