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France's Macron files complaint after Le Pen 'offshore account' claim

French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron filed a legal complaint Thursday after his far-right rival Marine Le Pen repeated rumours that he had an offshore account during a particularly bruising TV debate. The pro-EU centrist Macron and Le Pen battled repeatedly over terrorism, the economy and Europe in Wednesday's TV duel watched by some 16.5 million people. "I hope that we will not find out that you have an offshore account in the Bahamas," Le Pen said during the debate, which was her
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Issues between military and civilians on Dawn leaks resolved: Rafique

KARACHI: Federal Railway Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique on Thursday said that issues between the civil and military leadership over Dawn leaks have been resolved. Speaking in Geo News programme, Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath, Rafique said, “Ahsan Iqbal have said on this issue that it would be resolved in a day or two, in my knowledge the issue has been resolved. The contact didn’t break for even a moment. The meeting on this issue had been on every relevant forum.” He said that the armed force
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Manager jailed for six years for swindling Alanis Morissette

LOS ANGELES: The former business manager of Alanis Morissette was sentenced to six years in prison after he admitted stealing millions from the rock singer by misleading her about her finances. Jonathan Schwartz, who had worked for prominent Los Angeles-area firm GSO Business Management, was also ordered to pay $8,657,268 in restitution, according to a federal judge´s sentence announced late Wednesday. Morissette, attending the sentencing hearing, said Schwartz acted in a "long, drawn-out, cal
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Gabriel picks five as WI defeat Pakistan by 106 in Bridgetown Test

BRIDGETOWN: Shannon Gabriel´s five-wicket haul inspired West Indies to a 106 run victory over Pakistan on the final day of the second Test in Bridgetown on Thursday. Pakistan started the fifth day at the Kensington Oval requiring 188 runs but the visitors were blown away by the Windies´ bowlers who levelled the series at 1-1. The third and concluding test at Roseau starts on May 10. Pakistan had been set a victory target of 188 at Kensington Oval in Barbados on Thursday. Yasir Shah claimed t
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Mixed-gender relays could be Olympic sport

DOHA: Mixed-gender relays are being considered as an Olympic event to ramp up interest in athletics, a senior member of the sport´s governing body said on Thursday. "As a sport we are looking at different formats," Olivier Gers, chief executive of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), told AFP. "It´s definitely something for the Olympics to look at and for the IOC to decide jointly with the IAAF. "It´s definitely something we have been talking about for quite some tim
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Top moments from Marvel?s The Defenders trailer

Marvel dropped the action-packed trailer of its much-awaited Netflix’s show, The Defenders, on Wednesday.  The show will weave together characters from other Marvel shows such as Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, and we just can’t wait. Earlier, a teaser trailer showed the main characters from the all series standing together in an elevator giving a hint of the action awaiting us all. The new trailer is fun, snarky, full of action and is exactly what the fans needed after the
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Official matters not carried out through tweets: Ayaz Sadiq

LAHORE: Speaker National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq on Thursday said that the official matters are not carried out through tweets — in a reference to the matter of Dawn Leaks — adding that the issue needs to be resolved instead of making it more complicated. The NA speaker was addressing party workers in Lahore. He said that whatever transpired regarding the issue of Dawn Leaks was inappropriate. The assembly would complete its tenure and the elections would be held on time, he said. Referring to th
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SHC suspends PEMRA notification seeking closure of private TV channel

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court suspended on Thursday Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority’s (PEMRA) notification seeking closure of a private television channel. SHC bench, headed by Justice Aftab Ahmed Gorar, also ordered PEMRA and federal government to submit their replies by May 10. SHC was hearing a case against closure of the channel. It was also said that the channel was closed after it failed to get security clearance from Ministry of Interior. However, this was challenged in
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Egyptian woman leaves hospital more than 300 kg lighter

