SAN SALVADOR, (MILLAT/APP/AFP): El Salvador’s main zoo is in trouble for claiming a hippo died of a brutal stabbing attack by unidentified people, when an autopsy finally revealed the animal in fact died of possible poor care. Gustavito, a 15-year-old hippopotamus who had been in the National Zoological Park in eastern San Salvador almost all […]
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El Salvador zoo in hot water over false hippo death account
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Colombia: 120 civil leaders killed in just over year
BOGOTA, (MILLAT/APP/AFP): A total of 120 civil leaders have been killed in Colombia in the past 14 months, the state human rights watchdog said Friday, fueling concerns for a delicate peace process. The watchdog counted “120 homicides of human rights activists and civil leaders, as well as 33 attempted killings and 27 attacks” on such […]
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Tunisia, Germany announce new immigration deal
TUNIS, March 3, (APP/AFP) – Tunisia and Germany announced on Friday a new agreement on tackling illegal migration, during a visit by Chancellor Angela Merkel. The accord follows frictions between the two countries over the case of a Tunisian rejected asylum seeker blamed for a truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 […]
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Football: Teenager leads strike by ‘unsafe’ referees
LONDON, March 3, (APP/AFP) – A teenage referee has organised a strike which could see thousands of officials withdraw from English amateur matches this weekend in protest at the on-field abuse they receive. Ryan Hampson, 18, told the BBC that “more than 2,000 people up and down the country” would be taking part on March […]
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Bomb alert lifted in German town that cancelled Turkey rally
BERLIN, March 3, (APP/AFP) – German police Friday lifted a bomb alert in a town which had received a threat after cancelling a rally by Turkey’s justice minister. “We received a bomb threat by phone at around 7:30 am (0630 GMT),” Dieter Spannagel, a local official from the western town of Gaggenau, told AFP. “The […]
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Tennis: Kyrgios stuns Djokovic at Acapulco tennis
ACAPULCO, Mexico, (MILLAT/APP/AFP) – Australian bad boy Nick Kyrgios steamrollered Novak Djokovoc in straight sets at the Mexico Open, dealing a major blow to the world number two’s hopes of regaining his mantle of invincibility. The 21-year-old Kyrgios overpowered Djokovic with 25 aces in the 7-6 (11/9), 7-5 triumph as the Serb sought to rebuild […]