WASHINGTON, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – The US state of Texas on Tuesday executed a man with a history of paranoid schizophrenia, who was convicted of two killings and accused of two others. James Bigby, a 61-year-old former mechanic, received a lethal injection in the early evening after spending more than a quarter of a century on death […]
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Texas executes man who killed father and infant
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S.Korean prosecutors summon Park for questioning
SEOUL, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday ordered ousted president Park Geun-Hye to appear before them for questioning in connection with the corruption scandal that brought her down, they said. Park, who was dismissed by the Constitutional Court last week, was required to attend a prosecutors’ office in Seoul on Tuesday next week, a […]
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Hong Kong stocks track Wall St down at open
HONG KONG, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Hong Kong shares retreated in the first few minutes of trade Wednesday, in line with losses across Asia and following a sell-off in New York and Europe ahead of a Federal Reserve policy decision and a closely watched election in the Netherlands. The Hang Seng Index fell 0.62 percent, or 148.60 […]
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Football: Leicester through to Champions League quarter-finals
LEICESTER, United Kingdom, (MILLAT/APP/AFP): Kasper Schmeichel saved a late penalty as Leicester City beat Sevilla 2-0 on Tuesday to win their Champions League last-16 tie 3-2 on aggregate. Trailing 2-1 from the first leg in Spain three weeks ago, Leicester opened the scoring on the night when Wes Morgan bundled the ball in from close […]
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Dortmund set up German Cup semi against Bayern
BERLIN, (MILLAT/APP/AFP): Christian Pulisic set Borussia Dortmund on their way to a comfortable 3-0 win over third-tier Sportfreunde Lotte on Tuesday that took them into the semi-finals of the German Cup. All the goals came in the second half, with Ousmane Dembele and Marcel Schmelzer netting after Pulisic’s opener to take Thomas Tuchel’s team into […]
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Science unravels spiders’ monstrous food web
PARIS, (MILLAT/APP/AFP): The world’s spiders eat 400-800 million tonnes of insects every year — as much meat and fish as humans consume over the same period, a study said Tuesday. In the first analysis of its kind, researchers used data from 65 previous studies to estimate that a total of 25 million metric tonnes of […]