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Lebanon speaker rejects US proposal on disputed waters with Israel

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Beirut, Lebanon February 15, 2018. REUTERS  BEIRUT: Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told a US envoy on Friday that Lebanon rejects current proposals over the disputed marine borders with Israel, state media said. US diplomats have been mediating between Lebanon and Israel over tensions including an Israeli border wall and Lebanon?s decision to begin exploring for offshore energy near a disputed p
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37th CAS Open Golf Championship enters third day

Matloob Ahmed took the lead in second round of professionals  KARACHI: Matloob Ahmed took the lead in second round of professionals with a gross score of 140 (04 under-par) in on the third day of the 37th CAS Open Golf Championship 2018. Muhammad Shabbir and Shahid Javed Khan were left behind with gross score of 141 (03 under-par) while Muhammad Alam, Waheed Baloch and Talat Ejaz remained third with gross score of 143 (01 under-par). Zulfiqar Ali surprised everybody with the score of five unde
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Imran approves committee to review party constitution

Imran on the occasion said that PTI is a truly democratic political party and continuous efforts are being made to turn the party into an institution-Photo:File ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in a meeting on Friday approved a committee to review the party constitution in detail and suggest amendments to it. The committee comprises senior PTI leaders, including Babar Awan, Azhar Tariq, Arif Alvi, Amir Mehmood Kiani and Shahid Naseem Gondal. Imran on the occasion a
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Sattar offers olive branch to Bahadurabad group over Senate nominations

KARACHI: Following days of uncertainty within MQM-P ranks, party leader Farooq Sattar on Friday offered an olive branch to the party's Bahadurabad group to end the current impasse over the issue of Senate tickets.  "After days of consultations, we have decided to offer those in Bahadurabad that they can submit their four names for Senate nominations and we will accept those," said the party leader. He further said that he was willing to take four names for Senate from the opposing group and w
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Turkey, US to 'work together' in Syria after crisis

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Shake hands during a joint press conference  ANKARA: Turkey and United States on Friday agreed to work together in Syria after weeks of tensions over Ankara's latest cross-border operation that raised fears of a military confrontation between the two NATO allies. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu said after talks in Ankara that the two sides would set up working gro
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Nawaz postpones London visit after court denies exemption request: sources

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/727db8a4dfd6e66ed8b99ed7cd762cd7.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Mi8xNi8yMDE4IDEyOjQzOjUyIFBNJmhhc2hfdmFsdWU9RHpQUnE1MWJlL2lmdnVzVlNwU010QT09JnZhbGlkbWludXRlcz02MCZpZD0x style=center] ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif has postponed his visit to London to
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PML-N took advantage of Ayesha Gulalai after Panama verdict: Fawad Chaudhry

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Spokesman Fawad Chaudhry said on Friday that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz took advantage of former party member and MNA Ayesha Gulalai after the Panama case verdict on July 28, disqualifying former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. The PTI spokesman said that it seems that the PML-N did not fulfill its promises made to Ayesha Gulalai. Chaudhry further claimed that running a defamation campaign against political opponents is PML-N's patent move. The ruling party
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Grief and anger as Florida prepares to bury victims of school massacre

People attend a candlelight vigil the day after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, February 15, 2018. Photo: Reuters   FLORIDA: As families prepared on Friday to bury victims of another US mass shooting, grief mixed with anger amid signs of possible lapses in school security and indications that law enforcement may have missed clues about the suspected gunman?s plans. One distraught mother who said she had just spent two hours making funeral preparations f
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Billions spent for security at protests in Islamabad during last 5 years

Protesters during November 2017 demonstration. Photo: AFP/File  ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry submitted details regarding expenditure on security for protests, sit-ins and rallies in the federal capital during the past five years, showing the most was spent on PTI?s sit-in of 2014. During a Senate session headed by Senator Tahir Hussain Mashhadi on Friday, the interior ministry submitted its written response stating Rs755.9 million were spent on security arrangements during Pakistan Tehree
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Walmart in talks to buy more than 40 per cent of India's Flipkart: sources

A Walmart store in Mexico in Feb 2018. Photo: Reuters  MUMBAI: Walmart Inc is in talks to purchase a stake of more than 40 per cent in Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart, a direct challenge to Amazon.com Inc in Asia?s third-largest economy, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. In what would be one of its biggest overseas deals, the US retailer is looking at buying new and existing shares in Flipkart and due diligence is likely to begin as early as next week, the sources said. They
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Nawaz Sharif real owner of assets in children's names: NAB

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/ba549c7a604f1f51668ad3c09841db12.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Mi8xNi8yMDE4IDk6MzY6MjYgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT0wMFUzQlZyTlhVWm1EMVN4d2FTMlBnPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has said that former prime minister Nawa
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Guptill smashes ton as New Zealand set gigantic T20 total

Martin Guptill reached his second T20I hundred, New Zealand v Australia, Trans-Tasman T20 tri-series, Auckland, February 16, 2018/AFP AUCKLAND: Century-maker Martin Guptill became the highest-scoring player in Twenty20 international history as New Zealand pummelled Australia´s attack to set a 244-run target in the fifth match of the T20 tri-series on Friday. Guptill plundered nine sixes and six fours to score 105 off 54 balls as New Zealand finished on 243 for six after winning the toss and el
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Saudi troop deployment: Senate chairman summons defence minister

A joint military exercise by Pakistani and Saudi troops in Riyadh. Photo: File  ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani has summoned Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir to appear before the Upper House of Parliament on Monday with regards to the army?s announcement of sending troops to Saudi Arabia. Speaking in the Senate today, Pakistan Peoples? Party Senator Farhatullah Babar said the army?s media wing, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), has said the troops? contingent will be less that a d
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Okara man charged with sexually abusing children to appear before court

