OREIJ, Iraq, Feb 20, (APP/AFP) – Iraqi forces backed by jets and helicopters battled their way to Mosul airport Monday as they prepared to take on the Islamic State group’s stronghold in the city’s west bank. The fresh push in the four-month-old operation to retake Mosul has sparked fears for 750,000 trapped civilians who risk […]
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Iraq forces converge on Mosul airport
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Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin dies
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (ملت): Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin died in New York on Monday at the age of 64, just a day before his 65th birthday. Churkin, rated as one of the outstanding diplomats at the United Nations, was rushed to a Manhattan hospital Monday morning after suffering heart problems, […]
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Swedish PM ‘surprised’ by Trump’s remarks
STOCKHOLM, Feb 20 (MILLAT): Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said Monday he was “surprised” by US President Donald Trump’s remarks linking the arrival of a wave of migrants with a supposed rise in violence in the Scandinavian country. “I was, like many others I believe, surprised by the comments made about Sweden this weekend,” Lofven […]
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million children face famine in four countries: UNICEF
1.4 UNITED NATIONS, United States, Feb 21, (MILLAT) – Almost 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition could die this year from famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the UN children’s agency said Monday. In Yemen, 462,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition while 450,000 children are severely malnourished in northeast Nigeria. Fews […]
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Trump names H.R. McMaster as national security advisor
WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (MILLAT) – Donald Trump tapped respected Army lieutenant general H.R. McMaster as his national security advisor Monday, hoping to course correct after his first pick resigned and his second turned down the vital post. Trump announced the counterinsurgency strategist’s appointment at his Florida holiday estate Mar-a-Lago, ending a one-week search to replace […]
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Five dead as plane crashes into Melbourne shopping centre
MELBOURNE, Feb 21, (MILLAT) – A light aircraft exploded Tuesday in a “massive fireball” with police saying none of the five people aboard survived as it smashed into a shopping centre near the Australian city of Melbourne. The Beechcraft plane veered just after take-off into the shopping centre, that was still closed, next to Essendon […]