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Twitter suspends Russia-linked accounts, but US senator says response inadequate

Twitter said on Thursday it had suspended about 200 Russian-linked accounts as it probes online efforts to meddle with the 2016 US election, but an influential Democratic senator slammed its steps as insufficient. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, summoned Twitter officials to testify behind closed doors on Thursday as part of a broad investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. Facebook faced a similar grilling earlier this mon
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus announces she has breast cancer

Award-winning "Veep" star Julia Louis-Dreyfus has breast cancer, she announced through social media on Thursday. The 56-year-old American actress revealed the diagnosis to her 750,000 Twitter followers, posting a note that read: "One in eight women get breast cancer. Today, I'm the one." "The good news is that I have the most glorious group of supportive and caring friends, and fantastic insurance through my union," she continued. "The bad news is that not all women are so lucky, so let's fig
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British PM May says Uber's London ban 'disproportionate': BBC

An illustration picture shows the logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone next to the picture of an official German taxi sign in Frankfurt, Germany, September 15, 2014. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/Files  A decision by London?s transport regulator to strip Uber Technologies Inc of its license to operate in the city was ?disproportionate? and has put thousands of jobs at risk, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday. "Yes there are safety concerns and issues for Uber to add
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Evacuees leave Puerto Rico by cruise ship, some doubting they will return

Thousands of people lined up at San Juan harbour on Thursday to board a cruise ship that will take them from Puerto Rico to the US mainland in one of the largest evacuations since Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico more than a week ago. Maria, which came ashore as the strongest storm to hit the island in nearly 90 years, has created a humanitarian crisis. The powerful storm knocked out the nation?s electric grid and has crippled communications networks, transport and the water supply for the t
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Technology sheds new light on master of shade

He is known as the master of shade, and now 21st Century technology is shedding new light on the creative process behind Caravaggio's groundbreaking painting. "Inside Caravaggio", an exhibition that opens Friday at Milan's Palazzo Reale, unites 20 of the Renaissance giant's most important works with X-ray and infrared images of them that offer visitors revealing insights into how he went about creating them. The multimedia displays offer contemporary fans of the father of modern painting a gli
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Senators urge Trump administration to act on Myanmar Rohingya

BACKGROUND: Rohingya refugees arrive at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton; SUPERIMPOSED IMAGE: US President Donald Trump signs an executive order at the White House's Oval Office, Washington, US, January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/Files  WASHINGTON: A group of Republican and Democratic senators urged the Trump administration on Thursday to use the ?full weight? of its influence to help resolve the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh, in
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Macron's EU vision will bolster Franco-German axis: Merkel

Image Courtesy: Emmanuel Macron's Twitter account (@EmmanuelMacron) TALLINN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised French President Emmanuel Macron?s ambitions for the European Union on Thursday and said his ideas could be the foundation for ?intense? Franco-German cooperation on the future of Europe. Meeting before a summit dinner of EU leaders in Estonia, Merkel and the recently-elected Macron are keen for the bloc?s founders to drive it forward in the wake of Brexit, though the losses she
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Erdogan, Putin push 'de-escalation' zone in key Syria province

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) shake hands after a joint press conference following their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey, September 28, 2017. AFP/Adem Altan ANKARA: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday agreed to push for the creation of a "de-escalation" zone in Syria's key northern province of Idlib to help end the civil war. Erdogan said after talks in Ankara that
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SNAPSHOT: S&P 500 ekes out record high close on tax plan hope

People are seen walking on the street in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), New York, US, August 10, 2017, REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/Files NEW YORK: Wall Street ended higher on Thursday, with the S&P 500 posting a record on gains in McDonald?s and healthcare names and investors continuing to hope US President Donald Trump will be able to make progress on tax reform. Based on the latest available data, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 40.49 points (or 0.18 percent) to 22,381.2, t
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French PM says would closely watch any attempt to change L'Oreal ownership

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe attends the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris, France, September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe  PARIS: France?s prime minister said on Thursday he would look very carefully at any attempted ownership change at L?Oreal especially if an international investor sought to buy the world?s biggest cosmetics firm. The death of billionaire Liliane Bettencourt on September 21 has focused attention on how L?Oreal?s founding fam
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Myanmar violence could spread, displace more Rohingya: UN chief

A Rohingya refugee girl at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday that the violence against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims in the northern part of Rakhine state could spread to central Rakhine, where 250,000 more people were at risk of displacement. Guterres told the UN Security Council during its first public meeting on Myanmar in eight years, that the violence had spiralled into the
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Dutch woman accuses Imad Wasim of being 'disloyal to her'

Wasim denies all of the allegations levelled against him and says he is 'completely single' and never promised to marry anyone. KARACHI: The Afghanistan-born Dutch woman, whose pictures surfaced with Imad Wasim earlier this week, has accused the cricketer of being "disloyal to her." The pictures of the cricketer with an unknown female had sparked a social media frenzy earlier in the week. The girl claimed to have met Wasim in London and also alleged that the cricketer promised to marry her bu
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Zika virus mutated around 2013, leading to birth defects: study

MIAMI: Zika has been around for decades but only recently began to cause birth defects due to a single mutation the mosquito-borne virus likely acquired in 2013, researchers said Thursday. The report in the US journal Science explains for the first time how this once relatively harmless virus transformed into a global health threat. The mutation in one of its structural proteins, called pRM, is believed to have arisen prior to the 2013 outbreak in French Polynesia, said the Science report. Th
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Keep mosquitoes away with this smartphone

