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Deadly twin suicide attack hits Damascus police station

BEIRUT: Two suicide bombers attacked a police station in Damascus on Monday, killing a number of civilians and policemen, the interior minister said, in the first such attack in the Syrian capital since July. Four militants carried out the attack, killing more than 10 people, the pro-Damascus TV channel al-Mayadeen said. Russia?s RIA news agency reported that 15 people were killed. Militants targeted the station in the al-Midan neighbourhood and clashed with police officers there, Interior Min
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Two Indian posts destroyed, civilian martyred in LoC firing

RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Army on Monday destroyed two Indian posts after a civilian was martyred by Indian firing along the Line of Control (LoC), said a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). The firing also injured four other civilians in the area.  "Pakistan Army effectively engaged the Indian posts targetting the civilian posts," added the ISPR.  On September 30, unprovoked firing across the Line of Control martyred a junior commissioned officer (JCO) and two ci
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Smash hit: Ping pong robot takes on Olympian at Tokyo tech fair

FORPHEUS, a fourth-generation table-tennis robot developed by automation parts maker Omron returns a shot to a human player at a top Tokyo tech fair on October 2. Photo: AFP A ping-pong-playing robot served up a hit at a top Tokyo tech fair Monday, while a barely-moving machine in the shape of a sloth aimed to provide a relaxing change of pace. The alien-looking table-tennis star, named FORPHEUS, had a tough opponent, in the shape of Japan's first-ever Olympic singles medal-winner in a man-vers
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Pakistan fumble in 136-run chase after dramatic collapse against SL

Sri Lankan players rejoice after taking a Pakistani wicket. ?Reuters photo ABU DHABI: The Pakistani batting line-up crumbled in the face of Sri Lanka bowling, losing the first Test on Monday despite a five-wicket haul by Yasir Shah giving Sarfraz XI an easy 136-run target. Things did not go Pakistan's way as a seemingly achievable target soon loomed large, with Sami Aslam (2), Azhar Ali (0), Shan Masood (7), Babar Azam (3) and Asad Shafiq (20) being quickly sent back to the pavilion early in th
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Bangladesh, Myanmar agree to draw up plan for refugee repatriation: minister

Rohingya refugees queue for aid in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, October 1, 2017.  Photo:REUTERS  DHAKA: Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on Monday to set up a ?working group? to plan the repatriation of more than half a million Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled to Bangladesh to escape an army crackdown, the Bangladeshi foreign minister said. The United Nations has called the exodus of 507,000 Rohingya since late August the world?s fastest-developing refugee emergency and says Buddhist-majority M
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I am being compared to Pakistan's biggest thief: Imran Khan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairperson Imran Khan, while addressing a press conference in the federal capital on Monday, said that he is being compared to the most corrupt man in the country. He further said that propaganda is being created and his case is being portrayed in the same light as that of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.  "They think that if Nawaz is a thief, then Imran Khan must be one as well," he added. "I am ready for accountability," he said, adding that he is sub
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Kurdish referendum in Iraq lacks legitimacy, says FO

ISLAMABAD: The spokesperson for the Foreign Office (FO) said on Monday that the Kurdish referendum held in Iraq lacks legitimacy.  "The referendum violates the Iraqi constitution and therefore lacks any legitimacy," said spokesperson Nafees Zakaria.  The FO added that the referendum presents a challenge to peace and stability of Iraq. "Pakistan is deeply concerned over the referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan."  Pakistan reiterated its support for Iraq and further said the country fully supports Ir
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Sarfraz, Haris keep Pakistan alive after top order collapse

Sami Aslam walks off after being dismissed, Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Abu Dhabi, 5th day, October 2, 2017/AFP ABU DHABI: Pakistan top order crumbled in the face of Sri Lanka bowling, after a brilliant five-wicket haul by leg-spinner Yasir Shah left Sarfraz XI needing just 136 runs to win on the final day of the first Test. The seemingly easy target, however, soon loomed large as Sami Aslam (2), Azhar Ali (0), Shan Masood (7), Babar Azam (3) and Asad Shafiq (20) were sent quickly back to t
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More than 50 killed in Las Vegas concert shooting: police

