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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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PTI leaders criticise interior minister's 'helplessness'

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry has expressed satisfaction with the way things are proceeding in the accountability court hearing corruption cases against the Sharif family.  Speaking to Geo News on Monday after Nawaz's hearing, he said he wonders whether the interior minister is a police officer that he went to the court today. Similarly, PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the interior minister should not threaten to resign and instead just resign. PTI?s Babar Awan sa
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KKF money laundering case: FIA registers case against MQM founder

KARACHI: Federal Investigative Agency on Monday registered a case against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder on charges of money laundering, sources informed Geo News. The case has been filed at the department's state bank circle by former MQM member Sarfraz Merchant. He alleged that the party leaders used to send money to founder MQM from bank accounts of Khildmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF) through Hawala channel. Sources have informed that along with violation of bank laws, anti-terrorism
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Two women plead not guilty to killing North Korean leader's half-brother

FILE PHOTO: Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong (L) and Indonesian Siti Aishah are seen in this combination picture from undated handouts released by the Royal Malaysia Police to Reuters on February 19, 2017. Royal Malaysia Police/Handout via Reuters KUALA LUMPUR: Two women accused of assassinating the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with a banned nerve agent pleaded not guilty at the start of a high-profile murder trial in a Malaysian court on Monday. Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25
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PML-N amends party constitution, allows disqualified member to lead party

PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif. Photo: Geo News ISLAMABAD: The central working committee (CWC) of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Monday approved an amendment in party?s constitution, allowing disqualified member parliament to lead the party. In its meeting headed by the party?s interim president Sardar Yaqub Nasir at Punjab House, the CWC unanimously accepted the amendment. The PML-N members also endorsed a resolution forwarded by Climate Change Minister Senator Mushahidullah Khan. The party lea
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Khawaja Asif expected to meet Tillerson in Washington this week

Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif/File photo ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif is set to leave for United States this week, where he is expected to meet US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to resume bilateral talks and work out ways to dispel tensions that cropped up after US President Donald Trump's August 21 speech. In the first high-profile meeting between US and Pakistan since Trump?s speech, US Vice President Mike Pence had recently met Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and suggested
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Sikh politician becomes leader of Canada's third biggest political party

Jagmeet Singh celebrates with supporters after his first-ballot triumph in the contest for leader of the leftist New Democrat party in Toronto on Sunday. ?AP photo OTTAWA: Jagmeet Singh was named leader of Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP) on Sunday, the country's third biggest political force after Justin Trudeau's Liberals and the Conservatives. Singh, 38, won almost 54 percent of votes in the first round of voting against three other candidates. He will replace charismatic Thomas Mulcair
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Two dead, 24 wounded by gunfire in Las Vegas, says hospital

Las Vegas/File photo At least two people died early on Monday and 24 were hospitalised with suspected gunshots wounds in Las Vegas, a local hospital spokesman said, as police investigated reports of an active shooter in the city. The reports emanated from the Mandalay Bay Casino on the city´s famous strip. One Twitter user posted that the hotel was on lockdown, while another, citing police scanners, said two gunmen who had shot at a bodyguard and police were on the 32nd floor of the hotel. Wi
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Abbas strikes early as Pakistan inch closer to victory

Mohammad Abbas/File photo ABU DHABI: Pacer Mohammad Abbas struck early to take Pakistan within sight of victory on the final day of the first Test against Sri Lanka on Monday. Abbas dismissed Mendis and Lakmal within the opening hour of the morning session, getting the former trapped LBW for 18 and the latter caught in the deep for 13, reducing Sri Lanka to 86-6 who led by 83 runs. On Sunday, leg-spinner Yasir Shah grabbed the key wicket of Dinesh Chandimal to leave Sri Lanka fighting to avoi
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Bomb blast in Swat kills peace committee member's father

