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Trump arrives in Arizona to rally supporters

Trump hopes to re-energize core supporters cooling to his crisis-riddled presidency and build momentum for a controversial border wall PHOENIX: US President Donald Trump arrived in Arizona on Tuesday hoping to re-energize core supporters cooling to his crisis-riddled presidency and build momentum for a controversial border wall. Trump began the trip in Yuma by touring a US Border Patrol operations base, where he chatted with border agents. He then traveled to Phoenix for a raucous campaign-styl
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Pakistan doesn't allow use of territory against any country: FO

The Foreign Office (FO) released a statement after United States President Donald Trump announced his strategy for the region on Tuesday, harshly criticising Pakistan for providing a safe haven to "agents of chaos". The FO statement reiterated that ?No country in the world has done more than Pakistan to counter the menace of terrorism. No country in the world has suffered more than Pakistan from the scourge of terrorism, often perpetrated from outside our borders?.  The statement expressed dis
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Mark Wahlberg named world's top paid actor

LOS ANGELES: Rapper-turned-actor Mark Wahlberg was named the world's highest paid actor on Tuesday, earning an estimated $68 million before taxes over the past 12 months. The 46-year-old star won his place at the top of the list compiled by Forbes magazine, thanks to earnings from Transformers: The Last Knight and comedy sequel Daddy's Home 2, due out in November. "The former may have scored a miserable 15 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and the lowest gross of the franchise to date, but Wa
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Ronaldo cries injustice as last appeal rejected

"Another incomprehensible decision," Ronaldo posted to his over 57 million Twitter followers MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo reiterated his anger at what he described as the "incomprehensible decision" to reject his final appeal against a five-match ban on Tuesday. Spain´s administrative sports court (TAD) dismissed Real Madrid´s latest appeal for the suspension handed out to the World Player of the Year for pushing a referee after being sent-off in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup against Barc
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World's largest samosa record smashed in London

Muslim Aid staff and volunteers work as they attempt to construct and cook the world's largest samosa at the East London Mosque in London on August 22, 2017. AFP/Ben Stansall LONDON: The world record for the largest samosa was smashed in London on Tuesday by a whopping version of the popular Asian snack weighing in at 153.1 kilogrammes (337.5 pounds). A dozen volunteers from the Muslim Aid UK charity built the giant samosa then deep-fried it in a custom-built vat at an East London Mosque. Adj
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US: Pakistan's status as privileged ally in question

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a briefing at the Department of State on August 22, 2017, in Washington, DC. AFP/Brendan Smialowski  WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Tuesday that Pakistan's privileged status as a major non-NATO US ally could be in question if it continues to give safe haven to extremists. "We have some leverage," Tillerson told reporters, "in terms of aid, their status as a non-NATO alliance partner ? all of that can be put on the table."
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Spain suspect says terror cell planned big attack on monuments

People display flowers and candles to pay tribute to the victims of the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks on the Rambla boulevard in Barcelona on August 22, 2017, five days after the attacks that killed 15 people. AFP/Lluis Gene MADRID: A suspected member of the terror cell that unleashed carnage in Spain last week admitted to a judge on Tuesday that the extremists had planned to hit monuments in an even bigger attack. Mohamed Houli Chemlal, 21, and three others were charged with terrorist offenc
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Facebook losing teens to Instagram-Snapchat: forecast

This photo ? taken on December 28, 2016 ? shows logos of US online social media and social networking service Facebook in Vertou, France. AFP/Loic Venance/Files SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook use in the US will slow as teens and young adults opt for smartphone image-sharing services Instagram and Snapchat, according to an eMarketer forecast released on Tuesday. The market tracker expected Facebook's online community to grow, saying it would be due mainly to increased adoption by older folks while use
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Erdogan targeting German Turks with 'propaganda': ministers