Photo: courtesy LG If you are fed up of mosquitoes hovering over you all the time, then you are in luck.  LG has introduced a new smartphone that will keep the mosquitoes away from you. The phone, LG K7i, is equipped with mosquito repellent technology. It produces ultrasonic waves which are not audible to human beings but audible to mosquitoes. So it will repel the mosquitoes away from you if you have the phone near you. The mosquito away technology provides better protection against the mid
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No money laundering allegations against Imran: Fawad Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry said that there are no money laundering allegations against party chief Imran Khan. Speaking to media on Thursday, Fawad said that cases against Imran Khan are completely different from those against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. ?People comparing the two cases should be ashamed,? remarked the PTI spokesperson, adding that the cases against Imran Khan have no legal value. ?We have even submitted 40-year-old records,? Fawad
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Mr Perfectionist Aamir Khan set to treat fans with new role

A still from a video posted on YouTube.  Bollywood super star Aamir Khan is all set to play Shakti Kumaarr, a music director with a largely flawed personality. Mr Perfectionist?s fans will be able to see him in the upcoming film ?Secret Superstar?. ?He flirts with girls,? Khan said. ?Shakti Kumaarr has all the bad qualities you can imagine in a man.? The versatile actor has not shied from taking on different roles. ?Shakti Kumaarr is a music director who is going through a rough time,? said
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Turk school former head, family ?abducted?

LAHORE The director of Rumi Forum and former principal of Pak-Turk School, Mesut Kacmaz, was ?kidnapped? along with his wife and two daughters by unidentified people from his residence in Wapda Town Sattukatla police limits in wee hours of Wednesday. Police are still clueless about the missing family. No FIR was registered till filing of the report. Sources in police said the family has been shifted to unknown location by the personnel of sensitive agencies over their suspicious activities. Po
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Ukraine says ammo depot explosions huge blow to combat capability

KIEV: The destruction of two ammunition depots this year have dealt the biggest blow to Ukraine?s combat capability since the start of its separatist conflict, security and military officials said on Thursday. Massive explosions at a military depot in the Vynnytsya region, 270 km west of Kiev, forced the authorities to evacuate 24,000 people on Wednesday. Another large depot was destroyed in March. It is not clear if the explosions were accidents or sabotage, either of which would underscore p
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'Loving Vincent' brings Van Gogh's art alive

You have seen his ?Sunflowers? in a museum, sung along with Don McLean to ?Vincent (Starry Starry Night)? and gawped at the tens of million of dollars his works have fetched at auction. But you have never seen Vincent Van Gogh?s art quite like it is shown in the film ?Loving Vincent.? Seven years in the making and billed as the world?s first fully-painted feature film, ?Loving Vincent? uses more than 130 of the Dutch artist?s own paintings to tell his own story. Each of the 65,000 frames of t
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Technology glitch causes minor delays for airlines, airports

source: Lufthansa MADRID: Major airlines around the world were briefly hit by computer problems on Thursday morning, causing some minor delays at airports, due to a problem with a system from Spanish travel technology firm Amadeus. Amadeus, which operates global travel booking systems and offers check-in services for airlines, said it suffered a network problem on Thursday which caused a disruption to some of its systems and but had fixed the problem. ?Amadeus can confirm that our systems are
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FCC chair wants Apple to activate FM radio chips in iPhones

WASHINGTON: Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai on Thursday urged Apple Inc to activate FM radio chips installed in iPhones in the wake of major hurricanes. Pai said Apple is the one major phone manufacturer that has resisted doing so. Pai said when wireless networks go down during a natural disaster, smartphones with activated FM chips can allow Americans to get access to life-saving information.  ?It is time for Apple to step up to the plate and put the safety of the American
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Angry Birds maker Rovio valued at $1 billion in IPO

source: angrybirds.com HELSINKI: Finnish mobile games studio Rovio Entertainment Ltd priced its initial public offering (IPO) at the top end of the initial range on Thursday, giving it a market value of 896 million euros ($1.06 billion) before its market debut on Friday. Rovio, whose games have been downloaded 3.7 billion times, announced its long-awaited IPO this month, saying it aimed to boost growth and take part in gaming industry consolidation. The price was set at 11.50 euros per share,
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Victims of US airstrike in Kabul angry over mistaken attack

source: AFP KABUL: Haji Rabbani was preparing for afternoon prayers when he saw the US helicopters hovering above his mud-brick house in a residential area of Kabul. Moments later bombs started raining down. Six members of his family, including four children, were wounded in Wednesday's airstrike that was supposed to hit insurgents fighting Afghan security forces several kilometres from where US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was meeting with officials. Two bombs struck Rabbani's home - several
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Toddler shoots playmates at Michigan daycare

Nearly 1,300 American children die and 5,790 are treated for gunshot wounds each year, according to a recent study. Photo: AFP CHICAGO: Two toddlers were hospitalized in critical condition after a playmate accidentally shot them with a loaded gun at a daycare in the US state of Michigan. Police in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn said the child managed to get a hold of a loaded gun on Wednesday inside a private home that functioned as a daycare. The toddler fired either one or two shots that s
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England suspend Stokes and Hales after nightclub incident

LONDON: England suspended all-rounder Ben Stokes and opener Alex Hales from international cricket until further notice on Thursday after the pair were involved in an altercation outside a Bristol nightclub. The announcement came a day after Stokes, England´s highest-profile cricketer and vice-captain of the test side, was named in the 16-man squad for the Ashes tour of Australia starting in November. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said in a statement that both Stokes and Hales remai
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