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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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Nawaz to return on Friday, address rally on Sunday

Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to return to the country on Friday. Sharif had departed for London last Wednesday to spend time with his wife, Kulsoom Nawaz, who is undergoing treatment for lymphoma there.  Sources said on Tuesday that Sharif will continue his 'public outreach campaign', launched following his disqualification by the Supreme Court, after his return to the country. Nawaz off to London to meet ailing wife The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader will
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?America needs Pakistan more than Pakistan needs the Americans?

Donald Trump singled out Pakistan for giving safe haven to what he called ?agents of chaos, violence, and terror? America?s importance for Pakistan is fading fast, as seen by the aftermath of US President Donald Trump?s scathing speech last month singling out Pakistan for giving safe haven to what he called ?agents of chaos, violence, and terror?, writes Kamal Alam, a Visiting Fellow, for British defence and security think tank Royal United Services Institute. In his commentary for the think ta
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Xi tells Modi ´healthy, stable´ China-India ties needed: Xinhua

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the West Lake State Guest House ahead of G20 Summit in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, September 4, 2016. REUTERS Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that their two countries should pursue "healthy, stable bilateral ties", state media reported Tuesday in the wake of a protracted border standoff. The exchange, mentioned in brief dispatches and tweets by China´s offi
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Shehbaz Sharif departs for London on 3-day visit

Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday left for London on a three-day visit, where he will meet the local leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. Shehbaz will also inquire about the health of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's wife, and his sister-in-law, Begum Kulsoom Nawaz. Kulsoom Nawaz at son Hasan?s home after surgery Doctors will decide this week when former prime minister?s wife can return to Pakistan Kulsoom, who recently underwent a throat surger
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'Veere Di Wedding': Kareena Kapoor returns to set with a bang

Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor after her pregnancy is back to the acting arena, starting with her comeback film 'Veere Di Wedding'. Though the Bollywood diva had the spotlight the entire time, from her early pregnancy to giving birth to son Taimur, Kareena is finally back in her element by acting in the film co-produced by Rhea Kapoor. In a video, Kareena speaks how she?s back to acting and introduces the director of Veere Di Wedding, Rhea Kapoor, who is the sister of Sonam Kapoor. Later on,
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Rs26.5 billion spent on sacrificial animals in Pakistan this Eid

Sacrificial animals at a local cattle market in Karachi. Photo: Geo News KARACHI: Pakistanis have spent nearly Rs26.5 billion this Eid-ul-Azha to sacrifice an estimated 8.1 million animals, claimed Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA) on Tuesday. According to the stats given by the PTA; 0.3 million cows, 0.4 million goats, 1 million sheep and 0.1 million camels were sacrificed in the country.  PTA officials claimed that due to heat and improper curing, 35 per cent hides and skins are expected t
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Fear and sweating in Pakistan´s hottest cities

A Sibi resident throws water onto a makeshift hut made of scrub bushes on a hot day. AFP SIBI: After hours toiling at construction sites in 50 degree-plus heat, Lakhmir Brahmani finds little relief from the sun other than a donkey-powered fan during the dog days of summer in one of Pakistan´s hottest cities. Scientists have warned that swathes of South Asia may be uninhabitable due to rising temperatures by 2100 -- and in the desert community of Sibi in southwest Balochistan province, where the
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'Thriller' was made because Michael Jackson wanted to be a monster

A 3D version of the video, made 35 years after the original, was screened as a special event at the Venice film festival VENICE: Music video ?Thriller? was not the product of a brilliant idea but was made because pop star Michael Jackson wanted to be a monster, director John Landis said at the Venice film festival on Monday. Landis was in Venice to present the 3D version of the video, which was made 35 years after the original. It was screened as a special event in the out-of-competition sectio
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Karachi police register FIR in hunt for suspected terrorist

