KATHMANDU, (millat+APP/AFP) – The wreckage of an ultralight aircraft that disappeared in Nepal last year with two people on board has been found, an aviation official said Monday. The aircraft went missing shortly after taking off from the popular mountain resort town of Pokhara on October 8 with a Russian pilot and a South African […]
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Nepal finds wreckage of missing ultralight
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First woman to fly China’s J-10 fighter killed in crash
BEIJING, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – The first woman to fly China’s J-10 fighter plane was killed in a crash during an aerobatics training exercise, state-run media reported Monday. Yu Xu, 30, a member of the Chinese air force’s “August 1st” aerobatic display team, ejected from her aircraft during a training exercise in the northern province of Hebei […]
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China’s Xi, Trump agree to meet ‘at an early date’: CCTV
BEIJING, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Chinese President Xi Jinping and the US president-elect Donald Trump agreed in a telephone call Monday to meet “at an early date” to discuss the relationship between their two powers, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said Monday. Xi told Trump — who frequently savaged China on the campaign trail and threatened to impose […]
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Trump vows to select pro-life, pro-gun rights Supreme Court justices
WASHINGTON, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – President-elect Donald Trump vowed in an interview aired Sunday that his future nominees to the Supreme Court would favor restrictions on abortion, and would defend the constitutional right to bear arms. “The judges will be pro-life,” Trump told CBS’s “60 minutes.” “In terms of the whole gun situation,” he added, “they’re going […]
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Trump tells protesters: ‘don’t be afraid’
WASHINGTON,(MILLAT+APP/AFP) – President-elect Donald Trump sought in an interview aired Sunday to assure the thousands of Americans who have marched in protest since his election they have no reason to fear for the future. “Don’t be afraid. We are going to bring our country back,” Trump said on CBS’s “60 minutes.”
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CO2 emissions level off, still too high to save climate: report
MARRAKESH, Morocco,(MILLAT+APP/AFP): Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels have been nearly flat for three years in a row — a “great help” but not enough to stave off dangerous global warming, a report said Monday. Emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide stayed level in 2015 at 36.3 billion tonnes (GtCO2) and were projected to rise “only […]