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the 39th Mukhtars Meeting, at Presidential Complex in Ankara, August 22, 2017. AFP/Adem Altan  BERLIN: Germany's foreign and justice ministers warned Tuesday that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was using "propaganda" to divide their country's three-million-strong ethnic Turkish community. In a tough-worded commentary published amid a raging bilateral row, they warned that Germany's democratic culture was at threat from the "radicalisation"
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Cosby retrial for sex assault pushed back to 2018

Bill Cosby(C) lead by Andrew Wyatt(L) leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse on August 22, 2017, in Norristown, Pennsylvania, after attending a court hearing pertaining to his new trial in 2018. AFP/Pool/Michael Bryant NEW YORK: The retrial of disgraced US television icon Bill Cosby on sexual assault charges on Tuesday was pushed back to next year, to give his new lawyers time to prepare their defence. The new trial had set to begin in Norristown, Pennsylvania ? a suburb of Philadelphia ? in
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Suspect admits killings in Finnish stabbing spree

Suspect Abdederrazak Essarioul allegedly involved in the Finnish stabbing attack covers himself in the Southwest Finland District Court during the remand hearing on August 22, 2017, in Turku, Finland. AFP/Lehtikuva/Martti Kainulainen HELSINKI: The main suspect in last week's stabbing attack in Finland admitted Tuesday to killing two people and injuring eight others but denied any intent to murder, his lawyer said. The Turku district court placed Abderrahman Mechkah, an 18-year-old Moroccan citi
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Mexican reporter wins Mackler 'courageous journalism' award

Mexican journalist Marcos Vizcarra in Sinaloa, Mexico. WASHINGTON: A Mexican journalist who has probed government corruption and human rights abuses from the heart of the country's drug war has been named the recipient of the 2017 Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism, organisers said Tuesday. The prize ? which is co-sponsored by Reporters Without Borders and Agence France-Presse ? was awarded to 29-year-old Marcos Vizcarra, who lives and works in Mexico's violent northwest
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Pakistan to host World XI, Sri Lanka and West Indies

Policemen stand inside the Gaddafi Stadium during preparation ahead of cricket series between Pakistan and Zimbabwe in Lahore, Pakistan, May 16, 2015. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza/Files  LAHORE: Pakistan Monday announced the return of international cricket to its soil, with three separate sides scheduled to visit after years of isolation over security concerns. A World XI tour kicks off in September followed by a short visit by Sri Lanka for a Twenty20 match in October, then a Twenty20 series against t
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Afridi?s quick-fire ton lifts Hampshire

All smiles: Afridi hits his maiden T20 century  LONDON: Pakistan?s Shahid Afridi blasted 101 in only 43 balls to inspire Hampshire´s 101-run victory at Derbyshire in the Twenty20 Blast quarter-finals on Tuesday. All-rounder Afridi hit seven sixes and 10 fours to power Hampshire to 249 for eight, their highest T20 score. Skipper James Vince made 55 from 36 balls as Hampshire passed their previous best of 225 for two against Middlesex in 2006 and, faced with an improbable target of 25
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US divers find body remains in hull of damaged destroyer

The damaged USS John McCain is docked next to USS America at Changi Naval Base in Singapore August 22, 2017. REUTERS/Calvin Wong  SINGAPORE: US Navy and Marine Corps divers on Tuesday found some human remains inside sections of a US guided-missile destroyer that collided with a merchant vessel near Singapore, the commander of the US Pacific Fleet said. The USS John S. McCain and the tanker Alnic MC collided on Monday while the US ship was approaching Singapore on a routine port call. The impa
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Qatar, US stage joint military exercise

US troops, November 18, 2015. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins DOHA: Qatari and US paratroopers held a joint training exercise in crisis-hit Doha on Tuesday that American officials said reinforced "the enduring military-to-military" partnership between the two countries. The "Friendship Jump" comes at a time of high political tension in the Gulf, where a boycott of Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain has entered its third month. More than 40 paratroopers took part in the ro
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Mars weather: 'Cloudy, chance of nighttime snowstorm'

