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Chinese quantum satellite sends 'unbreakable' code

A rocket carrying several 'mini-satellites' taking off from China in September 2015. Photo: Reuters BEIJING: China has sent an "unbreakable" code from a satellite to the Earth, marking the first time space-to-ground quantum key distribution technology has been realised, state media said on Thursday. China launched the world's first quantum satellite last August, to help establish "hack proof" communications, a development the Pentagon has called a "notable advance". The official Xinhua news ag
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Nawaz Sharif to begin second leg of rally shortly

Supporters surrounding the truck carrying Nawaz Sharif's container on August 9, 2017. Photo: Geo News RAWALPINDI: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif will begin the second leg of his 'homecoming rally' shortly. On Wednesday, Sharif, the chief of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), set out from Punjab House, Islamabad after deciding to go home to Lahore via the GT Road.  The amassing of supporters, however, could only get him as far as Rawalpindi ? forcing him to spend the night in
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Upper parts of Pakistan likely to receive downpour: MET

PHOTO: File The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Thursday said moist currents are penetrating upper parts of the country and likely to continue during next few days. A westerly wave is affecting upper parts of Pakistan and a seasonal low lies over north Balochistan. Rain and thunderstorm with gusty winds are expected at scattered places in upper Punjab (Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sargodha divisions), upper KP (Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Mardan Kohat divisions), Islamabad, FATA
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Biggest Mexico firefighter deployment abroad heads to Canada

Mexican firefighters arrive at the Edmonton International Airport to help fight wildfires in northern Alberta, July 9, 2015. CBC News/Files  OTTAWA: A second wave of Mexican firefighters was to land Thursday in Canada's westernmost British Columbia province to help combat wildfires, in the largest ever deployment of Mexican firefighters abroad, officials said. One hundred and eight Mexican firefighters landed in British Columbia at the beginning of August. Another 102 will arrive Thursday from
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Artist targets Twitter with offline hate tweets

BERLIN: A German-Israeli artist who accuses Twitter of failing to delete hate speech tweets has taken matters into his own hands - by stencilling the offending messages on the road in front of the company's Hamburg headquarters. A post on video-sharing site YouTube showed Shahak Shapira and fellow activists stencilling tweets saying "Germany needs a final solution to Islam" and "Let's gas the Jews" - clear references to the Nazi regime's World War Two genocide of Europe's Jews. [youtu.be/jzMTBI
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Mass market hopes for battery-free cell phone technology

Researchers in the United States have unveiled a prototype of a battery-free mobile phone, using technology they hope will eventually come to be integrated into mass-market products. The phone is the work of a group of researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle and works by harvesting tiny amounts of power from radio signals, known as radio frequency or 'RF' waves. "Ambient RF waves are all around us so, as an example, your FM station broadcasts radio waves, your AM stations do tha
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Saad Rafique topples over from roof of car during Nawaz rally

RAWALPINDI: Khawaja Saad Rafique ? the Minister of Railways ? toppled over from the roof of a vehicle during Nawaz Sharif's rally here late Wednesday night. Rafique was attempting to step down from the car's roof when his foot slipped and he tumbled to the ground ? taking a police officer with him in the process. However, both the police officer and the Railways Minister were unharmed. Following his short fall, Rafique proceeded to enter the container and disappeared for the night.
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Facebook makes new bid for TV viewers with expanded video

Facebook Inc on Wednesday made its biggest move to date to compete in the television market by expanding its video offerings with programming ranging from professional women's basketball to a safari show and a parenting program. The redesigned product, called "Watch," will be available initially to a limited group in the United States on Facebook's mobile app, website and television apps, the company said. The world's largest social network added a video tab last year, and it has been dropping
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Canada to set up border camp as number of asylum seekers swells

