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Rouhani warns Saudi Arabia of Iran's 'might'

President Hassan Rouhani warned Saudi Arabia on Wednesday that it will achieve nothing by threatening the might of Iran, as a war of words between the regional heavyweights intensifies. His comments came after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accused Iran of delivering missiles to Yemeni rebels for use against targets in the kingdom that he described as "direct military aggression". Iran has strongly denied supplying any missiles to the rebels, saying that it would have been impossible

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Four-Nation Hockey Tournament: Japan beat Pakistan by 3-1

Pakistan Hockey Team. Photo: File MELBOURNE: Team Pakistan failed to break its losing streak in the four-nation International Festival of Hockey, as it faced one more defeat, this time against Japan by 3-1 on Thursday. Prior to today?s match, Pakistan were ripped apart by the hosts Australia in their first match of the International Festival of Hockey at Melbourne's State Netball Hockey Centre. The record four-time World Champions' 1-9 defeat is their worst ever in international hockey. Hollan

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Kevin Spacey to be erased from Sony film about Getty kidnapping: reports

Veteran actor Christopher Plummer (left) and actor Kevin Spacey. Photo: File  LOS ANGELES: The director and producers of the completed but unreleased Hollywood film ?All the Money in the World? have chosen to remove Kevin Spacey from the movie, recast his role and reshoot his scenes following sexual misconduct allegations against the actor. The extraordinary measure to erase a leading actor from a completed major studio picture and reconstruct the film without him was reported by three major Ho

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Forbidden in China, but Trump skirts 'Great Firewall' to tweet about Beijing trip

BEIJING: US President Donald Trump went around and over the ?Great Firewall? of China in a late-night tweet in Beijing as he thanked his hosts for a rare tour of the Forbidden City and a private dinner at the sprawling, centuries-old palace complex. Many Western social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are banned in China. A sophisticated system has been built to deny online users within China access to blocked content. That was not an issue for Trump, known for tweeting to his 42.3

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CDA gets land worth Rs20 billion vacated from Centaurus Mall

Centaurus. Photo: File  ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Wednesday vacated 15 acres of government land from management of Centaurus which was illegally occupied for 10 years. Enforcement and Building Control Section of CDA jointly conducted operation against encroachments and illegally established rooms early morning. According to Member Estate CDA Khushal Khan the worth of this land is around Rs20 billion and Civic body will soon auction the plot. On the occasion, member Estat

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Ceremonies mark 140th birth anniversary of Allama Iqbal

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/8896792104f7e21d5e7e18a6e1d5d3cc.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTEvOS8yMDE3IDY6MDU6MDQgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1qVE9HcVl3VDVCSkRQUnl6d0ZnRGRRPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] LAHORE: The 140th birth anniversary of poet of the east, Muhammad Iqbal, was marked during various ceremonies across the country Thur

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Confusion clouds PSP-MQM-P ?bonhomie?

MQM-P leader Farooq Sattar meeting PSP Chairman Mustafa Kamal. Photo: Geo News KARACHI: Hours after the press conference of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan chief Farooq Sattar and Pak Sarzameen Party leader Mustafa Kamal, announcing to regroup under "one name, one symbol and one manifesto", it appears that massive confusion remains in the rank and files of both the Karachi-based parties on the shared mutual grounds. Speaking in Geo Pakistan, the new-entrant in PSP, Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra

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Trump tells Xi he believes North Korea solution can be found

US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping meet business leaders at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017. Photo: Reuters   BEIJING: US President Donald Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday that he believes, like Xi, that a solution can be found to the North Korean nuclear issue, a day after warning Pyongyang of the grave danger of developing nuclear weapons. Speaking alongside Xi in the Chinese capital, Trump also said it was disappoi

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Harvey Weinstein hires NY defense lawyer Benjamin Brafman

