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North Korea sanctions 'nothing compared to what will have to happen,' says Trump

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the latest UN sanctions on North Korea agreed this week were only a very small step and nothing compared to what would have to happen to deal with the country?s nuclear program. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned China that if it did not follow through on the new sanctions, the United States would ?put additional sanctions on them and prevent them from accessing the US and international dollar system.? Another senior administration
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North Korea vows to boost weapons programme after sanctions

SEOUL: North Korea on Wednesday vowed to accelerate its weapons programme in response to the "evil" sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council after its latest and most powerful test. "The adoption of another illegal and evil ´resolution on sanctions´ piloted by the U.S. served as an occasion for the DPRK to verify that the road it chose to go down was absolutely right," the North´s foreign ministry said in a statement published by the official KCNA news agency. "The DPRK will redouble the e
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Irma toll jumps to 12 in Florida: official

MIAMI: Hurricane Irma killed at least 12 people in Florida when it cut a deadly path of destruction through the idyllic Key islands and deep inland in the southeastern US state, officials said Tuesday. "Currently, the number of confirmed deaths attributable to Hurricane Irma stands at 12," Florida Division of Emergency Management spokesman Alberto Moscoso told AFP, as workers picked through the rubble left by the storm.
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Annoyed Mourinho warns United players against 'fantasy football'

MANCHESTER: Jose Mourinho set the Champions League bar high for his Manchester United team after criticising them for trying to play ?fantasy football? in a 3-0 win over Basel on Tuesday. Marouane Fellaini, Romelu Lukaku and Marcus Rashford all scored their first Champions League goals as United eased past the Swiss side at Old Trafford. Mourinho, bidding to win the competition for a third time having taken Porto and Inter Milan all the way, accused his side of switching off after Lukaku?s goa
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Trump becomes a grandfather again

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump became a grandfather for the ninth time Tuesday. His son, Eric Trump, announced the news on Twitter: "@LaraLeaTrump and I are excited to announce the birth of our son, Eric ´Luke´ Trump at 8:50 this morning." The 71-year-old US president is the father of five children from three marriages. His daughter Ivanka has three children and Donald Trump Jr has five children. Donald Trump Jr issu
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Ronaldo ripe for Real return in Champions League, says Zidane

Cristiano Ronaldo is eager to return to action as he prepares for his first start of the season when Real Madrid begin their Champions League defence on Wednesday against APOEL Nicosia, coach Zinedine Zidane said on Tuesday. Ronaldo, who was the top goalscorer in Europe?s elite competition last season for the fifth consecutive year and scored twice in the 4-1 win over Juventus in the final, has been starved of football so far this season due to a long suspension. The Portuguese was given a fiv
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PSG's Neymar, Mbappe and Cavani run riot at Celtic

GLASGOW: Paris St Germain?s attacking trio of Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani were all on the scoresheet as they tore Celtic apart to lead the French club to a 5-0 rout in their Champions League Group B opener on Tuesday. The world?s most expensive frontline produced a potent display of force to sweep Celtic aside, inflicting the heaviest home European defeat on the Scottish side. PSG, who have so often flattered to deceive among Europe?s elite, looked genuine contenders to make a run
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Facebook says some Russian ads during US election promoted live events

Some of the ads bought by Russians on Facebook last year promoted events during the US presidential campaign, Facebook Inc said on Tuesday, indicating that alleged meddling ahead of the 2016 election went beyond social media. Facebook said in a statement that its takedown of what the company last week called Russian-affiliated pages included shutting down ?several promoted events.? Facebook declined to provide details of the promoted events. Facebook, the world?s largest social network, said
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UN ban on North Korean textiles will disrupt industry and ordinary lives, experts say

United Nations sanctions on North Korea?s important textiles industry are expected to disrupt a business largely based in China and pose compliance headaches for clothing retailers in the United States and around the world. The UN security Council imposed a ban on North Korea textile exports and a ceiling on the country?s imports of crude oil on Monday, ratcheting up sanctions designed to pressure North Korea into talks about its nuclear weapons and missile programs. Retailers in the United St
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Magic Messi leads Barca demolition of Juventus

BARCELONA: A mesmeric Lionel Messi scored twice and inspired Barcelona to a 3-0 win over Juventus as the Catalans got off to a flying start in Champions League Group D on Tuesday avenging last season?s quarter-final elimination by the Italian champions. Messi broke the deadlock on the stroke of halftime by playing a slick one-two off Luis Suarez and arrowing the ball beyond Gianluigi Buffon, finally getting the better of the veteran Italian in his fourth game against him. The Argentine was als
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Lukaku opens account as Man Utd cruise past Basel

MANCHESTER: Romelu Lukaku opened his Champions League account as Manchester United marked their return to the competition with a 3-0 rout of Basel in their opening Group A match at Old Trafford on Tuesday. United, who missed last season?s Champions League but qualified this time by winning the Europa League, dominated the first half and went ahead through Marouane Fellaini?s 35th minute header. Belgian striker Lukaku, a constant menace to the Swiss champions, scored his first Champions League
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Apple unveils three new iPhones, hails 'biggest leap forward'

Apple CEO Tim Cook announces the new iPhone X during an Apple special event at the Steve Jobs Theatre on the Apple Park campus on September 12, 2017 in Cupertino, California. ? AFP CUPERTINO, United States: Apple unveiled three new iPhone models on Monday, including a top-of-line handset described as "the biggest leap forward" since the original iPhone 10 years ago. Apple chief executive Tim Cook announced the premium iPhone X -- pronounced 10 -- as well as a new iPhone 8 and 8 Plus. Cook, sp
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Measures should be taken to eliminate terrorist safe havens in Afghanistan: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Tuesday that the terrorist safe havens in Afghanistan must be eliminated immediately. While speaking to a foreign journalist, Abbasi reiterated that the Pakistani government ?has destroyed all the safe havens for terrorists inside the country." Pakistan has played the biggest role in the elimination of terrorism, he said, adding that it is wrong to think that Pakistan is the cause of instability in Afghanistan. ?Instability in Afghanistan
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Match Highlights: Pakistan vs World XI (first t20)

