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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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Ittefaq remake: Sidharth, Sonakshi accused of crime they didn?t commit

Sidhart Malhotra, Sonakshi Sinha, and Akshaye Khanna appearing in posters of the movie. 1 A remake for Rajesh Khanna's Ittefaq is in the works. The film, which will be co-produced by Shah Rukh Khan and Karan Johar, will be directed by Abhay Chopra, according to Indian Express. Shah Rukh Khan was expected to star in the film but backed out due to unavailable dates. "I wanted to do the film. I really wanted to do it when I heard the script. But I was doing other films. So, I couldn?t. But the
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Prankster hands British PM unemployment notice

MANCHESTER: British Prime Minister Theresa May´s speech at her Conservative Party´s annual conference on Wednesday was interrupted by a serial prankster handing her an unemployment notice -- and then by her own repeated coughing. Comedian Lee Nelson, whose real name is Simon Brodkin, walked up to the stage and gave May the form, known in Britain by its reference code P45. He claimed Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who has clashed with May over Brexit, told him to do it. "Boris said in one o
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Donors flock to blood banks in Vegas after shooting

LAS VEGAS: As more than 500 wounded flooded the hospitals of Las Vegas after the worst mass shooting in modern US history, electronic billboard advertisements urged people to give blood. The response from the community has been overwhelming, with long queues of donors snaking out the doors ? sustained with offerings of pizza and cookies. "Donors came after two in the morning when they received the news. The flow did not stop well until the evening," said Mitzy Edgecomb of United Blood Service
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Mexico says last body found in rubble after quake

MEXICO CITY: Emergency workers pulled the last victim?s body Wednesday from the rubble of Mexico?s September 19 earthquake, officials said, as the country turned to rebuilding after a disaster that claimed more than 360 lives. After 15 days of searching, workers found the final victim?s body beneath the mountain of rubble left by the collapse of a seven-story office building in Mexico City?s hard-hit Roma district, tweeted the interior ministry official overseeing the effort, Deputy Secretary f
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5 militants apprehended in Balochistan: ISPR

RAWALPINDI: Five militants were apprehended while six hideouts destroyed across Balochistan, according to the Inter Services Public Relations. FC Balochistan carried out the action under Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad in different areas of the province, cinluding Kahan, Loralai and Kuchlak, ISPR stated. Weapons were also recovered from the arrested militants, according to the army.  
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Dubai PE firm Abraaj invests in Pakistani cinema operator Cinepax

KARACHI Dubai-based private equity firm Abraaj Group said on Wednesday it made an investment in Pakistan?s top cinema operator, Cinepax, to drive expansion over the next four years. Abraaj will help Cinepax in developing 80 new screens across multiple locations, the private equity firm said in a statement. Cinepax will also develop other entertainment-related ventures, the statement said but did not reveal the value of the investment. Cinepax, which launched its first multiplex in 2007, has s
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Trump weighs 'decertifying' Iran nuclear deal

The Trump administration has publicly accused Iran of violating the "spirit" of the accord ? known as the JCPOA ? although some officials privately admit there is a thin line between testing the limits and a material breach. Photo: AFP  WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has railed against a deal to curb Iran´s nuclear program, but officials say that far from scrapping it, he is considering kicking the decision to Congress. Ahead of an October 15 deadline, several officials familiar with White
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Activists condemn craze for wild animal selfies

World Animal Protection said in the report released Tuesday that the animals are captured and often battered to make them perform for tourism businesses. Photo: AFP  BRASILIA: The craze for tourists taking selfies alongside wild animals then posting on Instagram is fueling cruel treatment of iconic species in the Amazon, activists warn. The charity World Animal Protection said in a report that Instagram has seen a 292 percent increase in wildlife selfies since 2014 around the world. Of these,
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Sweden backtracks, grants 106-yr-old Afghan residency

This is a Sunday, September 3, 2017, file photo of Afghan refugee Bibihal Uzbeki 106-year-old as she lies in bed in Hova, Sweden. Photo: AP  STOCKHOLM: Sweden on Wednesday said it had granted temporary residency to a 106-year-old bedridden and nearly blind Afghan woman, reversing an earlier decision to refuse her initial asylum request. "From a humanitarian perspective, it would be shocking to require her to travel to her home country," a migration court in the city of Gothenburg said, overru
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Rangers withdraw from security of parliament: sources

ISLAMABAD: Following the incident outside the accountability court, Rangers have withdrawn from security of Parliament as none of the personnel came to duty during the last two days, sources told Geo News Wednesday. On Monday, Rangers personnel disallowed Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal from entering the accountability court. The minister arrived as the court conducted hearing of three NAB references filed against Nawaz Sharif. The episode irked the minister who said that he would rather resign
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Alphabet´s DeepMind forms ethics unit for artificial intelligence

The announcement by the London-based group acquired by Google parent Alphabet is the latest effort in the tech sector to ease concerns that robotics and artificial intelligence will veer out of human control. Photo: AFP  WASHINGTON: DeepMind, the Google sibling focusing on artificial intelligence, has announced the launch of an "ethics and society" unit to study the impact of new technologies on society. The announcement by the London-based group acquired by Google parent Alphabet is the late
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Prisoners could serve judges their cappuccinos in Italian city

Jailbirds in northern Italy will soon be able to offer judges a sweetener -- though serving up an extra smooth cappuccino is unlikely to be enough to get time off their sentences. The coffee shop in the courthouse of Turin is seeking unusual baristas: prisoners or former prisoners looking for a way to pay their debt to society or start afresh. The city council signed off Wednesday on the plan for the cafe, which serves some 900 court employees as well as hundreds of magistrates, lawyers and me
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'Battle of the sexes': Saudi men react to women driving

