MUMBAI, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): Six workers were killed when a fire swept through a bakery in the western Indian city of Pune overnight, police said Friday, adding that the victims had been locked in. “The main shutter (of the bakery) was locked from outside, all six got trapped inside and died of suffocation,” a fire official told […]
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Fire kills six locked in bakery in India
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Rescuers battle to free trapped coal miners in India
NEW DELHI, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Emergency workers using mechanical diggers battled Friday to rescue around a dozen workers trapped after the collapse of a coal mine in eastern India. Several teams of diggers were clearing tons of debris after a large section of the mine ceiling collapsed near the entry point of the Lalmatia mines in […]
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Italians to pay three-quarters of bank bailout bill
ROME, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The Italian state will foot 6.6 billion euros of the 8.8 billion euro ($9.2 billion) bill for bailing out struggling Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS), the country’s central bank said Thursday. The European Central Bank, citing the need for recapitalisation, on Tuesday raised the total capital required by more than three […]
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Russia’s London embassy condemns ‘lame’ US over sanctions
LONDON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Russia’s embassy in London on Thursday condemned the United States as “lame”, arguing Washington’s decision to impose sanctions on Moscow harked back to the Cold War between the two nations. “President Obama expels 35 (Russian flag) diplomats in Cold War deja vu. As everybody, incl (US flag) people, will be glad to […]
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US response to Russia hacking: key points
WASHINGTON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered a series of diplomatic and economic sanctions against Russia over the hacking which US officials say was aimed at disrupting the November election. Below is a list of the key points outlined by the US government in a raft of documents from various agencies. T Obama […]
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Venezuela’s oldest daily shuts over paper shortage
CARACAS, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Venezuela’s oldest daily newspaper, El Impulso, a sharp critic of President Nicolas Maduro, is halting production because of a paper shortage, its publisher said Thursday. Founded in 1904, the paper will suspend publication from Saturday because the state company charged with importing paper has stopped delivering its orders, publisher Carlos Eduardo Carmona […]