Bo,b blast in Swat. Photo: File SWAT: A man was killed and two others injured in a remote-controlled blast in Swat valley on Monday, said Police. The law enforcement personnel informed that the blast targeted an Amn Council member Ahmed Zeb in the Ghat area of Malam Jabba. Zeb was targeted when he was in his car with his father and two other people on route to Mingora from his home. Zeb's father was killed and the two others were seriously wounded from the attack, local police officials said.
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On eve of Gaza reconciliation, Hamas frees Fatah men

A member of Fatah movement is hugged and kissed upon his release from a Hamas-run jail as part of reconciliation efforts, in Gaza City. Photo: Reuters   GAZA: Hamas freed five prisoners belonging to the rival Fatah party on Sunday and Egypt sent a delegation to the Gaza Strip to oversee the Islamist group?s planned handover of administrative control of the Palestinian enclave to a unity government. The West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister, Rami al-Hamdallah, and other officials of the g
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This is a hijacked trial, says Pervaiz Rasheed

Senator Pervaiz Rasheed speaking to media outside court complex. Photo: Geo News ISLAMABAD: Senator Pervaiz Rasheed on Monday called the hearing of three corruption references against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ?a hijacked trial?. Responding to a question outside the accountability court, Rasheed said: ?it is not an open trial, in fact, it is a hijacked trial. The Supreme Court will tell you who hijacked it as the implementation of laws is their mandate.?  He added that, ?Today we are
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Doctors fear for malnourished Rohingya kids

Rohingya Muslim refugees run to receive food at a distribution area at Balukhali refugee camp/AFP  The five-year-old Rohingya boy was so emaciated that doctors could not insert a drip into his tiny arm, one of thousands of children facing life-threatening malnutrition in overstretched Bangladeshi refugee camps. "He said he hadn't eaten anything in eight days. Nothing," said Dr SK Jahidur Rahman at a clinic run by Bangladeshi medical charity Gonoshasthaya Kendra. The lucky ones make it to the o
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Google unveils new moves to boost struggling news organisations

WASHINGTON: Google announced new steps to help struggling news organisations Monday -- including an end to a longstanding "first click free" policy to generate fresh revenues for publishers hurt by the shift from print to digital. The moves come amid mounting criticism that online platforms are siphoning off the majority of revenues as more readers turn to digital platforms for news. "I truly believe that Google and news publishers actually share a common cause," said Google Vice President Phi
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Catalonia, one of Spain's economic heavyweights

MADRID: Catalonia, which held a banned referendum on secession from Spain Sunday amid a police crackdown, is one of the powerhouses of the Spanish economy, buoyed by industry, research and tourism but burdened with a heavy debt. Economic heavyweight Contributing 19 percent of Spain´s GDP in 2016, Catalonia rivals Madrid for the distinction of being the richest region in the country. It is fourth in terms of GDP per capita with 28,600 euros ($33,600), after Madrid, the northern Basque Country
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Rangers have to follow my orders, says interior minister

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/1498837437bf7fa01abbcd82b3cb57e4.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9MTAvMi8yMDE3IDQ6MjU6NTQgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT12bTdkMGxwcE1aR1FVOFA4RzF1Q2ZnPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Monday that he would rather resign than be a 'puppet minister'.  Addressing the media after being disallowed by the Rangers to enter the court complex where for
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Morkel strikes twice but suffers injury

Morne Morkel is elated after pinning Mominul Haque lbw, South Africa v Bangladesh, 1st Test, Potchefstroom, 4th day, October 1, 2017/AFP POTCHEFSTROOM: South African fast bowler Morne Morkel took two wickets for no runs in the first over of Bangladesh´s second innings on the fourth day of the first Test at Senwes Park on Sunday, but then suffered an injury likely to keep him out of the rest of the match. Bangladesh were 49 for three at tea after being set to make 424 to win. Rain fell during th
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World Food Program seeks 75 million dollars for Rohingya crisis

Rohingya refugees queue for aid in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, October 1, 2017.  COX?S BAZAR: The World Food Program (WFP) appealed on Sunday for 75 million dollars in emergency aid over the next six months to help alleviate the suffering of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar. Since August 25th, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes in majority Buddhist Myanmar, overwhelming aid agencies in neighbouring Bangladesh. ?The bottom line? This is a deplorable situat
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Egypt's Hasm militants claim attack targeting Myanmar embassy

