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Geo News Blog delivers the latest breaking news, world headlines, politics, current affairs, and international updates from Pakistan and around the world, updated through trusted RSS sources.

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At least 26 killed, 18 injured in Kabul bombing: Afghan interior ministry

Photo: File A suicide bomber blew himself up near a Shia shrine in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding 18, officials said, as the Afghan capital celebrated the Nawruz holiday marking the start of the Persian new year. Nasrat Rahimi, deputy interior ministry spokesperson, said the bomber blew himself up near the Kart-e Sakhi shrine, a target of previous militant attacks. The latest explosion to hit Kabul underlined the threat to the city from militant attacks despite gov
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WhatsApp co-founder joins call to #DeleteFacebook

Photo: AFP The co-founder of WhatsApp has joined the chorus of voices against social media giant Facebook. Brian Acton joined the #DeleteFacebook movement as he took to Twitter on Tuesday to say, ?It is time. #DeleteFacebook.? Acton?s advice is notable because WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. The social network acquired his company for $19 billion in 2014. The California-based social media giant is facing an onslaught of criticism at home and abroad over revelations that a fi
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Tonga bans rugby, boxing for girls 'to preserve dignity'

NUKU'ALOFA: Tonga's government has banned girls from participating in rugby and boxing, drawing criticism from two-time Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams and New Zealand's proudly feminist Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The government edict came to light last week when a team of girls from Tonga High School were pulled from a touch rugby tournament because of their gender. A letter from the Pacific nation's education department said the ban was to "preserve the dignity of Tongan women an
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Sanjay Dutt plans legal action against 'unauthorised' autobiography writer

Photo: File Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has slammed Yasser Usman, the author of Sanjay Dutt: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood?s Bad Boy. Dutt said he has not authorised anyone to write a book on him and that his official biography will be released very soon. ?I have not authorised either Juggernaut Publications or Yasser Usman to write/publish my biography. Our lawyers had sent them a legal notice, in response to which Juggernaut Publications said that contents of the proposed book are bas
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WhatsApp rolls out new features for iOS and Android phones

WhatsApp has rolled out three new features which allow users to write a brief group direction and search users in group chat. Photo: REUTERS/file  WhatsApp has rolled out three new features which allow users to write a brief group direction and search users in group chat. The first feature allows users to write a brief description of 500 words of the group. The description can be written or updated by admin or any other member of the group. WhatsApp now allows users to have a 500 word descr
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How Facebook data helped Trump find his voters

Photo: AFP It was one of hundreds of cute questionnaires that were shared widely on Facebook and other social media, like "Which Pokeman Are You?" and "What Are Your Most Used Words?" This one, an app called "thisismydigitallife", was a personality quiz, asking questions about how outgoing a person is, how vengeful one can be, whether one finishes projects, worries a lot, likes art, or is talkative. About 320,000 people took the quiz, designed by a man named Alexsandr Kogan. Kogan was contra
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Israel goes public on 2007 destruction of suspected Syrian reactor, warns region

Photo: File Israel for the first time confirmed that it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, saying on Wednesday that the strike removed a major threat to Israel and the region and was a ?message? to others. The first public acknowledgement by Israel that its F-16 warplanes carried out the September 6, 2007 bombing of the partially constructed Al-Kubar facility near Deir al-Zor was made after military censors lifted a more than 10-year order that had barred Israeli officials from
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Every desi girl needs to note Rani Mukherjee's comebacks to awkward questions

Photo: File Most South-East Asian girls have been cornered at social gatherings and asked rather personal questions regarding when they?re getting married or having a baby and it just doesn?t end there. There have been numerous memes, blogs and videos over the years tackling how to deal when posed with awkward questions and a recent video featuring Bollywood actor Rani Mukherjee has summed it up best. The video shows Rani hilariously take down people commenting on her looks, career choices and
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19 dead as bus plunges off Philippine cliff

