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Pigging out: internet mocks McDonald's new China name

McDonald's in China was the object of internet ridicule on Thursday after social media wags pointed out that its new official corporate name sounds a lot like the Chinese word for a pig eating. Photo: AFP  McDonald's in China provoked snorts of laughter Thursday, as internet users mocked a ham-fisted new company name that sounds a lot like the Chinese word for a pig eating. Earlier this month, the company quietly changed its official name from a transliteration of "McDonald's" to a new moniker
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New Saudi mega-city will be listed publicly, crown prince says

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia October 24, 2017. Photo: REUTERS  RIYADH: The $500 billion mega-city planned by Saudi Arabia will be floated on financial markets alongside oil giant Saudi Aramco as part of the kingdom?s drive to diversify away from oil, the crown prince told Reuters in an interview late on Wednesday. The 26,500-square km (10,230-square mile) business and industrial zone, named NEOM, will extend
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Israel willing to resort to military action to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons: minister

TOKYO: Israel is willing to resort to military action to ensure Iran never acquires nuclear weapons, the intelligence minister said on Thursday in Japan where he is seeking backing for US President Donald Trump?s tougher line on Tehran. Trump said on Oct. 13 he would not certify Iran is complying with an agreement on curtailing its nuclear program, signed by his predecessor, Barack Obama, opening a 60-day window for Congress to act to reimpose sanctions. ?If international efforts led these da
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Fear of Iranian general left Iraqi Kurdish oil fields deserted

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Qassem Soleimani uses a walkie-talkie at the frontline during offensive operations against Daesh militants in Salahuddin province of Syria March 8, 2015. Photo: Reuters  BAGHDAD/LONDON: When the Iraqi army and Iranian-backed Shia militia entered a key oil processing facility in Iraq?s north to retake it from Kurdish Peshmerga forces last week, the installation was deserted and its alarm bells ringing. Engineers and workers on the facility, which processes
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Indonesia fireworks factory explosion kills 27, injures 35: media

JAKARTA: An explosion and a fire at a fireworks factory in an area west of Indonesia?s capital of Jakarta have killed 27 people and injured 35, media said on Thursday, citing police and firefighters. Television broadcast images of thick plumes of dark smoke billowing from a factory in Tangerang.
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Shah Mehmood Qureshi's brother slaps devotee for stopping son at Multan shrine

Custodian of the shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya Mureed Hussain Qureshi slapping a devotee. Photo: Geo News   MULTAN: Mureed Hussain Qureshi, the disputed custodian of the shrine of Hazrat Bahauddin Zakariya and brother of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi, repeatedly slapped a devotee in public on Thursday for stopping his son from entering the shrine. Thousands of devotees have gathered at the historic shrine to mark the three-day 778th Urs of the Sufi saint in Multan. Qure
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Swiss tourists suffer brutal attack in India

Taj Mahal NEW DELHI: A Swiss tourist has been left with a fractured skull after he and his girlfriend were attacked near the Taj Mahal during a holiday in India, police and media reports said Thursday. A group of men approached the couple near a local railway station and demanded selfies with the woman before attacking them with stones on Sunday, the Times of India daily said. It said the man suffered a fractured skull while his girlfriend, a 24-year-old Swiss national, had a broken arm and mu
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Criticised ECP to make institution stronger, says Imran Khan

PTI Chairman Imran Khan speaking to the press outside the ECP on Thursday. Photo: Geo News ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Thursday that his criticism of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was meant to make the institution stronger, and at no time did he intend to defame or degrade it. Speaking to the media after the ECP concluded the contempt proceedings against him, the PTI chief said that the purpose of his criticism was to make the ECP a credibl
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Land mafia illegally occupying Edhi welfare centres, says Bilquis

Bilquis Edhi  The Edhi Foundation has appealed to the Sindh and federal governments to free the non-profit?s welfare centres in various parts of the province from illegal occupation of influential land grabbers. Addressing a news conference at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday, the late philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi?s family said that one of the centres was occupied in the Sindh-Balochistan border town of Hub, for which they sought the Balochistan government?s intervention. Edhi?s wife Bi
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Only way to deal with Nawaz is by working under ambit of law, says Tallal Chaudhry

Minister of State for Interior Tallal Chaudhry. Photo: Geo News ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Interior Tallal Chaudhry said on Thursday that the only way to deal with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief is by working under the ambit of law and constitution. Speaking at the juridical complex before the hearing of Maryam Nawaz and Captain (retd) Safdar, he said that the tone of party leaders have become harsh due to the constant injustices they are facing. ?Nawaz has been indicted against
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Eminem wins copyright case against NZ political ads

Eminem during a performance SYDNEY: A New Zealand political party has been ordered to pay more than $400,000 to US rapper Eminem for using music similar to his 2002 hit ?Lose Yourself? in a television commercial to help win a national election. The track, played during the National Party?s successful 2014 election campaign and titled ?Eminem Esque?, was found by a New Zealand court to have ?substantially copied? Lose Yourself. The National Party used the song 186 times during the campaign bef
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Even weak, 'so-called' democratic government should complete tenure: Maryam

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/11f303b19b237091822327d6fbaed80e.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMjYvMjAxNyA2OjIyOjUxIEFNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9Zlc0SGNTSjNCT0Z4MnJVYkg4dTgzUT09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz02MCZpZD0x style=center] ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz said on Thursday that every "so-called" democratic government, no matter how weak, should complete its tenure.   "This is how democracy wil
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MQM-P member?s murder motivated by ?personal enmity?: police

