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PM Nawaz Sharif leaves for Kazakhstan today for SCO summit

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will leave today to attend the two-day meeting of the Heads of State Council of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Kazakhstan. The premier is being accompanied by Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Commerce Minister Khurram Dastagir and Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz. The prime minister will be holding bilateral meetings with the presidents of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan today, as well as the Mongolian and Russian presidents on Friday.
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Trump calls Qatar emir, offers help to end crisis

DOHA: President Donald Trump called Qatar?s emir on Wednesday and offered US help as efforts grew to resolve a damaging feud between the emirate and its Gulf neighbours. Trump?s call to Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, a key US ally, came as a senior Emirati official said Arab states were not seeking ?regime change? in Doha. Investigation confirms Qatar news agency was hacked ?The president offered to help the parties resolve their differences, including through
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'Wombs for rent' business flourishes in communist Laos

Dozens of fertility clinics have mushroomed in land-locked Laos after scandals over commercial surrogacy have spurred wealthier Southeast Asian neighbors to ban the controversial procedure since 2015. The gleaming, modern clinics have names featuring words such as "Miracle" and "Perfect" to help them stand out amid the dusty surrounding roads and highways in the Lao capital of Vientiane, close to the Thai border. "Laos has the best governance. Surrogacy or egg donation is not illegal!" one cli
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CM Sindh visits Karachi's ongoing developmental projects, says 'won't tolerate delays'

Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah on one of his snap-checking visits of the ongoing developmental projects in Karachi. June 8, 2017.  KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday night visited the metropolis' various areas to observe the progress of certain ongoing developmental projects, Geo News reported. Shah, who was accompanied by Zia-ul-Hassan Lanjar, Nasir Hussain Shah, and Jam Khan Shoro ? the provincial Ministers for Law, Information, and Housing & Town Pl
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Darkness prevails in over a dozen areas of Karachi, as power authorities remain silent

File photo KARACHI: Power outage in the country's biggest metropolis continued on the 12th day of Ramazan, causing a lot of distress to the citizens, Geo News reported. Areas currently experiencing a major power outage include Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Gulistan-e-Johar, University Road, Keamari, Masan Chowk, New Karachi's Sector 5-A1A, Liaquatabad, Nazimabad and North Nazimabad, Shahrah Noor Jahan, Scheme 33, Lyari, Gulbahar, and Safoora Goth. Driven by anger and desperation, some citizens also turned
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Amazon error sends some shoppers to dog photo, not product page

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) told some shoppers on Wednesday that there was a problem when they were trying to view product listings. "Sorry something went wrong on our end," Amazon said on a page some shoppers were sent to after clicking on items from its US home page. A different image of a dog greeted users each time. Many shoppers took to twitter to report the error message, which Reuters witnesses separately viewed. The incident appeared to start in the early afternoon Pacific Time and subside
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Ex-FBI chief Comey tells US senators Trump pressured him on Russia probe

Former FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump asked him to drop an investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn as part of a probe into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election. In written testimony released the day before he appears before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey said Trump told him at a meeting in the White House in February: "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go." T
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Law enforcement agencies detained 10, 25 suspects in Karachi, Lahore, respectively

File photo KARACHI: Seven suspects, including an extortionist, were taken into custody during a search operation conducted late Wednesday night in Mobina Town here, police sources revealed. Suspect Haq Nawaz has been involved in numerous cases of extortion, security officials said. In addition, suspects Jahangir and Yasir have been detained for violating Temporary Residents Act, while arrestees Abdul Qadir, Arif, Arshad, and Abid were wanted for various street crimes, police stated. Security
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Thunderstorm, rain with gusty winds expected in parts of the country: MET

Dust, thunderstorm, and rain with gusty winds are expected at scattered places in Multan, Sahiwal, D.G. Khan, Bahawalpur, Sargodha divisions and Kashmir, and at isolated places in Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu, D.I. Khan, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Faisalabad, Zhob divisions, FATA, Islamabad, and Gilgit-Baltistan. Hot and dry weather is expected in other parts of the country, the MET said. 7 easy hacks to beat the heat We have compiled a few tips for you to beat the
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UK police carry out controlled explosion near new US embassy site

Images on the right via US Embassy London website. British police said on Wednesday they had carried out a controlled explosion near where the United States is building a new embassy in Wandsworth, south-west London, but the unattended vehicles that triggered the action turned out not to be suspicious. Police said they were called out after a report of two unattended vehicles near the embassy site, and carried out a controlled explosion at around 4:37 PM GMT (9:37 PM PST).
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Obama praises US cities, states, for climate change stand

MONTREAL: Former US President Barack Obama praised US states and cities for maintaining measures against climate change in a fresh jab at his successor's decision to quit the Paris accord. Addressing a crowd of 6,000 in Montreal Tuesday, he argued that his administration had been able to show that greener policies were good for economic growth. "When it comes to the threat of climate change, we have shown that environmental sustainability and economic progress are not contradictory but are com
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Video games deliver hope to Syrian refugees: research

Computer games such as Minecraft teach Syrian children new language and coding skills and boost morale in refugee camps, according to new research. "Play is a universal way of learning," said Bruce Homer, an associate professor of educational psychology at the City University of New York. "In taking a game-based and playful approach to learning, we created an intervention that was not only effective, but also one in which the children were engaged and wanted (to) continue doing," he said in a
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Facebook launches disaster maps to help aid workers save lives

