BEIJING,(MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Prospective US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson better watch his mouth, angry Chinese media said Friday, warning Donald Trump’s nominee that his threats to block China in the South China Sea are fighting words. The comments came after the former ExxonMobil CEO told US senators that he would seek to deny Beijing access […]
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Trump pick could talk his way into war: Chinese media
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Obama ends decades-old policy for Cuban migrants
WASHINGTON, MILLAT+(APP/AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Thursday ended a decades-old policy that allowed Cuban migrants who arrived illegally on US soil to stay. In one of his final acts before leaving the White House, he scrapped rules allowing those fleeing communist Cuba and reaching American territory a fast track to permanent resident status. […]
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S. Korea cuts growth outlook as Park storm bites
SEOUL,(MILLAT+APP/AFP) – South Korea’s central bank on Friday cut its growth forecast citing “deteriorations in economic sentiment” as the country is rattled by the snowballing political turmoil engulfing impeached President Park Geun-Hye. The already-struggling economy has taken a severe hit from an influence-peddling scandal that has brought hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets […]
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Russia agrees US should attend Syria talks as ceasefire tested
BEIRUT, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Russia has agreed the United States should be involved in talks on Syria’s future planned for this month, Turkey’s top diplomat said, as a series of explosions rocked Damascus. Moscow and Ankara last month brokered a fragile ceasefire for the war-torn country, but without the involvement of Washington, a negotiator in previous […]
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‘I’m not ashamed’ says Paris attacks suspect: report
PARIS, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The main suspect in the Paris attacks said he was “not ashamed” in a letter to a woman who has been writing to him in prison, according to extracts published in the French press Friday. Salah Abdeslam has refused to respond to questions from French judges about the November 13, 2015 attacks […]
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Trump digs deep rift with crucial intelligence services
WASHINGTON, MILLAT+(APP/AFP) – A week before he enters the White House, Donald Trump has picked a high-risk fight with the all-important US intelligence community, blaming it for an incendiary but unsubstantiated report on his alleged Moscow ties and lurid behavior in Russia. Trump on Wednesday accused US spies of leaking the report, a dossier prepared […]