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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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Collective will needed to eliminate terrorism: Sindh CM

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said on Monday that the entire nation needs to develop consensus on the issue of eliminating terrorism.  He was addressing the media after a meeting with Khawaja Izharul Hassan, the opposition leader in the provincial assembly.  Hassan, a senior leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), survived an attempt on his life on Saturday in an attack which left his police guard and a passing-by child dead, along with one of the attackers.
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PTI submits adjournment motion in NA over Rohingya crisis

A woman walks among debris after fire destroyed shelters at a camp for internally displaced Rohingya (Reuters)  ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday submitted an adjournment motion in the National Assembly over the Rohingya crisis. The motion submitted by PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Dr Arif Alvi, Asad Umar, Shafqat Mehmood demanded that the assembly should immediately raise the issue of persecution of Rohingya Muslims. The PTI leaders have also stated that houses ha
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Love, wrinkles and all, conquers Venice

Veteran actors Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland (left), and Robert Redford and Jane Fonda at the Venice Film Festival. Photos: AFP  Love conquers all, even when wrinkles become part of the equation. That's the message from Helen Mirren and from Venice, appropriately the world's oldest film festival. An art form that for decades was constructed around the dynamics of youthful sexuality has belatedly discovered that, when it comes to love and ***, there are other stories to tell, and audience
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Philippine lawyers to file murder complaint against police in latest teen killing

Philippine police patrol the streets of Cebu. Photo: Reuters A Philippine government agency on Monday said a murder complaint would be filed against policemen who shot dead a teenager accused of robbery, the second such case in just over a week against police from the same part of the capital, Manila. The Public Attorney?s Office (PAO) said an autopsy conducted by its forensic experts indicated that Carl Angelo Arnaiz, 19, was tortured before he was shot in Caloocan City, and the way he was kil
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China pledges small increase in funding for BRICS

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives for a group photo during the BRICS Summit at the Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center in Xiamen, southeastern China's Fujian Province, China September 4, 2017. REUTERS  BEIJING: China will give 500 million yuan ($76.4 million) for a BRICS economic and technology cooperation plan, and another $4 million for projects at the BRICS countries? New Development Bank, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday. The newly announced $80 million fun
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Nearly 90,000 Rohingya escape Myanmar violence as humanitarian crisis looms

Rohingya refugees walk on the muddy path after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 3, 2017. REUTERS  COX?S BAZAR: Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar in August, pressuring scarce resources of aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands of refugees from previous spasms of violence in Myanmar. The ensuing clashes and a major military counter-offensive have killed at least 400 people. Myanmar
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Prince George starts school this week

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children on the balcony of Buckingham Palace LONDON: Son of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, who turned four in July this year, will begin school this week. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have chosen a fee-paying independent school in a South London borough for their four-year-old son.  According to local media reports, Prince George's new school costs more than £17,604 a year, which serves freshly prepared organic meals for lunch.
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Rap star Lil Wayne suffers seizures, is hospitalised: reports

Lil Wayne  Grammy-winning rap star Lil Wayne was taken to hospital on Sunday after suffering a seizure and being found unconscious in his Chicago hotel room, TMZ said on its web site. Lil Wayne, 34, who has become one of the biggest names in rap music over a two-decade career, suffered a second seizure at the hospital, TMZ added, and his representative confirmed to the site that he had suffered multiple seizures. Reuters could not reach representatives of the rapper to confirm the report. The
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Hong Kong scraps 24-hour BBC World Service radio channel despite criticism

A woman is reflected in a window behind Chinese and Hong Kong flags after celebrations commemorating the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to Chinese sovereignty from British rule, in Hong Kon, China, July 2 , 2017. Photo: Reuters    HONG KONG: Hong Kong?s public broadcaster RTHK dropped a 24-hour BBC World Service channel from its airwaves on Monday, replacing it with state radio from China in what critics say is a sign of encroaching Chinese control in the former British colony. Tens
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'Hitman' shrugs off box-office doldrums to stay on top

For the third consecutive weekend "The Hitman's Bodyguard" was the top film in North American box offices, but the cinematic scene remained deep in the summer doldrums, website Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. The US Labor Day weekend was shaping up to be the worst in 17 years, industry watchers said, noting the lack of any major new releases. But Lionsgate's "Hitman" managed to take in an estimated $10.3 million for the Friday-to-Sunday period, the only movie this summer to cling to the to
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Policeman killed, another injured during raid in Karachi

Police patrolling in Karachi. Photo: File  KARACHI: A policeman was killed and another injured on Monday during a raid at Kaneez Fatima Society.  Malir SSP Rao Anwar said the raid, involving intelligence and paramilitary personnel, was conducted after receiving a tip-off about the presence of terrorist in a house situated in the area.   "Terrorists fired from the rooftop when police reached the place," he said. Anwar added that the assailants managed to flee from the area. He informed that
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Frankfurt defuses massive WWII bomb after evacuating 60,000

Explosives experts defused a massive World War Two bomb after tens of thousands of people evacuated their homes in Frankfurt, Germany, September 3, 2017. REUTERS FRANKFURT: German explosives experts defused a massive World War Two bomb in the financial capital of Frankfurt on Sunday after tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes. The compulsory evacuation of 60,000 people was Germany?s biggest such maneuver since the war, with more than a thousand emergency service workers he
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Oil markets volatile in wake of Hurricane Harvey, North Korea nuclear test

