JAKARTA, ,(MILLAT+APP/AFP) – A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Aceh province in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra early Wednesday, seismologists said, causing panic and some reported damage. The shallow quake hit 10 kilometres (six miles) north of Reuleuet at 5:03 am local time (2203 GMT Tuesday), the US Geological Survey said. There […]
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6.4-magnitude quake triggers panic in Indonesia’s Aceh
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Brazil Senate defies order to suspend speaker
BRASMLIA, Brazil, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday rejected a judge’s order to suspend its speaker who faces trial for alleged embezzlement in a scandal that threatens to destabilize President Michel Temer. The chamber’s governing panel said it would keep speaker Renan Calheiros in his post until a full session of all 11 judges in the […]
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Britain’s Hammond to strengthen non-EU ties
LONDON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – British finance minister Philip Hammond on Wednesday flies to South Africa, followed by trips next week to Japan and South Korea, as Britain seeks “stronger global ties” before Brexit. “As we leave the EU, Britain’s future prosperity depends on maintaining the strongest possible economic links with our European neighbours, while building on […]
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Syria rebels reject Aleppo exit as army advances
ALEPPO, Syria, (MILLA+APP/AFP) – Russia said it would hold talks with Washington on Tuesday on a total rebel withdrawal from Syria’s Aleppo, where the army has made sweeping advances, but opposition factions have rejected any evacuation. President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have seized two-thirds of the former rebel bastion in east Aleppo since they began an […]
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US VP-elect thinks Trump has right touch to break impasse on Kashmir:WP
طWASHINGTON,(MILLAT+APP)- “The leading US newspaper, the Washington Post, in a report said that Vice-President elect Mike Pence thinks the incoming President Donald Trump has the right touch to break the impasse on Kashmir, one of the tenacious dispute between Pakistan and India. In an interview with NBC News, “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Vice President […]
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Japan PM Abe won’t apologise at Pearl Harbor: government
TOKYO,(MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will honour war dead but won’t apologise when he becomes the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor this month, a top government spokesman said Tuesday. The move follows Barack Obama’s historic May trip to Hiroshima, the first by a sitting US president, where he spoke of victims’ suffering […]