Nineteen people were killed and 21 others injured when a passenger bus lost control and plunged off a cliff in the central Philippines. Photo: Michael Mulingbayan  MANILA: Nineteen people were killed and 21 others injured when a passenger bus lost control and plunged off a cliff in the central Philippines, police said Wednesday. The bus, which was heading to the capital Manila, skidded off a mountain road on Mindoro island late Tuesday, said regional police spokeswoman Imelda Tolentino. Rescu
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India's turtle warriors embrace mission to save threatened species

In this picture taken on February 28, 2018, Sumanth Madhav, campaign manager for wildlife for animal welfare charity Humane Society International (HSI), looks at a dead Olive Ridley sea turtle on Daluakani beach, around 80km from Bhubaneswar in India´s eastern Odisha state. Photo: AFP   DALUAKANI: Since he was a boy, Soumyaranjan Biswal has kept a night vigil at the beach near his coastal Indian village where tens of thousands of tiny olive ridley turtles gather to lay their eggs. Fishing comm
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Nawaz terms SC justice's remarks on Panama case 'no ordinary thing'

Former PM Nawaz Sharif (centre) outside the accountability court today. Photo: Geo News ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday that the Supreme Court judge?s remarks about the Panama case are not an ordinary thing.  He was referring to the remarks of Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Tuesday, made while hearing a lawmaker's disqualification case, that the Panama case was about the London flats but the prime minister was disqualified over an Iqama (foreign work permit). Talking
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Google gives users demo of games before downloading them

Google Play Instant now lets users play a trial version of the game before downloading them. Photo: file Google Play Instant now lets users play a trial version of the game before downloading them. The announcement was made during the ongoing Game Developer Conference, which is currently taking place in San Francisco. With this new option, users can go to the App Store, select a game, play a trial version and then decide whether they want to download it or not. For now, there are a handful o
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Myanmar President Htin Kyaw resigns

Htin Kyaw. Photo: File  Myanmar's president and Aung San Suu Kyi's right-hand man Htin Kyaw stepped down on Wednesday after two years in the position, his office said. "Myanmar President Htin Kyaw resigned on March 21, 2018," a statement on the president's official Facebook page said, adding that a new leader would be selected "within seven working days".
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Karachi ship collision: 20 containers still afloat as recovery operation continues

At least 20 shipping containers are still afloat as Karachi Port Trust continued on Wednesday its operation to recover the containers, which had fallen into the sea after the collision of two shipping vessels. Photo: PPI  KARACHI: At least 20 shipping containers are still afloat as Karachi Port Trust continued on Wednesday its operation to recover the containers, which had fallen into the sea after the collision of two shipping vessels. Hapeg-Lloyd?s ship 8,000-TEU Tolten, which was carrying t
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Mufti Qavi to be indicted in Qandeel Baloch murder case today

Mufti Qavi. Photo: File  MULTAN: The district and sessions court hearing the Qandeel Baloch murder case will indict the remaining suspects, including Mufti Qavi, today. Hearing the case on March 7, the judge had directed that Mufti Abdul Qavi, Aslam Shahid and Abdul Basit, the remaining accused, be provided copies of the charge-sheet so they could be indicted today. The primary accused in the social media celebrity's murder, Baloch's brother Waseem and relative Haq Nawaz, were indicted in Dece
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'The Crown' producers apologise for royal show pay disparity

The producers of television series The Crown apologised on Tuesday for paying the award-winning actress who played Queen Elizabeth less than her male co-star but said nothing about redressing the past imbalance. Photo: file  LOS ANGELES: The producers of television series The Crown apologised on Tuesday for paying the award-winning actress who played Queen Elizabeth less than her male co-star but said nothing about redressing the past imbalance. British-based production company Left Bank Pictu
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Accountability court to hear Al-Azizia, Flagship cases against Nawaz today

