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SC to continue hearing Shahzeb murder case appeal today

Shahzeb Khan/File photo ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will continue hearing the Shahzeb Khan murder case today, which is being re-examined after a civil society petition challenged a Sindh High Court decision ordering a retrial of the case. During Wednesday?s hearing, the apex court questioned how a third party could be allowed to appeal when the parents of 20-year-old Shahzeb, who was shot dead in Karachi in December 2012, or the state, had not appealed against the SHC verdict which set aside t
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Supreme Court to resume hearing Article 62 case today

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will resume hearing case pertaining to Article 62 (1)(f) today. A five-member larger bench, headed by Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, is hearing the case to determine the duration of disqualification of elected officials on violation of Article 62(1)(f) and other related laws. In its previous hearing, the chief justice directed Nawaz's counsel to come prepared on the case next week. Though the over dozen petitioners are lawmakers disqualified for possessing fake degre
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Nintendo to produce Super Mario animation film with Illumination

TOKYO: Japanese videogames maker Nintendo Co Ltd said on Thursday it would team with US film studio Illumination Entertainment to produce an animation film using its Super Mario Bros characters. The film would be distributed by Universal Pictures, President Tatsumi Kimishima said at a meeting with analysts on Thursday. The launch date has not been decided. It is part of Nintendo?s efforts to diversify revenue sources as the firm?s earnings are heavily reliant on the gaming console business.
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Ex-NBA player Rasual Butler dies in car crash

Rasual Butler, a hard-working swingman who carved out a 13-year NBA career, died Wednesday in a car crash/Getty Images LOS ANGELES: Former NBA player Rasual Butler and his wife, Leah LaBelle, were killed in a pre-dawn single vehicle crash in Los Angeles on Wednesday, authorities said. Butler, 38, and the 31-year-old LaBelle both died at the scene after the roll-over accident reported at 2:30 am in the suburb of Studio City, Los Angeles police said. Police said Butler lost control of his Range
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Philippine security forces capture top Maoist guerrilla leader

MANILA: Philippine security forces arrested the head of the communist movement?s armed wing following President Rodrigo Duterte?s order to target guerrilla leaders after peace talks collapsed, police and human rights activists said on Thursday. A police report seen by Reuters said Rafael Baylosis and a companion tried to flee from army and police intelligence agents who were following them but were cornered on Wednesday afternoon in the center of the capital, Manila. The arrests of Baylosis, 6
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Bilawal Bhutto slams hike in petrol prices

Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari slammed the hike in petrol prices and demanded the additional costs be taken back. Photo: file KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari slammed the hike in petrol prices and demanded the additional costs be taken back. In a statement, the PPP chair said that the petrol bomb is being dropped on people as revenge. ?We will not stand for the economic murder of the country,? he said, adding that the economic attack by Pakistan Muslim Lea
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Angelina Jolie urges NATO to tackle sexual violence in war

UNHCR Special Envoy actor Angelina Jolie takes part in a news conference at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, January 31, 2018 BRUSSELS: UN refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie has called on NATO to help stop the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, as the Hollywood star broadened her international efforts to protect women?s rights. Jolie, who earlier this week visited a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, made her appeal to the US-led alliance?s top decision-making body, the
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SC to hear Naqeebullah killing suo motu case shortly

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan will resume hearing the suo motu case on Naqeebullah Mehsud's extrajudicial killing shortly.  Last week, Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar had taken suo motu notice of the controversial police 'encounter' in Karachi by suspended Malir SSP Rao Anwar.  A three-member bench headed by the chief justice and comprising Justices Umar Ata Bandial and Ijazul Ahsan will conduct the proceedings today.  Naqeebullah, a 27-year-old native of Waziristan,
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FBI challenges White House over explosive Russia case memo

The release of the memo could sour relations between the president and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which Trump has repeatedly attacked as biased against him WASHINGTON: The FBI warned Wednesday it has "grave concerns" over the accuracy of a secret Congressional memo that could depict the agency as deeply politicised, as President Donald Trump's top aide signalled the White House would allow the document's release. Based on highly classified information, the four-page memo -- written by
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San Francisco to dismiss thousands of pot convictions

A variety of medicinal marijuana buds in jars are pictured at Los Angeles Patients & Caregivers Group dispensary in West Hollywood, California US, October 18, 2016. Photo: Reuters   Thousands of San Francisco residents convicted of marijuana offences since 1975 will see those convictions dismissed or reduced under an effort announced on Wednesday by the city?s district attorney. California?s Proposition 64, which legalised recreational pot use and possession and reduced criminal penalties,
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Israel rejects UN report on companies linked to settlements

A construction site is seen in the Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev, in the occupied West Bank December 22, 2016/File photo: Reuters  GENEVA: The United Nations human rights office said it had identified 206 companies doing business linked to unlawful Israeli settlements in the West Bank and it urged them to avoid any complicity in ?pervasive? violations against Palestinians. Israel fears that companies listed on any UN ?blacklist? could be targeted for boycotts or divestment aimed at stepping
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Tottenham stun United as Chelsea crash to Bournemouth

Photo: Tottenham Hotspur Twitter  LONDON: Tottenham´s Christian Eriksen scored within 11 seconds on Wednesday to overshadow Alexis Sanchez´s Premier League debut for Manchester United, while Chelsea crashed to a 3-0 defeat by Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge. Manchester City ignored the carnage around them to march serenely on, widening their lead to an enormous 15 points with a 3-0 victory at home to West Brom with just 13 games still to play. The build-up to Wednesday´s matches was dominated
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Apple challenged to show iPhone star shines

