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    North Korea not ready to hold talks with South Korea in Russia: agencies

    North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un visits the Mangyongdae Revolutionary Academy on its 70th anniversary, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang October 13, 2017. Photo: Reuters   MOSCOW: Politicians from North and South Korea will not hold direct talks in Russia on Monday about Pyongyang?s nuclear and missile program despite attending the same event, Russian news agencies said on Sunday. Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the Senate upper hou
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    Federer beats great rival Nadal to win Shanghai Masters

    Roger Federer holds the trophy after winning a second Shanghai Masters crown -- and a sixth title in 2017. Photo: AFP1 SHANGHAI: Roger Federer got one over his old rival Rafael Nadal to win the Shanghai Masters 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday in a showdown between the two best players on the planet. It was a 94th title for the Swiss legend, drawing him level with the great Ivan Lendl, and a fifth victory in a row against world number one Nadal. Nadal, who admitted afterwards that he had been beaten by the
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    Reinhold Messner?the mountaineer who lost seven toes to frostbite on Nanga Parbat

    In 1970, his brother Guenther died as they were descending Pakistan´s "killer mountain" Nanga Parbat in bad weather FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner is perhaps one of the world´s last great adventurers: he has conquered the planet´s highest peaks, crossed Antarctica and hunted for the elusive Yeti. That he has lived to tell those tales, is mainly down to luck, he says. Now 73 years old with an unruly mop of grey hair and a full beard, the man who counts German Chancellor
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    Kurds block Iraqi forces access to Kirkuk's oil fields, airbase

    A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter is seen in the Southwest of Kirkuk, Iraq October 13, 2017. Photo: Reuters  BAGHDAD: Kurdish Peshmerga fighters rejected a warning from an Iraqi paramilitary force to withdraw from a strategic junction south of Kirkuk, which controls the access to some of the region?s main oilfields, a Kurdish security official told Reuters on Sunday. Meanwhile, Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani arrived in Iraq?s Kurdistan region for talks about the escalating crisis between the
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    Death toll from blasts in Somalia's capital Mogadishu rises to 85

    A general view shows the scene of an explosion in KM4 street in the Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia October 14, 2017. REUTERS MOGADISHU: The death toll from twin bomb blasts that struck busy junctions in the heart of Somalia?s capital Mogadishu has jumped to 85, making it one of the deadliest attacks since an Islamist insurgency began in 2007. President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo declared three days of national mourning and called for donations of blood and funds to victims of Saturday?s a
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    Foreign secretary in Oman for four-nation talks on Afghanistan

    Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua. Photo: File  A delegation of Pakistan, led by Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua, reached Oman, Muscat on Sunday to participate in the four-nation talks on Afghanistan that begin tomorrow.  The Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG), which includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and US, will attempt to revive talks with the Taliban to bring a negotiated peace settlement in the war-torn country.  This will be the first meeting of the QCG after Afghan Taliban chief
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    Rangers recover large quantity of arms, ammo in Karachi

    KARACHI: Rangers conducted a search operation in Memongoth area of the city on Sunday and arrested one suspect besides recovering arms, ammunition and explosives. A spokesperson of the paramilitary force said the arms were hidden by the Baba Ladla Group ? a Lyari-based criminal gang ? in an empty tank.  The spokesperson said the action was taken on an intelligence tip-off.  Who was Baba Ladla? In 1977 when he was born in Lyari?s Chakiwara area his parents named him Noor Muhammad
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    Two held for smuggling foreign currency, drugs at Lahore airport

    A view of the Lahore airport. Photo: File  LAHORE: The Airport Security Force (ASF) arrested a suspect on Sunday for attempting to smuggle foreign currency out of the country.  According to sources, ASF officials seized Rs2 million in foreign currency from a passenger who was travelling to China on a Pakistan International Airlines flight.  ASF officials have taken the passenger, identified as Shahid Alam, into custody.  Further investigations are under way. In another operation, the ASF sei
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    Bus conductors, special students 'settle' torture case in Lahore court

