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China to punish two top anti-corruption officials: Xinhua

  • BEIJING, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – China’s top anti-graft authority has punished two of its own senior officials for corruption and adopted new rules to supervise its investigators more strictly, state media said Monday. The new regulations, passed at the annual meeting of the ruling Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) over the weekend, seek to […]

  • UN says lack of water access in Damascus creating risks for children

    UNITED NATIONS, (MILLAT+APP): After days with no access to running water for millions of people in and around Damascus due to ongoing fighting near the Syrian capital, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has raised the alarm over a potential increase in diarrheal diseases among children. While private distributors are providing water, Christophe Boulierac, a […]

  • Truck bomb kills 8 police in Egypt’s Sinai

    CAIRO, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – A truck bomb attack on an Egyptian security checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula killed at least eight policemen on Monday, officials and state media said. Police officials said a suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with explosives into the checkpoint in the north Sinai city of El-Arish and gunmen then opened fire […]

  • China launches commercial rocket mission Kuaizhou-1A

    JIUQUAN, Gansu,(MILLAT+APP/Xinhua): The rocket Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) has sent three satellites into space in its first commercial mission on Monday. The rocket, carrying the satellite JL-1 and two CubeSats XY-S1 and Caton-1, blasted off from northwestern China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at around 12:11 p.m. Monday Beijing Time, according to a statement from the center. The […]

  • Six months in, Brexit shadow looms over PM May

    LONDON, MILLAT+(APP/AFP) – British Prime Minister Theresa May was hailed as a steadying influence when she took over a country deeply divided by the EU referendum, but six months later she is facing widespread criticism for her apparent Brexit indecision. The Conservative leader’s refusal to outline a detailed strategy for negotiating Britain’s future ties with […]

  • Fiat Chrysler announces creation of 2,000 US jobs

    WASHINGTON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Fiat Chrysler on Sunday announced it was creating 2,000 jobs in the United States, coming as President-elect Donald Trump has been publicly chastising automakers for moving operations to Mexico. The American-Italian group will invest $1 billion by 2020 in two of its factories in the Midwestern states of Michigan and Ohio, where […]