SEOUL, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take part in street protests across South Korea on Saturday to demand President Park Geun-Hye resign over a corruption scandal or face impeachment. Police said 25,000 officers had been deployed in Seoul and roads leading to the presidential Blue House had been blocked as […]
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S. Korea police deployed ahead of anti-Park rallies
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6.5 quake hits China’s Xinjiang region, one dead
BEIJING, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – A powerful 6.5-magnitude quake rocked a mountainous area of far western China Friday night, with one person killed when a house collapsed in a region often plagued with seismic activity. The tremor struck southern Xinjiang, a vast region bordering central Asia, at a relatively shallow depth of 12 kilometres (seven miles), the […]
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Myanmar media execs in court on defamation charges
YANGON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): Two Myanmar media executives appeared in court on Friday charged with defamation, in a case that has crystallised fears for press freedom under the country’s new democratic government. The CEO of Eleven Media Group, Than Htut Aung, and the chief editor of one of its papers, Wai Phyo, appeared in court handcuffed together […]
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Germany promises equal pensions for east and west by 2025
BERLIN, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Germany said on Friday it would gradually raise pensions in the formerly communist east to reach the level of those in the west by 2025, more than three decades after reunification. The announcement comes as the country is gearing up for a key election next year, with the parties in Chancellor Angela […]
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Greek PM ‘shocked’ by migrants deaths in camp
ATHENS, (MILLAT+APP/AFP): Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday expressed shock and pledged to improve conditions in migrant camps after a fire killed two people and badly burned two more on the island of Lesbos. “I am shocked, as are all Greeks, by this tragic incident,” Tsipras said during a visit to the north of […]
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Turkey’s Erdogan threatens to open borders to migrants after EU Parliament vote
ISTANBUL, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday threatened to throw open Turkey’s borders to illegal migrants after the European Parliament voted to back a freeze in membership talks with Ankara. “Listen to me.If you go any further, then the frontiers will be opened, bear that in mind,” Erdogan told the European Union […]