HYDERABAD: The murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) member Dr Noshad was motivated by personal enmity, not political gains, police have claimed. Dr Noshad was shot dead in a targeted attack in Hyderabad on Wednesday. The attackers, riding a motorcycle, shot at his vehicle near Rasheed Bhayya Park within the limits of Gulshan Halinagar Police Station. Both the attackers remain at large. However, police have identified one of the attackers as Shahid ?Dancer?. MQM-P membe
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Cabinet decides to place delimitation bill before NA for consideration

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet in its meeting held here Wednesday with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in the chair decided to place the Delimitation [of constituencies] Bill before the National Assembly for debate and consideration. Earlier, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics gave a presentation to the Cabinet on Census 2017, a press release issued after the meeting said. The meeting ratified recommendations of the Cabinet Committee for Disposal of Legislative Cases in its meeting held las
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China will not set target to double GDP from 2021: party official

Chinese deputy minister of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Finance and Economic Affairs Yang Weimin attends a news conference during the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing. Photo: Reuters  BEIJING: China will not set a target to double gross domestic product (GDP) from 2021, a senior Communist Party official said on Thursday, as top leaders look to high-quality growth in the long term. Yang Weimin, vice minister of the Office of the Central Leading G
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Kennedy document release unlikely to quell conspiracy theories

A trove of secret documents about the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy is to be released on Thursday WASHINGTON: A trove of secret documents about the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy is to be released on Thursday but scholars say they are unlikely to contain any bombshell revelations -- or put to rest the rampant conspiracy theories. The Warren Commission which investigated the November 22, 1963 shooting of the charismatic 46-year-old president determined that it was
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Pakistan eye T20 clean sweep after ODI momentum

Pakistan will eye number 1 spot in T20 rankings when they take on Sri Lanka from today  Pakistan will target another powerful show when they meet Sri Lanka in the first of three T20 internationals in Abu Dhabi today. The Green Shirts? limited-overs form, with their bowling devastating opponent after opponent, saw them brush Sri Lanka aside 5-0 in the ODI series which concluded on Monday. With their T20 form even better, they will start the shortest format as firm favourites. If Pakistan, curr
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Sri Lanka sports minister joins Pakistan tour

Dayasiri Jayasekara COLOMBO: Sri Lanka´s sports minister announced Wednesday he would join the national cricket team on their first match in Pakistan since gunmen attacked their team bus in Lahore eight years ago. Dayasiri Jayasekara said Sri Lanka was satisfied with security preparations for the Twenty20 final in Lahore later in October despite reservations from some players. "It is safe for our team. I am accompanying them to demonstrate that it is safe for us," Jayasekara told reporters in
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Polling to begin for highly-anticipated by-election in Peshawar's NA-4

PESHAWAR: Voting commences here in the city at 8 AM today ? declared a holiday to provide convenience to the voters ? at NA-4 constituency?s 269 polling stations in what will be marked as the first time the country uses electronic voting machines (EVMs). With posters, banners, and promotional material adorning the constituency?s roadways and the campaigning having ended two days prior, the by-election is perceived to be a litmus test for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) popularity in the provi
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Desperate for news, Rohingya refugees tune in to 'WhatsApp radio'

Sat in his hillside grocery shop in a Bangladesh refugee camp, Rohingya Muslim Momtaz-ul-Hoque takes a break to listen to an audio recording on his mobile phone, while children and passers-by gather round to hear the latest news from Myanmar. ?I listen because I get some information on my motherland,? said Hoque, 30, as he plays a message on WhatsApp explaining the Myanmar government?s proposals for repatriating refugees. Hoque has been in Bangladesh since an earlier bout of violence in Myanma
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Crisis over Catalan independence nears crucial few days

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont kept friends and foes guessing on Wednesday on whether he intends to unilaterally declare independence as the Spanish government prepares to impose direct rule to stop the region breaking away. Puigdemont spurned an invitation to explain his position to the Senate in Madrid on Thursday ? an indication of the rigid stands taken by both sides in Spain?s gravest political crisis since the end of the Franco dictatorship in 1975. He also kept his silence on whether
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Turkish court releases eight rights activists on bail in terrorism trial

A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered the release on bail of eight human rights activists, including the director of the local branch of Amnesty International, pending a verdict in their trial on terrorism charges. The case against the activists, who number 11 in total and who face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty, has become a flashpoint in Turkey?s tension with Europe and heightened concern that an important NATO member is sliding further towards authoritarianism under President Tayyip
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Thousands turn out to see lavish funeral of Thailand's late king

Thousands of people turned out in Bangkok to watch the funeral procession of Thailand?s late King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Thursday, with buildings draped in yellow marigolds and mourners lining the streets on the eve of his cremation. Mourners dressed in black slept overnight on thin plastic mats on pavements near the Grand Palace in the Thai capital in order to secure a good view of the procession, which was expected to begin at 7 a.m. (1200 GMT). The king?s cremation will feature ancient rites
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West Ham make thrilling comeback to knock out Spurs from League Cup

West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic?s future was the subject of speculation after a 3-0 home Premier League loss to Brighton but his side gave him a lifeline with a spirited comeback win over Tottenham Hotspur in the League Cup on Wednesday. Trailing 2-0 to Spurs at the break, the Hammers produced a thrilling revival to emerge 3-2 winners and take their place in the quarter-finals. ?The mood was down at halftime but not that down as against Brighton. We did not penetrate Spurs enough, were no
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