WASHINGTON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): Seven people have died in the US southeast as wildfires blazed across a mountainous tourist region, forcing thousands to evacuate and destroying or damaging hundreds of structures, US media reported Wednesday. High winds and parched vegetation caused by the worst drought in nearly a decade provided fuel for the fires that burned in […]
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Seven dead in southeast US wildfires: media
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Quake kills two at copper mine in Poland
WARSAW, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): An earthquake has left at least two people dead and six others missing at a copper mine in Poland, the owners, KGHM, said Wednesday. Five injured workers at the Rudna mine in the southwestern town of Polkowice were taken to hospital but their lives were not in danger, a KGHM spokesperson, Anna Osadczuk […]
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UK investigators sent to Colombia to help crash probe
LONDON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Three British investigators are flying to Colombia to assist the probe into the crash of a British-made plane in which an estimated 75 people have died. The investigators are expected to arrive in Medellin on Wednesday, Britain’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said in a statement on Tuesday. “The Colombian accident investigation […]
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Colombia peace accord wins Senate approval
BOGOTA, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Colombia’s Senate has approved a revised peace accord between the government and the FARC rebel group, taking a first step toward ratifying an agreement that was rejected by voters. The text, which was renegotiated after an earlier version was given a thumbs down in the October 2 national referendum, now must be […]
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US media hails new Pak Army chief as pro-democracy
NEW YORK, (MILLAT+APP): Leading American newspapers have emphasized new Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s pro-democracy credentials in dispatches on the change of guard at what is regarded as the country’s most powerful institution. At the same time, tributes were paid to the professionalism of the outgoing chief General (rtd) Raheel Sharif, especially his […]
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US says Travel Warning against Pakistan a routine advisory
WASHINGTON, (MILLAT+APP) — A US State Department Spokesman Tuesday said the Travel Warning issued in October against Pakistan was a routine update to a warning and wasn’t based on any specific credible threat. Responding to a question at the State Department briefing, Spokesman John Kirby told the questioner that the travel warning being referred to […]