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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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US visas to six Muslim nations drop after Supreme Court backs travel ban

WASHINGTON: In the first two months after a June Supreme Court ruling allowed partial implementation of President Donald Trump?s travel ban, visas issued on average each month to citizens of six countries targeted by the order were 18 percent lower compared to the month prior to the ban, a Reuters analysis of government data shows. The 3,268 visas issued in July and 3,884 visas issued in August to citizens of the six majority-Muslim countries were down from 4,351 issued in June. The July figure
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Man City's Aguero hurt in car crash

Sergio Aguero Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has reportedly suffered injured ribs after the Argentine forward was involved in a car crash in Amsterdam, media in Argentina reported on Friday. Argentine newspaper Diário Olé said Aguero, who was in the Netherlands to attend a concert, was riding in a taxi when the vehicle crashed into a pole. City have yet to comment on the report but his former club in Argentina, Independiente, said on Twitter: ?Strength and fast recovery. All Independien
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The Nobel Prizes in numbers

STOCKHOLM: How many people have won a Nobel Prize? Who was the oldest winner? How much do they win? Here are some facts and figures about the Nobel Prizes: -- 5 prizes were created by Alfred Nobel in his 1895 will for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace, which were awarded from 1901. A sixth prize in economics, "in memory of Alfred Nobel", was created by Sweden´s central bank in 1968. -- 6 laureates have declined the prize. The only two to do so of their own will were France´s
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Warner sparkles in 100th ODI with blazing ton

Warner is the eight batsman in world cricket to register a ton in his 100th ODI BANGALORE: Australia´s David Warner hit a belligerent century against India to mark his 100th one-day international on Thursday. The swashbuckling opener gave the visitors a rollicking start in the fourth match of the five-game series after they won the toss and elected to bat in Bangalore. Australia are playing for pride after losing the first three games. Warner, who smashed 124, put together a 231-run opening
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The rare talent of trouble-prone Stokes

Stokes' ability with both bat and ball makes him a genuine all-rounder LONDON: Ben Stokes has long been thought of as key to England´s chances of success during the upcoming Ashes tour of Australia, and that view has only hardened since his place was put in jeopardy by his arrest. Speculation over Stokes´s future intensified Thursday when England suspended him from international matches until further notice after the publication of a video apparently showing him fighting outside a Bristol nigh
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Netflix to spend Can$500 mln to make films, TV shows in Canada

The Netflix logo is seen during a Netflix event in Berlin, March 1, 2017. AFP/John Macdougall/Files OTTAWA: Netflix will spend Can$500 million (US$400 million) over the next five years to make original films and television shows in Canada, the company and Heritage Minister Melanie Joly announced Thursday. This amounts to about five percent of the video streaming service's estimated total US$7 billion production budget for 2018. As part of a deal with Ottawa, Netflix will open its first produc
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Security arrangements finalised ahead of Ashura

File photo KARACHI: Law enforcement agencies have finalised security arrangements for Muharram processions and congregations on 8th, 9th and 10th Muharram in major cities across the country. In view of Muharram processions, Karachi traffic police has announced alternate routes and traffic arrangements for the next three days. As per details, M. A. Jinnah Road has been divided into 23 sub-sectors, while shops and all of the 287 entry points to M.A. Jinnah Road have been sealed. The main congreg
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US presses for more Iran nuclear inspections

US Ambassador Nikki Haley addresses a UN Security Council meeting AFP/Spencer Platt/Getty Images UNITED NATIONS: The United States pressed Thursday for the International Atomic Energy Agency to carry out more nuclear inspections in Iran, warning that failure to do so would make the nuclear deal with Tehran "an empty promise". Nikki Haley ? the US Ambassador to the United Nations ? said that some countries were trying to shield Iran from more inspections by the IAEA, which is charged with verif
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Case registered in Lahore over PTI leader Shaukat Khokhar's murder

LAHORE: A case was registered Thursday night in the Kahna police station for the murder of a political party worker that took place a day earlier in the same area, police sources revealed. The case ? filed for the murder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Malik alias Shaukat Khokhar ? accuses 10 suspects over charges of attempted murder, terrorism, and consultation pertaining to the murder, Geo News reported. Local PTI leader shot dead in Lahore Two others including his brother
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NAB sends bailable arrest warrants for Sharif children to Pakistan HC in London

LAHORE: The Pakistan High Commission on Friday received the arrest warrants for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif?s three children sent by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), after an accountability court issued on Tuesday bailable arrest warrants for the children and son-in-law to ensure their presence. Nawaz?s son-in-law Captain (retd) Safdar was also sent a court summon at his London address. The Sharif family members had been summoned to appear in court on Tuesday with regards to th
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North Korea, Malaysia clash postponed after travel ban

North Korea's Asian Cup football qualifier with Malaysia was postponed for a third time on Thursday after Malaysia imposed a ban on travel to the country, citing rising nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula. Next week's game in Pyongyang had already twice been delayed following a row over the assassination of Kim Jong-Nam, half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un, at a Kuala Lumpur airport. On Thursday, Malaysia's foreign ministry banned travel to North Korea with immediate effect,
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Two suspects of motorcycle robbers' gang detained in Lahore's Batapur

File Photo LAHORE: Two suspects ? alleged to be members of a motorcycle robbers' gang ? were taken into custody for questioning from Batapur, Wagah, late Thursday night, police officers at the area's check-post said. The arrestees were detained during a search operation law enforcement agencies carried out Thursday in the Batapur area, security officials disclosed, adding that the two were identified as Shehzad and Asif. Four motorcycles, two pistols, and some bullets were recovered from the
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Trump health secretary to repay cost of private jet travel

