SEOUL, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Korean Air said Wednesday it would let its crew use stun guns more aggressively and put more male staff aboard flights to clamp down on violent passengers, after an incident involving an unruly passenger. South Korea’s flag carrier said it was tightening security after 1980s US pop singer Richard Marx lashed out […]
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Korean Air pledges clampdown on unruly passengers
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Doctor wins NATO’s Scientific Achievement Award 2016
WASHINGTON, (MILLAT+APP) ” A Pakistani-American doctor has won the “Scientific Achievement Award 2016” from the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO) for his extra-ordinary performance in research on medical countermeasures against biological agents. NATO’s STO, the largest NATO organization for defense science and technology honored Dr. Chotani with the prestigious distinction as part of the […]
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Doctor wins NATO’s Scientific Achievement Award 2016
WASHINGTON,(MILLAT+APP) ” A Pakistani-American doctor has won the “Scientific Achievement Award 2016” from the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO) for his extra-ordinary performance in research on medical countermeasures against biological agents. NATO’s STO, the largest NATO organization for defense science and technology honored Dr. Chotani with the prestigious distinction as part of the Research […]
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Cuba outlaws ‘cult of personality’ after Fidel death
HAVANA, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – There will be no Fidel Castro streets or plazas in Cuba, in keeping with the late revolutionary leader’s wishes, as spelled out in a law Cuban legislators passed on Tuesday. President Raul Castro, 85, said that before dying at the age of 90 on November 25, his brother Fidel had requested that […]
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S. Korea state pension fund chief detained in corruption probe
SEOUL, MILLAT+(APP/AFP) – South Korean investigators on Wednesday detained the state-run pension fund chief as they expand a probe into a corruption scandal to determine whether President Park Geun-Hye took bribes from conglomerates including Samsung. A special prosecutor has been investigating whether Samsung bribed Park’s confidant, Choi Soon-Sil, to win state approval for a controversial […]
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Abe offers ‘sincere and everlasting condolences’ to Pearl Harbor victims
PEARL HARBOR, United States, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a solemn pilgrimage to Pearl Harbor Tuesday, expressing “sincere and everlasting condolences” to the families of the more than 2,400 Americans killed by Japanese fighters. “We must never repeat the horrors of war,” he said, marking the 75th anniversary of the infamous attack […]