A police official patrolling on road of Cairo. Photo: File CAIRO: Egyptian militant group Hasm claimed responsibility on Sunday for a small explosion at Myanmar?s embassy in Cairo, saying it was in retaliation for that country?s military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims. Egypt?s interior ministry has not commented on Saturday?s blast, which residents and media initially reported as probably the result of a faulty gas pipeline. Two security sources told Reuters that traces of explosives had been f
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Gibraltar very concerned by violence in Catalonia, chief minister says

Spanish Civil Guard officers break through a door at a polling station ? for the banned independence referendum ? where Catalan President Carles Puigdemont was supposed to vote in Sant Julia de Ramis, Spain, October 1, 2017. REUTERS/Juan Medina MANCHESTER: Gibraltar is very concerned by violence in Catalonia after Spanish riot police burst into polling stations and seized ballot papers to prevent a banned referendum on a split from Spain, the chief minister of ?the Rock? said. Police hit peopl
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Venezuela blasts Spain's Rajoy over 'repression' in Catalonia

Spanish police scuffle with a man outside a polling station for the banned independence referendum in Tarragona, Spain, October 1, 2017. REUTERS/David Gonzalez  CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday slammed his Spanish counterpart Mariano Rajoy for trying to halt a banned independence referendum in Catalonia, saying the conservative leader was a hypocrite for supporting Venezuela?s opposition while cracking down on dissent at home. Spain has been a vocal critic of leftist Madu
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Three Miami Dolphins players defy Trump order to stand during anthem

Three players of the Miami Dolphins kneel during the US national anthem before their team's match against New Orleans Saints, under the NFL International Series banner, in Wembley Stadium, London, Britain, October 1, 2017. Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs  LONDON: Three Miami Dolphins players knelt for the American national anthem before their NFL game in London on Sunday, after U.S. President Donald Trump had said the previous day that it was ?very important? that players stood. Julius
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Yemen cholera cases could hit one million by year-end: Red Cross

GENEVA: The humanitarian situation in Yemen is a ?catastrophe?, and cholera cases could reach a million by the end of the year, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday. Warring parties in Yemen - including the western-backed Saudi-led coalition - are all using disproportionate force, leading to ?very excessive? civilian casualties, said Alexandre Faite, the head of the Red Cross delegation in Yemen. In addition, suspected cases of cholera have reached 750,000, with 2,119 de
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Under pressure, May says she can steer Britain through Brexit

Britain's Prime Minister, Theresa May leaves the Midland Hotel on the opening day of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, Britain October 1, 2017. REUTERS/Phil Noble  MANCHESTER: Apologizing for losing her Conservative Party?s majority in a June election, Prime Minister Theresa May responded to her critics on Sunday by saying she had the right strategy to lead Britain and win a Brexit deal. May ? who has faced calls from within her party to step down ? wants to use the Conservativ
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Trump defends Puerto Rico effort, but his tweets draw new criticism

BACKGROUND: Cars drive on a highway next to power line poles downed by Hurricane Maria in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, October 1, 2017. AFP/Ricardo Arduengo; SUPERIMPOSED (L): People take water from tanks in a truck in Juventud neighbourhood of Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, October 1, 2017. AFP/Hector Retamal; (R) US President Donald Trump waves to the crowd as he participates in the trophy presentation of the Presidents Cup golf championship at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey, October
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Spanish politicians call on Spain PM to resign over Catalonia

Several left-wing Spanish politicians on Sunday demanded Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy resign after police used force to block voting in a banned independence referendum in Catalonia, injuring dozens of people. Barcelona mayor Ada Colau said Rajoy, the leader of the ruling conservative Popular Party (PP), "had crossed all red lines". "He is a coward who does not live up to his state responsibilities... as a result he must resign," she told reporters. Colau demanded that police stop their crack
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