Las Vegas Metro Police officers gather near the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South after a mass shooting at a music festival on the Strip/Reuters  LAS VEGAS: A gunman opened fire at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, killing more than 50 people and wounding more than 200 others before the suspect was killed by police. Police identified the suspect as a local Las Vegas man who acted alone, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan P
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Nisar exercised limited authority as interior minister, says Rana Sanaullah

ISLAMABAD: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Monday that Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan exercised limited authority during his tenure as interior minister. Speaking in Geo News? show, Geo Pakistan, he said that: ?Chaudhry Nisar did not enjoy complete authority, and was facing same issues as voiced by Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal.? Responding to a question related to the strong reservations expressed by Iqbal in a press conference outside court complex, after he was disallowed to enter the
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US biology trio wins Nobel Medicine Prize

Winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (L-R) Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young are pictured on a display during a press conference/AFP STOCKHOLM: US geneticists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young were awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize Monday for shedding light on the internal biological clock that governs the wake-sleep cycles of most living things. "Their discoveries explain how plants, animals and humans adapt their biological rhythm so t
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PTI leaders criticise interior minister's 'helplessness'

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry has expressed satisfaction with the way things are proceeding in the accountability court hearing corruption cases against the Sharif family.  Speaking to Geo News on Monday after Nawaz's hearing, he said he wonders whether the interior minister is a police officer that he went to the court today. Similarly, PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the interior minister should not threaten to resign and instead just resign. PTI?s Babar Awan sa
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KKF money laundering case: FIA registers case against MQM founder

KARACHI: Federal Investigative Agency on Monday registered a case against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder on charges of money laundering, sources informed Geo News. The case has been filed at the department's state bank circle by former MQM member Sarfraz Merchant. He alleged that the party leaders used to send money to founder MQM from bank accounts of Khildmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF) through Hawala channel. Sources have informed that along with violation of bank laws, anti-terrorism
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Two women plead not guilty to killing North Korean leader's half-brother

FILE PHOTO: Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong (L) and Indonesian Siti Aishah are seen in this combination picture from undated handouts released by the Royal Malaysia Police to Reuters on February 19, 2017. Royal Malaysia Police/Handout via Reuters KUALA LUMPUR: Two women accused of assassinating the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with a banned nerve agent pleaded not guilty at the start of a high-profile murder trial in a Malaysian court on Monday. Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25
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PML-N amends party constitution, allows disqualified member to lead party

PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif. Photo: Geo News ISLAMABAD: The central working committee (CWC) of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Monday approved an amendment in party?s constitution, allowing disqualified member parliament to lead the party. In its meeting headed by the party?s interim president Sardar Yaqub Nasir at Punjab House, the CWC unanimously accepted the amendment. The PML-N members also endorsed a resolution forwarded by Climate Change Minister Senator Mushahidullah Khan. The party lea
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Khawaja Asif expected to meet Tillerson in Washington this week

Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif/File photo ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif is set to leave for United States this week, where he is expected to meet US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to resume bilateral talks and work out ways to dispel tensions that cropped up after US President Donald Trump's August 21 speech. In the first high-profile meeting between US and Pakistan since Trump?s speech, US Vice President Mike Pence had recently met Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and suggested
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Sikh politician becomes leader of Canada's third biggest political party

Jagmeet Singh celebrates with supporters after his first-ballot triumph in the contest for leader of the leftist New Democrat party in Toronto on Sunday. ?AP photo OTTAWA: Jagmeet Singh was named leader of Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP) on Sunday, the country's third biggest political force after Justin Trudeau's Liberals and the Conservatives. Singh, 38, won almost 54 percent of votes in the first round of voting against three other candidates. He will replace charismatic Thomas Mulcair
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Two dead, 24 wounded by gunfire in Las Vegas, says hospital

