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Four major generals promoted to lieutenant general: ISPR

RAWALPINDI: The Inter-Services Public Relations on Wednesday announced the promotions of four major generals to lieutenant generals. Major General Majid Ehsan, Major General Aamir Abbasi, Major General Abdullah Dogar, and Major General Hamood uz Zaman have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, the military's media wing said.  Photo: ISPR Lieutenant General Abdullah Dogar has also been appointed as the Corps Commander Multan, while Maj-Gen Ehsan has taken charge as the president of
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Three nabbed in Lahore for playing Blue Whale game, confess to kidnapping

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/164216209c3bb88c747ef41df6de33d6.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMTgvMjAxNyAzOjMxOjI3IFBNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9Q282ejVHc1NiQnlYQjNRL0VtSCtGdz09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz02MCZpZD0x style=center] LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday arrested three suspects for playing the Blue Whale game, who also confessed to having kidnapped a youth, the agency said. The arrests were made follo
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'Co-living' project takes on London housing crisis

The 10-storey building may look like a hotel, but it is thought to be the world's biggest large-scale house-share, offering modest rooms and upscale services for hundreds of young adults caught in London's housing crisis. Photo: AFP  LONDON: The 10-storey building may look like a hotel, but it is thought to be the world's biggest large-scale house-share, offering modest rooms and upscale services for hundreds of young adults caught in London's housing crisis. The Old Oak building, situated on
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Confused whale blocks Marseille marina

Photo credit: Twitter/@Zehub MARSEILLE: Rescue services in the southern French city of Marseille battled for nearly an hour on Wednesday to free what is thought to have been a large whale that got stuck in the city´s marina. The roughly 15-metre (50-foot) creature swam into the old port in the centre of the Mediterranean city around lunchtime and blocked the entrance, drawing a crowd of curious onlookers who watched as divers attempted to free it. Responding to reports of a whale-like mammal w
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New York police round up wandering cow in Brooklyn park

NEW YORK: New York City police wrangled a cow on the loose in a Brooklyn park on Tuesday after the animal became a spectacle for tourists and New Yorkers alike when it was spotted roaming the streets and enjoying the park facilities. The bemused bovine and camera-wielding humans stared at each other through a chain-link fence for several minutes, according to live news video. At other times the beast wandered curiously around the 526-acre (212-acre) Prospect Park, the largest in the borough of
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Shahid Kapoor's latest post says everything about the queen of his heart

Shahid Kapoor and his wife Mira Rajput is again giving us some serious couple goals. Shahid Kapoor is happy to admit that his ?queen? Mira Rajput rules his heart Shahid and Mira are one of the cutest couples in tinsel town. The Bollywood star?s posts speak of the love and compatibility that the couple share, which was all too evident on the Koffee With Karan season 5 Shahid-Mira episode that was loaded with their mushy moments. Shahid has shared a new click with his wife, and we are in awe of
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After victory in Raqqa over Daesh, Kurds face tricky peace

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters ride atop of military vehicles as they celebrate victory in Raqqa, Syria, October 17, 2017. Photo: REUTERS  RAQQA: Kurdish groups who led the fight against Daesh in its former capital Raqqa must navigate a complex peace to avoid ethnic tension with the city?s Arab majority and to secure critical US aid. The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which finally vanquished Daesh in Raqqa on Tuesday face a big task rebuilding a city left in ruins
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Philippines´ Duterte says Marawi liberated but battle continues

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (front L) applauds as he declares Marawi city "liberated" during a ceremony inside the battle area as Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (in blue) raises a clenched fist. Photo: AFP  MARAWI: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday declared a southern city "liberated from terrorists´ influence" but the military said the five-month battle against militants loyal to the Daesh group was not yet over. Duterte led rain-soaked soldiers in celebrations in M
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Trump told soldier's widow 'he knew what he signed up for': lawmaker

