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Trump ‘needs to learn how to cry’ from Obama

  • PARIS, MILLAT+(APP/AFP) – Donald Trump has one big lesson to learn from outgoing US President Barack Obama — he needs to learn to be cool about crying. “If he could squeeze one tear out during his inauguration” on Friday, “people will turn around quite quickly their feelings towards him”, British behavioural expert Judi James told […]

  • Israeli forces kill Palestinian who allegedly tried to stab soldier: army

    JERUSALEM, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Israeli forces killed a Palestinian who allegedly attempted to stab a soldier at a crossing in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the army said, with no injuries reported among Israelis. “A short while ago an assailant, armed with a knife, attempted to stab an (Israeli) soldier at a crossing adjacent to […]

  • Trump shakes postwar order, in blow to Europe

    BRUSSELS, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Europe must pull together or risk being sidelined as Donald Trump signals the end of a postwar transatlantic partnership credited with keeping the peace for the past 70 years, analysts and officials say. Fears about the US president-elect’s isolationist stance became a reality this week when Trump challenged basic assumptions about the […]

  • AT UN, Pak says peace ‘inconceivable’ without settling Israeli-Palestinian dispute

    UNITED NATIONS, MILLAT+(APP): Pakistan told the UN Security Council Tuesday that a just solution of Palestine-Israel dispute would not only usher in enduring peace in the Middle East but also deal a blow to the appeal of extremist organizations like Daesh and al-Qaeda. Speaking in a debate on the Middle East situation, Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi […]

  • Australia defends end of MH370 search, future hunt not ruled out

    MELBOURNE, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Australia’s transport minister Wednesday defended the suspension of the undersea hunt for MH370, after relatives of passengers slammed the decision, and added that it could resume if “credible new evidence” emerges. Australia, Malaysia and China — where most of the 239 on board the missing Malaysia Airlines jet came from — on […]

  • S. Korean kidnapped, murdered by Philippine police: Seoul

    SEOUL, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – A South Korean businessman who went missing in the Philippines three months ago was kidnapped by policemen and murdered on the day he disappeared, a Seoul official said Wednesday. The family of the man, in his 50s and only identified with his surname Ji, reportedly sent the suspects a ransom of five […]