WARSAW, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The Polish owner of the lorry that ploughed into a busy Christmas market in Berlin on Monday, killing at least nine people in what police said was a possible terror attack, confirmed that his driver was missing. “We haven’t heard from him since this afternoon. We don’t know what happened to him. […]
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Polish owner of Berlin lorry says driver ‘missing’
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Berlin police say lorry crash a ‘probable terrorist attack’
BERLIN, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Berlin’s police force said Tuesday it was treating the deadly crash of a lorry into a Christmas market crowd as “a probable terrorist attack”. It said in a Twitter message it was carefully investigating the “probable terrorist attack” that killed 12 people and wounded dozens more Monday evening.
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California officials challenge fracking off coastline
LOS ANGELES, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – California’s chief prosecutor and an environmental commission on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging an assessment by federal authorities that clears the way for hydraulic fracturing off the state’s coast. The lawsuit from Attorney General Kamala Harris and the California Coastal Commission targets the US Department of the Interior as well as […]
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Turkish policeman assassinates Russia envoy in Ankara
ANKARA, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – A Turkish policeman crying “Aleppo” and “Allahu Akbar” shot dead Russia’s ambassador to Turkey in Ankara on Monday, prompting a vow from President Vladimir Putin to step up the fight against “terrorism.” Andrei Karlov died of his wounds after the shooting in an Ankara exhibition centre, which came on the eve of […]
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Three dead in Venezuela cash unrest
CARACAS, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – A weekend of looting and clashes left at least three people dead in Venezuela, authorities said Monday, as anger roiled over a chaotic currency reform that left many without cash. A man, a woman and an adolescent boy were shot dead when violence erupted Saturday in the town of La Paragua, in […]
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Erdogan to open first road tunnel under Istanbul’s Bosphorus
ISTANBUL, (MILLAt+APP/AFP) – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will on Tuesday open the first ever road tunnel underneath the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, the latest project completed in his plan of transforming Turkey’s infrastructure. Turkey in October 2013 opened the Marmaray rail tunnel underneath the iconic waterway, the first link beneath the waters that divide Europe […]