With Apple set to report quarterly results Thursday investors and others are cautiously watching to see whether its newest iPhone will help fuel momentum for the world's most valuable company. Photo: file SAN FRANCISCO: With Apple set to report quarterly results Thursday investors and others are cautiously watching to see whether its newest iPhone will help fuel momentum for the world's most valuable company. Despite Apple's spectacular trajectory in the decade since the introduction of the iPh
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Japan fire kills 11 at home for elderly people

A firefighter inspects a facility to support senior people on welfare, where a fire occurred, in Sapporo, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo on February 1, 2018. Photo: Reuters TOKYO: Eleven people died after a fire broke out at a residence for elderly people with financial difficulties in northern Japan, police said on Thursday. Television footage showed the three-storey building engulfed in flames and dozens of firefighters battling the blaze in snowy conditions. Pictures of the aftermath s
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Indian soldier dismissed for complaining of poor food approaches court

A former constable of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF), who had shamed the Modi government by sharing the plight of troops serving at the border in an online video, has moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court, seeking to get his dismissal order revoked. Ex-constable Tej Bahadur, in a video shared on Facebook in January 2017, revealed some bitter truths about the Indian forces, alleging that the higher officials sell off supplies meant for troops, often forcing them to go to bed on empty
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For Saudi tycoons freed from detention, cheers and a business challenge

Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal sits for an interview with Reuters in the office of the suite where he has been detained at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia January 27, 2018. ? Reuters FILE RIYADH: Cheering supporters greeted Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal when he arrived at his skyscraper offices in Riyadh after his release from detention in an anti-corruption crackdown. But he and other tycoons freed from a luxury hotel in the Saudi capital fa
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US puts Hamas chief Haniya on terror blacklist

WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday put the head of Palestinian movement Hamas, Ismail Haniya, on its terror blacklist and slapped sanctions on him -- a move sure to raise tensions, after Washington recognised Jerusalem as Israel?s capital. The 55-year-old Haniya, who was named head of Hamas in May 2017, represents the more pragmatic wing of the movement, which said the US move would not deter the group?s "resistance." "Haniya has close links with Hamas? military wing and has been a pr
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Putin orders alternative Olympic Games for banned athletes

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to organise an alternative competition for Russian athletes banned from the Winter Olympics over a doping scandal, his spokesman said on Wednesday. The Kremlin leader also told athletes who are due to compete in Pyeongchang next month, as independent competitors, that he was sorry officials had failed to protect them from the fallout. "Forgive us for not having been able to shield you from this," Putin said during a reception
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Train carrying US lawmakers hits garbage truck, injuries reported

Scene of incident. -Courtesy Rep. Greg Walden Twitter WASHINGTON: A train carrying Republican US lawmakers to a retreat in West Virginia collided with a garbage truck Wednesday, with some members of Congress saying there were injuries in the accident. "The train carrying GOP members to our retreat had a collision, but Rebecca and I are both okay," congressman Bradley Byrne said on Twitter, referring to his wife. "Security and doctors on board are helping secure the scene and treat injuries."
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SC summons Dr Samar Mubarakmand over non-production of locally-made stents

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan Wednesday took notice of non-production of locally-made coronary stents for cardiac patients in the country, despite issuance of Rs35 million by the government and summoned Pakistani scientist Dr Samar Mubarakmand to appear before the bench. A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar, resumed the hearing of the suo motu case pertaining to unregistered stents in the country. A coronary stent is a tube-shaped device placed in t
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Govt hikes fuel prices; petrol goes up by Rs2.98 per litre

ISLAMABAD: The government revised prices of petroleum products on Wednesday increasing the price of petrol by Rs2.98 per litre. The revised price of petrol would be Rs84.91 per litre. The price of diesel has been increased by Rs5.92, while the price of light diesel has also been increased by Rs5.93. Diesel will now be retailed at Rs95.83 per litre while light diesel will be sold for Rs64.30 per litre.  Kerosene oil witnessed an increase of Rs5.94 per litre and will now be sold for Rs70.26 pe
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South Yemen separatists pin down govt in facto capital

A Yemeni tribesman from the Popular Resistance Committees keeps watch at Nihm district in Yemen´s northeastern province of Marib. -AFP1 ADEN: Yemeni ministers were holed up in Aden's presidential palace on Wednesday after separatist forces seized effective control of the southern port city, dealing another blow to the country´s embattled government. Pro-separatist forces backed by the UAE known as the "security belt" fanned out across the city - the country's de facto capital - after three da
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China urges Trump to drop 'Cold War mentality'

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. -File BEIJING: Beijing criticised the "outdated Cold War mentality" of the United States Wednesday after President Donald Trump named China among threats to American values in his State of the Union address. In recent weeks, US officials have laid the groundwork for a strategic pivot that envisions a world of renewed great power competition with the likes of Russia and China. In his State of the Union address to Congress and the nation on Tuesday, Trump described M
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EU says US needed for Mideast peace but can't do alone

BRUSSELS: EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini urged US reengagement in the Middle East peace process Wednesday after President Donald Trump's controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. "This is a difficult moment," she said after an extraordinary meeting of international donors in Brussels to discuss the Trump administration´s decision to cut aid to the Palestinians. "If I can put it in a headline, nothing without the United States, nothing with the United states alone," s
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Only parliament has authority to amend disqualification law: Aitzaz Ahsan

PPP Senator Aitzaz Ahsan. Photo: Geo News file  ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Aitzaz Ahsan has said that only the parliament has the authority to amend legislature pertaining to the lifetime disqualification of lawmakers ?Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz's (PML-N) Maryam group wants to pressure the court to the extent that it receives a verdict in its favour,? he said while talking to the media in Islamabad on Wednesday. He was referring to the political turmoil within the part
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