This computer-generated view depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater beginning to catch morning light. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech  PARIS: Mars is buffeted by turbulent snowstorms that occur only at night, according to a study released Monday that revises our understanding of Red Planet weather. Up to now, it was thought that snow falling from low-lying Martian clouds settled slowly and sparsely to the ground in an environment beref
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Lebanon monitored Australia bomb plot suspects: minister

A policeman stands on a street that has been blocked to the public after Australian counter-terrorism police arrested four people in raids late on Saturday across several Sydney suburbs in Australia, July 29, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray/Files BEIRUT: Lebanon monitored the brothers accused of plotting to blow up a flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi for more than a year and coordinated with the Australian government on it for a long time, the Lebanese interior minister said on Monday. Australian polic
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Pak mulls response to new US policy in cabinet meeting: sources

PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chairing the cabinet meeting in Islamabad. Photo: Geo News  ISLAMABAD: A cabinet meeting ? presided over by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi ? was held in Islamabad on Tuesday where federal ministers mulled over the United States' drastic shift of strategy for the region. The foreign ministry is expected to issue a response to the US President Donald Trump's recently announced Pak-Afghan policy, sources told Geo News. The attendees of the meeting were also given a d
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Rohingya villagers blockaded amid fresh tensions in Myanmar´s Rakhine-residents

YANGON: Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims have been blockaded inside their area by their Buddhist neighbours in a western Myanmar village, residents say, as religious tensions in troubled Rakhine state spread to a more ethnically mixed part of the region. Monitors and aid workers worry that violence that has until now been largely confined to the Rohingya-majority northern part of Rakhine, bordering Bangladesh, could erupt in an area where the two communities live side-by-side in much larger numbers
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Pakistan foreign minister responds to Trump?s Pak-Afghan policy

KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: In an exclusive conversation with Geo News' show Aaj Shahzaib Khanzada Kay Sath on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif weighed in on US President Donald Trump?s new policy for Afghanistan and South Asia. Trump cleared the way for the deployment of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan Monday, backtracking from his promise to rapidly end America's longest war, while pillorying ally Pakistan for offering safe haven to "agents of chaos." Earlier in the day, Interior Mini
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Pakistan will remain committed to war against terrorism: Ahsan Iqbal

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/32363020d183de554b13d8e7670c1054.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9OC8yMi8yMDE3IDU6MDE6MTUgUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1EeDEzM2FHdlp0QXdlWXVIN3ZCY29BPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal, on Tuesday, said Pakistan's commitment to the war against terrorism is for its own sake. ?We will continue the war against terrorism withou
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Rare white koala born at Australian zoo

source: BBC SYDNEY: A koala at an Australian zoo has given birth to a rare white joey, staff announced Tuesday. Handlers at the Australia Zoo on Queensland's Sunshine Coast say the pale animal born in January owes its white fur to a recessive gene inherited from mother Tia. The mother has given birth to light-coloured joeys in the past. "In veterinary science it?s often referred to as the 'silvering gene' where animals are born with white or very pale fur and, just like baby teeth, they event
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Formula One: F1 eyeing two more street races in Asia

source: AFP SHANGHAI: Formula One is looking to stage two more street races in Asia as part of a drive to win new fans, one of the sport's most senior officials told AFP on Tuesday. F1 is reinventing itself under US-based Liberty Media, who completed their takeover of motorsport's most prestigious brand in January in a deal valued at about $8 billion, ending the four-decade reign of Bernie Ecclestone as Formula One's colourful ringmaster. Singapore's night street circuit has proved particular
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Barca seeking $10 million from Neymar over contract breach

BARCELONA: Barcelona are seeking at least $10 million from Neymar for breach of contract, the club said on Tuesday as the bitter fallout rumbles on from his world record 222-million-euro move to Paris Saint-Germain. "In this lawsuit, the club demands the amount already paid as a bonus for the renewal of his contract for breach of contract, 8.5 million euros in damages, and an additional 10 per cent in interests," Barcelona said in a statement. Neymar signed a new five-year deal with Barca in 2
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