OKARA: A man in Okara charged with sexually abusing and filming schoolchildren will be presented before a court here today. The suspect, Yousuf, used to sexually abuse and film schoolchildren and blackmail them, police said earlier this week. A lineman working for the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO), Yousuf confessed to abusing students enrolled in a school he had established in Mehrok Kalan, which was run by his sister. Suspect Yousuf  He was charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act
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KP Assembly to discuss question on Billion Tree Tsunami project

PESHAWAR: The question over Billion Tree Tsunami project raised by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MPA Sobia Shahid has been added to the assembly agenda for Friday. According to documents, Shahid had sought details from the KP government over trees planted under the project, to which the latter had responded. The answers state that the KP government has ? since 2014 ? planted 8.42 million trees in Kohat Division, 11.6 million in DI Khan Division, 0.46 in Tank district, more than 111.8 million in Malak
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Maryam Nawaz to address social media convention in Mansehra today

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/611a5d77e8cd3bd3ee88d13e488a968b.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Mi8xNi8yMDE4IDc6Mjc6NTAgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1jcnBJOHdVcEw2ZW0vbmhLR2ZtOStRPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] MANSEHRA: Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, will address a s
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Taimur Ali Khan sticking his tongue out at paparazzi will make your day

Taimur Ali Khan is an internet sensation, and why shouldn't he be? Little Taimur Ali Khan has become an internet sensation, and is that even surprising? It?s hard to resist gushing over his cuteness whenever his photos surface online. In his latest cuteness dose, the baby boy of Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan stuck out his tongue at the paparazzi snapping his photos on his day out. And he looked adorable, as always. Photo: India.com The toddler was wearing a bright yellow shirt
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Ugly Models, an agency of extraordinary ?characters?

Models from the "Ugly" agency in London, 1969. Photo: File LONDON: Long necks, large chins, flapping ears, crooked noses: welcome to Ugly Models, a London modelling agency of a different stripe, where imperfections are celebrated. Fashion Week opens in the British capital Friday, and among the legions of models strutting down the catwalk, several will come from Ugly. They make eye-catching additions to the perfectly honed or androgynous models that typically feature at fashion?s annual showcas
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PM's principal secretary appears before NAB Lahore

LAHORE: Prime Minister's Principal Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad has appeared before National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore today and is recording his statement in a corruption probe.  Fawad had been earlier summoned by the bureau on Thursday (yesterday) for his alleged role in illegally awarding the contract for the Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme of the provincial government. A three-member NAB team is questioning the senior bureaucrat at the moment.  According to NAB, the contract for t
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Smashing Pumpkins reunite, minus one, to revisit '90s hits

Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins -- shown here performing at The Beacon Theatre on April 4, 2016 in New York -- is headed back on tour with the band, except for bassist D'arcy Wretzky Alternative rock icons The Smashing Pumpkins on Thursday announced a nostalgia tour of their 1990s albums featuring the band's classic line-up -- with one exception. The Chicago group synonymous with frontman Billy Corgan will play its first full concerts since 2000 with both guitarist James Iha and drummer J
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Borneo orangutans dying off as forests are lost: study

At the current pace, researchers predict that 45,000 more orangutans, slow-breeding ginger-haired apes, will be lost over the next 35 years MIAMI: The population of orangutans in Borneo has plummeted by more than half since 1999 -- nearly 150,000 of the apes -- largely due to chopping down forests for logging, paper, palm oil and mining, researchers said Thursday. Illegal hunting of the critically endangered apes is also a leading factor in their disappearance, said the study published in the j
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No programme, no debate but Putin cruising to poll win

Putin set for historic fourth Kremlin term in next month´s election MOSCOW: Running with a lacklustre slogan, no programme and refusing to debate his opponents, it sometimes seems like Russian President Vladimir Putin is not campaigning for re-election at all. But it is unlikely to matter for the 65-year-old strongman who is cruising towards victory and a historic fourth Kremlin term in next month´s election, with a result that seems so inevitable analysts are calling it a return to the Soviet
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Federer one win from becoming oldest number one

Federer will face Robin Haase in Rotterdam Open quarter-finals on Friday  ROTTERDAM: Roger Federer moved to within one victory of becoming the oldest man to take the world number one ranking on Thursday with a hard-fought 7-6 (10/8), 7-5 victory over Germany´s Philipp Kohlschreiber at the Rotterdam Open. The 36-year-old will now face Robin Haase in the quarter-finals on Friday. "Tonight was complicated, I had to fight and struggle," said Federer. "I had a good game plan going in, but I was ne
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Former student confesses to Florida school shooting

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/f7072551930376a5823318133f56ea0a.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Mi8xNi8yMDE4IDU6MTQ6NDUgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT0xZU1lNHoyeVZJSmxzUGtDNEptZllnPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] PARKLAND: A troubled teen has confessed to gunning down 17 people at his former high school
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?Big opportunity lost?, observes CJP after Rao Anwar?s no-show

Naqeebullah, a 27-year-old native of Waziristan, was picked up by police on Jan 3 and then killed along with three others in a fake encounter on Jan 13 in Karachi. Photo: Facebook   ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar observed on Friday that it seems suspended Malir SSP Rao Anwar has lost a big opportunity by deciding not to appear in court today. He made the remarks while heading a two-member bench that is hearing the suo motu case over Naqeebullah Mehsud?s extrajudi
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