WASHINGTON: US Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price promised on Thursday to repay the nearly $52,000 cost of his seats on private charter flights, as expensive air travel by Trump administration officials drew sharp scrutiny from Congress. ?Today, I will write a personal check to the US Treasury for the expenses of my travel on private charter planes,? said Price, a former member of Congress, in a statement. ?The taxpayers won?t pay a dime for my seat on those planes.? Price was one o
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US says countries should suspend providing weapons to Myanmar

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley delivers remarks at a security council meeting at UN headquarters during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, US, September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith/Files UNITED NATIONS: US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Thursday called on countries to suspend providing weapons to Myanmar over violence against Rohingya Muslims until the country?s military puts sufficient accountability measures in place. ?We cannot be a
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Fake Australian cancer blogger gets hefty fine

An Australian blogger who faked brain cancer and professed to have cured the disease with natural therapies was fined Aus$410,000 (US$320,000) on Thursday over the false claims. The Federal Court in Melbourne found that Belle Gibson deceived people when she launched a popular cookbook and smartphone app in 2013 asserting she overcame cancer through alternative treatments, including Ayurvedic medicine and a gluten-free diet. In 2015 she confessed to an Australian magazine that she lied about th
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Catalan students rally to defend independence vote

University students hold Catalan pro-independence 'Estelada' flag during a demonstration against the position of the Spanish government on the referendum on self-determination in Catalonia during a university students' strike on in Barcelona, September 28, 2017. AFP/Josep Lago BARCELONA: Thousands of striking high school and university students rallied in Barcelona Thursday to defend Catalonia's right to hold an independence referendum which Madrid has vowed to stop. "We will vote!" and "Indep
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Twitter suspends Russia-linked accounts, but US senator says response inadequate

Twitter said on Thursday it had suspended about 200 Russian-linked accounts as it probes online efforts to meddle with the 2016 US election, but an influential Democratic senator slammed its steps as insufficient. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, summoned Twitter officials to testify behind closed doors on Thursday as part of a broad investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. Facebook faced a similar grilling earlier this mon
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus announces she has breast cancer

Award-winning "Veep" star Julia Louis-Dreyfus has breast cancer, she announced through social media on Thursday. The 56-year-old American actress revealed the diagnosis to her 750,000 Twitter followers, posting a note that read: "One in eight women get breast cancer. Today, I'm the one." "The good news is that I have the most glorious group of supportive and caring friends, and fantastic insurance through my union," she continued. "The bad news is that not all women are so lucky, so let's fig
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British PM May says Uber's London ban 'disproportionate': BBC

An illustration picture shows the logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone next to the picture of an official German taxi sign in Frankfurt, Germany, September 15, 2014. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/Files  A decision by London?s transport regulator to strip Uber Technologies Inc of its license to operate in the city was ?disproportionate? and has put thousands of jobs at risk, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday. "Yes there are safety concerns and issues for Uber to add
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Evacuees leave Puerto Rico by cruise ship, some doubting they will return

Thousands of people lined up at San Juan harbour on Thursday to board a cruise ship that will take them from Puerto Rico to the US mainland in one of the largest evacuations since Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico more than a week ago. Maria, which came ashore as the strongest storm to hit the island in nearly 90 years, has created a humanitarian crisis. The powerful storm knocked out the nation?s electric grid and has crippled communications networks, transport and the water supply for the t
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Technology sheds new light on master of shade

He is known as the master of shade, and now 21st Century technology is shedding new light on the creative process behind Caravaggio's groundbreaking painting. "Inside Caravaggio", an exhibition that opens Friday at Milan's Palazzo Reale, unites 20 of the Renaissance giant's most important works with X-ray and infrared images of them that offer visitors revealing insights into how he went about creating them. The multimedia displays offer contemporary fans of the father of modern painting a gli
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Senators urge Trump administration to act on Myanmar Rohingya

BACKGROUND: Rohingya refugees arrive at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 28, 2017. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton; SUPERIMPOSED IMAGE: US President Donald Trump signs an executive order at the White House's Oval Office, Washington, US, January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/Files  WASHINGTON: A group of Republican and Democratic senators urged the Trump administration on Thursday to use the ?full weight? of its influence to help resolve the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh, in
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Macron's EU vision will bolster Franco-German axis: Merkel

Image Courtesy: Emmanuel Macron's Twitter account (@EmmanuelMacron) TALLINN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised French President Emmanuel Macron?s ambitions for the European Union on Thursday and said his ideas could be the foundation for ?intense? Franco-German cooperation on the future of Europe. Meeting before a summit dinner of EU leaders in Estonia, Merkel and the recently-elected Macron are keen for the bloc?s founders to drive it forward in the wake of Brexit, though the losses she
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Erdogan, Putin push 'de-escalation' zone in key Syria province

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) shake hands after a joint press conference following their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey, September 28, 2017. AFP/Adem Altan ANKARA: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday agreed to push for the creation of a "de-escalation" zone in Syria's key northern province of Idlib to help end the civil war. Erdogan said after talks in Ankara that
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SNAPSHOT: S&P 500 ekes out record high close on tax plan hope

People are seen walking on the street in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), New York, US, August 10, 2017, REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/Files NEW YORK: Wall Street ended higher on Thursday, with the S&P 500 posting a record on gains in McDonald?s and healthcare names and investors continuing to hope US President Donald Trump will be able to make progress on tax reform. Based on the latest available data, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 40.49 points (or 0.18 percent) to 22,381.2, t
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