KARACHI: Police have registered a case against three suspected terrorists over a police encounter on Monday. The FIR, lodged at the Counter Terrorism Department, was registered on the complaint of SHO Sohrab Goth. Suspected terrorists Sarosh Siddiqui, Muzammil and Mohammad Talha have been nominated as the suspects. On Monday, police raided a house in Scheme 33, Rufi Bungalows, Kaneez Fatima Society on a tip-off about the presence of militants. However, the militants present inside opened fire
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Persecution of all Muslims in Myanmar on the rise: rights group

Rohingya refugees stretch their hands for food near Balukhali in Cox?s Bazar, Bangladesh, September 4, 2017/REUTERS BANGKOK: The systematic persecution of minority Muslims is on the rise across Myanmar and not confined to the northwestern state of Rakhine, where recent violence has sent nearly 90,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing, a Myanmar rights group said on Tuesday. The independent Burma Human Rights Network said that persecution was backed by the government, elements among the country?s Buddhist
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Over 0.3mn people sign petition asking to strip Suu Kyi of Nobel Prize

Over 3,035,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org demanding that the Nobel Peace Prize be taken back from Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi for failure to stop violence against the ethnic Rohignya Muslims in the country. Three million signatures are needed to forward the demand to the Norway-based Nobel Peace Prize Committee. AFP adds: Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai and mainly Muslim countries in Asia led a growing chorus of criticism on Monday aimed at Myanmar and its civilian
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China?s Xi says global economy improving, urges resistance to protectionism

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/c7dc65bb62ce0d0f29f221b07d512619.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9OS81LzIwMTcgNTowNToxOSBBTSZoYXNoX3ZhbHVlPXNoN0hjNzdTcmFrL0xrTmNkSHNrZkE9PSZ2YWxpZG1pbnV0ZXM9NjAmaWQ9MQ== style=center] XIAMEN: Chinese President Xi Jinping told an international summit on Tuesday that although the global economy had improved, risk factors had also increased. Addressing the "Dialogue
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Star India bags IPL media rights for $2.55 billion

IPL 2017 champions Mumbai Indians  MUMBAI: Star India will pay a staggering 163.48 billion rupees ($2.55 billion) for the television and digital rights of the Indian Premier League (IPL) for the next five years, the country´s cricket board announced on Monday. Sony, the only other bidder for the television rights of the world´s richest domestic Twenty20 competition, offered 110.5 billion rupees but lost out to Star´s consolidated offer for the worldwide rights from 2018 to 2022.Bidders for digi
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Australian team bus hit by stone in Bangladesh

Australia are playing their first Test series in Bangladesh since Ricky Ponting´s team visited in 2006 SYDNEY: Cricket Australia insisted Tuesday it is comfortable with security in Bangladesh following an incident in which a window on the team bus was smashed. CA said the window was broken by a "small rock or stone" as Australia´s players were returning to the team hotel after Monday´s opening day in the second Test in Chittagong. No one was injured. "En route back to the hotel last night a w
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Pakistani envoys meet to brainstorm foreign policy matters

Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will chair the concluding session ISLAMABAD: A three-day conference of selected Pakistani envoys got underway here on Tuesday for brainstorming on important foreign policy issues. The participants are discussing potential strengths of the country?s foreign policy and options available in view of the geo-political and regional situation. The new US policy on Afghanistan war and the challenges arising as a result of the revised approach, and the Kashmir issu
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Can bosses snoop on employees? European court to rule

Europe's top human rights court is set to rule Tuesday whether bosses have the right to spy on employees who use company messaging systems, in a landmark decision for privacy in the work place. In an initial decision in January last year, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the French city of Strasbourg ruled against a Romanian software engineer who claimed his rights had been infringed. Bogdan Mihai Barbulescu, 38, was sacked in 2006 by his employer after he used the Yahoo messenger
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New York vows to sue Trump over immigrant children protections

