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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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Miftah Ismail appointed PM?s adviser on finance

Miftah Ismail/File photo ISLAMABAD: The government has appointed Miftah Ismail as Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs, with the status of Federal Minister with immediate effect, a notification issued by the Cabinet Division said on Tuesday. President Mamnoon Hussain made the appointment in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 96 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and on the advice of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
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PM to inaugurate Burhan-Shah Maqsood Interchange today

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will inaugurate Burhan-Shah Maqsood section of Hazara Motorway on December 27, 2018. Photo: file  ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will inaugurate Burhan-Shah Maqsood section of Hazara Motorway today (Wednesday). The 47-kilometre segment, which is an important section of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, has been completed in less than three years. This is the second motorway project in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa after M-I. The six-lane Hazara Motor
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Zardari to attend PAT?s all parties conference, PPP decides in CEC

Pakistan Peoples' Party leader Asif Ali Zardari. Photo: Geo News ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples' Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari will attend the all parties? conference of Dr Tahir ul Qadri-led Pakistan Awami Tehreek, the party decided in its central executive committee meeting on December 26. Zardari is expected to meet the PAT leader at his Model Town residence in Lahore on December 29 (Friday), sources with the PPP informed Geo News. Opposition Leader Khurshid Shah, Qamar Zaman Kaira and
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Gas shutdown in parts of Lahore on Dec 28

LAHORE: Gas supply to parts of the city will remain shut on Thursday, December 28, the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has informed its customers. According to the SNGPL Lahore division, the gas supply will be closed for 24 hours, from 1am on December 28 to 1am on December 29, owing to the ongoing construction work on Orange Line Metro Train project. The areas which will be impacted by the shutdown include Mayo Hospital, Ganga Ram Hospital, Gawalmandi, Abbott Road, Diyal Singh Man
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India to overtake UK, France economies in 2018

India's ascent is part of a trend that will see Asian economies increasingly dominate the top. Photo: Reuters LONDON: India looks set to leapfrog Britain and France next year to become the world?s fifth-largest economy in dollar terms, a report showed on Tuesday. The Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) consultancy?s 2018 World Economic League Table painted an upbeat view of the global economy, boosted by cheap energy and technology prices. India?s ascent is part of a trend that
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Apple faces lawsuits after saying it slows down aging iPhones

A salesman checks a customer's iPhone at a mobile phone store in New Delhi, India, July 27, 2016. Photo: REUTERS/File  SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc defrauded iPhone users by slowing devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance, according to eight lawsuits filed in various federal courts in the week since the company opened up about the year-old software change. The tweak may have led iPhone owners to misguided attempts to resolve issues over the last year, the lawsuits conte
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Turning e-waste into art at Ghana's toxic dump

Ghanaian artist Joseph Awuah-Darko poses as Agbogbloshie electronical waste dumpsite in Accra on November 29, 2017. Joseph is the founder of Agbogblo.Shine Initiative, an organisation that advocates the use of design thinking to galvanize social change in Agbogbloshie to stop climate change. Photo: AFP 1 ACCRA: Joseph Awuah-Darko sits on a stool at one of the world's largest electronic waste dumps, watching polystyrene and insulation cables burn on the blackened ground. "It´s survival and dyst
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UK to ease visa rules for international students

The new rules are set to apply from January 11 The UK government has decided to ease rules for international students looking to switch over to work visas, with new immigration rules set to be introduced from January 11. As per the new rules, international students can switch over to Tier-2 visa (or skilled worker visa) as soon as they complete their course. Currently, they must wait until they obtain a degree to apply for the Tier-2 visa, which gave them only a small time frame to find a job w
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Saudi Arabia releases corruption detainees, others to stand trial

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman/File photo RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has released 23 of the 200-or-so powerful individuals detained since November on corruption charges after they reached deals with the government, Okaz newspaper reported on Tuesday. The report did not name those involved in what appeared to be the first large-scale release since the royals, business people and government officials were detained in a crackdown spearheaded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The suspects hav
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WATCH: Shah Rukh Khan dances to ?Chaiyya Chaiyya? with Kohli

Shah Rukh Khan poses with the couple Newly-weds Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma held a grand reception in Mumbai on Tuesday, which brought together the Bollywood and cricket bigwigs under the same roof. Among the many memorable moments from the evening, Shah Rukh Khan?s dance moves to the classic ?Chaiyya Chaiyya? with Kohli won over the internet, as well as our hearts. SRK?s grooving with the Indian skipper clearly stole the limelight. Another video of the Bollywood actor greeti
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Benazir?s death anniversary: Bilawal to address rally in Garhi Khuda Bux today

PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari will address the rally. Photo: file  GARHI KHUDA BUX: To observe the 10th death anniversary of slain Pakistan Peoples Party Leader Benazir Bhutto, the party will hold a rally at Garhi Khuda Bux today (Wednesday). PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari will address the rally, which is expected to be attended by more than a million party supporters and workers. The preparations for th
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US sanctions North Korean missile experts, Russia offers to mediate

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW: The United States announced sanctions on two North Korean officials behind their country?s ballistic missile program on Tuesday, while Russia reiterated an offer to mediate to ease tensions between Washington and Pyongyang. The new US steps were the latest in a campaign aimed at forcing North Korea ? which has defied years of multilateral and bilateral sanctions ? to abandon a weapons program aimed at developing nuclear-tipped missiles capable of hitting the United States.
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'Cut'alonia: satirical petition demands another piece of Spain

