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Mild earthquake hits Quetta, adjacent areas

QUETTA: A mild earthquake hit Quetta and adjacent areas in Balochistan late Tuesday, Geo News learnt. The magnitude of the earthquake was recorded 4.2 on the Richter scale, according to the seismological centre. Tremors were also felt in Nushki and suburban areas. The epicentre of the quake was located 95 kilometres north-west from Quetta, near the Pak-Afghan border, the seismological centre said. The tremors emanated from a depth of 11 kilometres, it added. Fortunately, no loss of life an
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British court sentences Pakistani woman for laundering 'largest sum' in recent years

A British court sentenced a Pakistani woman to four and a half years of prison on accounts of money laundering and vandalizing. Photo: File  LONDON: A Pakistani woman on Tuesday was sentenced to four and a half years of prison on accounts of money laundering and vandalizing. Kingston Crown Court also sentenced Razwana Zeib's husband Rafaqat Hussain and three others for similar charges. The 35-year-old mother of four children has been jailed for conspiring to GBP7 million cash-in-transit from
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Will bury MQM one way or another: Kamal

KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chief Mustafa Kamal said on Tuesday that they would "bury the MQM," no matter whatever way it takes. The PSP chief was addressing inaugural ceremony of his party's election cell at the Pakistan House. He said the MQM was the "biggest enemy of his community" and a threat to all the people in the country, especially the 'Mohajirs.' Kamal said they have not been hatching any conspiracy and openly say that they are to "bury the MQM." "And for this, we will opt
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Prince Charles? estate profited from investing in friend?s offshore holding

The Paradise Papers leak revealed that Prince Charles estate, the Duchy of Cornwall, has invested millions of pounds in offshore holdings, including a business run by one of his best friends. The estate?s decision to invest was regarded as highly sensitive and board members were sworn to secrecy. According to the documents, company?s director Hugh van Cutsem had met Prince Charles while they were at Cambridge University. Cutsem is a horse breeder who owns 1,600-hectare (3,400 acre) estate in
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Riyadh rejects reports of prince's death in graft purge

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday rejected reports that a prominent prince had been killed in a sweeping anti-corruption purge of the kingdom's elite. Prince Abdulaziz bin Fahd, a son of the late king Fahd, was rumoured to have been killed in custody or while resisting arrest amid the crackdown at the weekend. The hashtag "death of Prince Abdulaziz bin Fahd" has since featured on social media, fuelling fevered speculation online. "There is no truth whatsoever to rumours circulating in media con
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East meets West as Louvre Abu Dhabi opens in the Gulf

Abu Dhabi opens its Louvre museum on Saturday, positioning itself as a city of cultural tourism with a display of hundreds of works that it hopes will draw visitors from around the world. Photo: REUTERS file ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi opens its Louvre museum on Saturday, positioning itself as a city of cultural tourism with a display of hundreds of works that it hopes will draw visitors from around the world Surrounded by water on three sides, the museum houses 600 artworks it has acquired, alongside
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Pakistan's soil will not be used against any country including Iran: DG ISPR

Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor on Tuesday reiterated that Pakistan's soil will not be used against any country including Iran. Photo: ISPR  TEHRAN: Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asif Ghafoor on Tuesday reiterated that Pakistan's soil will not be used against any country including Iran. ?Pakistan?s relations with Iran are not at the cost of its relations with any other country and vice versa,? the DG ISP
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Schools shut amid health emergency as smog blankets India's capital

Indian security personnel stand guard at the Rajghat memorial amid heavy smog in New Delhi on November 7, 2017. Photo: AFP  NEW DELHI: A public health emergency was declared as choking smog blanketed New Delhi on Tuesday, with authorities ordering the temporary closure of all primary schools in the world´s most polluted capital city. The US embassy website said levels of the fine pollutants known as PM2.5 that are most harmful to health reached 703 -- well over double the threshold of 300 that
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In Lebanon, years of campaigns to make harassment 'Not OK'

Over the past decade, a string of anti-harassment campaigns have emerged to fight back against sexual assault in Lebanon, largely considered the most progressive country in the Middle East. Photo: AFP file BEIRUT: Over the past decade, a string of anti-harassment campaigns have emerged to fight back against sexual assault in Lebanon, largely considered the most progressive country in the Middle East. Harassment in the small Mediterranean nation may not be as prevalent as other regional countrie
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Keeper ?stable? after tiger attack at Russian zoo

A zookeeper in Russia?s westernmost city of Kaliningrad was in hospital but out of danger Tuesday after a being attacked by a tiger. Photo: AFP file MOSCOW: A zookeeper in Russia?s westernmost city of Kaliningrad was in hospital but out of danger Tuesday after a being attacked by a tiger. The big cat seriously injured the keeper on Sunday after escaping from an inner enclosure as visitors watched, zoo spokeswoman Yekaterina Mikhailova told AFP. The keeper is now "in a stable condition", she sa
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EU pushes for tax blacklist after Paradise Papers leak

The EU pushed on Tuesday for Europe to draw up a blacklist of tax havens after the ?Paradise Papers? revealed loopholes used by Apple and Nike as well as celebrities including Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton. Photo: AFP file  BRUSSELS: The EU pushed on Tuesday for Europe to draw up a blacklist of tax havens after the ?Paradise Papers? revealed loopholes used by Apple and Nike as well as celebrities including Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton. While seeking to minimize taxes is not necessa
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Nawaz now has a definitive answer to why he was disqualified: Imran

ISLAMABAD: Responding to the Supreme Court?s detailed judgement on the dismissal of Sharif family?s review petitions in the Panama Papers case, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairperson Imran Khan remarked that Nawaz Sharif now has a definitive answer to his constant cry of why was he disqualified. In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Imran said: ?In this SC detailed judgement, Nawaz now has a definitive answer to his constant cry of "mujhe kyun nikala." Imran further wrote: ?
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Police shoot dead injured suspect in Faisalabad

