JAKARTA, Oct 8, (APP/AFP) – Seven teenagers were feared dead Saturday, a day after they went missing when their boat capsized on a river in Indonesia, officials said. None have been found despite a major rescue operation. The wooden boat was carrying 25 Islamic boarding school male students across the Bengawan Solo river on Java […]
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Seven teens missing after boat capsizes in Indonesia
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22 soldiers killed in attack on Niger refugee camp
NIAMEY (APP/AFP) – Niger on Friday decreed two days of national mourning after 22 soldiers were killed in an attack blamed on jihadists against a camp in Niger sheltering almost 4,000 Malian refugees. Flags would be flown at half mast following the attack of “unparalleled cowardice”, the Nigerian presidency said in a statement. The assault […]
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Kremlin calls US hacking accusations ‘rubbish’
MOSCOW, Russia, Oct 8, (APP/AFP) – The Kremlin on Friday labelled allegations by the United States that the Russian government was behind the hacking of American political organisations “rubbish”. “This is again some sort of rubbish,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agency Interfax. “Every day (President Vladimir) Putin’s website gets attacked by several […]
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Clinton-Trump debate: the objectives of each candidate
WASHINGTON (APP/AFP) – For the second US presidential debate, Sunday night in St Louis, the pressure is squarely on Donald Trump, who needs a moment of political magic to reverse his slide in polls barely four weeks from Election Day. – Donald Trump – ================ Even though the Republican candidate trails Hillary Clinton in the […]
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Two suspects blow themselves up during Ankara police operation: state media
ANKARA, (APP/AFP) – Two suicide bombers detonated their explosives during a police operation in the capital Ankara after officers called on the suspects to surrender, state media reported Saturday. They set off the car bombs they had prepared, the official Anadolu news agency said, adding that the two suspects were dead.
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Islamists win Morocco parliamentary elections: provisional results
RABAT (APP/AFP) – The Islamist Justice and Development Party (PDJ), which has headed Morocco’s coalition government for the last five years, came top in parliamentary polls on Friday according to provisional results released by the Interior Ministry. The Islamists took 99 seats while the the liberal opposition Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) took 80, with […]