OTTAWA, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Canadians paid 2.0 percent more in February for goods and services than a year earlier, the government statistical agency announced Friday. The inflation rate year-over-year was a tick lower than the 2.1 percent forecast by analysts after rising in January to 2.1 percent. On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the consumer price […]
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Canada inflation rises to 2.0% on higher gas
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11 dead as migrant boat sinks off Turkey coast: report
ANKARA, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Eleven people drowned and four were missing after a migrant boat sank off Turkey’s Aegean coast on Friday, local media reported. The bodies of the dead were found on a shore in the western province of Aydin, the private Dogan news agency reported. Seven others were found alive on the inflatable dinghy, […]
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ELN leader killed by Colombian security forces
BOGOTA, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – A leader of the ELN, Colombia’s last remaining active rebel force, has been killed in an operation by security forces, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Thursday. “I congratulate our Public Forces for neutralizing Alvaro Gelves Ortega, alias Jairo, 1st leader of the ELN’s Jose Antonio Galan Front,” Santos wrote on Twitter. […]
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Brazil on brink, Messi revives Argentina
MONTEVIDEO, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Brazil thrashed Uruguay to move to the brink of the World Cup finals on Thursday as Lionel Messi got Argentina’s faltering qualification campaign back on track with the only goal to sink Chile. A superb hat-trick from China-based midfielder Paulinho powered Brazil to a 4-1 drubbing of the Uruguayans in Montevideo to […]
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Japan culls 280,000 more birds for avian flu
TOKYO, (MILLAT/APP/AFP): Japan deployed hundreds of soldiers to help cull more than 280,000 chickens on Friday, officials said as they try to contain further outbreaks of a highly contagious strain of avian flu. The latest slaughter means more than 1.67 million birds will have been killed in a dozen mass culls at several farms across […]
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Football: S.Korea say coach’s job safe despite China shock
SEOUL, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – South Korea’s top football official promised Friday that coach Uli Stielike’s job was safe despite the national team’s shock 1-0 loss to China in World Cup qualifying. Chung Mong-Gyu, head of the Korea Football Association, said South Korea “didn’t play such a bad match” and that talks of any coaching changes were […]