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Yemen rebels threaten to attack Saudi, UAE airports

SANAA: Rebels in Yemen threatened on Tuesday to attack ports and airports in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, raising the stakes in a flare-up between Riyadh and Tehran. The threat came hours after Saudi Arabia´s powerful crown prince accused Iran of "direct military aggression" through its support for the rebels -- a claim Tehran rejected as "contrary to reality". The soaring tensions between the key oil producers saw crude trading at close to two-year highs on Tuesday and spooked G
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Trump 'not invited' to Paris climate summit

US President Donald Trump is not among the around 100 heads of state and government invited to next month?s climate summit in Paris. Photo: AFP file PARIS: US President Donald Trump is not among the around 100 heads of state and government invited to next month?s climate summit in Paris, a French presidential aide said Tuesday. ?For now, President Donald Trump is not invited,? he said, while noting that representatives of the US government would attend. Trump announced his decision to withdraw
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NATO to boost Afghan mission by 3,000 troops

BRUSSELS: NATO will boost its training mission in Afghanistan by 3,000 troops, chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday as Kabul reeled from the latest deadly attack on civilians. Around half the new troops will come from the United States, and the overall size of NATO´s training and support mission in the unrest-hit country will increase from 13,000 to 16,000, he said. Speaking a day before NATO defence ministers meet in Brussels, Stoltenberg said the alliance would boost its presence "to help the
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Thief steals Botero statue from France's most guarded street

French police are hunting a daring art thief who stole a bronze statue worth nearly half a million euros from a gallery within yards of the presidential palace in Paris. Photo: AFP file PARIS: French police are hunting a daring art thief who stole a bronze statue worth nearly half a million euros from a gallery within yards of the presidential palace in Paris. The thief simply walked into the gallery and helped himself to the statue of a mother and child by the Colombian artist Fernando Botero.
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Ranvir Singh has just chopped off his hair and here's how he looks

Photo: Ranvir Singh INSTAGRAM  Ranveer Singh has finally chopped off his long locks. The actor had grown his hair to portray 'Alauddin Khilji' in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Padmavati'. In a series of videos posted on Instagram, Ranveer showed off his hair before, during and after the haircut. Here's the before video: The actor posted a video of his hair cut in process. This is Ranvir's new look. 
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#MeToo campaign resonates with Egyptian women battling harassment

CAIRO: The #MeToo campaign that saw women around the world share their experiences of sexual assault struck a deep chord in Egypt where life is often a daily battle against harassment. Emboldened by the global outpouring, female internet users in the country took to their computers to document their own accounts of unwanted advances and violence in the latest push to speak out over the endemic problem despite a conservative backlash from society. "One time when I was pregnant... a man harassed
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Oxford academic Tariq Ramadan takes leave over sex abuse probes

Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan took a leave of absence on Tuesday from the University of Oxford following multiple rape and sexual misconduct allegations. Photo: AFP file  LONDON: Scholar Tariq Ramadan took a leave of absence on Tuesday from the University of Oxford following multiple rape and sexual misconduct allegations, the British institution said. ?By mutual agreement, and with immediate effect, Tariq Ramadan has taken a leave of absence from the University of Oxford,? it said in a stateme
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Zardari working on secret, unknown agenda: Saad Rafique

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League ? Nawaz (PML-N) leader and Minister of Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique on Tuesday alleged that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari is working on an ?unknown, secret agenda?. The statement comes soon after PPP?s Qamar Zaman Kaira lashed out at the PML-N, claiming that ?democracy doesn?t suit the party.? ?Something has happened to PPP?s democratic sensibilities, and Zardari seems to be working on an unknown, secret agenda,? Asif claimed. Min
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Trump administration is keeping a US citizen secretly locked up in Iraq

US President Donald Trump?s administration has allegedly detained an American citizen at a secret jail in Iraq for two months now, according to The Independent. The US citizen, who has yet to be identified, surrendered to US forces and was reportedly fighting alongside Daesh in Syria. The prisoner has been denied any access to a lawyer. Steven Dalbey, director for the Defence Department's office of detainee policy claimed that the American surrendered to Syrian Democratic Forces on around Sep
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UK politician found dead after misconduct claims

UK politician Carl Sargeant was found dead Tuesday just days after resigning over misconduct allegations as part of a wider harassment scandal embroiling parliament. Photo: AFP file LONDON: UK politician Carl Sargeant was found dead Tuesday just days after resigning over misconduct allegations as part of a wider harassment scandal embroiling parliament, police said. Sargeant?s body was found on Tuesday morning at an address in Connah?s Quay in north Wales, the local police said. The force said
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Britain says expects most EU citizens can stay after Brexit

LONDON: The British government said on Tuesday that most European Union citizens currently living in Britain will be allowed to remain in the country after Brexit in 2019. Outlining plans for a mass registration programme, the Department for Exiting the European Union and the interior ministry said EU nationals will be given a two-year grace period to apply for settled status after Britain leaves the EU. The legal status and rights of EU nationals, is one of the thornier issues in Britain?s co
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Nepal recovers 'most' of the money hacked from bank

KATHMANDU : A bank in Nepal has recovered most of the money stolen after its SWIFT server was hacked last month, two officials, involved in the investigation of the Himalayan nation?s first reported cyber heist, said on Tuesday. Cyber attackers made about $4.4 million in illegal transfers from NIC Asia Bank, based in the Nepali capital, by hacking the SWIFT server at the private bank, to other countries, including the United States, Britain, China, Japan and Singapore last month when the bank
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