LONDON (via Thomson Reuters Foundation): Facebook on Wednesday launched disaster maps ? an initiative aimed at helping humanitarian organisations save lives in emergencies. "When there's a flood, earthquake, fire or other natural disaster, response organisations need accurate information quickly about where people are in order to save lives," founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Facebook. "When traditional communication channels like phone lines are down, it can take too much ti
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UK police arrest two more men over Manchester attack

Flowers are laid by an officer from Police Scotland outside the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, ahead of the funeral of Manchester bomb victim Eilidh MacLeod, in Castlebay on the island of Barra, in Scotland June 5, 2017. REUTERS/Andrew Milligan/Pool  British police arrested two 20-year-old men in Manchester on Wednesday in connection with last month's suicide bombing that killed 22 children and adults attending a concert by U.S. singer Ariana Grande, police said on Wednesday. One was arr
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Djokovic crashes at French Open as Nadal, Murray move on

Defending champion Novak Djokovic crashed out of the French Open on Wednesday, sparking fresh fears over his appetite for the sport he once dominated as Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray made the semi-finals. World number two Djokovic slumped to a stunning 7-6 (7/5), 6-3, 6-0 quarter-final loss to Dominic Thiem for his earliest exit in Paris in seven years. Nadal, chasing a 10th Roland Garros title, will face 23-year-old Thiem after making the last four without breaking sweat. He was 6-2, 2-0 up o
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13 killed after militants strike heart of Tehran, Iran blames Saudis

geo_embedgallery TEHRAN: Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the Iranian parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini's mausoleum in Tehran on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people in an unprecedented assault that Iran's Revolutionary Guards blamed on regional rival Saudi Arabia. Daesh claimed responsibility and threatened more attacks against Iran's majority population, seen by the hardline militants as heretics. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweeted: "Terror-sponsor
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Trump offers to help resolve Gulf crisis, UAE tightens squeeze on Qatar

A Qatar Airways aircraft is seen at Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar, June 7, 2017. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon  DUBAI/DOHA: US President Donald Trump offered on Wednesday to help resolve a worsening diplomatic crisis between Qatar and other Arab powers as the United Arab Emirates invoked the possibility of an economic embargo on Doha over its alleged support of terrorism. In his second intervention in the row in as many days, Trump urged action against terrorism in a call with Qatari Emi
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Turkish parliament approves bill to deploy troops in Qatar

LEFT: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, May 30, 2017. REUTERS/Umit Bektas; BACKGROUND: Parliamentarians attend a swearing-in ceremony at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, June 23, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas  Turkey's parliament on Wednesday approved a draft bill that allows its troops to be deployed at a Turkish military base in Qatar, an apparent yet surprising move to support the Gulf Arab coun
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Investigation confirms Qatar news agency was hacked

A preliminary investigation has confirmed that Qatar's state news agency was hacked and false statements attributed to the country's ruler were posted that helped spark a rift with other Gulf states, the Qatari foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and several other countries cut their ties with Doha on Monday in part over the comments briefly posted on the Qatar News Agency. The article quoted Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani as caut
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Indian forces resort to unprovoked firing along LoC

RAWALPINDI: Indian forces once again violated the ceasefire agreement late Wednesday after they resorted to unprovoked firing along the Line of Control (LoC), the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing with heavy weapons in Nakial and Kayani sectors along the LoC, the ISPR said in a statement. They also fired mortars into Pakistani side of the control line. No loss of life or property has yet been reported in the wake of fresh ceasefire viol
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Gulf crisis reroutes Qatari flight paths

DOHA: The ongoing diplomatic rift between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours has resulted in huge disruption of flights to and from Qatar, forcing its official airline to fly around airspaces of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. The Qatar Airways, following disruption of flights departing and arriving at the Qatari capital of Doha, has been making for longer routes, the Al Jazeera reported. The airspace controversy originates from a bigger diplomatic dispute between Qatar
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Poll shows UK PM Theresa May's lead widening to 12 points

LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party is on course to win Thursday's national election comfortably, an opinion poll suggested on Wednesday, the first of several last-minute surveys ahead of polling day. Polling firm ICM, which has tended to give the Conservatives bigger leads than most other polling firms, said May's lead increased by one percentage point to 12 points. Support for the Conservatives stood at 46 percent, up a point from ICM's previous poll published on
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CNG stations in Sindh to remain closed from Thursday to Friday

Cars parked at a CNG filling station in Karachi. KARACHI: Compressed natural gas (CNG) stations in Sindh, including Karachi, will remain closed from Thursday to Friday, owing to gas load management. The stations will remain close from 8am on Thursday to 8am on Friday, according to a notification issued by Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC). CNG stations in Sindh remain closed for three days a week, owing to gas load management. The supply of gas also remains suspended to the industrial sector
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Pakistan lose momentum after double-strike by Morkel

BIRMINGHAM: South Africa made 219 for eight after winning the toss against Pakistan in a Group B Champions Trophy match at Edgbaston on Wednesday. Pakistan has to win this match to keep alive hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals after a humiliating defeat by title-holders India in their tournament opener at Edgbaston on Sunday, produced a good bowling display against the Proteas. Team Pakistan appears to have watered-down the momentum it created courtesy fiery cameo of 31 off 23 by debutant
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Rain delays play, Pakistan ahead by 19 runs in D/L

BIRMINGHAM: South Africa made 219 for eight after winning the toss against Pakistan in a Group B Champions Trophy match at Edgbaston on Wednesday. Pakistan has to win this match to keep alive hopes of qualifying for the semi-finals after a humiliating defeat by title-holders India in their tournament opener at Edgbaston on Sunday, produced a good bowling display against the Proteas. Team Pakistan appears to have watered-down the momentum it created courtesy fiery cameo of 31 off 23 by debutant
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