LA UNISN, Colombia, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The football world mourned Tuesday after a plane carrying a Brazilian team crashed in the mountains in Colombia, killing 71 people but miraculously leaving six survivors, officials said. Football legends Pele and Maradona as well as current superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo led tributes to the players of Chapecoense […]
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Football mourns as plane crash kills Brazilian players
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12 dead, mainly schoolgirls, in Turkey dorm fire
ISTANBUL, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Twelve people, most of them schoolgirls, were killed on Tuesday when fire ravaged a dormitory for pupils in the southern Turkish region of Adana, local officials said. The fire, which officials said was likely caused by an electrical fault, raced through the building’s wooden interior as panicked victims tried to jump from […]
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Canada approves tripling capacity of Trans Mountain pipeline to Pacific
OTTAWA, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Canada approved Tuesday tripling the capacity of Kinder Morgan’s half-century-old Trans Mountain pipeline to move crude from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific coast, to 890,000 barrels per day. At the same time, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greenlit another pipeline to the United States, Line 3, and rejected a project to […]
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Colombia air crash death toll rises to 76: police
BOGOTA, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The death toll from the crash in Colombia of an airliner carrying a Brazilian football team rose to 76 Tuesday as officials said only five people survived the disaster. “We were able to rescue six people alive but one of them died on the way to the hospital,” Jose Gerardo Acevedo, a […]
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Strike slashes 800 Lufthansa flights on Tuesday
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – German airline Lufthansa said it had slashed 800 flights Tuesday as pilots walked out for a 48-hour strike following a four-day stoppage last week in a long-running pay dispute. Around 82,000 passengers are affected Tuesday by the latest industrial action, the 15th by the carrier’s flight crew since April 2014. […]
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German carmakers to build Europe network of e-charging stations
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): German carmakers BMW, Daimler, Porsche and Audi and US competitor Ford said on Tuesday they would cooperate on a Europe-wide network of electric charging stations. The firms have signed a memorandum of understanding on the joint venture, planning to begin construction of some 400 high-speed charging stations across Europe in 2017.