US President Donald Trump told the widow of a soldier killed during an ambush in Niger "he knew what he was signing up for," according to a lawmaker who accused him of insensitivity. Photo: AFP file  WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump told the widow of a soldier killed during an ambush in Niger "he knew what he was signing up for," according to a lawmaker who accused him of insensitivity. Frederica Wilson, a Democratic congresswoman from Florida, said she listened in to part of a group phon
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Powerful explosion rocks Swedish police station

Police forensics work at the scene after a powerful explosion at the main entrance to the police station in Helsingborg, October 18, 2017. Photo: REUTERS  STOCKHOLM: A powerful explosion blew out the entrance to a police station in the southern Swedish city of Helsingborg early Wednesday, an attack authorities linked to their fight against organised crime. The explosion occurred just after midnight in the city centre, which is home to around 100,000 people. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven called
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25 Indian fishermen arrested for violating maritime boundary

KARACHI: Pakistan has arrested at least 25 Indian fishermen for allegedly fishing illegally in its waters, officials said on Wednesday. The Maritime Security Agency (MSA) made the arrests during the last four days, impounding four wooden boats, a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media. He added "the arrested fishermen have already been handed over to police, who will produce them in a court on Thursday". Senior local police offi
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Ed Sheeran cancels Asia tour dates after cycling accident

Chart-topping British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran on Wednesday announced the cancellation of upcoming concerts in Asia after breaking his arm in a cycling accident. Photo: AFP file  LONDON: Chart-topping British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran on Wednesday announced the cancellation of upcoming concerts in Asia after breaking his arm in a cycling accident. The 26-year-old has pulled out of shows in Taipei, Osaka, Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong, according to a post to his 17.5 million followers on In
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EU court rules Greek police height rule is sexist

The case was brought by would-be police cadet Marie-Eleni Kalliri, whose application to join the academy for the 2007-8 year was turned down on grounds of height. Photo: AFP file  LUXEMBOURG: The EU´s top court ruled Wednesday that Greek police had discriminated against women by setting a minimum height requirement for police cadets regardless of ***. The Greek police academy´s rule that all applicants, male or female, must be at least 1.70 metres (five feet seven inches) tall unfairly disadva
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First floating wind farm starts operation in Scotland

EDINBURGH: The world´s first floating wind farm started operations off the coast of Scotland on Wednesday, opening up the possibility of turbines at sea depths that would avoid spoiling views from the shore. The 30MW Hywind farm, operated by Norwegian oil group Statoil in partnership with Abu Dhabi´s renewable energy company Masdar, is located 25 kilometres (16 miles) off the Aberdeenshire coast. It will power approximately 20,000 households. Irene Rummelhoff, executive vice president of Stat
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Biggest refugee camps in the world

Bangladesh has announced plans to build a refugee camp that could accommodate around 800,000 Rohingya Muslims pouring over the border from Myanmar. Photo: AFP  PARIS: Bangladesh has announced plans to build a refugee camp that could accommodate around 800,000 Rohingya Muslims pouring over the border from Myanmar. The camp would be the largest in the world and has raised concerns about the risks of concentrating vulnerable people, such as the spread of disease. Around 550,000 Rohingya have fle
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Jamaat-ul-Ahrar chief killed in Afghanistan drone strike

PESHAWAR: Umar Khalid Khurasani, chief of banned militant group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), has been killed in a drone attack in Afghanistan, reported Geo News on Wednesday.  On Tuesday it was reported that the JuA chief was critically injured in a drone attack.  The strike was conducted close to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Paktia on Tuesday. Khurasani, being critically injured in the attack, was moved to an undisclosed location. Jamaat ul Ahrar: Changing the militant landscape in P
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Spain threatens Catalan separatists as deadline looms

Spain said Wednesday it would take the unprecedented step of seeking to suspend Catalonia's autonomy if the region's leader does not abandon his independence bid, on the eve of his deadline to give a final answer. Photo: AFP  Spain said Wednesday it would take the unprecedented step of seeking to suspend Catalonia's autonomy if the region's leader does not abandon his independence bid, on the eve of his deadline to give a final answer. Separatist leader Carles Puigdemont ? whose banned indepen
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Mastermind of APS & Bacha Khan University attacks dead