    Screengrabs from the video show Hafiz Usman physically abusing a 12-year-old disabled child in Lahore, Pakistan, October 13, 2017. Photo: Geo.tv/Mian Muhammad Abid  LAHORE: Two school bus conductors who tortured children with disabilities settled the matter with the victims on Sunday.  As the accused appeared before Special Judicial Magistrate Naveed Awan in the Model Town Courts, both parties informed the judge that they have reached an understanding.  However, the judge sent the suspects on
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    Imran to address PTI workers? convention in Islamabad

    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan will address party workers? convention at the convention centre in the capital on Sunday. The PTI is holding a worker?s convention today regarding the party's new members' recruitment drive.  Party workers, including some leaders such as Ghulam Mustafa Khar, Bahadur Khan Sahar and Naeemul Haque, have started arriving at the venue. Party chief Imran Khan in his address is likely to reveal future strategy and relevant directions, ke
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    Futuristic solar-powered Dutch family car hailed ´the future´

    Dutch car 'Nuna 9' was competing in against slick, single-seat aerodynamic vehicles-AFP ADELAIDE: A futuristic Dutch family car that not only uses the sun as power but supplies energy back to the grid was hailed as "the future" Sunday as the World Solar Challenge wrapped up. The innovative bi-annual contest, first run in 1987, began in Darwin a week ago with 41 vehicles setting off on a 3,000-kilometre (1,860-mile) trip through the heart of Australia to Adelaide. Dutch car "Nuna 9" won the rac
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    Tears and joy on St. Helena as 'world's most useless airport' finally opens

    Onlookers peer through windows shortly after the first ever commercial flight landed at St Helena airport near Jamestown, October 14, 2017-Reuters JAMESTOWN: One of humanity?s most isolated outposts joined the 21st century on Saturday when the British island of St. Helena, home to ?the world?s most useless airport?, welcomed its first commercial flight. As the inaugural plane from Johannesburg touched down on the forbidding volcanic outcrop in the middle of the south Atlantic, the travel and hi
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    Constitution gives equal rights to every citizen: CJP Nisar

    CJP Justice Mian Saqib Nisar addresses the event, October 15, 2017. Photo: Geo News LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar said on Thursday that the Constitution of Pakistan gives equal rights to every citizen of the country. The chief justice was addressing the women judges conference in Lahore.  He said that the Constitution provides the same basic rights to every Pakistani, adding that it is important to know the law and consider things surpassing one's own ideas of just
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    US-world divide spills out at IMF-World Bank meetings

    WASHINGTON: The growing split between the United States and the rest of the world spilled into the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington this week. The US administration showed a diminished view of the Bretton Woods institutions that shaped a US-led order after World War II, rejecting efforts to expand their activities, and defending its attack on free trade pacts as part of President Donald Trump´s "America First" agenda. And at the same time, the US
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    Fruit, prawns off the menu at China's austere party Congress

    BEIJING: No free fruit in hotel rooms, no free hair cuts and no prawns on the menu - delegates at this week?s Communist Party Congress in China can expect austere treatment in keeping with President Xi Jinping?s pledge to crack down on corruption and extravagance. Part of Xi?s fight against deep-seated graft has been to ensure officials are not seen abusing their positions and wasting public money, after a series of scandals involving high-living bureaucrats ignited public anger. Wang Lilian,
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    California 'horror' fires kill at least 40, deadliest in state history

    Firefighters work to defend homes from an approaching wildfire in Sonoma, California, U.S. October 14, 2017. REUTERS SANTA ROSA: Fast-moving fires spread by shifting winds forced thousands more Californians to evacuate their homes on Saturday as the death toll from the deadliest blaze recorded in the state?s history rose to at least 40, with hundreds of people still missing. More than 10,000 firefighters supported by air tankers and helicopters overhead were battling 16 major wildfires, some en
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    Mayor should get law and order authority, will catch knife attacker: Sattar

