ANKARA, MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Elite Turkish police arrested several people Thursday during fresh raids over the nightclub attack that killed 39, as authorities tightened Turkey’s borders to prevent the fugitive killer from escaping. Special forces detained several people suspected of links with the attack on the outskirts of Istanbul on Thursday, state-run news agency Anadolu said. […]
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Turkey makes new arrests over attack, tightens borders
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Venezuela president names new potential successor
CARACAS, MILLAT+(APP/AFP) – Venezuela’s leader Nicolas Maduro named an ex-security minister Wednesday as his vice-president, who would become head of state if Maduro were removed from office this year as the opposition demands. Maduro told a televised cabinet meeting that he had named to the post Tareck El Aissami, 42, a powerful state governor who […]
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S. Korea president’s lawyers say no evidence for impeachment
SEOUL, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The impeachment trial of South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye got under way Thursday, with her lawyers arguing there is no evidence to back the corruption allegations that threaten to force her from office. Parliament voted to impeach Park last month over an influence-peddling scandal that has brought hundreds of thousands of protesters […]
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Egypt frees 2011 revolution figure Maher
CAIRO, MILLAT+(APP/AFP) – Egypt has released political activist Ahmed Maher, a leading figure in the 2011 revolt that toppled the government, after he completed his jail term, his lawyer and a security source said Thursday. Maher, 36, was a founder and spokesman of the April 6 protest movement that was influential in the uprising that […]
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Iraq forces launch operation to retake western area
BAGHDAD, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Iraqi forces on Thursday launched an offensive aimed at retaking towns still under the control of the Islamic State group in western areas near the border with Syria, commanders said. “A military operation has begun in the western areas of Anbar to liberate them from Daesh,” said Lieutenant General Qassem Mohammedi, commander […]
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Slumping Macy’s to cut up to 10,100 jobs in US
NEW YORK, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Macy’s unveiled plans Wednesday to cut as many as 10,100 jobs as the iconic US retailer closes stores and downsizes following another disappointing holiday sales season. Store closures will eliminate 3,900 sales jobs, while a series of streamlining moves, that include cutting middle managers and restructuring store operations, will eliminate an […]