An Egyptian woman widely believed to have been the world's heaviest woman left an Indian hospital on Thursday more than 300 kg lighter for further treatment in Abu Dhabi. Eman Ahmed, who weighed more than half a metric tonne (1,100 lb) when she was operated on in March, has not walked for 25 years. She is in her mid-30s. A series of operations in Mumbai brought her weight down to below 200 kg (440 lb), her doctor, Muffazal Lakdawala, wrote in a blog post. But she would need further surgery to
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US soldier captured moment explosion killed her

The US military has released a photo taken by a US Army camerawoman at the moment she and four Afghan soldiers died in an explosion in the Afghan province of Laghman. The 22-year-old Hilda Clayton and four Afghan National Army personnel were killed by a mortar shell during a training exercise on July 2, 2013. After four years, the Army University Press, a US Army multimedia organisation, has published the photo. It also released a photo by an Afghan soldier who was a trainee photojournalist an
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Wolves return to Denmark for first time in 200 years

STOCKHOLM: At least five wolves, including one female, have returned to Denmark for the first time in two centuries, a zoologist who has obtained DNA evidence said on Thursday. The predators came from Germany to settle in western Denmark´s agricultural region, the least densely populated in the Scandinavian country. Peter Sunde, scientist at the University of Aarhus, told AFP the wolves must have walked more than 500 kilometres (310 miles). "We think these are young wolves rejected by their f
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India convicts police and doctors in Gujarat gangrape case

MUMBAI: An Indian court Thursday convicted five police officers and two doctors of tampering with evidence in the gang rape of a pregnant woman and the murder of her family during one of the worst incidents of religious unrest since independence. Bilkis Bano was gangraped and seven of her relatives were killed during religious riots that broke out in the western state of Gujarat in 2002. At least 2,000 Muslims were hacked, beaten, shot or burnt to death in the violence, which erupted after a g
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Pakistan on verge of embarrassing defeat against Gabriel-inspired Windies

BRIDGETOWN: Shannon Gabriel led a West Indies fast bowling assault that decimated Pakistan´s top-order batting and reduced them to 35 for five at lunch on the final day of the second Test. Pakistan had been set a victory target of 188 at Kensington Oval in Barbados on Thursday. Yasir Shah claimed the final wicket of the home side´s second innings in the first over of the day to finish with seven for 94 in the innings and nine for 177 in the match. However, that proved to be the only high poin
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Court panel asks Indian board to pick Champions Trophy squad

India's chances of participating in the Champions Trophy brightened on Thursday when a court-appointed panel of administrators asked the cricket board (BCCI) to pick the squad for the June 1-18 tournament. Holders India did not submit its squad for the one-day international tournament in England and Wales by the April 25 deadline after BCCI failed to halt a new revenue model to be accepted by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The option of pulling out of the Champions Trophy by revoking
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IHC stops ECP from action against Imran in code of conduct violation case

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court barred on Thursday the Election Commission of Pakistan from taking action against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan in the code of conduct violation case. IHC’s Justice Amir Farooq was hearing the case over the PTI chief’s plea. The lawyer of the applicant Advocate Babar Awan said that according to the Constitution, only the prime minister, chief minister, high-level officials and government office holders cannot run an election campaign. He said
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More protests planned in Venezuela as death toll reaches 32

CARACAS: University students in Venezuela will lead a fresh round of marches against President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday, a day after police fired tear gas and protesters hurled Molotov cocktails in rallies against his plan to rewrite the constitution. Violence erupted in the latest of more than a month of clashes that prosecutors say have now killed 32 people in the oil-rich nation stricken by shortages of food, medicine and other basics. Government forces used tear gas and water cannon agai
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Trump to wade into Middle East politics on first foreign trip

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel this month as part of his first foreign trip, wading directly into the tangled diplomacy of Middle Eastern politics, a senior administration official said on Thursday. The swing through the Middle East added to a trip that includes a NATO meeting in Brussels on May 25 and the Group of Seven summit in Sicily on May 26, suggests Trump is seeking to reinforce alliances with top US allies in the region. Trump's predecesso
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30 injured in blast at chemical recycling plant in Spain

