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Cash incentives help smokers quit, study finds

MIAMI: Smokers who are offered cash incentives are far more likely to give up cigarettes than those who are simply offered tips on how to quit, said a US study Monday. The approach could offer ways to cut the number of smokers, which has remained steady at about one-fifth of the US population in recent years, according to the report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine. The rate among the poor is even higher. Twenty-six percent of smokers in the US in 201
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Cash incentives help smokers quit, study finds

MIAMI: Smokers who are offered cash incentives are far more likely to give up cigarettes than those who are simply offered tips on how to quit, said a US study Monday. The approach could offer ways to cut the number of smokers, which has remained steady at about one-fifth of the US population in recent years, according to the report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine. The rate among the poor is even higher. Twenty-six percent of smokers in the US in 201
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Would-be British terror couple met on dating site

A UK man who was preparing a bomb in Britain was helped by a pharmacist he met through an online dating site. Photo: AFP file.  LONDON: A UK man who was preparing a bomb in Britain was helped by a pharmacist he met through an online dating site, a prosecutor said at their trial on Monday. Munir Mohammed met Rowaida El-Hassan on a dating site, where her profile said she was seeking a "very simple, honest and straightforward man who fears God before anything else." The pair, both of Sudanese ori
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Exxon exit deals blow to Pakistan plans for LNG imports

ISLAMABAD: Exxon Mobil has pulled out of a major project in Pakistan, in a potential blow to plans to boost imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) after years of winter shortages. Differences among the six-member group behind the project in Port Qasim in Karachi mean French oil major Total and Japan's Mitsubishi may also quit and join a rival scheme, government officials and industry sources told Reuters. A highly-developed pipeline grid, extensive industrial demand and the biggest natural gas
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Prince Charles begins Asia tour in Singapore

Britain?s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrived in Singapore Monday to kick off an Asian tour. Photo: AFP file. SINGAPORE: Britain?s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla arrived in Singapore Monday to kick off an Asian tour aimed at cementing relations ahead of a meeting of Commonwealth states next year. The heir to the British throne and Camilla are undertaking an 11-day trip that will also include stops in Malaysia and India. British media had said the Foreign Office was originally con
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'Shortest Asia-Europe rail link' launched in Azerbaijan

ALYAT: Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey on Monday launched a rail link between the countries aimed at cutting total journey times from China to Western Europe while bypassing Russia. The 826-kilometre railroad runs from Azerbaijan's capital Baku via the Georgian capital Tbilisi to the city of Kars in Turkey. It will help to reduce the journey time between China and Europe, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said at the launch ceremony in the town of Alyat in the oil-rich Caucasus nation. "The
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Bahraini woman, son get three years in jail for ?fake bomb?

DUBAI: A Bahraini woman and her son were sentenced Monday to three years in prison for planting a "fake bomb", activists said, in what Amnesty International has called a reprisal case. Hajar Mansoor Hassan and her son Sayed Nizar Alwadaei, 18, were charged under the Gulf state?s counter-terrorism law with planting a fake bomb, the London-based Bahrain Institute for Human Rights and Democracy (BIRD) said. A nephew of Hassan, Mahmood Marzouq, 30, was acquitted of the bomb charge but sentenced to
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Did not get fair trial in Panama Papers case: Nawaz Sharif

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/819bad36b28553bebdf8ebb746c7ef4e.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMzAvMjAxNyAzOjQ4OjA2IFBNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9WTh2RTloQ0o4VU1YMHlnTTIvb3liQT09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz02MCZpZD0x style=center] LONDON: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing the media after a high-level PML-N huddle, said he did not get a fair tr
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Trump campaign aide pleads guilty to lying about Russia links

George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor to the campaign early last year, entered the plea October 5, admitting he sought to hide contacts with a Moscow linked professor offering "dirt" on Donald Trump?s election rival Hillary Clinton. Photo: AFP file WASHINGTON: A Trump campaign aide has pleaded guilty to lying to FBI investigators probing the campaign?s possible links to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to court documents unsealed Monday. George Papadopou
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Danish inventor admits dismembering journalist

Danish inventor Peter Madsen has admitted dismembering the corpse of Swedish journalist Kim Wall. Photo: AFP file STOCKHOLM: Danish inventor Peter Madsen has admitted dismembering the corpse of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, whose body parts were found at sea after she interviewed him on board his homemade submarine, Danish police said Monday. Madsen, who is suspected of murdering Wall, has until now denied mutilating her body. In earlier police questioning, the 46-year-old said she had died in
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Kulsoom Nawaz discharged from hospital, recovering: Maryam

The wife of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, is back home from the hospital and recovering, tweeted her daughter Maryam Nawaz on Monday. While responding to a tweet enquiring after her mother?s health, Maryam asked the well-wisher to keep praying for Kulsoom Nawaz?s quick recovery. A few days back, the former first lady was hospitalised once again after her condition worsened. She
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Bahrain calls for freeze on Qatar's GCC membership

DUBAI: Bahrain called Monday for Qatar's membership of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to be suspended until it accepts the demands of its neighbours and said Manama would not attend GCC meetings alongside Doha. "The correct step to preserve the GCC would be to freeze Qatar's membership until it sees reason and accepts the demands of our countries. If not, we will be fine with it leaving the GCC," Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa said on Twitter. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the Unite
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PTI reiterates demand for Dar's resignation

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/94b37c7f1e7b2a1adc628c2eb6ca5132.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMzAvMjAxNyAyOjUyOjMzIFBNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9V05RbFEvYmlTeTRvbXlDRXkxdEJwdz09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz02MCZpZD0x style=center] ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Leader Shafqat Mehmood on Monday reiterated his party's stance and demanded Finance Ministe
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Pakistan condemns murder of innocent Chinese nationals: FO

