LJUBLJANA, July 14, (APP/AFP) – Four Germans were killed in Slovenia on Thursday when their small plane crashed, local police said, with internet millionnaire Thomas Wagner confirmed as being among them. The six-seater aircraft Piper 32 crashed into mountains south of Ljubljana en route from Venice in Italy to Leipzig in Germany, police said. The […]
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German internet millionaire dies in plane crash
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Tropical storm kills 21 in China, 13 missing
BEIJING, (APP/AFP): A tropical storm in China has left 21 people dead and 13 missing, reports said Thursday, after it lashed Taiwan with typhoon-grade winds and rain. Super Typhoon Nepartak brought chaos to Taiwan last week, forcing more than 15,000 people to flee their homes as part of the island saw its strongest winds in […]
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No solution to Syria while Assad remains: Turkish PM
ISTANBUL, Turkey, (APP/AFP): Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has warned there can be no solution to the Syrian conflict or the threat from jihadists while President Bashar al-Assad remains in charge. In recent days, Yildirim has repeatedly said Turkey would seek good relations with Syria after diplomatic successes with Israel and Russia, raising speculation of […]
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Syria’s Assad says Moscow ‘never’ spoke of departure
BEIRUT, (APP/AFP): Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday he has never faced pressure from Russia to step aside, as US Secretary of State John Kerry headed to Moscow seeking to revive stalled peace efforts. Speaking to NBC News in Damascus, Assad insisted his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had never raised […]
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British PM May gets down to work under Brexit pressure
LONDON, (APP/AFP) – Theresa May came under immediate pressure Thursday on her first full day as Britain’s new prime minister after a series of surprise appointments to her cabinet, including the gaffe-prone Boris Johnson as foreign minister. Three weeks after Britain voted to leave the European Union, May also came under fire from EU leaders, […]
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Station master takes blame for deadly Italy train crash
ROME, (APP/AFP) – A train station manager has taken partial blame for a deadly head-on collision that claimed at least 23 lives in one of Italy’s worst rail accidents, according to media reports on Thursday. The crash happened Tuesday on a single-track stretch of railway run by station managers who communicate directly with train drivers, […]