Pakistani bowler Rumman Raees (R) celebrates with teammate Ahmed Shahzad after taking the wicket of World XI batsman Tamim Iqbal during the first Twenty20 international cricket match between the World XI and Pakistan at The Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in Lahore. (AFP)   Pakistan beat World XI by 20 runs in an exciting finish to the first Twenty20 match in Lahore on Tuesday, celebrating the return of international cricket to the country amid tight security. It is only the second time Pakistan has h
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Twitter reacts to historic Pakistan-World XI T20 match

Pakistan won the first match of the Independence Cup by defeating World XI by 20 runs on Tuesday.  Following the match, many cricketers, celebrities and politicians took to Twitter to express their excitement and congratulate Pakistan for winning the first match of the tournament, which marks the return of international cricket to the country. 
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Turkey signs landmark Russian weapons deal

ISTANBUL: Turkey has signed a deal for its first major weapons purchase from Moscow to buy S-400 missile defence systems, both sides announced Tuesday, in an accord that could trouble Ankara´s NATO allies. The purchase of the surface-to-air missile defence batteries, Ankara's most significant deal with a non-NATO supplier, comes with Turkey in the throes of a crisis in relations with several Western states. "Signatures have been made for the purchase of S-400s from Russia. A deposit has also b
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More than a billion live on degraded land, at risk of hunger: UN

?The land we live on is being strained to breaking point. Restoration and conservation are key to its survival,? UNCCD said in a report launched in Ordos, China. Photo: Reuters  ROME: More than 1.3 billion people live on agricultural land that is deteriorating, putting them at risk of worsening hunger, water shortages and poverty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said on Tuesday. People?s use of the earth?s natural reserves has doubled in the last 30 years. Now a
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J.J. Abrams to direct ´Star Wars IX,´ announces Lucasfilm

LOS ANGELES: Sci-fi filmmaker J.J. Abrams is to direct "Star Wars: Episode IX," Lucasfilm announced on Tuesday, following the departure of Colin Trevorrow over creative differences. Abrams ? a familiar face in the "Star Wars" universe who directed "The Force Awakens" (2015) ? will co-write the film with Chris Terrio, who won an Oscar for the screenplay for "Argo," (2012), the Disney-owned studio said.
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Quarter of houses in Florida Keys destroyed: US official

"Some of the initial estimates are ? and this is why we asked people to evacuate, largely from storm surge ? 25 percent of the houses in the Keys initially have been destroyed and 60 percent have been damaged," FEMA Director Brock Long said.  MIAMI: Irma destroyed a quarter of the houses in the Florida Keys, where it first made landfall in the United States as a Category Four hurricane, the US emergency response chief said Tuesday. "Some of the initial estimates are ? and this is why we asked
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Three astronauts set for ISS blast-off

Alexander Misurkin of the Russian space agency, NASA first-time flyer Mark Vande Hei and veteran colleague Joe Acaba prepared to set off for a mission of more than five months aboard the ISS at 2117 GMT.  BAIKONUR: Two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut were set to blast off for the International Space Station Tuesday in a late-night launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Alexander Misurkin of the Russian space agency, NASA first-time flyer Mark Vande Hei and veteran colleague
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100 prisoners escape on hurricane-hit British island

Britain's response to Irma has been criticised by some local inhabitants as too slow.   LONDON: Over 100 high-risk prisoners escaped in the British Virgin Islands during Hurricane Irma, a British junior minister said on Tuesday, as he raised the death toll in British territories to nine. "We had a serious threat of a complete breakdown of law and order in the British Virgin islands (BVI)," junior foreign minister Alan Duncan told parliament. "The prison was breached, over 100 very serious pr
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Google meltdown reported in parts of world

Google and many of its biggest services including Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps are not functioning properly in some of the parts of the world, it emerged on Tuesday.  Many users complained that their servers for Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive and Google Maps were not working. The complaints have been reported from United Kingdom, France and some areas of North America.  The company has yet to make any official announcement pertaining to the breakdown.  Responding to some of the queries, Google M
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US lawmakers want 'supercharged' response to North Korea nuclear tests

Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee Ed Royce (R-CA) arrives for a closed classified briefing for members of the House of Representatives on North Korea and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, September 6, 2017. Photo: Reuters  WASHINGTON: US lawmakers called on Tuesday for a ?supercharged? diplomatic response to North Korea?s nuclear tests, including unilateral sanctions on banks and other companies from China and any country doing business with Pyongyang. ?I believe th
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Squeaky-clean Zurich's trash department probed for dirty dealings

People walk on Zurich's main shopping street Bahnhofstrasse December 20, 2008. Photo: REUTERS  ZURICH: Investigators in Zurich, ranked among the world?s cleanest cities, are probing alleged grubby dealings within the municipal garbage and recycling department. While trash services in the United States and Italy have sometimes been linked with illicit dealings, the Swiss financial centre appears an unlikely source of muck. Rubbish bins are ubiquitous, and a fleet of motorised street sweepers ke
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Thousands protest against Macron in France

Police clash with protesters at anti-Macron rally.  PARIS: Tens of thousands of French protesters marched against President Emmanuel Macron´s flagship economic reforms on Tuesday in the first major demonstrations against his pro-business agenda. The day of strikes and rallies are seen as a key test for the young French leader as he stakes his presidency on overhauling the sluggish economy, while protesters are eager to show they are able to mobilise in large numbers. Some 4,000 st
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