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Iran to carry on missile programme, condemns US sanctions

Simorgh rocket is launched and tested at the Imam Khomeini Space Centre, Iran/Reuters TEHRAN: Iran on Saturday condemned new sanctions passed by the US Congress against its missile programme, which President Donald Trump is set to sign into law, and vowed to continue it. "We will continue with full power our missile programme," foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi told state broadcaster IRIB. "We consider the action by the US as hostile, reprehensible and unacceptable, and it´s ultimately
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Articles 62,63 should be applicable to all, not just politicians: Saad Rafique

Senior Pakistan Muslim League ? Nawaz leader Khawaja Saad Rafique in his reaction to the Supreme Court`s decision to disqualify Nawaz Sharif tweeted that articles 62 and 63 should not be applicable only to the country's politicians. In another tweet, he took a jibe at Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), stating that Imran Khan was too quick to rejoice the SC's decision and he will soon regret his 'mistake.'  The former railway minister further claimed to have 'built Pa
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Nawaz?s disqualification: What legal experts say

Nawaz Sharif. Photo: Reuters file  Following the much-awaited Panama case verdict announced by the Supreme Court early Friday, legal analysts expressed their opinions on the decision to disqualify Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister. Speaking to Geo News, barrister Salahuddin Ahmed said the SC?s verdict based on Sharif not declaring his United Arab Emirates (UAE) company FZE Capital?s income in his nomination papers was puzzling, as this was not a legal basis to dismiss the premier. ?Basic acco
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EX-SECP Chairman Zafar Hijazi sent to Adiala Jail

ISLAMABAD: A local court sent former Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Chairman Zafar Hijazi sent to Adiala Jail on a 14-day remand. Zafar Hijazi - File photo  An FIA inquiry team had found Hijazi guilty of tampering the records of companies owned by the Sharif family. The team had submitted a 28-page inquiry report to the Supreme Court on July 9, in which it had endorsed the stance of the JIT probing the offshore assets of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family in con
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Cristiano Ronaldo to start season in court

Ronaldo will be questioned by a court over allegations he evaded 14.7 million euros ($17.2 million) in tax MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo faces a brutal return to Madrid before starting pre-season training with Real Madrid as he is expected in court on Monday, accused of evading millions in taxes. The 32-year-old -- the world´s highest paid athlete according to Forbes magazine -- will be questioned by a court in Pozuelo de Alarcon, a wealthy suburb of Madrid where he lives, over allegations he evade
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PCB to sue Indian board for dishonouring MoU: Shahryar Khan

Shahryar Khan pictured with Najam Sethi after the BoG meeting LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to sue the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in the ICC dispute resolution committee for not honouring its promise of playing bilateral series with Pakistan, the outgoing chairman Shahryar Khan said. Shahryar presided over a Board of Governors meeting on Friday ? the last one under his chairmanship, which discussed matters related to domestic and first class cricket, Pak
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Nawaz?s picture removed from airport, name from NA website

Nawaz Sharif's picture was removed from the airport in Karachi - picture social media  Nawaz Sharif?s picture has also been removed from the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. On Friday, Nawaz Sharif stepped down as the prime minister of Pakistan after being disqualified from holding public office by the Supreme Court in a landmark decision on the Panama Papers case. Announcing its verdict, the five-member bench unanimously disqualified Nawaz Sharif for failing to disclose his un-withd
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US hopes for ?smooth transition? after Nawaz?s disqualification

File photo from 2013: Then-US Secretary of State John Kerry with Nawaz Sharif  The United States said on Friday it is looking forward to a ?smooth? political transition in Pakistan after the Supreme Court disqualified Nawaz Sharif as prime minister in the high-profile Panama Papers case. ?We look forward to a smooth transition as Pakistan's parliament selects the next prime minister,? a State Department official said. The official, however, described Sharif's ouster as Pakistan's ?internal mat
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Nawaz's replacement to be decided in PML-N meeting today

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) will meet today (Saturday) to decide the prime ministerial candidate to replace Nawaz Sharif, who was disqualified as the prime minister in a landmark verdict by the Supreme Court on the Panama Papers case. Following his ousting, Sharif met with senior party leaders and recommended his brother, CM Punjab Shehbaz Sharif as his replacement as Pakistan?s PM. Nawaz Sharif recommends Shehbaz Sharif to become next PM Hamaz Shehbaz Sharif or Ran
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Nawaz's disqualification will not affect CPEC: China

China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang BEIJING: China affirmed its stance on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as its Foreign Ministry?s spokesperson Lu Kang on Friday said that Nawaz Sharif?s disqualification as prime minister would not affect the CPEC project. On the Supreme Court of Pakistan?s verdict which disqualified Nawaz, Kang said that the ruling is Pakistan?s "internal affair" and would not affect bilateral ties between the two countries.  ?As a friendly neighbour, C
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One dead, six wounded in Hamburg supermarket knife attack

Police stand guard at the scene of the incident/AFP HAMBURG: One person was killed and six others were injured on Friday when a failed asylum-seeker brandishing a knife attacked shoppers in a Hamburg supermarket, before being overpowered by passers-by, police and officials said. The attack had been motivated by "hate," mayor Olaf Scholz said, although he stopped short of declaring it a terrorist incident. "It makes me especially angry that the perpetrator appears to be a person who claimed pro
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110 sq km area cleared in Rajgal, Op Khyber-4 progressing successfully: ISPR

RAWALPINDI: The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday that 110 square kilometres area in Rajgal valley has been cleared by the forces as Operation Khyber-4 continues as planned, after it was launched to ?wipe out terrorists? in the area under Radd-ul-Fasaad earlier this month. The military?s media wing said that the forces successfully cleared 110 square kilometres in the Rajgal valley of Khyber Agency after a number of terrorist hideouts in the area were "dismantled" and improv
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Gladstone ? British finance ministry's top cat ? toasts first year in office