MADRID: A satirical petition proposing that Tabarnia, a non-existent part of independence-minded Catalonia, break away from the region and remain part of Spain went viral on Tuesday. The Change.org petition, which has gathered over 21,000 signatures in just three days, was a trending topic on Twitter with over 150,000 users of the social media platform discussing it, including Catalan politicians. Its backers mirror the language of Catalan separatists to argue that Tabarnia ? a word formed f
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Djokovic determined to learn from injury misery

Serbia's Novak Djokovic in action during his fourth round match against Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas in the French Open, Roland Garros, Paris, France, June 4, 2017. Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes/Files  ABU DHABI: Former world number one Novak Djokovic admitted Tuesday his six-month absence from tennis has taught him never to take his career for granted, describing his injury agony as a "roller-coaster ride". The 30-year-old Serb has not played since Wimbledon in July when a long-standing elbow inju
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Spain pulls police reinforcements from Catalonia

Spanish police scuffle with people outside a polling station for the banned independence referendum in Tarragona, Spain, October 1, 2017. REUTERS/David Gonzalez/Files MADRID: Spain on Tuesday began to pull the police reinforcements it had sent to Catalonia ahead of a contested independence referendum in the region on October 1, the government said. Officers from Spain's National Police and Guardia Civil forces sent to the northeastern region at the end of September "will be gradually withdrawn
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Libya pipeline blast to cause drop in production: NOC

Image Courtesy: eNCA TRIPOLI: An explosion on a pipeline carrying crude oil from Libya's south to a port terminal in its north Tuesday will slash production, the National Oil Company said. "NOC continues to investigate the causes of the explosion" north of the town of Marada, it said in a statement. The company said it expected production to drop by between 70,000 and 100,000 barrels per day (BPD) after the blast along the pipeline from Zaggut to the eastern port of Al-Sidra, one of the North
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Syrian refugees in Lebanon drop below one million: UN

Syrian refugee children pose as they play near their families? residence at Al Zaatari refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan, near the border with Syria, January 30, 2016. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed/Files  BEIRUT: The number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon has dropped to below one million for the first time since 2014, the United Nations told AFP on Tuesday. As of the end of November, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) counted 997,905 Syrian refugees ? a vast majority of them women and children ? re
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France to probe Lactalis baby milk salmonella scare

Dairy group Lactalis' logo is seen at the food exhibition Sial in Villepinte, near Paris, France, October 17, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/Files PARIS: French prosecutors have opened a probe into salmonella contamination and a major international recall of baby milk produced by dairy giant Lactalis, a legal source told AFP on Tuesday. The investigation will focus on possible charges of causing involuntary injuries and endangering the lives of others but also possible cheating and failures in
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255 migrants rescued in Mediterranean: Italian coastguard

Migrants rescued by "Save the Children" NGO crew approach the ship Vos Hestia in the Mediterranean sea off Libya coast, June 18, 2017. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/Files ROME: Some 255 migrants were rescued overnight in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya, just before a front of bad weather hit the area, the Italian coastguard said Tuesday. The non-governmental organisation Proactiva Open Arms picked up a rubber dinghy carrying 134 people, including seven children, on Monday night. They w
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Two labourers, while digging, die during water line construction in Karachi

File Photo KARACHI: Two labourers died when they fell into a ditch Tuesday night and got buried under dug-up soil here in the metropolis' Bhains Colony No. 11.5 locale, police officials said. The law enforcement agencies explained that the two victims were engaged in digging up land so that a water pipeline could be installed. Drug den raid LEAs raided late last night a drug den in Karachi's Sharafi Goth area, Rao Anwar ? the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) for Malir ? stated, adding th
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Bitcoin recovers some losses after its worst week since 2013

Small toy figures are seen on representations of the Bitcoin virtual currency in this illustration picture, December 26, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration SINGAPORE/TOKYO/NEW YORK: Bitcoin rose 15 percent on Tuesday, recouping about half of the losses it sustained last week, its worst since 2013, as investors ? who had missed out on earlier rallies ? bought the world?s biggest and best-known digital currency. While bitcoin investors and analysts believe last week?s decline in its value was
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NY jury acquits former Peru soccer boss in FIFA trial

Former president of Peruvian Football Federation Manuel Burga ? one of three defendants in the FIFA corruption trial ? walks outside the United States Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York, US, December 26, 2017. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz NEW YORK: A US jury acquitted a "thrilled" Peruvian former soccer boss at the FIFA corruption trial on Tuesday, allowing him to jet home while two convicted co-defendants await sentencing from behind bars. The panel cleared 60-year-old Manuel Burga ? a former head
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Oil soars, US crude hits $60/bbl for first time since mid-2015

ExxonMobil?s Hebron oil platform off the coast of Canada?s Newfoundland & Labrador, June 13, 2017. Courtesy ExxonMobil Canada/Handout via REUTERS/Files  NEW YORK: Oil prices surged to 2-1/2-year highs and US crude touched $60 a barrel in light trading volume on Tuesday, boosted by news of an explosion on a Libyan crude pipeline as well as voluntary supply cuts led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Armed assailants blew up a pipeline pumping crude oil to the
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Apple and its suppliers weigh on Wall Street

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, December 1, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Files  NEW YORK: US stocks declined on Tuesday as Apple and some of its suppliers weighed on the technology sector on a report of soft iPhone X demand. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 7.78 points (0.03 percent) to 24,746.28, the S&P 500 lost 2.87 points (0.11 percent) to 2,680.47, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 23.71 points (0.34 percent) to 6,936.25.
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