New York and Washington state on Monday vowed to sue President Donald Trump if he scraps a program shielding from deportation immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children. The Trump administration is expected to announce on Tuesday that he will end the so-called Dreamers program but give the US Congress six months to craft legislation to replace it, according to sources familiar with the situation. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce plans for ending the Deferred
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Epic Del Potro sets up Federer US Open showdown

Del Potro shrugged off sickness to save two match points and defeat Dominic Thiem in a five-set US Open epic Juan Martin del Potro shrugged off sickness to save two match points and defeat Dominic Thiem in a five-set US Open epic on Monday to book a quarter-final showdown with five-time champion Roger Federer. Argentina 24th seed Del Potro claimed a heroic 1-6, 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7/1), 6-4 victory over the sixth-seeded Austrian on a rocking Grandstand court, describing it as night he would remember
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China services sector expands by most in three months in August

China?s services sector expanded at a faster clip in August as new business orders picked up, a private business survey showed on Tuesday, pointing to renewed strength in a key part of the world?s second-largest economy. The findings were in line with an official gauge of the non-manufacturing sector published last week which also showed growth in the services sector accelerated, bolstering views that China?s economy remains on solid footing. The Caixin/Markit services purchasing managers? ind
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Monaco question Mbappe deal

Monaco vice-president Vadim Vasilyev has questioned Kylain Mbappe's loan to Paris Saint-Germain in a move he calls "the most successful in world football". The 18-year-old striker moved to PSG last Thursday in a season-long loan deal with a 180 million euro buy-out clause attached, making him the second most expensive player of all time behind new teammate Neymar.in a season-long loan deal with a 180 million euro buy-out clause attached, making him the second most expensive player of all time b
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Colombia government, rebels hail pope-backed ceasefire

Colombia's government and the country's last active guerrilla group, the ELN, announced a ceasefire Monday, a key step toward sealing a "complete peace" to end Latin America's longest civil war. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and National Liberation Army (ELN) negotiators announced the ceasefire two days before a visit to Colombia by Pope Francis. ELN chief negotiator Pablo Beltran said his force's ceasefire was "the first miracle of the pope's visit." The ceasefire follows a separate
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South Korea navy holds major live-fire drills in warning to North

South Korea's navy held major live-fire drills Tuesday to warn the North against any provocations at sea, it said, two days after Pyongyang's biggest nuclear test to date. The drills, conducted in the East Sea (Sea of Japan), involved the 2,500-tonne frigate Gangwon, a 1,000-tonne patrol ship and 400-tonne guided-missile vessels, among others, the Navy said in a statement. "If the enemy launches a provocation above water or under water, we will immediately hit back to bury them at sea," Captai
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Irma strengthens to dangerous Category 4 hurricane: NHC

MIAMI: Hurricane Irma surged to a dangerous Category Four storm Monday as it churned toward the Leeward islands, sparking alarm and alerts from the Caribbean to Florida, which declared an emergency. The National Hurricane Center said at 2100 GMT that the storm was packing top sustained winds of 130 mph (215 km/h). "Additional strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours," the NHC warned. "On the forecast track, the center of Irma will move near or over portions of the northern Leeward Is
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Electric cars and renewables not enough to meet Paris climate goal

The cost of electric vehicles (EVs) will fall to match those running on combustion engines by 2022, a key trigger that will mean by 2035 half of all passenger vehicles sold globally will be electric, according to the head of a top energy consultancy. But this expected exponential rise in cleaner vehicles, coupled with booming renewable energy production, will not be enough to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting climate warming, Ditlev Engel, chief executive of DNV GL?s energy consulting b
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Prostate cancer test saves lives, risks remain

Men who get a controversial blood test that looks for signs of prostate cancer appear to have a reduced risk of death from the malignancy, according to a new analysis by an international group of researchers. The analysis re-examined data from two earlier studies that had led experts to recommend against routine use of the test, which measures levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA). ?The trials taken together indicate there is an important benefit,? said Ruth Etzioni, who is the senior auth
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