Image courtesy: Emily Ashton Twitter (@elashton) LONDON: Twenty-two mice scurrying around Britain's finance ministry have fallen foul of the chief mouser to the Treasury since he took up residence one year ago with a mission to reduce the government department's rodent population. Gladstone ? a black cat named after the long-serving 19th-century prime minister and chancellor William Gladstone ? joined the Treasury from a rescue home a year ago, and has almost 10,000 followers on photo-sharing w
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Pop singer Katy Perry to host MTV Video Music Awards show

Katy Perry performs on the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival in Britain, June 24, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/Files  LOS ANGELES: Pop singer Katy Perry will host the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) in August, MTV said on Thursday, and will also perform and compete for some top awards. The hosting gig will kick off a busy 12 months for Perry, who embarks on a world tour in September and will be a judge in 2018 on the new version of the television talent sho
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Demand for hackers is on the rise!

A recruiter advertises a QR code to attract hackers to apply for jobs at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, July 27, 2017. REUTERS/Joseph Menn  LAS VEGAS: The surge in far-flung and destructive cyber attacks is not good for national security, but for an increasing number of hackers and researchers, it is great for job security. The new reality is on display in Las Vegas this week at the annual Black Hat and Def Con security conferences, which now have a booming side b
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Drought-hit Rome narrowly avoids water rationing

People prepare sailboats next to a sand spit that emerged due to the drought in the lake of Bracciano, north of Rome, Italy, July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Tony Gentile  ROME: Rome narrowly avoided water rationing on Friday after a deal between the regional government and the city's water company defused a row over drawing water from a drought-affected lake. Taps had been due to run dry for 1.5 million Romans for up to eight hours a day from Monday, and Mayor Virginia Raggi urged the central governme
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Scientists set sail to unlock secrets of 'lost continent' Zealandia

Scientists are attempting to unlock the secrets of the "lost continent" of Zealandia, setting sail Friday to investigate the huge underwater landmass east of Australia that has never been properly studied. Zealandia, which is mostly submerged beneath the South Pacific, was once part of the Gondwana super-continent but broke away some 75 million years ago. In a paper published in the Geological Society of America's Journal GSA Today in February, researchers made the case that it should be consi
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Google, Facebook show power of ad duopoly as rivals stumble

A record store advertises their presence on Facebook in their shop window in Somerville, Massachusetts, US, July 25, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder SAN FRANCISCO: Quarterly results from Alphabet Inc and Facebook Inc provided fresh evidence this week that the digital advertising market is effectively a duopoly, a dynamic with deep implications for two of Silicon Valley's titans. Alphabet, the owner of Google and YouTube, and Facebook, the world's largest social network, each produced billions in pr
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IMF: Countries must avoid protectionism 'at all costs'

The International Monetary Fund warned world leaders Friday to avoid resorting to protectionist measures "at all costs" due to the damage it would cause to their own and the global economy. At a time when President Donald Trump has repeatedly blamed trade for US economic woes, and threatened to impose barriers to imports, the IMF said such policies would not work.woes, and threatened to impose barriers to imports, the IMF said such policies would not work. In its sixth edition of an annual rep
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Lonely? Volunteering just two hours a week may help

Volunteering at least two hours a week may go a long way toward helping to ease feelings of loneliness and social isolation, a study of recent widows suggests. Loneliness is a serious medical problem for many older adults; previous research links it to declines in physical and mental health as well as premature death, researchers note in the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Because strong marriages, friendships and social networks can keep loneliness at bay, researchers wanted to see i
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Russia orders out US diplomats in sanctions retaliation

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov watch a display during the MAKS 2017 air show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, Russia, July 18, 2017. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS MOSCOW: Russia on Friday ordered the United States to cut hundreds of diplomatic staff in retaliation for a new round of US sanctions, and said it was seizing two US diplomatic properties. Moscow's decision, which had echoes of the Cold War, was announced by the Foreign Mini
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Three-man crew blasts off to International Space Station

A three-man crew from Italy, Russia and the United States on Friday blasted off from Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Footage broadcast by Russia's space agency Roscosmos showed the Soyuz craft carrying NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency take off from the Baikonur cosmodrome. "Everything is ok," said Russian mission control. The arrival of the three astronauts will boost the ISS
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Brooklyn jurors to begin deliberating in 'Pharma Bro' Shkreli's case

Former drug company executive Martin Shkreli exits US District Court in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, US, July 28, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Segar NEW YORK: The fate of former drug company executive Martin Shkreli now rests with jurors in Brooklyn federal court, who will begin deliberating Monday morning after a month-long trial. Shkreli, 34, is best known for raising the price of anti-infection drug Daraprim by 5,000 percent in 2015 as chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals. The increas
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MTV taps Katy Perry to host VMAs

Katy Perry will host this year's MTV Video Music Awards, the network announced Thursday, as it turned to one of pop music's most visible stars for its big gala. Perry was also the first performer announced for the awards, which will be aired globally from Los Angeles on August 27. MTV broke the news by posting a picture of the newly blonde singer clad as an astronaut -- a nod to the awards' "Moonman" statuette and the network's early commercials. In a statement, Perry joked that she had start
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Four Audi directors to leave over diesel scandal: report

Four board members at Volkswagen subsidiary Audi are set to step down, a German magazine reported Friday, saying the firm feels under pressure to react to diesel emissions scandals. Volkswagen chief executive Matthias Mueller has told Audi finance director Axel Strotbeck, production chief Hubert Waltl, human resources director Thomas Sigi and sales boss Dietmar Voggenreiter they will soon be asked to stand down, Manager magazine reported, citing anonymous sources at the firm. Audi has yet to m
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