Li Zang Hing and Ming Leassi Ha were abducted from a local eatery in Quetta's Jinnah Town. Photo: Geo News   ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani government on Monday condemned the killing of two Chinese nationals. "We condemn the abduction and murder of two innocent Chinese nationals," the Foreign Office said in a statement released today (Monday). Two foreign nationals kidnapped from Quetta The husband and wife were working at a Korean language centre since the last year A Deoxyribonu
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Standard & Poor's affirms Pakistan's 'B' ratings with stable outlook

ISLAMABAD: The global rating agency, Standard & Poor's Global Ratings (S&P), in its report on Monday affirmed Pakistan's long-term ''B'' and short-term sovereign credit rating. The outlook for the long-term ratings remains stable, according to the report. Affirmation of Pakistan's rating reflects that economic prospects remain favourable and external and fiscal metrics of the country will not worsen materially from their current level, according to statement issued by the Finance Mini
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Against drug abuse: Shehzad Roy designated UN National Goodwill Ambassador

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has taken Pakistani singer Shehzad Roy onboard in its fight against drug demand by appointing him as its new National Goodwill Ambassador. "Throughout his career as a singer, social worker and a humanitarian, Roy has shown an unwavering commitment to tackling illicit drugs," UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov was quoted as saying in a statement on their website. "His position as one of Pakistan's most famous singers, his enduring popularity with youn
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Brokerages bullish on iPhone X demand after Apple hint

Apple has ceased to give its own numbers on iPhone sales, leaving investors and analysts striving to track output through research with its suppliers, consumer surveys and other industry indicators. Photo: Reuters File Signs of strong demand for Apple?s iPhone X led one well-known sector analyst to raise his forecast for pre-orders by 10 million on Monday and another to predict iPhone sales overall next year would be higher than consensus forecasts. Apple has ceased to give its own numbers on i
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Trump?s former campaign chairman charged with conspiracy against US, money-laundering

Donald Trump?s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was charged Monday with conspiracy against the United States and money laundering. Photo: AFP file WASHINGTON: Donald Trump?s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was charged Monday with conspiracy against the United States and money laundering, the first to come out of a sprawling probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Manafort and business partner Rick Gates were charged with allegedly hiding millions of dolla
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Maryam assures disenchanted NA-120 workers reservations will be addressed

PML-N leader Maryam Nawaz assured disenchanted local leaders and party workers in the NA-120 constituency that their reservations will be addressed. Photo: Geo News  LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) leader Maryam Nawaz on Monday assured disenchanted local leaders and party workers in the NA-120 constituency that their reservations will be addressed. "The reservations of upset workers must be addressed and resolved," she said, adding that a weekly contact with the constituency's p
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Catalan Independence: What will happen to La Liga?

On October 27, the Catalan government officially voted to declare independence from Spain, though the Spanish parliament was quick to approve direct rule over the region. The Catalan government said that out of the 43 per cent of voters who took part, 90pc were in favour of independence, but Spain's Constitutional Court had ruled the vote illegal. With the referendum taking place under a shroud of controversy, questions have been raised over regarding the position of La Liga.  What will happe
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Army DGMO protests targetting of civilians with Indian counterpart

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army's director general of military operations on Monday contacted his Indian counterpart and protested recent tagetting of civilians along the Line of Control (LoC), said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).  The DGMO conveyed that Indian troops are "deliberately targetting innocent civilians including children and said that such deliberate actions are serious concern and violation of 2003 agreement". Pakistan Army's DGMO clarified, when it was alleged by the India
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Sindh govt will write letter to centre to replace AD Khawaja

KARACHI: Sindh Law Minister Zia-ul Hassan Nijar said on Sunday that the provincial government will write a letter to the federal government for replacing Inspector General of Police Sindh AD Khawaja. The Sindh law minister was speaking to media, where he said that the provincial government is viewing the matter in view of the court?s deadline. The Sindh government will write a letter within two days, nominating Grade 22 officer Abdul Majeed Dasti. He said that at the time, two officers of Gra
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KP Ehtesab Commission dismisses corruption petition against Gulalai

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission on Monday dismissed a petition against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNA Ayesh Gulalai, saying the commission only probes corruption of over Rs5 million. The commission said that Gulalai has accusations of only Rs1.2 million against her. PTI leaders Noor Zaman and Saleem Khan submitted the petition in the commission on August 8 accusing Gulalai of corruption and asking it to launch an inquiry into the matter. Addressing a news conference, Zaman
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Daughter-in-law responsible for Muzaffargarh Lassi poisoning: Police

Lassi is a yogurt-based drink. Photo: Twitter  MUZAFFARGARH: Police investigating the deaths of 13 people after drinking poisonous Lassi in Mauza Walot, Muzaffargarh, believe the newly-married daughter-in-law is responsible.  Following the tragic incident five days ago, police have taken into custody the daughter-in-law and her alleged partner.  Police sources claim Aasia had married Amjad around two months ago but prior to the incident, she had gone back to her parents' home. However, her in-
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Afghan Taliban say kidnapped US professor is seriously ill

King and his Australian colleague Timothy Weeks were kidnapped in August 2016 as they were returning to their compound in the Afghan capital-Twitter KABUL: The Afghan Taliban said on Monday that Kevin King, one of two professors from the American University of Afghanistan who were kidnapped at gunpoint in Kabul last year, is seriously ill and needs urgent medical attention. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said King, an American, was suffering from ?dangerous? heart disease and kidney probl
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