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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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Imran Khan will not cast vote in Senate elections: PTI MNA

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/b848cc993ccf715ba1c5353208e6bff3.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9My8zLzIwMTggNzozMjowMCBBTSZoYXNoX3ZhbHVlPWRkNWdIOE5ua1o3WHN6WGZLSnNvbWc9PSZ2YWxpZG1pbnV0ZXM9NjAmaWQ9MQ== style=center] ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairperson will not cast vote in the Senate elections u
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CJP summons record of Ahad Cheema's salaries, perks

The CJP is hearing public welfare issues' suo motu case at the Lahore Registry. Photo: File   LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar summoned on Saturday the complete record regarding the arrest and perks and privileges awarded to senior Punjab bureaucrat Ahad Cheema.  Cheema was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on February 21 in the Ashiana Housing Scheme probe, after which the Punjab bureaucracy went up in arms showing solidarity for their colleague. H
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India's plan to build military base in Seychelles stris controversy

Photo: AFP A plan for India to build a military base on an outlying Seychelles island has won favour among the archipelago nation's politicians, but some hostility from its people. The base on Assumption Island is to be funded by India and shared by the two countries' militaries. The deal was struck in principle in 2015 during a visit to the Seychelles by India's prime minister Narendra Modi, but progress since has been slow. The government of the Seychelles, based in Victoria on Mahe Island
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9-year-old Pakistani girl becomes youngest to scale 5,000m peak in Hunza

Photo: Selena Khawaja A nine-year-old Pakistani girl has become the youngest to scale the 5,765-metre-high Quz Sar Peak in Shimshal Valley, Hunza. Hailing from Abbottabad, Selena Khawaja in her first detailed interview told Gulf News she has a special love for peaks. The nine-year-old said she felt ?great? on reaching the summit on February 21. ?The view from the top of the mountain is very beautiful.? Selena was accompanied by her father Yousaf Khawaja, expedition guide Wazir Baig, porter Ari
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Trump sparks Twitter war with actor Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin (left) and US President Donald Trump. Photos: File  Donald Trump sparked a Twitter war with Alec Baldwin on Friday, reviving his public opprobrium of the actor's critically acclaimed role impersonating the president on hit television show "Saturday Night Live." If Baldwin started the row by telling The Hollywood Reporter in an interview that it was "agony" to play the 71-year-old commander-in-chief, regardless of picking up an Emmy award for his efforts, Trump hit back in good meas
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This Huawei smartphone can drive a car

Photo: CNet  Data and technology are changing the world at a fast pace and it seems soon we may able to drive our cars through smartphones. As the driverless car industry continues to grow, Chinese smartphone giant Huawei conducted an experiment that turned the Porsche Panerma into a car that drives itself. Huawei's Mate 10 Pro smartphone was installed into the car as part of the experiment set up to display the processing prowess of the flagship phone's Kirin 970 chip, which features an artif
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1.5 million penguins discovered on remote Antarctic islands

In the west Antarctic, Adelie penguins are in decline due to sea ice melt blamed on global warming. Photo: AFP 1 A thriving "hotspot" of 1.5 million Adelie penguins, a species fast declining in parts of the world, has been discovered on remote islands off the Antarctic Peninsula, surprised scientists said Friday. The first bird census of the Danger Islands unearthed over 750,000 Adelie breeding pairs, more than the rest of the area combined, the team reported in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Teacher tried to create 'army of children' to launch terror attacks in London

Umar Ahmed Haque is seen in this undated custody photograph received via the Metropolitan Police, in London, Britain on March 2, 2018. Photo: Metropolitan Police/Handout via Reuters LONDON: A British supporter of Daesh was found guilty on Friday of trying to recruit children he was teaching into an?army? of jihadists to help carry out a wave of attacks across London. Umar Haque, 25, showed the children beheading videos and other violent militant propaganda, forced them to re-enact deadly attac
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Storm lashing US Northeast kills at least five

Photo: Reuters A powerful storm lashing the northeastern United States on Friday killed at least five people as winds topping 129 km per hour helped flood streets in Boston, ground flights and halt train service across the region. Almost 1.7 million homes and businesses were without power in the Northeast and Midwest as the storm pummeled the East Coast from Virginia to Maine. Government offices in Washington closed as winds gusted to more than 96 kph in the US capital. A flood surge at extrem
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Senate elections: Voting under way across country

geo_embedgallery ISLAMABAD: Polling for the Senate elections went under way at 9am across the four provincial assemblies and National Assembly and is expected to conclude without a break at 4pm today.  Candidates are contesting 52 Senate seats from the provinces, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the federal capit
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Polling for Senate elections under way across country

The voting for the senators from FATA and Islamabad is taking place at Parliament House. Photo: File ISLAMABAD: Polling for the Senate elections went under way at 9am across the four provincial assemblies and National Assembly and is expected to conclude without a break at 4pm.  A total of 131 candidates are contesting 52 Senate seats from the provinces, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the federal capital. Rangers and Frontier Constabulary personnel have been deployed outsi
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25 dead in Azerbaijan drug rehab centre fire

A fire truck pulls out from the territory of a drug abuse treatment centre that caught fire in Baku, Azerbaijan, March 2, 2018. REUTERS/Aziz Karimov  BAKU: Twenty-five people perished in a fire which tore through a drug rehabilitation clinic in the Azerbaijani capital Baku early Friday, with activists saying safety standards had not been met. Video footage broadcast on local television showed huge flames leaping through barred windows of a one-storey wooden hospital ward. It took some three
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Aly Raisman sues US Olympic Committee over Nassar sex abuse

Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman, a survivor, appears before speaking at the sentencing hearing for Larry Nassar ? a former team USA Gymnastics doctor who pleaded guilty in November 2017 to sexual assault charges ? in Lansing, Michigan, US, January 19, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Files  US gymnast Aly Raisman has sued the US Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics over decades of sexual abuse by former national team doctor Larry Nassar, saying they put ?money and medals? before the safety of a
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Wall Street falls, on track for weekly losses on trade war fears

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Files  The Dow and S&P 500 fell on Friday and were on track for weekly losses as investor anxiety built over a possible global trade war following US President Donald Trump?s threat to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminium. Europe has drawn up a list of US products from bourbon to Harley Davidson motorbikes on which to apply tariffs if Trump carries out his pl
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Kenyan doctor performs brain surgery on wrong patient

Photo: AFP NAIROBI: A neurosurgeon at Kenya's largest hospital has been suspended after performing brain surgery on the wrong patient, the hospital said in a statement on Friday. The scandal, which prompted an outpouring of horror on social media, is the latest drama to hit the Kenyatta National Hospital in recent weeks, after allegations of staff sexually assaulting patients, and the theft of a baby. The hospital said the surgeon, as well as two nurses and an anaesthetist, had been suspended
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Women looking for Oscar love in best picture cliffhanger

(L-R) Laurie Metcalf, Greta Gerwig, and Saoirse Ronan pose backstage at the 75th Golden Globe Awards Photo Room in Beverly Hills, California, US, January 7, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/Files  LOS ANGELES: Women are hoping for some long overdue love at the Academy Awards on Sunday, where the biggest prize in the movie industry is wide open after an awards season dominated by Hollywood?s sexual misconduct scandal. Romantic fantasy The Shape of Water ? Fox Searchlight?s tale of a mute cleaning
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Injured Nadal withdraws from Indian Wells, Miami

LOS ANGELES: World number two Rafael Nadal announced his withdrawal from this month's ATP Masters events in Miami and Indian Wells on Friday, citing a leg injury that forced him to pull out the Mexican Open. Nadal said in a statement on Facebook the injury, which flared in Acapulco this week, was in the same area as the hip problem that led to his exit from the Australian Open in January. "I won't be able to play in Miami or Indian Wells as I need to recover," Nadal said. "It was very painfu
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Kenyan doctor performs brain surgery on wrong patient

The scandal, which prompted an outpouring of horror on social media, is the latest drama to hit the Kenyatta National Hospital in recent weeks, after allegations of staff sexually assaulting patients, and the theft of a baby-Photo: File NAIROBI: A neurosurgeon at Kenya´s largest hospital has been suspended after performing brain surgery on the wrong patient, the hospital said in a statement on Friday. The scandal, which prompted an outpouring of horror on social media, is the latest drama to h
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Facebook ends six-country test that split News Feed in two

The social media network decided to end the test and maintain one feed because people told the company in surveys they did not like the change-Reuters SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc on Thursday put an end to a test of splitting its signature News Feed into two, an idea that roiled how people consumed news in the six countries where it occurred and added to concern about Facebook?s power. The test created two streaming series of posts. One was focused on photos and other updates from friends and fa
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Mali militants release video of French hostage

ABIDJAN: An al Qaeda affiliate based in Mali has released a video of French aid worker Sophie Petronin, who was kidnapped in late 2016. Petronin ran a charity for malnourished and orphan children and had lived in the city of Gao, in Mali?s volatile northeast, for 15 years when she was snatched and driven away in a pickup truck. The propaganda video was released late on Thursday by Jama?a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), which has been linked to the kidnapping of at least six Western hos
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Nisar assures PM Abbasi of supporting PML-N in Senate polls

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/450bb4fd6a10f71c272abf8a1be4e62d.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9My8yLzIwMTggMzozNzozNiBQTSZoYXNoX3ZhbHVlPUtsNWJLYktLNnltbHVHV2NONDZCMnc9PSZ2YWxpZG1pbnV0ZXM9NjAmaWQ9MQ== style=center] ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar assured Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday that he will support the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in the Senate polls on Saturday. The premier met
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Shots reportedly fired at US university, suspect at large

File photo. CHICAGO: Shots have reportedly been fired on campus at a university in the US state of Michigan and the suspect is still at large, the school said Friday. "There has been a report of shots fired at Campbell Hall on campus. The suspect is still at large, police advise all to take shelter," Central Michigan University said in an alert on its website and on Twitter. City officials in Mount Pleasant, where the campus is located, said the suspect was a black male and considered "armed
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NATO condemns 'threatening' Russia after weapons show

BRUSSELS: NATO said Friday that Russian threats to its members were "unacceptable and counterproductive" after President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new arsenal of hypersonic weapons billed as "invincible". With ties between Russia and the West at post-Cold War lows over the Syria and Ukraine conflicts, Putin stoked fears of a new arms race with the announcement on Thursday of high-tech weaponry that can travel at many times the speed of sound. Putin's presentation during a state of the nation
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Another PML-N MNA leaves party to join PTI

FAISALABAD: The ongoing streak of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz lawmakers leaving the party continued, as another party MNA jumped ship on Friday to join the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. The lawmaker in question this time is Dr Nisar Jatt from Faisalabad, who met with the PTI chairman today. According to the PTI press release, during the meeting between the two, party?s former general secretary Jahangir Tareen was also present. Dr Nisar Jatt announced to join the PTI along with his
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PML-N split between those wanting conflict and those against it: Qureshi

?Time will tell which school of thought will win,? he said while addressing a press conference here-Photo: File MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Friday that the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is divided between those who want conflict between institutions and those who want to avoid it. ?Time will tell which school of thought will win,? he said while addressing a press conference here. The PTI leader's comments come in response to repeated stateme
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