KOLKATA, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Tens of thousands of people joined nationwide protests Monday against India’s ban on high-value banknotes, which organisers say has caused a “financial emergency” in a country that operates almost entirely on cash. India is still reeling from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s shock decision nearly three weeks ago to pull 86 percent of […]
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Tens of thousands protest against India cash ban
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Iraqi forces try to weed out IS from those fleeing Mosul
BARTALLA, Iraq, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – An Iraqi officer shuffled through identity cards as he sat at a battered desk by the side of the dust-blown highway heading east from the city of Mosul. Six men in dirt-spattered tracksuits huddled nearby, waiting on a concrete slab, part of the latest convoy of civilians to flee fighting as […]
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Trump election points to US growth boost: OECD
PARIS, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – President-elect Donald Trump’s big-spending plan and tax cuts are expected to help double the US economic growth rate by 2018, the OECD said Monday. The US economy will grow by 2.3 percent in 2017 and 3.0 percent in 2018, said the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, revising its earlier forecast. That […]
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Five things to know about Aleppo
BEIRUT, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Syria’s one-time economic hub, Aleppo city and the surrounding countryside have suffered some of the heaviest fighting of the nearly six-year civil war that has now cost more than 300,000 lives. The armed opposition seized the east of the city in July 2012 and government forces have been battling to recapture it […]
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Three S.African ministers call for Zuma to resign: report
JOHANNESBURG, (MILLLAT+APP/AFP) – At least three South African ministers have called for President Jacob Zuma to resign, local media reported Monday, in the most serious challenge to his leadership since he took power in 2009. The News24 news agency, citing sources in the ruling ANC party, said that Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom, Health Minister Aaron […]
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N. Korea mourns Castro: A distant ‘comrade’
PYONGYANG, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – North Korea began three days of official mourning on Monday for late Cuban leader Fidel Castro, remembering him as a “close friend” and heroic ally in a joint struggle against US aggression. Flags flew at half-mast at official buildings across the country as a mark of respect for the revolutionary icon, despite […]