MADRID: At least 30 people were injured on Thursday, three of them seriously, in an explosion at recycling site for hazardous chemical waste near Madrid, forcing the evacuation of nearby schools, authorities said. The blast in Arganda del Rey sent up a huge column of black smoke, but emergency services said several air quality measuring stations in the area showed normal readings, easing concerns about toxic pollution. Madrid´s emergency services centre said on Twitter there had been "several
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Morocco fights to save its iconic monkey

"If nothing is done, this species will disappear within 10 years," warns a poster on Ahmed Harrad's ageing 4x4 showing Morocco's famed Barbary macaque monkey. Harrad spends his time crisscrossing northern Morocco to try to convince locals to protect the endangered monkey. The only species of macaque outside Asia, which lives on leaves and fruits and can weigh up to 20 kilogrammes (45 pounds), was once found throughout North Africa and parts of Europe. But having disappeared from Libya and Tun
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Three hardcore terrorists tried by military courts executed: ISPR

RAWALPINDI: As many as three hardcore terrorists were executed after being tried by Military Courts, informed Pakistan Army's media wing Inter Services Public Relations. According to a statement, the terrorists were involved in committing heinous offenses relating to terrorism, including the killing of innocent civilians, attacking armed forces of Pakistan and other law enforcement agencies. The identities of executed terrorists Hussan Dar s/o Muhammad Raheem The convict was an active member
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PTI barred again from holding press conference at PID

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders on Thursday were once again barred from holding a press conference inside the premises of Press Information Department. While addressing the media representatives outside the PID building, PTI leader Naeemul Haq described the government`s action, ‘dictorial’. He added that PTI had held a press conference inside the PID building during the tenure of Pervaiz Rashid as Information Minister. The PTI leader said that there are reports that name of Prime M
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Twist in the tale: New video shows police detained Zaid Talpur, son

UMERKOT: The case of feudal lord Zaid Talpur, who was caught on tape misbehaving with police officials at Kunri police station, has taken a new twist after a new video surfaced on Thursday. The new video shows that Zaid Talpur and his son, Hassan Talpur, were put behind bars the same day they misbehaved with the police officers. In the video, DSP and SHO can be seen locking up Zaid Talpur and his son. The DSP while speaking to Zaid Talpur remarked, “I am the DSP you were speaking to. Put him [
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Mashal lynching: KP police request FIA to put main suspect Arif's name on ECL

MARDAN: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police approached on Thursday the Federal Investigation Agency to put the name of main accused in Mashal Khan’s lynching, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf tehsil councillor Arif, on the Exit Control List. KP police arrested another on-the-run suspect Ali Khan in relation to the killing of Mashal Khan, a student at the Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan. The number of the arrested in the case has reached 48 so far. The main suspect Arif is reportedly on the run and police i
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If India-Pakistan can have dialogue, why can?t Muhajirs?, says Haqiqi chief

KARACHI: Muhajir Qaumi Movement Chairman Afaq Ahmed on Thursday said that when India and Pakistan can engage in a dialogue, then why the representatives of Muhajirs can’t talk, in an apparent reference to the media reports suggesting that his party would meet representatives of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan ahead of general elections. While addressing a press conference, he said that there should always be room for negotiations. “We would appreciate any initiative for dialogue,” he said. A
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Former Afghan warlord Hekmatyar returns to Kabul after 20 years

KABUL: A former warlord branded the "Butcher of Kabul" returned to the Afghan capital Thursday, met by uneasy residents two decades after leaving the city where he stands accused of killing thousands of people. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former prime minister, has returned to mainstream political life after his dormant Hezb-i-Islami militant group signed a peace deal with the government last September which sparked revulsion from human rights groups and residents of the capital. His convoy of seve
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