Attorney Benjamin Brafman and former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli depart ? following the deliberations on the case of "pharma bro" ? the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, New York City, US. August 3, 2017. AFP/Drew Angerer/Getty/Files  NEW YORK: Harvey Weinstein has hired Manhattan criminal defence attorney Benjamin Brafman to represent him in New York, a spokeswoman for the Hollywood producer said on Wednesday, days after New York police said an unidentified wo

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Sex scandals highlight need to have more women in power: campaigners

File Photo LISBON: Sexual harassment scandals sweeping from Hollywood to other industries globally highlight the need to have more women, gay, and black people in power at a time when minority rights are being rolled back, rights campaigners said on Tuesday. Abuse allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein have prompted thousands of women and men to share stories about improper behaviour by people abusing their power in the movie world, UK parliament, and elsewhere. Allegations a

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Berlusconi eyes political resurrection, unhindered by sex scandals

Italy's Silvio Berlusconi gestures during the television talk show 'Porta a Porta' (Door to Door) in Rome, Italy, June 21, 2017. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/Files  ROME: In a post-Harvey Weinstein world, logic would dictate that Silvio Berlusconi ? who hosted wild parties and brags about his sexual prowess ? would not have a ghost of a chance at political resurrection. But logic and Italian politics have never been synonymous. On Monday, the four-time former prime minister?s right-wing bloc relishe

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British aid minister Patel resigns in new test for PM May

Britain's Employment Minister Priti Patel leaves after a cabinet meeting in Downing Street in central London, Britain, June 27, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Files  LONDON: British aid minister Priti Patel was forced from office on Wednesday over undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials after Prime Minister Theresa May sought to reassert her diminished authority as she negotiates Brexit. Patel ? a Brexit campaigner who is popular in the ruling Conservative Party ? had to abandon a trip to Af

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Swiss prosecutors rule out charges in new Polanski rape claim

Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski looks on as he attends a news conference in Krakow, Poland, October 30, 2015. REUTERS/Agencja Gazeta/Mateusz Skwarczek/Files GENEVA: Swiss prosecutors on Wednesday ruled out bringing charges over the latest rape allegations against filmmaker Roman Polanski because the statute of limitations for the alleged 1972 assault had expired. Renate Langer ? a 61-year-old former actress ? told Swiss police in September that she met Polanski when she was 15 while work

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Catalan strike severs road links as secessionist leader regroups

Protesters block the tracks of the high-speed train AVE in Sants train station during a partial regional strike in Barcelona, Spain, November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Albert Salame BARCELONA/MADRID: A general strike called by pro-independence campaigners in Catalonia closed shops and severed transport links on Wednesday, as the region?s deposed leader lost political momentum after failing to seal an electoral pact with another party. Protesters closed roads, causing huge tailbacks into Barcelona, whil

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Congress finalises $700-billion defense spending plan

US Marines and sailors man the rails aboard the USS America (LHA-6) as they leave port and deploy to the Pacific with the America Amphibious Ready Group from Naval Base San Diego in San Diego, California, US, July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/Files  WASHINGTON: Members of US congressional defence committees said on Wednesday they supported a plan for $700 billion in defence spending in the fiscal year 2018, backing President Donald Trump?s call for a boost for the military. The House of Repres

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Emerging nations urge rich to kick-start climate pact before 2020

Protestors are seen carrying a sign ? reading "Stop climate crime" ? during a march at the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference 2017, held in Bonn, World Conference Center Bonn, Germany, November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/Files  BONN: Emerging nations pressed developed countries on Wednesday to step up cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to kick-start the Paris climate agreement, saying the rich were wrongly focused on 2030 goals. ?We came here needing to hit the accelerator, not th

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Italy begins autopsies of 26 drowned migrant girls

Migrants are rescued during a MOAS operation off the coast of Libya, August 18, 2016. Yara Nardi/Italian Red Cross/Handout via REUTERS/Files  ROME: Italian pathologists began post-mortem examinations Wednesday of 26 migrant girls found dead at sea, as Nigeria called for an international inquiry into their deaths. As authorities began the grim task, the bodies of five victims of another Mediterranean tragedy were brought to shore in Pozzallo in Sicily. The Nigerian foreign ministry described