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces carry floorboards into the tents they erected to house asylum seekers at the Canada-United States border in Lacolle, Quebec, August 9, 2017. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi  MONTREAL: Canada has deployed soldiers to erect tents near the US border to temporarily house hundreds of asylum seekers crossing from New York state, officials said on Wednesday, an influx of mostly Haitians prompted by fear of deportation by the US government. Around 250 asylum seekers are
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United Airlines apologises for death of dog on flight

United Airlines planes are seen on a platform at the Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, July 8, 2015. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/Files United Airlines has apologised to the owners of a dog who died in an aircraft cargo hold during a flight from Houston to San Francisco, the latest death of an animal under the airline's care. ABC News reported that the Rasmussen family's 5-year-old King Charles Spaniel Lulu was aboard the United plane on Sunday when it was delayed on the tarmac for
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Venezuela trembles under price surge amid new US sanctions

A woman carries shopping bags as she walks along a street in Caracas, Venezuela, August 9, 2017. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares PUNTO FIJO/CARACAS: The extreme volatility of Venezuela's exchange rate has the crisis-hit country's shop owners hurriedly marking up their merchandise and consumers baulking at the higher price tags. Just last week, the bolivar currency tanked around 70 percent on the black market, according to DolarToday ? the opaque US-based web site that dictates the black market
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France passes law to clean up politics after fake job scandals

France's parliament overwhelmingly backed a new law Wednesday to clean up politics, a campaign promise of President Emmanuel Macron following a string of scandals. A total of 412 lawmakers backed the bill, which will notably scrap cash handouts for lawmakers to spend on areas and NGOs of their choice. Parliament had last week already voted through aspects of the law banning MPs and ministers from employing their family members, as Macron's new centrist government seeks to restore public trust
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Four dead in Kenya as tensions soar over disputed poll

Four people were killed Wednesday in election-related violence in Kenya, where the opposition claimed massive rigging in a vote that President Uhuru Kenyatta looked certain to win. The east African nation, keenly aware of post-poll violence a decade ago that left 1,100 dead, was on a knife-edge after a day of isolated protests in opposition strongholds. The unrest broke out after opposition leader Raila Odinga claimed massive fraud as Kenyatta surged ahead in provisional results, with 54 perce
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First smartphone by Android creator's due soon as startup raises hefty funding

Co-creator of the Android mobile operating system Andy Rubin via 9to5Google SAN FRANCISCO: Essential Products, the smartphone startup founded by a co-creator of the Android mobile operating system, has raised $300 million in new funding and signed up retailers to sell its first device, it said on Wednesday. The $699 phone ? with a titanium and ceramic case ? will compete directly against new devices from Samsung Electronics and Apple Inc this holiday season. Retailers include Best Buy, Amazon.
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Google's Belgian unit in tax probe: report

Google's Belgian unit faces a tax probe, a report said Wednesday, after the US internet giant had to cough up hundreds of millions of euros in back taxes in Britain and Italy. Many US and other multinational companies channel their European profits through low-tax jurisdictions such as Ireland to avoid massive bills running potentially into the billions. Le Soir daily said that in its latest annual report, Google Belgium had informed shareholders that the authorities began an investigation las
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Brazilian annual inflation falls to lowest since 1999

Brazilian prices rose in July, but the annual inflation rate of 2.71 percent was the lowest for 18 years, the government statistics office said Wednesday. This was good news for consumers in Latin America's biggest economy, which is inching out of its deepest recession in history, and was considered likely to lead to sharper interest rate cuts. The IBGE statistics office said prices rose 0.24 percent in July from the previous month, which had registered a monthly price drop of 0.23 percent --
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Goldman to use 'personality test' for hiring decisions

A Goldman Sachs sign is displayed inside the company's post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, April 18, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Files Goldman Sachs Group Inc plans to begin using a "personality test" as part of the hiring process for positions in its banking, trading, and finance & risk divisions, a senior Goldman executive said on Wednesday. The bank will begin piloting the test on US summer intern candidates who would be starting in 2018, Matt Jah
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Ancient skull hints at African roots for prehistoric ancestor: study

