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What has gone wrong with Real Madrid?

Just a few month ago, Real Madrid became the champions of both Spain and Europe. Winning the Champions League first time in the history of the competition. The royal team from Madrid were widely recognised as the best team in the world. Domestically, Los Blancos are in trouble, trailing Barcelona by 8 points this early in the season, Real Madrid has never had such a big deficit in the league. So what has changed for Real Madrid, which has had five players featured in FIFAPRO WORLD XI just last

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Blast hits Afghan capital Kabul: witnesses

KABUL: A loud blast shook windows and doors in an area of the Afghan capital Kabul where many foreign embassies and government departments are based, Reuters reporters heard on Tuesday. The cause of the blast and the extent of any damage was not immediately apparent.

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National Assembly to retain 272 seats: Ayaz Sadiq

NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq addressing the media on Tuesday. Photo: Geo News  LAHORE: The National Assembly of Pakistan will retain 272 seats, a decision which was taken during the meeting of parliamentary parties. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq said while the number of seats would remain the same there would be a change in the allocation for provinces.  ?The number of seats for Punjab will decrease, KP and Balochistan will see an increase, while an add

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Turkmenistan sells China ice cream as energy profits melt

ASHGABAT: Reclusive Turkmenistan hailed on Tuesday its first shipment of ice cream to China as the crisis-stricken Central Asian country seeks to diversify its exports beyond hydrocarbons. Ata Bayramov, a representative of state-endorsed Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, said a private company, Taze Ay, had dispatched over six tonnes of ice cream to China, which is also Turkmenistan's leading purchaser of natural gas. "This is a trial party designed to test the ground for further coop

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Reviewing if PSL final will be held in Karachi or not: Sethi

PCB Chairman Najam Sethi while speaking to media on October 31, 2017. Photo: Geo News screen grab LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board Chairperson Najam Sethi shared that it is currently being reviewed if the final of Pakistan Super League season three will be held in Karachi or not.  While speaking to media, Sethi remarked that discussions are being held pertaining to PSL season three. It was also advised that two playoffs of PSL should be held in Lahore, he shared.  The schedule of West Indies tou

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Witchcraft helped us beat Pakistan in Tests, says Sri Lanka captain

Dinesh Chandimal COLOMBO: Sri Lanka´s surprise two-match Test cricket win against Pakistan this month was down to witchcraft, captain Dinesh Chandimal said Tuesday, drawing mockery on social media. Chandimal told reporters he had received a special blessing from a meyni, or sorcerer, ahead of the two-match series in the United Arab Emirates. "I am always ready to accept the blessings of anyone -- whether it is a meyni or any clergy," Chandimal told reporters after returning to Colombo. "You c

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Pakistan Post to issue special stamp in tribute to Champions Trophy victory

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Post is issuing a commemorative postage stamp of Rs 10 denomination and souvenir sheet of Rs 50 denomination in honour of the country?s remarkable Champions Trophy victory in England earlier this year. The commemorative postage stamp will be available for sale at all important Post Offices in Pakistan from Thursday. Pakistan team poses with the Champions Trophy, June 18, 2017  Meanwhile, a postage stamp of Rs 8 denomination is being issued on Wednesday on 125th anniversa

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Next polls cannot be held on old constituencies, asserts ECP

ECP Secretary Babar Yaqoob. Photo: File ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Babar Yaqoob said on Tuesday that after holding the new census, it is not possible to conduct polls on the old constituencies. Talking to the media, Yaqoob said the ECP is worried about the delimitation of constituencies in light of the new census. He informed that the delimitation and work on voters? lists would be undertaken simultaneously, but added that he feared there will be more room for e

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Pakistan to supply 400 cricket balls for Blind Cricket World Cup