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US slams World Bank lending to rich countries like China

David Malpass speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, US, November 19, 2007. Image Courtesy: Time via AP/Mark Lennihan/Files  WASHINGTON: World Bank lending to countries like China that are rich enough to finance their own development hurts poor countries that need help, a senior US Treasury official said Wednesday. David Malpass ? the Treasury's undersecretary for International Affairs ? cited China as a prime example of the practice, as the World Bank's biggest borrower

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First transgender elected official in Virginia lauded as trailblazer

Danica Roem ? the Democratic candidate for Virginia House of Delegates 13th District ? is pictured in Gainesville, Virginia, US, December 30, 2016. Courtesy friends of Danica Roem/Handout via REUTERS WASHINGTON: A 33-year-old transgender Democrat was being lauded as a pioneer on Wednesday after she won a seat in the Virginia state legislature against a Republican incumbent who openly boasted of being a "homophobe." "Discrimination is a disqualifier and the message of inclusion is a winning mes

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There's a dead bug in the Van Gogh

A visitor looks at the painting 'Olive Trees' (Saint-Remy, June/July 1889) by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh at the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, April 23, 2009. AFP/Nicholas Ratzenboeck/Files  WASHINGTON: When a Kansas City museum put a Vincent van Gogh painting under the microscope, it found an unlikely intruder: a grasshopper trapped in the canvas's painterly whirls for 128 years. Mary Schafer ? a conservator at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ? came across the tiny dried, brown carcas

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World stocks pause after record runs

Pedestrians are reflected on an electronic stock indicator at the window of a security company in Tokyo displaying the current rate of Tokyo Stock Exchange, November 9, 2017. AFP/Toshifumi Kitamura  LONDON: World stock markets were mixed on Wednesday as traders took profits following recent gains that have sent indices to record or multi-year highs. Optimism about the global economy and a string of positive earnings results have supported world equities in recent weeks. The eurozone's main m

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Barack Obama answers call for jury duty in Chicago

Former President Barack Obama waves to a crowd of people as he attends Cook County jury duty at the Daley Center, Chicago, Illinois, US, November 8, 2017. AFP/Joshua Lott/Getty Images  CHICAGO: Former US president Barack Obama answered a jury summons Wednesday, arriving at a Chicago courthouse to perform the civic duty asked of all Americans. The former leader of the free world was the only juror to arrive by motorcade, however, accompanied by tight security and met by a throng of news media.

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US defence chief meets NATO to discuss Daesh, Afghanistan

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (L) talks to US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis (C) and Britain's Secretary of State for Defence Gavin Williamson (R) as they pose for a family photo during a NATO defence ministers' meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, November 8, 2017. AFP/John Thys  BRUSSELS: With Daesh crumbling in Iraq and Syria, North Korea defiant over its nuclear ambitions, and Russia looming large, US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis faced a host of pressing issues as he began

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Broadway sensation 'Hamilton' heading to Puerto Rico

Lin-Manuel Miranda speaks onstage during the #Ham4Ham featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California, US, August 15, 2017. AFP/Getty Images North America/Matt Winkelmeyer/Files  NEW YORK: Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda announced Wednesday that he will bring the smash hit musical to Puerto Rico in 2019 as he rallies behind the hurricane-hit island's reconstruction. Since its premiere in August 2015, the modern retelling of US founding father Alexander Hamilt

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Weinstein hires celebrated New York criminal lawyer

Harvey Weinstein has hired one of America's most celebrated criminal defence lawyers to represent him in New York, a spokesperson for the disgraced mogul said Wednesday, as Manhattan prosecutors reportedly prepare a case against him. Adding Benjamin Brafman to his legal team would be a clear sign that the 65-year-old, twice-married father of five fears possible criminal charges in Manhattan for alleged rape. Brafman's past clients include the rapper Sean Combs, who was acquitted of weapons cha

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