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'Hitman' shrugs off box-office doldrums to stay on top

For the third consecutive weekend "The Hitman's Bodyguard" was the top film in North American box offices, but the cinematic scene remained deep in the summer doldrums, website Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. The US Labor Day weekend was shaping up to be the worst in 17 years, industry watchers said, noting the lack of any major new releases. But Lionsgate's "Hitman" managed to take in an estimated $10.3 million for the Friday-to-Sunday period, the only movie this summer to cling to the to
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Policeman killed, another injured during raid in Karachi

Police patrolling in Karachi. Photo: File  KARACHI: A policeman was killed and another injured on Monday during a raid at Kaneez Fatima Society.  Malir SSP Rao Anwar said the raid, involving intelligence and paramilitary personnel, was conducted after receiving a tip-off about the presence of terrorist in a house situated in the area.   "Terrorists fired from the rooftop when police reached the place," he said. Anwar added that the assailants managed to flee from the area. He informed that
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Frankfurt defuses massive WWII bomb after evacuating 60,000

Explosives experts defused a massive World War Two bomb after tens of thousands of people evacuated their homes in Frankfurt, Germany, September 3, 2017. REUTERS FRANKFURT: German explosives experts defused a massive World War Two bomb in the financial capital of Frankfurt on Sunday after tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes. The compulsory evacuation of 60,000 people was Germany?s biggest such maneuver since the war, with more than a thousand emergency service workers he
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Oil markets volatile in wake of Hurricane Harvey, North Korea nuclear test

SINGAPORE: Oil markets were volatile on Monday, with US crude rising on production shutdowns while international Brent was pulled down by a flight into gold futures following a powerful North Korean nuclear test explosion. Meanwhile, US gasoline prices RBc1 slumped back from a spike after the release of emergency fuel stocks and on signs that the damage from Hurricane Harvey to the Gulf coast energy infrastructure was not as bad as initially feared. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Clc1 crude
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Six dead, 13 injured in traffic accidents across country

File Photo KARACHI: At least six people died and 13 were injured during various traffic accidents in different cities around the country late Sunday night, Geo News reported. In Karachi, two cars collided in Baldia Town's Mowach Goth area last night, rescue officials told Geo News, adding that two people ? including a woman ? lost their lives in the accident. Van smashes into tree A speeding van smashed into a tree on the roadside on Tando Bago Road in Badin, Sindh, resulting in the death of
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Germany's Merkel ahead of SPD rival in TV debate: polls

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a speech during an election rally in Ludwigshafen, Germany, August 30, 2017. Reuters   BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a better impression on voters in a television debate on Sunday than her center-left challenger Martin Schulz, a flash survey by broadcaster ZDF showed. The poll, conducted by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen during the first half of the debate and published shortly after it had finished, showed that Merkel was viewed as more credible
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Sharapova ousted at US Open while Venus, Kvitova advance

Maria Sharapova. Photo:File NEW YORK: Maria Sharapova´s Grand Slam return after a 15-month doping ban ended Sunday with a fourth-round defeat at the US Open but the former world number one considered it a major step in her comeback. Latvian 16th seed Anastasija Sevastova rallied to eliminate the five-time Grand Slam champion 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 at Arthur Ashe Stadium, booking a quarter-final against American Sloane Stephens, who ousted Germany´s Julia Goerges 6-3, 3-6, 6-1. Sharapova, the 2006 US O
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US pledges 'massive' response if attacked over N Korea's hydrogen bomb test

South Korean troops fire Hyunmoo Missile into the waters of the East Sea at a military exercise in South Korea, September 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters   SEOUL/WASHINGTON: North Korea on Sunday conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, which it said was of an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, prompting the threat of a ?massive? military response from the United States if it or its allies are threatened. Speaking outside the White House after meeting with President Donald Tr
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UN Security Council meets today on North Korea nuclear test