    KARACHI: Muttahida Quami Movement-Pakistan Chief Farooq Sattar said on Sunday that the authority to maintain law and order should be given to Mayor Karachi Waseem Akhtar, claiming that then the infamous knife attacker would not stand a chance. MQM-P leader Farooq Sattar was addressing a gathering in Mahmoodabad area. During his address, Sattar demanded that the hold of the community police should be given to the mayor Karachi. ?If the system of eliminating crimes is under the mayor then withi
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    Three FC officials martyred in Kurram Agency

    Pakistani security officials in the border areas. Photo: AFP/File KURRAM: Three landmine explosions in Kurram Agency resulted in the deaths of three security personnel. Officials of the political administration in Kurram Agency said the explosions, caused by landmines, occurred in the border town of Kharlachi as the Frontier Corps troops were on a patrol.  Bodies of the martyred officials and the injured were taken to a hospital in the agency's headquarters, Parachinar. A search operation was
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    India to close colonial-era military farms

    This photograph taken September 1, 2017 shows a British-era dairy farm opened in 1889 that is now run by the Indian military in Allahabad-AFP Under a hot afternoon sun workers scrub down cows at the Allahabad Military Farm, the latest hangover of India´s colonial past being forced into the 21st century. The 700-acre (285-hectare) farm in the city of 1.1 million people, along with 38 other military farms set up by the country´s former British rulers, is to be closed in coming weeks. The yellow
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    Zardari bars Sindh lawmakers from taking hefty salary raise

    KARACHI: Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari prevented the Sindh government from availing the proposed raise in the salaries of lawmakers. The former president took notice of the increase of 300 percent in the salaries of the MPAs and provincial ministers. Zardari directed Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah that under the ongoing financial condition, the raises would be an extra burden on the national treasury. Provincial minister Nasir Hussain Sha
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    Rubies, the buried treasures of Azad Kashmir

    This photograph taken on September 13, 2017, shows a Pakistani employee of Azad Kashmir Mineral and Industrial Development Corporation (AKMIDC) showing a ruby gemstone at their auction place in Muzaffarabad-AFP CHITTA KHATTA: The people of Azad Kashmir are sitting on a treasure chest: Millions of rubies, estimated to be worth up to half a billion dollars, are lying beneath them. But archaic tools and a lack of investment in infrastructure and techniques are hampering efforts to transform the a
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    We're all in one boat; have to work together: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal

    Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal speaks to the media on Oct 2, 2017 after being denied entry by the Rangers to the Federal Judicial Complex where former PM Nawaz Sharif's corruption hearing was taking place - File   We are all in one boat. If we work together, then we?ll get to our destination. Things deteriorate if one leaves their own paddle and starts using the other's [paddle]. This was stated by Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal after Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Majo
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    Police arrest alleged MQM-L target killer during operation in Karachi's Manghopir

    KARACHI: An alleged target killer ? reported to belong to Muttahida Quami Movement-London (MQM-L) ? was arrested Saturday night following a raid carried out in the city's Manghopir area, police officials revealed. The suspect ? who has been identified as Amir (alias Kaala) ? confessed to being part of MQM-L during questioning after his arrest, superintendent of police (SP)-Orangi Abid Ali Baloch stated. Amir was rounded up from near the border between Sindh and Balochistan, the police officia
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    Liaquatabad flyover reopened after oil tanker collides with Jersey barrier

    KARACHI: An oil tanker collided with the Liaquatabad Flyover's Jersey barrier early Sunday morning, police said, with the fuel spilling out over the tarmac and leading authorities to consequently divert the traffic. The bridge ? which was closed for almost 15-20 minutes following the accident ? has now been reopened to traffic, police officials said. Petrol seeped out of the tanker, which, after the crash, stood on the side of the flyover. Traffic police and authorities then started to cover
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    Qatari sheikh says assets frozen over Gulf crisis

    Qatari envoy Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali bin Jassim al-Thani meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R), Jeddah, August 16, 2017. AFP/Handout via SPA/Files DOHA: A controversial member of Qatar's royal family said Saturday that Qatari authorities have frozen his bank accounts over his role in Doha's crisis with its neighbours. "The Qatari regime has honoured me by freezing all my bank accounts," Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al-Thani tweeted. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain
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