Las Vegas/File photo At least two people died early on Monday and 24 were hospitalised with suspected gunshots wounds in Las Vegas, a local hospital spokesman said, as police investigated reports of an active shooter in the city. The reports emanated from the Mandalay Bay Casino on the city´s famous strip. One Twitter user posted that the hotel was on lockdown, while another, citing police scanners, said two gunmen who had shot at a bodyguard and police were on the 32nd floor of the hotel. Wi
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Abbas strikes early as Pakistan inch closer to victory

Mohammad Abbas/File photo ABU DHABI: Pacer Mohammad Abbas struck early to take Pakistan within sight of victory on the final day of the first Test against Sri Lanka on Monday. Abbas dismissed Mendis and Lakmal within the opening hour of the morning session, getting the former trapped LBW for 18 and the latter caught in the deep for 13, reducing Sri Lanka to 86-6 who led by 83 runs. On Sunday, leg-spinner Yasir Shah grabbed the key wicket of Dinesh Chandimal to leave Sri Lanka fighting to avoi
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Bomb blast in Swat kills peace committee member's father

Bo,b blast in Swat. Photo: File SWAT: A man was killed and two others injured in a remote-controlled blast in Swat valley on Monday, said Police. The law enforcement personnel informed that the blast targeted an Amn Council member Ahmed Zeb in the Ghat area of Malam Jabba. Zeb was targeted when he was in his car with his father and two other people on route to Mingora from his home. Zeb's father was killed and the two others were seriously wounded from the attack, local police officials said.
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On eve of Gaza reconciliation, Hamas frees Fatah men

A member of Fatah movement is hugged and kissed upon his release from a Hamas-run jail as part of reconciliation efforts, in Gaza City. Photo: Reuters   GAZA: Hamas freed five prisoners belonging to the rival Fatah party on Sunday and Egypt sent a delegation to the Gaza Strip to oversee the Islamist group?s planned handover of administrative control of the Palestinian enclave to a unity government. The West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister, Rami al-Hamdallah, and other officials of the g
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This is a hijacked trial, says Pervaiz Rasheed

Senator Pervaiz Rasheed speaking to media outside court complex. Photo: Geo News ISLAMABAD: Senator Pervaiz Rasheed on Monday called the hearing of three corruption references against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ?a hijacked trial?. Responding to a question outside the accountability court, Rasheed said: ?it is not an open trial, in fact, it is a hijacked trial. The Supreme Court will tell you who hijacked it as the implementation of laws is their mandate.?  He added that, ?Today we are
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Doctors fear for malnourished Rohingya kids

Rohingya Muslim refugees run to receive food at a distribution area at Balukhali refugee camp/AFP  The five-year-old Rohingya boy was so emaciated that doctors could not insert a drip into his tiny arm, one of thousands of children facing life-threatening malnutrition in overstretched Bangladeshi refugee camps. "He said he hadn't eaten anything in eight days. Nothing," said Dr SK Jahidur Rahman at a clinic run by Bangladeshi medical charity Gonoshasthaya Kendra. The lucky ones make it to the o
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Google unveils new moves to boost struggling news organisations

WASHINGTON: Google announced new steps to help struggling news organisations Monday -- including an end to a longstanding "first click free" policy to generate fresh revenues for publishers hurt by the shift from print to digital. The moves come amid mounting criticism that online platforms are siphoning off the majority of revenues as more readers turn to digital platforms for news. "I truly believe that Google and news publishers actually share a common cause," said Google Vice President Phi
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Catalonia, one of Spain's economic heavyweights

MADRID: Catalonia, which held a banned referendum on secession from Spain Sunday amid a police crackdown, is one of the powerhouses of the Spanish economy, buoyed by industry, research and tourism but burdened with a heavy debt. Economic heavyweight Contributing 19 percent of Spain´s GDP in 2016, Catalonia rivals Madrid for the distinction of being the richest region in the country. It is fourth in terms of GDP per capita with 28,600 euros ($33,600), after Madrid, the northern Basque Country
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