Members of the United Nations Security Council meet to discuss policy and strategy for North Korea after its latest missile test, UN headquarters, New York City, US, August 29, 2017. Photo: Reuters   NEW YORK: The United Nations Security Council will meet today on North Korea?s nuclear test at the request of the United States, Japan, Britain, France, and South Korea, the US mission to the United Nations said in a statement on Sunday. North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear t
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Kulsoom Nawaz at son Hasan?s home after surgery

Nawaz Sharif with his wife Kulsoom before the latter was taken into the operation theatre at a hospital in London. Photo: Murtaza Ali Shah  LONDON: Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, after undergoing a successful throat cancer surgery is currently staying at son Hasan Nawaz?s home for recovery. Kulsoom, who underwent the operation on Friday, is expected to receive chemotherapy treatment starting this week. Doctors will decide this week when she may be able to return t
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Kohli ton leads India to series whitewash over Sri Lanka

Indian team captain Virat Kohli plays a shot during the Sri Lanka v India Fifth One Day International Match played in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on September 3, 2017. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte  Skipper Virat Kohli scored his 30th one-day international century to lead India to victory in the fifth and final one-day match on Sunday as the visitors won by six wickets to complete a 5-0 whitewash of Sri Lanka in Colombo. Sri Lanka elected to bat and were going steady at 185-4, with Angelo Mathews and La
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?Heartbroken? Malala slams genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai delivers her speech during the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony at the City Hall, Oslo, December 10, 2014. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/Files  Malala Yousafzai took to Twitter late Sunday night to condemn the genocide of Rohingya Muslims, saying she is brokenhearted to see how brutally Myanmar is treating its own people. The Nobel Laureate, explaining how her heart breaks whenever she sees an update on the vicious killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
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Russia says it has seen no positive impact from North Korea sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at the airport for upcoming BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Summit, in Xiamen, China, September 3, 2017. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu  MOSCOW: Russia is ready to take part in talks to try to solve the North Korean issue but has yet to see any positive impact from sanctions against Pyongyang, a Kremlin spokesman said on Sunday. The United Nations Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea in early July over its two in
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Merkel wants to end Turkey EU membership talks

German Chancellor and leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party Angela Merkel poses for a selfie with supporters in Berlin, September 3, 2017. AFP/John MacDougall  BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that she would ask the European Union to call off membership talks with Turkey, amid escalating tensions between Berlin and Ankara. "I don't see them ever joining and I had never believed that it would happen," she said during a televised debate with Martin
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Post-modern master, US poet Ashbery dies at 90

WASHINGTON: Pulitzer-prize winning poet John Ashbery ? a post-modern American trailblazer ? died aged 90 in Hudson, New York, his family told US media Sunday. The experimental vanguardist was sometimes accused of writing poems that were at times less than accessible to a wider audience. "Well, I'm told that they're not," he said in a 2005 interview with NPR. "What they are is about the privacy of all of us, and the difficulty of our own thinking," he said. Yet "they are, I think, accessible if
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Obama's letter to Trump: On the need to 'leave democracy strong'

US President Donald Trump and former president Barack Obama. AFP/Jim Watson WASHINGTON: It is an elegant tradition: the outgoing US president leaves a letter for his successor in the aged oaken desk in the Oval Office, to be read upon his arrival. The letter left by Barack Obama for Donald Trump, revealed some seven months after the handover of power, revolves around one central bit of advice: beyond the bitterness and brutality of political combat and power struggles, never lose sight of the
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Arson suspected as fire in southeast France brought under control

A resident stands through burnt belongings from his house that was devastated by a blaze in La Londe-les-Maures, southeastern France, on September 3, 2017, after a forest fire broke out in southeastern France. AFP/Bertrand Langlois MARSEILLE: A forest fire in southeastern France that destroyed about 460 acres near urban areas was brought under control on Sunday, authorities said, adding that an investigation had been opened into a suspected arson. Two homes were destroyed in the fire that brok
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Furious Moscow demands swift return of closed US facilities

