LONDON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Britain and Argentina have signed an agreement to exhume and identify 123 Argentine soldiers buried on the Falkland Islands following mediation by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the British government said. Graves at the Argentine memorial cemetery on East Falkland Island, known in Spanish as Isla Soledad, carry the inscription: […]
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Britain, Argentina agree on identifying Falklands war dead
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Four security officers killed in Karak 2nd operation
AMMAN, (MILLAT+APP/Petra): Four security personnel were killed Tuesday evening, during a raid on a suspected terrorist hideout in the southern governorate of Karak, a senior security source said. The source said security forces had successfully concluded the operation in the governorate, while enough personnel were still on active combing operation to purge the area of […]
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Kremlin says too early to say who was behind envoy’s murder in Turkey
MOSCOW, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): The Kremlin said Wednesday it was too early to conclude who was behind the murder of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov in Turkey, after Ankara blamed the group of exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen. “In this case it is hardly worth hurrying to any conclusions until the investigation determines — as our president said — […]
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Russian envoy’s killer had protected Erdogan: report
ISTANBUL, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The young Turkish policeman who killed Russia’s ambassador to Ankara this week had provided security for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan eight times since the July 15 failed coup bid, a report said on Wednesday. Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, pumped nine bullets into ambassador Andrei Karlov at an art exhibition centre on Monday […]
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Russia to bury slain ambassador Thursday: Kremlin
MOSCOW, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – President Vladimir Putin will attend as Russia buries slain ambassador Andrei Karlov on Thursday, the Kremlin said, days after he was gunned down in Ankara by a Turkish policeman. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday said Putin had decided to postpone his major annual press conference scheduled for the same day to […]
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Donald Trump: AFP’s person of the year
PARIS,(MILLAT+APP/AFP) – US President-elect Donald Trump has topped a 2016 AFP poll to choose the most influential person of the year, just ahead of Russian and Turkish leaders Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. AFP journalists around the world, working in all languages and sections of the agency (text, photo, video) voted from a selection […]