LUXEMBOURG, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The EU’s top court on Wednesday overturned a lower tribunal’s decision to quash a European trade deal with Morocco, ruling against a group seeking independence for the Western Sahara. Morocco suspended links with Brussels early this year after the General Court of the EU, the bloc’s second highest court, annulled the deal […]
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Top court overturns decision to quash EU-Morocco trade deal
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Roads shut outside Buckingham Palace after Berlin attack
LONDON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Roads in front of Buckingham Palace will be shut during the daily Changing of the Guard ceremony starting on Wednesday following the truck attack that killed 12 people in Berlin, British police said. The military ceremony regularly brings crowds of tourists outside the gates of Queen Elizabeth II’s residence in central London […]
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Philippines defends Duterte killings as UN seeks probe
MANILA, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The Philippines said Wednesday that President Rodrigo Duterte’s killing of three people in the 1980s was part of a police operation, after the United Nations rights chief urged Manila to investigate him for murder. In several speeches last week, Duterte recounted how in 1988, early in the first of his several terms […]
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Japan hit over pregnancy clause in Syria refugee programme
TOKYO, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – A Japanese programme aimed at accepting a small number of refugees from war-torn Syria is underfire for implying that pregnant women are not welcome. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced in May that immiration-shy Japan, with a population of about 127 million, would accept up to 150 Syrian students over five years from […]
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Colombian cargo plane crash kills five crew
BOGOTA, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – A Colombian cargo plane crashed three minutes after taking off in the east of the country Tuesday evening, killing five crew members and critically injuring another, officials said. The sole survivor, a flight technician, was in hospital and would be flown to the capital Bogota for treatment, the Colombian civil aviation authority […]
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Nigeria’s Arik resumes flights after truce with unions
LAGOS, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Nigeria’s Arik airline has resumed flights following a deal to end a one-day strike that paralysed its operation, the company said on Wednesday. Aviation unions called the strike on Tuesday to protest non-payment of seven months of salaries to Arik workers, non-remittance of taxes and the sacking of five union leaders. Thousands […]