PESHAWAR: The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Wednesday confirmed the death of Umar Mansoor who was the mastermind behind the Army Public School (APS) and Bacha Khan University attacks in Pakistan. Umar Mansoor was the TTP?s commander in Peshawar and Dara Adam Khel. Reports that he had been killed were circulating months earlier as well, at the time the TTP did not confirm or deny whether he was dead or alive. Details regarding when, where and how Umar Mansoor died were not given
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Portugal interior minister resigns after deadly wildfires

LISBON: Portugal's Interior Minister Constanca Urbano de Sousa resigned Wednesday as criticism mounts over the government´s handling of a series of deadly forest fires that killed more than 100 people in four months. Socialist Prime Minister Antonio Costa accepted her resignation, his office said. On Sunday, a series of deadly wildfires broke out in the centre and north of the country which killed 41 people and injured another 71, the civil protection agency said. Similar huge blazes in June
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Iran supreme leader dismisses Trump´s ´rants and whoppers´

TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday dismissed US President Donald Trump´s aggressive criticism as "rants and whoppers" while vowing that Tehran would stick to its nuclear commitments. "I don't want to waste my time on answering the rants and whoppers of the brute US president," Khamenei said in a speech to students in Tehran, published on his Telegram channel. It was his first response to Trump's bellicose speech last Friday in which he called for tougher sanction
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Bus conductors who tortured special needs children get bail

Last week, two conductors ? Hafiz Usman and Akram ? were caught on camera torturing children with disabilities on a school bus. Photo: Geo News   LAHORE: Child Protection and Welfare Judge Abdul Mustafa Nadeem on Wednesday approved the bail of two men who tortured special needs children. Last week, two conductors ? Hafiz Usman and Akram ? were caught on camera torturing children with disabilities on a school bus.  The accused were arrested by the Ghalib Marke police and produced before the c
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Twitter steps up fight against sexual harassment

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter has announced tough new rules on tweets containing "non-consensual nudity" and sexual harassment, which could be seen as fallout from the Harvey Weinstein abuse scandal. The rules will come into force in the coming weeks, Twitter said in a statement late Tuesday, after company co-founder Jack Dorsey on Friday posted a series of tweets promising policy changes. The San Francisco-based social media giant will "immediately and permanently suspend any account we identify as
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Nawaz Sharif will return very soon: Ayaz Sadiq

ISLAMABAD: Speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq on Wednesday said the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif will return to the country soon. "Nawaz Sharif will return to the country very soon, as soon as Begum's [Kulsoom Nawaz] health stabilises a bit," said Sadiq.  When asked regarding the recent meeting between Maryam Nawaz, Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz, Sadiq said there were no differences between the Sharif family.  "There are no differences in the family. I
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Mahira Khan finally speaks on Ranbir picture controversy

?It is my personal life and it is very normal for a boy and girl to hang out" Mahira Khan has finally broken silence on the controversy that followed after pictures of her in a short dress smoking with Ranbir Kapoor surfaced, saying ?it is her personal life?. ?It is my personal life and it is very normal for a boy and girl to hang out,? she said while speaking at the trailer launch of her upcoming film, Verna. The famed actress did say she has learned from the incident. ?Nowadays, (the) media
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Freed American hostage Caitlan Coleman rushed to hospital

Caitlan Coleman, the American woman who was rescued along with her family by Pakistani troops after five years in Taliban captivity, had to be rushed to hospital, her husband said. Joshua Boyle, her Canadian husband, told the Associated Press in an email that his wife was admitted to hospital on Monday. His email did not specify why she was taken to the hospital. ?My wife has been through hell, and she has to be my first priority right now,? Boyle wrote. He also said that he and his wife had
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