The entrance to the Federal Judicial Complex where the accountability court is situated. Photo: File  ISLAMABAD: The accountability court conducting corruption proceedings against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif will hear the Al-Azizia and Flagship references today.  Nawaz has arrived in Islamabad from Murree to attend the hearing.  The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed three interim corruption references against the Sharif family in September last year in light of the Supreme
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Mini PSL? Wahab Riaz's adorable daughter joins him in press conference

LAHORE: As media personnel and reporters gathered for the post-match press conference Tuesday night, they were met with what may be one of the most adorable of sights. Wahab Riaz sat behind the desk, accompanied by none other than his little daughter, Eshal Riaz, who had to struggle to reach the height of the mic. "We had the most adorable press conference tonight. @WahabViki with his daughter," wrote Roha Nadeem, a journalist who was present at the event. The cricketer dotes
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Ayaz Soomro's funeral prayers to be held in Brooklyn today

NEW YORK: The funeral prayers of Muhammad Ayaz Soomro, the late member of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) who passed away Tuesday morning, will be offered here in a Brooklyn mosque today (Wednesday), Geo News reported. Ahead of transporting the deceased's body back to Pakistan, his family and friends will join the funeral prayers to be held in Makki Masjid in Brooklyn after Asr prayers. PPP MNA Ayaz Soomro passes away in New York at 59 Soomro was taken ill about three weeks back and
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US says Pakistan needs to do 'a lot more' against Taliban, terrorist outfits

WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday emphasised that while Pakistan is headed in the right direction, "a lot more needs to be done" with regard to wiping out terrorism from South Asia. Heather Nauert, the spokesperson for the US State Department, was responding to a question on the "progress update on that relationship" ? of US-Pakistan ? while addressing the weekly press briefing. She said: "We?ve certainly seen Pakistan take some positive steps in the right direction, but a lot more
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Stephen Hawking to join Newton, Darwin in final resting place

British physicist Stephen Hawking sits in the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, London, Britain, August 29, 2012. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Files  LONDON: British physicist Stephen Hawking is to take his place among some of the greatest scientists in history when his ashes are interred inside Westminster Abbey, close to the graves of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. Hawking, the world?s most recognizable scientist, died last week aged 76 after a life
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Devoted fan cosplays as Aamir Khan's PK in Zalmi-Gladiators faceoff

LAHORE: Going by the name PK, Sherry mesmerised cricket fans and others alike on Tuesday with his on-point cosplay of Aamir Khan's eponymous character from the actors' popular Bollywood flick PK. PK ? as we shall call him henceforth ? told us that he was very excited and felt very nice to be in Lahore for the antepenultimate game of the Pakistan Super League's (PSL) third season. "I feel very nice in Lahore," he said, explaining that he came to the city of gardens to support the PSL series and
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Public smiles, private problems as Saudi prince visits White House

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (L) in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, US, March 20, 2018. AFP/Mandel Ngan  WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia?s crown prince received an effusive welcome at the White House Tuesday from US President Donald Trump, who hailed a "great friendship" with the kingdom ? but made no public mention of the sticking points in the burgeoning alliance. In front of the cameras, it was all back-slapping, h
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Ali Zafar delivers yorker to ex-cricketer Imran Khan for being a spoilsport

Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan (L) speaks with party leaders at his home, Islamabad, Pakistan, October 30, 2016. REUTERS/Caren Firouz/Files; Singer Ali Zafar (R)  KARACHI: As Peshawar Zalmi brutally bowled out Quetta Gladiators from the Pakistan Super League's (PSL) third season, former cricketer Imran Khan had other issues to address ? something that did not sit well with some of the sports fans. Khan, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief who continues to witness dwindling su
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Who is Cambridge Analytica and what did it do?

Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix speaks during the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, November 9, 2017. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes/Files SAN FRANCISCO: British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica is at the centre of controversy in the United States and Britain after two newspapers reported on Sunday that the company harvested personal data about Facebook users beginning in 2014. Best known for assisting the 2016 presidential campaign of US President Donald Trump, Cambridge Analytica is now faci
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