CHAPECS, Brazil, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – A small Brazilian city will hold a massive funeral Saturday to honor its football team, wiped out at the height of their glory in a plane crash that killed 71 people. The southern city of Chapeco is expecting some 100,000 people — half its population — to descend on Conda Arena, […]
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Brazil grieves for football team killed in crash
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Toll rises to 13 in southeast US wildfires
MIAMI, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The death toll from wildfires in a popular tourist area in the southeastern US state of Tennessee has risen to 13, authorities said Friday, with the search for victims continuing. Twelve of the deaths were directly related to the blaze and one person died of a heart attack while fleeing, said Larry […]
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Gambia’s Jammeh concedes defeat, congratulates opponent Barrow
BANJUL, Gambia, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh conceded defeat to opposition leader Adama Barrow on Friday night, accepting that Gambians had “decided that I should take the backseat”. Speaking to the public on Gambian television after Thursday’s presidential poll, Jammeh congratulated Barrow for his “clear victory”, adding: “I wish him all the best and […]
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Venezuela rejects Mercosur suspension: foreign minister
CARACAS, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Venezuela on Friday angrily rejected its suspension from the South American economic bloc Mercosur, saying it did not recognize the action taken by the group’s four other member states. Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay had informed the leftist government in Caracas that it was being suspended for failing to meet democratic and […]
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Iran says it will respond to US sanctions renewal
TEHRAN, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): Iran said on Friday that Congress’s decision to renew US sanctions for 10 years was a violation of last year’s nuclear agreement and promised an “appropriate” response. “As repeatedly stated by high-ranking Iranian officials, the recent bill passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate to renew sanctions against Iran is against […]
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Pro-EU candidate wins ‘Brexit by-election’ in London
LONDON, MILLAT+APP/AFP): Prime Minister Theresa May’s government suffered a rebuke over its plans to pull Britain out of the EU on Friday after voters in the London suburb of Richmond ousted a eurosceptic lawmaker in favour of a pro-European candidate. In a stunning upset, Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Olney overturned a large majority to defeat […]