A woman behind the wheel in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah on September 27, 2017. Photo: AFP  With many carrots and some sticks, ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia seeks to tackle entrenched male attitudes towards women drivers before millions take the wheel, many for the first time, next June. For decades, hardliners cited austere Islamic interpretations to justify the ban on women, with some maintaining that they lacked the intelligence to drive and allowing them to do so would promote promis
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Pakistan to launch remote sensing satellite in March 2018: official

KARACHI: Pakistan will launch its first optical remote sensing satellite into space in March 2018, a member of Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) said Wednesday. Suparco, the national space agency, formally kicked of World Space Week activities in 16 cities across country on October 4, which will last until October 10. Speaking on the occasion, Ayaz Aziz, Suparco member Range and Instrumentation, said the country had also sent PakSat-1R into space in 2011. Af
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Halep dumps despairing Sharapova out of Beijing

BEIJING: Maria Sharapova opened up on the despair she feels in defeat after she was ruthlessly knocked out of the China Open in the third round by Romania's Simona Halep on Wednesday. The world number two was an emphatic 6-2, 6-2 winner to leave five-time Grand Slam champion, Sharapova, still searching for her first title since returning from a doping ban in April. It was the 26-year-old Halep's first victory over the Russian in eight meetings. Sharapova, a former number one now at 104 in the
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Sputnik, the tiny sphere that launched the space race

Sputnik 1, first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. Photo: Science Museum, London  KOROLYOV: When the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite 60 years ago, it marked both the beginning of space exploration and the start of a race between Moscow and Washington. Sputnik, the tiny silver sphere with four spider leg-like antennae, showed off Soviet technological prowess. But German scientists -- who had worked on Adolf Hitler´s rocket projects and had b
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Giant python attacks Indonesian man before being eaten

Villagers stand with the python which attacked an Indonesia man nearly severing his arm. Photo: AFP   PEKANBARU: A giant python attacked an Indonesian man, nearly severing his arm, before hungry villagers chopped up the reptile and ate it, a police chief said Wednesday. Security guard Robert Nababan crossed paths with the giant creature while patrolling an oil palm plantation in the remote Batang Gansal subdistrict of Sumatra island on Saturday. "The python was 7.8 metres long (25.6 feet), it
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Bus Kar Do ? Street theatre to raise awareness against death penalty

The play is based on real life stories of prisoners waiting on death row. LAHORE: The unofficial death penalty moratorium that was in place during the last Pakistan People?s Party government was lifted in December 2014. Since then, 477 prisoners have been executed at the astonishing rate of four per week.  Despite data showing that the death penalty does not lead to a decrease in crime, executions continue unabated in Pakistan. To commemorate the World Day Against the Death Penalty, which fal
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Rohingya fleeing Myanmar say army redoubling push to clear villages

SHAH PORIR DWIP: Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh amid a fresh exodus from strife-torn Myanmar have described whole villages being emptied and thousands marching to the border as security forces redouble efforts to drive remaining Muslims from their homes. More than 500,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled ethnic bloodshed in Myanmar in the past month and numbers are again swelling, with Bangladesh reporting 4-5,000 civilians now crossing the border each day after a brief lull in arrivals. An
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Nawaz Sharif to address workers convention in Lahore

LAHORE: PML-N chief and former Nawaz Sharif will address a workers convention in Alhambra Hall.  Nawaz was flanked by senior party leaders including, Shehbaz Sharif, Pervaiz Rashid, Saad Rafique and Asif Kirmani.  Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the party's victory in the recently held NA-120 by-polls was a historic win for the PML-N government. He also said the government of Nawaz Sharif was responsible for bringing the crippling energy crisis in the country under control. The younger S
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ECB exploring use of ?giant tents? to end rain delays

The umbrellas were up as rain interrupted England v West Indies, 2nd ODI, Trent Bridge, September 21, 2017/Getty Images LONDON: English cricket chiefs are exploring deploying "giant tents" to ensure rain no longer stops play, a report said on Wednesday. Britain´s Daily Telegraph newspaper said research was being carried out into placing mesh netting over grounds after a US company approached the England and Wales Cricket Board. The ECB has spoken to the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which own
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Dubochet, Frank, Henderson win 2017 Nobel Chemistry Prize

The names of Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson are displayed on the screen during the announcement of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 4, 2017. TT News Agency/Claudio Bresciani via REUTERS STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy which simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules, the award-giving bo
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Dar to be behind bars in three months, says Fawad Chaudhry

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) representative Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday claimed that Finance Minister Ishaq Dar will be behind bars within three months. Speaking outside Supreme Court, Chaudhry said that the finance minister should immediately resign taking in consideration economic instability in the country due to the graft cases he is facing.?Take a look at Pakistan Stock Exchange. Where is the country?s economy heading,? he added. The PTI spokesperson said that Prime Minister
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Sheikh Rasheed challenges Electoral Reforms Act in SC

ISLAMABAD: Awami Muslim League leader Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed announced on Wednesday that he has filed a writ petition against the passage of Electoral Reforms Bill 2017, paving way for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to regain chairmanship of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. Speaking at a press conference outside the Supreme Court, he said that the Act is a violation of Article 62,63; and it was based on mala fide intentions. ?There is no precedent of such bills. It is clear the gove
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Leaked photos show deadly rifles, ammo, cameras in Vegas shooter?s room

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock. Photo: Eric Paddock/WOFL LAS VEGAS: Photographs leaked Tuesday from the hotel room of the Las Vegas shooter showed scope-mounted assault rifles, a floor covered with expended shells and what appears to be a note left on a table. Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said that Stephen Paddock, the man who murdered 59 people from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, also had cameras in his room, including one apparently monitoring the corridor approach. Lombar
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