The skull of an infant ape buried by a volcano 13 million years ago has preserved intriguing clues about the ancestor humans shared with apes -- including a likely African origin, scientists said Wednesday. A previously-unknown creature that shared an extended family with the human forefather, had a flat face like that of our far-flung cousin the gibbon, but did not move like one, its discoverers wrote in the journal Nature. They named it Nyanzapithecus alesi after "ales" -- the word for "ance
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North Korea will develop Guam strike plan by mid-August: KCNA

An aerial view of US Naval Base, Guam, September 20, 2006. US Navy/Handout/File Photo via REUTERS SEOUL: North Korea will develop a plan by mid-August to launch four intermediate range missiles at the US territory of Guam before presenting it to leader Kim Jong Un who will make a decision on whether to proceed, the North's state media said on Thursday. The unusually detailed report on the attack plan marked a further escalation in tensions between Pyongyang and Washington after US President Do
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Box office weighs on 21st Century Fox results

Media-entertainment giant 21st Century Fox on Wednesday reported a drop in profit in the past quarter as weaker box office revenues hurt performance for the Murdoch family-controlled group. Fox reported a net profit of $476 million in the fiscal fourth quarter to June 30, a drop of 16 percent from last year. Revenues managed a gain of 1.5 percent to $6.75 billion. Its film segment which includes the Fox Hollywood studios saw a revenue drop of 11.5 percent, stemming from an unfavourable compar
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Tennis no. 1 Murray out of Cincinnati with hip injury

World number one Andy Murray will miss next week's ATP Masters Series event in Cincinnati with a nagging hip injury that also forced him out of this week's Montreal event. The move brings into question Murray's status for the US Open, which starts August 28 in New York, and even if he is able to play, it remains to be seen how well he can perform after missing the two major hardcourt warm-up events for the Flushing Meadows fortnight. "Unfortunately I won't be playing in Cincinnati as I continu
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US warns North Korea that nuclear drive could spell end of regime

The United States on Wednesday warned North Korea that the pursuit of its nuclear drive could lead to the collapse of Kim Jong-Un's regime, as President Donald Trump brandished America's nuclear might as a powerful deterrent. The further escalation in Washington's war of words with Pyongyang came a day after Trump stunned the world with a bold-faced message to Kim, saying his country faced "fire and fury like the world has never seen." Trump's comments triggered expressions of concern from Chi
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Belgium accuses Netherlands of tainted eggs cover-up

Belgium has admitted that it knew about fipronil in eggs in early June but kept it secret because of a fraud investigation Belgium accused the Netherlands on Wednesday of failing to inform it that eggs were tainted with insecticide despite knowing about the problem since last November, as Europe's latest food safety scandal deepened. Newly appointed Agriculture Minister Denis Ducarme told a parliamentary hearing that Belgian's food safety agency obtained an internal Dutch document that "reports
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US sanctions Mexico football captain Marquez for alleged cartel ties

The US Treasury on Wednesday accused Rafael Marquez, captain of Mexico's national football team and a former FC Barcelona player, of being a "front person" for a major drug trafficking organization. Marquez was one of 22 people and 43 entities the US Treasury placed on a sanctions list in relation to a Guadalajara-based drug trafficking cartel controlled by one Raul Flores Hernandez. The Treasury said Marquez has a "longstanding relationship" with Flores, has acted as a "front person" for him
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Intel set to roll out 100 self-driving cars

Silicon Valley giant Intel on Wednesday announced plans for a fleet of self-driving cars following its completion of the purchase of Israeli autonomous technology firm Mobileye. A day after closing the $15 billion deal to buy Mobileye, which specializes in driver-assistance systems, Intel said it will begin rolling out fully autonomous vehicles later this year for testing in Europe, Israel, and the US. The fleet will eventually have more than 100 vehicles, according to Intel. The testing in r
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