SINGAPORE: Oil markets were volatile on Monday, with US crude rising on production shutdowns while international Brent was pulled down by a flight into gold futures following a powerful North Korean nuclear test explosion. Meanwhile, US gasoline prices RBc1 slumped back from a spike after the release of emergency fuel stocks and on signs that the damage from Hurricane Harvey to the Gulf coast energy infrastructure was not as bad as initially feared. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Clc1 crude
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Six dead, 13 injured in traffic accidents across country

File Photo KARACHI: At least six people died and 13 were injured during various traffic accidents in different cities around the country late Sunday night, Geo News reported. In Karachi, two cars collided in Baldia Town's Mowach Goth area last night, rescue officials told Geo News, adding that two people ? including a woman ? lost their lives in the accident. Van smashes into tree A speeding van smashed into a tree on the roadside on Tando Bago Road in Badin, Sindh, resulting in the death of
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Germany's Merkel ahead of SPD rival in TV debate: polls

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a speech during an election rally in Ludwigshafen, Germany, August 30, 2017. Reuters   BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a better impression on voters in a television debate on Sunday than her center-left challenger Martin Schulz, a flash survey by broadcaster ZDF showed. The poll, conducted by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen during the first half of the debate and published shortly after it had finished, showed that Merkel was viewed as more credible
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Sharapova ousted at US Open while Venus, Kvitova advance

Maria Sharapova. Photo:File NEW YORK: Maria Sharapova´s Grand Slam return after a 15-month doping ban ended Sunday with a fourth-round defeat at the US Open but the former world number one considered it a major step in her comeback. Latvian 16th seed Anastasija Sevastova rallied to eliminate the five-time Grand Slam champion 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 at Arthur Ashe Stadium, booking a quarter-final against American Sloane Stephens, who ousted Germany´s Julia Goerges 6-3, 3-6, 6-1. Sharapova, the 2006 US O
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US pledges 'massive' response if attacked over N Korea's hydrogen bomb test

South Korean troops fire Hyunmoo Missile into the waters of the East Sea at a military exercise in South Korea, September 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters   SEOUL/WASHINGTON: North Korea on Sunday conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, which it said was of an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, prompting the threat of a ?massive? military response from the United States if it or its allies are threatened. Speaking outside the White House after meeting with President Donald Tr
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UN Security Council meets today on North Korea nuclear test

Members of the United Nations Security Council meet to discuss policy and strategy for North Korea after its latest missile test, UN headquarters, New York City, US, August 29, 2017. Photo: Reuters   NEW YORK: The United Nations Security Council will meet today on North Korea?s nuclear test at the request of the United States, Japan, Britain, France, and South Korea, the US mission to the United Nations said in a statement on Sunday. North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear t
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Kulsoom Nawaz at son Hasan?s home after surgery

Nawaz Sharif with his wife Kulsoom before the latter was taken into the operation theatre at a hospital in London. Photo: Murtaza Ali Shah  LONDON: Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, after undergoing a successful throat cancer surgery is currently staying at son Hasan Nawaz?s home for recovery. Kulsoom, who underwent the operation on Friday, is expected to receive chemotherapy treatment starting this week. Doctors will decide this week when she may be able to return t
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Kohli ton leads India to series whitewash over Sri Lanka

Indian team captain Virat Kohli plays a shot during the Sri Lanka v India Fifth One Day International Match played in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on September 3, 2017. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte  Skipper Virat Kohli scored his 30th one-day international century to lead India to victory in the fifth and final one-day match on Sunday as the visitors won by six wickets to complete a 5-0 whitewash of Sri Lanka in Colombo. Sri Lanka elected to bat and were going steady at 185-4, with Angelo Mathews and La
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?Heartbroken? Malala slams genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai delivers her speech during the Nobel Peace Prize awards ceremony at the City Hall, Oslo, December 10, 2014. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/Files  Malala Yousafzai took to Twitter late Sunday night to condemn the genocide of Rohingya Muslims, saying she is brokenhearted to see how brutally Myanmar is treating its own people. The Nobel Laureate, explaining how her heart breaks whenever she sees an update on the vicious killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
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Russia says it has seen no positive impact from North Korea sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at the airport for upcoming BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Summit, in Xiamen, China, September 3, 2017. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu  MOSCOW: Russia is ready to take part in talks to try to solve the North Korean issue but has yet to see any positive impact from sanctions against Pyongyang, a Kremlin spokesman said on Sunday. The United Nations Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea in early July over its two in
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Merkel wants to end Turkey EU membership talks

German Chancellor and leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party Angela Merkel poses for a selfie with supporters in Berlin, September 3, 2017. AFP/John MacDougall  BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that she would ask the European Union to call off membership talks with Turkey, amid escalating tensions between Berlin and Ankara. "I don't see them ever joining and I had never believed that it would happen," she said during a televised debate with Martin
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Post-modern master, US poet Ashbery dies at 90

WASHINGTON: Pulitzer-prize winning poet John Ashbery ? a post-modern American trailblazer ? died aged 90 in Hudson, New York, his family told US media Sunday. The experimental vanguardist was sometimes accused of writing poems that were at times less than accessible to a wider audience. "Well, I'm told that they're not," he said in a 2005 interview with NPR. "What they are is about the privacy of all of us, and the difficulty of our own thinking," he said. Yet "they are, I think, accessible if
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Obama's letter to Trump: On the need to 'leave democracy strong'

US President Donald Trump and former president Barack Obama. AFP/Jim Watson WASHINGTON: It is an elegant tradition: the outgoing US president leaves a letter for his successor in the aged oaken desk in the Oval Office, to be read upon his arrival. The letter left by Barack Obama for Donald Trump, revealed some seven months after the handover of power, revolves around one central bit of advice: beyond the bitterness and brutality of political combat and power struggles, never lose sight of the
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