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Plane with expelled diplomats leaves US: Russian media

  • MOSCOW, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): A plane carrying 35 Russian diplomats expelled from the United States over Moscow’s alleged interference in the presidential election took off from Washington on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. “The plane has taken off, everyone is on board,” said the Russian embassy in Washington, quoted by the state-owned RIA Novosti agency. Relatives of […]

  • Baghdad suicide car bomb blast kills 17: police

    BAGHDAD,(MILLAT+APP/AFP) – A suicide car bomb attack in a densely-populated neighbourhood of Baghdad Monday killed at least 17 people and left dozens wounded, police and hospital officials said. Many of the victims were daily labourers waiting for jobs at an intersection in Sadr City, a sprawling majority Shiite neighbourhood in the northeast of the capital […]

  • Plane with expelled diplomats leaves US: Russian media

    MOSCOW, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): A plane carrying 35 Russian diplomats expelled from the United States over Moscow’s alleged interference in the presidential election took off from Washington on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. “The plane has taken off, everyone is on board,” said the Russian embassy in Washington, quoted by the state-owned RIA Novosti agency. Relatives of […]

  • Turkey hunts for nightclub attacker, IS link seen

    ISTANBUL, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Turkey was on Monday hunting the gunman who opened fire inside a glamorous Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s night killing 39 people, as investigators reportedly probed his possible ties to Islamic State group. With the majority of those killed in Sunday’s attack foreigners, families were due to reclaim the bodies of over […]

  • At least 9 killed in Kazakhstan apartment building collapse: ministry

    MOSCOW, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): At least nine people were killed after an apartment building partially collapsed in the village of Shakhan in central Kazakhstan, local authorities said Monday. “Nine dead people were pulled from the rubble,” the interior ministry’s emergencies committee said in a statement, adding that the collapse had taken place late Sunday.

  • Myanmar to investigate police abuse of Rohingya

    YANGON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Myanmar’s government on Monday pledged to investigate a video apparently showing police beating and kicking Rohingya civilians, a rare admission that authorities may have carried out abuses against the Muslim minority. Tens of thousands of people from the persecuted ethnic group — loathed by many of Myanmar’s Buddhist majority — have fled […]