LIMA, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck southeast Peru on Thursday, damaging some homes and roads but causing no casualties, the National Civil Defense Institute (INDECI) said. The quake in the Puno region hit at 5:40 pm local time (2240 GMT), its epicenter 58 kilometers (36 miles) from the town of Lampa and at a […]
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5.5 magnitude quake damages homes in southeast Peru
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After Trump and Brexit, Austria far-right eyes presidency
VIENNA, (NILLAT+APP/AFP) – First Brexit. Then Trump. Now Austria? The populist wave unfurling in many countries could claim a fresh victory Sunday if Norbert Hofer is elected Europe’s first far-right president since 1945. Four weeks since Donald Trump’s stunning US election victory and five months after Britons voted to leave the EU, polls put the […]
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Voters in London take to polls for ‘Brexit by-election’
LONDON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): Residents of the posh London suburb of Richmond took to the polls on Thursday in a local by-election that has turned into a mini-referendum on Brexit in a pro-EU heartland. Liberal Democrat challenger Sarah Olney, whose party wants a second referendum on Brexit, is hoping the result will shock Downing Street, as the […]
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Russia wants fresh start with US under Trump: Lavrov
ROME, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Thursday for a fresh start in relations with the United States under Donald Trump and fired a parting shot at outgoing President Barack Obama. “We are confident that the new administration does not want to repeat the errors of the outgoing one, which deliberately destroyed US-Russian […]
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Ukraine launches missile drills near Russia-annexed Crimea
KIEV, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Ukraine on Thursday unleashed a barrage of missile tests near Russian-annexed Crimea in a show of strength and defiance bound to irritate Moscow. The two-day military drills near the Black Sea peninsula are a first for the former Soviet republic and it was not immediately clear what sparked them. They come after […]
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Blast at India explosives factory kills at least two
NEW DELHI, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): At least two workers have been killed and 13 more are missing feared dead after a blast at an explosives factory in south India, an emergency department official said Thursday. G Sathyanarayanan said two bodies had been recovered from the burnt-out building and rescue teams using bulldozers and drills were searching the […]