Pakistan Blind Cricket team/File photo ISLAMABAD: Pakistan would be supplying 400 cricket balls for the Cricket World Cup of the Blind scheduled to be held in Pakistan and UAE in January 2018. Talking to APP, Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC) chairman Syed Sultan Shah said besides the World Cup, all blind cricket playing nations are using Pakistan-manufactured blind cricket balls. ?Recently Australia and England had requested us for 1,000 cricket balls, each. We had sent 500 cricket balls

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Pakistan to top T20 rankings if India beat NZ

Pakistan players celebrate after whitewashing Sri Lanka in the T20I series in Lahore/Getty Images  ISLAMABAD: India will do Pakistan a huge favour if they defeat New Zealand in the upcoming three-match Twenty20 International series, as such a result will see their archrivals top the ICC T20 Team Rankings. New Zealand are the top-ranked side in the shortest format with 125 points, but Pakistan have closed in to within one point after securing a 3-0 win in their series against Sri Lanka, which cu

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Telecom import s up 21.84%, mobile phones 30.18% in 1st quarter

ISLAMABAD: The telecom imports into the country increased by 21.84 percent during the first quarter of the current fiscal year as against the imports of the corresponding period of last year. The telecom imports during July-September (2017-18) were recorded at $333.701 million compared to the imports of $273.895 million during July-September (2016-17), according to the latest data of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). Among the telecom products, the imports of mobile phones witnessed growth

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Interior minister visits journalist Ahmad Noorani, says supervising investigation

Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal at the residence of Noorani. Photo: Geo News ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal visited on Tuesday journalist Ahmad Noorani ? who was recently assaulted by unidentified men ? and said that he is personally supervising the investigation of the attack. The interior minister and Prime Minister's Adviser Irfan Siddiqui arrived at the residence of the senior The News reporter and inquired about his well-being. The interior minister said that the latest tools are

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Banners favouring Vohra, against Waseem Akhtar appear outside KMC

Banner against Mayor Waseem Akhtar outside KMC building. Photo: Geo News KARACHI: Banners in favour of Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra, and against Mayor Waseem Akhtar were seen outside Karachi Metropolitan Corporation building on Tuesday. The banner put by unknown people read:, 'corrupt Mayor Unacceptable' and ?head of corrupt mafia Waseem Akhtar?. A charged city council session is expected today, after the inclusion of Deputy Mayor Vohra in Pak Sarzameen Party. Vohra announced to end his affiliat

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Nawaz Sharif?s name should be placed on ECL: Aitzaz Ahsan

PPP leader Aitzaz Ahsan. Photo: File  ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Senator Aitzaz Ahsan has called for the name of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to be placed on the Exit Control List (ECL). Aitzaz said if Sharif?s name is not placed on the ECL, then this would be a double-standard. According to Aitzaz, this would be a major test for the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau. Meanwhile, Sindh Minister for Industries and Trade, Manzoor Wassan said if Nawaz return

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Polio team assaulted in Hyderabad over vaccine refusal

Police with the suspects' brothers. Photo: Geo News HYDERABAD: Unidentified people assaulted a polio vaccination team in Heerabad Qureshi area of the city on Tuesday after a reported disagreement. The anti-polio team did not have a police escort with it. Following the incident, the vaccination campaign in the area has been suspended for now. Police officials said the incident was caused after male members of a family began arguing with a polio team that had administered vaccination drops to e

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Sarfraz?s dilemma: Busy schedule and an unhappy wife

Sarfraz with his wife/File photo Looks like the entire nation is happy with skipper Sarfraz Ahmed ? and why shouldn?t they be? He?s been unbeaten in ODIs and T20Is ever since leading Pakistan to the Champions Trophy gold in June this year. Except for one person; and that?s none other than his wife, who is a bit grumpy that the busy captain doesn?t get to spend as much time at home as she?d like. ?Keeping the wife happy is the most difficult thing in the world,? a laughing Sarfraz told former

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Nawazuddin Siddiqui?s memoir lands him in trouble

Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui perhaps didn?t anticipate the strong backlash he would receive once snippets from his book went public. The actor recently had excerpts from his memoir ?An ordinary life? published in a daily. Little did he know, that following the content being public he would be embroiled in a legal battle for defaming women he had brief affairs with. It came to the extent where he had to pull back his book and apologise on Twitter. Nawazuddin had revealed s

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IMF tells Gulf states to speed up switch from oil

DUBAI: The IMF on Tuesday advised energy-rich Gulf economies to speed up their diversification away from oil after projecting the worst growth for the region since the global financial crisis. Oil exporters in the Middle East, especially those in the Gulf Cooperation Council, have been hit hard by the collapse in crude prices which provided a major part of their finances. Following the slump, GCC members Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates undertook fiscal meas

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Samsung Electronics posts record Q3 profits, replaces CEOs

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics logged a record profit of $10.0 billion for the third quarter and announced a sweeping reshuffle of its top management on Tuesday, seeking to maintain its lead while its heir is in prison. The world's biggest memory chip and smartphone maker has faced multiple challenges since last year, including a humiliating recall of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 handsets and a corruption scandal that engulfed its de facto leader. But its net profits for July to September soared 14

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Iran's envoy calls on COAS, discusses regional security

Iranian Ambassador Mehdi Honardoost and COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa. Photo: ISPR  RAWALPINDI: Iranian Ambassador Mehdi Honardoost called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa today at the General Headquarters. A statement by the army's media relations wing, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the focus of the discussion remained on regional security, Pak-Iran border management, visits and exchanges in the defence realm. "The visiting dignitary acknowledged and app

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Sri Lanka plan more Pakistan trips after T20 success

Sunday's T20 was Sri Lanka's first in Pakistan since their team bus was attacked near the same venue in March 2009 - AFP  COLOMBO: Sri Lanka are planning to send more teams to Pakistan after playing a Twenty20 match in Lahore for the first time since a gun attack eight years ago, a top official said Tuesday. Sri Lanka Cricket chief executive Ashley de Silva said the national team were impressed with the extraordinary level of security for the match at the Gaddafi stadium on Sunday. "They del

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Facebook says 126 million Americans may have seen Russia-linked political posts

A 3D-printed Facebook like button is seen in front of the Facebook logo, in this illustration taken October 25, 2017 - Reuters   WASHINGTON: Facebook Inc said on Monday that Russia-based operatives published about 80,000 posts on the social network over a two-year period in an effort to sway US politics and that about 126 million Americans may have seen the posts during that time. Facebook's latest data on the Russia-linked posts - possibly reaching around half of the US population of voting a

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London game plan obvious, Nawaz desperate for NRO: Imran

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/e8a013484c0e0f63e4572a1c424480b3.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMzEvMjAxNyA3OjI1OjI3IEFNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9UnpZUFgwWmZZSmpJOUpUOXY0b3IrZz09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz02MCZpZD0x style=center] ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Tuesday that the "London game plan" has become obvious now as i

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Woman allegedly poisons in-laws with lassi, death toll rises to 15

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/2a8edd34be6fc210f7ad0bdebf0b6b7a.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMzEvMjAxNyA4OjQ2OjE1IEFNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9NGRWcmF0WnpFZnN3OXZRdnpqNTBWdz09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz02MCZpZD0x style=center] MUZAFFARGARH: Two more people died from complications after allegedly consuming poisonous lassi in Tehsil Alipur's neighbourhood Lashari, bringing the total toll of the tragedy to 15 on Tuesday. A seven-year o

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OGRA seeks Rs2.5 hike in petrol price

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/5d936813e317241d7308f5fa98c37c92.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMzEvMjAxNyA3OjI3OjE2IEFNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9akJLWTB5NGVvZmtDMzVLZ0tONjNrQT09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz02MCZpZD0x style=center] ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulation Authority (Ogra) on late Monday forwarded a summary to the federal government, seeking an incre

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