A sign is seen at the entrance of the compound of the Trade Representation building of the Russian Federation on September 2, 2017, in Washington DC. AFP/Eric Baradat  MOSCOW: Russia demanded Sunday that the US rethink its shuttering of Moscow's diplomatic premises, insisting that Washington bore sole responsibility for worsening ties after the "hostile act". "We consider what has happened as an openly hostile act and a gross violation of international law by Washington," the foreign ministry
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Walter Becker, rock bohemian of Steely Dan, dead at 67

This photo ? taken on February 21, 2001 ? shows Donald Fagen (R) and Walter Becker of Steely Dan posing with their Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. AFP/Vince Bucci/Files  NEW YORK: Walter Becker, a bassist whose eclectic tastes from jazz to reggae helped create the intricate bohemian rock sound of Steely Dan, died Sunday aged 67. His death was announced in a brief notice on his official website, with no further details released. Becker i
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US East Coast keeps wary eye on Irma, another powerful hurricane

This image ? obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ? shows Hurricane Irma on September 3, 2017. AFP/NOAA/RAMMB  WASHINGTON: Barely a week after Hurricane Harvey devastated large swaths of the US Gulf coast, Americans on the East Coast on Sunday were warily watching the progress of another major storm, Hurricane Irma. For now, those fears are mostly speculative, as the Category 3 storm remains far out in the Atlantic. Its track is, as the Weather Channel desc
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Nearly 100 inmates escape in Ivory Coast prison break

File Photo KATIOLA: Almost 100 inmates escaped from a prison in the Ivory Coast on Sunday, the latest in a string of jail breaks in the west African country, officials said. According to a local judicial source, the men who escaped in the central town of Katiola were followers of Coulibaly Yacouba ? the late leader of a prison mutiny last year. Yacouba ? otherwise known as "Yacou le Chinois" ("Yacou the Chinese") ? was killed in February 2016 during an attempted jail break at Ivory Coast's mai
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Germany, France, Italy seek tougher EU sanctions on N. Korea

The North Korean town of Sinuiju is seen behind the Friendship Bridge (L) ? which connects Sinuiju and the Chinese border city of Dandong ? and the Broken Bridge (R), in Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province. September 4, 2017. AFP/Greg Baker BERLIN: Germany, Italy, and France on Sunday urged tougher EU sanctions against North Korea after Pyongyang "reached a new dimension of provocation" with its latest nuclear test. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macr
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Victoria and Abdul: a 130-year-old story for our times

From left: actor Ali Fazal, actress Judi Dench, director Stephen Frears and actor Eddie Izzard attend the premiere of the movie 'Victoria & Abdul' presented out of competition at the 74th Venice Film Festival on September 3, 2017, at Venice Lido. AFP/Filippo Monteforte  VENICE: Grouchy, greedy, and constipated: nobody could accuse Stephen Frears of kowtowing with his portrayal of Queen Victoria in his new film Victoria & Abdul, which premiered in Venice on Sunday. The director, who wo
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Musharraf says will face Bhutto murder trial in Pakistan

Pervez Musharraf. AFP/Asif Hassan ISLAMABAD: Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf said he would return to Pakistan to face trial in the murder case of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto. A Pakistani court on Thursday pronounced Musharraf a fugitive in the murder trial but acquitted five men accused of involvement in the 2007 assassination of Bhutto ? the first female prime minister of a Muslim country. In a statement issued to the media Sunday, Musharraf said the verdict of the Rawalpindi Ant
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Texas governor says Harvey damage could reach $180 billion

An aerial photo shows damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in Rockport, Texas, US, August 31, 2017. REUTERS/DroneBase  HOUSTON: Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday estimated damage from Hurricane Harvey at $150 billion to $180 billion, calling it more costly than epic hurricanes Katrina or Sandy and fueling a debate over how to pay for the disaster. Harvey, which first came ashore on August 25 as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in 50 years, has killed an estimated 47 people, displaced
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