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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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In pictures: Heavy rain hits Karachi, disrupts life

Heavy rainfall on Thursday battered the city and flooded the streets, a day after initial light showers turned the city's weather pleasant.  The rain related incidents claimed five lives in the metropolis, while electricity supply was suspended to several areas of the city.  While early morning rain caused inconvenience to many, it also became a source of joy for some who arrived at the beach. At least five dead as rain batters Karachi; showers across country today With over 40 mill
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Unruly workers disrupt Nawaz's speech upon arrival in London

LONDON: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in London on Thursday to tend to his ailing wife Kulsoom Nawaz, however, a crowd of workers gathered to welcome him didn?t let the former prime minister's speech upon arrival go smoothly. Nawaz Sharif left Lahore on Wednesday to meet his wife and sons who are present in London these days due to the ongoing cancer treatment of Kulsoom Nawaz. When the former prime minister arrived in London early morning, where party workers got uncontrolled and
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Qadri returns, demands court to make Model Town report public

Dr Tahir ul Qadri addressing media at Lahore Airport. Source: Geo News LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek Chairperson Dr Tahirul Qadri arrived in Lahore on Thursday morning after a brief stay in London. Speaking to the press at Allama Iqbal International Airport, Qadri said that he hopes that the courts will make Justice Ali Baqar Najafi Commission report public, adding that as according to the NAB ordinance National Accountability Bureau cases against Sharif family should be heard on daily basis
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Harvey moves into Louisiana with at least 35 dead, 17 missing

A Coast Guard helicopter searches areas hit by flood waters due to Tropical Storm Harvey in Beaumont, Texas, U.S. August 30, 2017-Reuters LAKE CHARLES, La. /HOUSTON: Tropical Storm Harvey spun across southeast Texas into Louisiana on Wednesday, sending more people fleeing for shelter after swamping Houston with record rains and flooding that killed at least 35 people and drove tens of thousands from their homes. The storm has forced 32,000 people into shelters since coming ashore on Friday as t
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In call with Saudi king, Trump urges end to Qatar dispute: White House

US President Donald Trump in a phone call. Photo: Reuters/File  WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump spoke with Saudi King Salman on Wednesday and urged ?all the parties in the Qatar dispute? to find a diplomatic resolution to end a crisis that has embroiled several Gulf countries, the White House said in a statement. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, and Egypt cut ties with Qatar on June 5 ? accusing it of backing extremism and fostering ties with Iran ? triggering the biggest political crisis
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Benazir murder case verdict to be announced today

RAWALPINDI: The verdict in the Benazir Bhutto murder case which has been ongoing for the past nine years will be announced today.  Sources said the Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Asghar Khan has arrived in the courtroom whereas former Rawalpindi CPO Saud Aziz and former Rawal Town SP Khurram Shahzad ? suspects out on bail ? are also present in the courtroom.  The court reserved its verdict on Wednesday after the counsels of the suspects completed their arguments. ATC reserves decision in B
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US economy hits Trump's 3% growth target in second quarter

US President Donald Trump gives remarks during an appearance at the Loren Cook Company on August 30, 2017, in Springfield, Missouri. AFP/Getty Images/Michael B. Thomas WASHINGTON: The US economy grew at its fastest pace in more than two years in the second quarter, hitting President Donald Trump's goal for the first time since he took office, according to data released Wednesday. Higher consumer spending and business investment prompted a sharp upward revision in gross domestic product (GDP) w
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Annette Bening says women progressing in film biz

Annette Bening ? an American actress and president of the jury ? arrives for the opening ceremony of the 74th Venice Film Festival and the premiere of the movie 'Downsizing', on August 30, 2017, at Venice Lido. AFP/Tiziana Fabi  VENICE: US actress Annette Bening said Wednesday she believes women are making progress in the movie industry, despite only one female-directed film making it into the competition selection at Venice, where she is chairing the awards jury. "There is sexism, of course,
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Defending human rights 'not a crime': freed Sudan activist

Mudawi Ibrahim Adam ? a leading Sudanese activist ? gives an interview to AFP at his home in Omdurman, on August 30, 2017, the day after he was released from prison after he was given a presidential pardon. AFP/Ashraf Shazly  KHARTOUM: A leading Sudanese activist who was released after a presidential pardon said Wednesday that defending human rights was "not a crime", as he vowed to continue fighting against rights abuses. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, an engineering professor at the University of Kha
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US acknowledges more troops in Afghanistan than previously stated

US troops take part in a helicopter Medevac exercise in Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 6, 2017. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani/Files WASHINGTON: About 11,000 US troops are serving in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, thousands more than it has previously stated. The announcement by Pentagon officials at a news conference did not represent an increase in troops in Afghanistan and came after US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis expressed frustration with the method of counting US troops in conf
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Largest asteroid in a century to whiz by September 1

MIAMI: The largest asteroid in more than a century will whiz safely past Earth on September 1 at a safe but unusually close distance of about 4.4 million miles (7 million kilometres), NASA said. The asteroid was discovered in 1981 and is named Florence after the famed 19th-century founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. "Florence is the largest asteroid to pass this close to our planet since the first near-Earth asteroid was discovered over a century ago," said a US space agency state
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Frankfurt to evacuate 60,000 people to defuse British WWII bomb

A policeman walks past a blue tent covering a British World War II bomb that was found during construction works on August 30, 2017, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. AFP/dpa/Boris Roessler  FRANKFURT: Around 60,000 inhabitants of Germany?s financial capital Frankfurt will be ordered to leave their homes on Sunday while a large World War Two bomb discovered at a building site is made safe, the police said. Germany?s central bank, the Bundesbank, Frankfurt?s Goethe University, and at least two ho
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Men may suffer if marital rape becomes crime: Indian government

An activist of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) holds a poster during a protest against the recent gang-rape of a woman in a moving car, in Kolkata, India, according to local media, May 31, 2016. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri  NEW DELHI: Criminalising marital rape could "destabilise" marriages and make men vulnerable to harassment by their wives, said India's government in response to a plea in the capital's high court. Victims and rights groups are seeking to change the law on marital
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Kremlin confirms Trump lawyer emailed Kremlin during campaign

Putin's spokesman told journalists the Trump Organization's chief counsel sent a message to a publicly available Kremlin email address asking for support for a never-realised project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, like this one in New York City. AFP/Spencer Platt MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin's spokesman on Wednesday confirmed that the Kremlin last year received an email from a lawyer working for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump about building a Trump Tower skyscraper in Moscow.
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Six family members found dead in missing van: Houston police

HOUSTON: Police in Houston said Wednesday they have recovered the bodies of six family members whose van was swept away in flooding unleashed by Harvey over the weekend. Manuel and Belia Saldivar and four of their great-grandchildren ranging from six to 16 years in age went missing Sunday as they were attempting to escape from rising waters. Their relatives returned to the scene of the tragedy Wednesday as floodwaters subsided and alerted police that the van was now visible, Harris County She
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Hungarian film director Karoly Makk dies aged 91

BUDAPEST: Cannes prize-winning director Karoly Makk died Wednesday at the age of 91, Hungary's Szechenyi Academy of Literature and Arts told the state news agency MTI. Widely regarded as one of Hungary's greatest post-World War II directors, Makk gained a reputation for fearlessly tackling themes of political and sexual repression during the country's four-decade communist period. Six of his films were shown in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival, while in 1974 his work
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'Nuns' on the run after failed US bank heist

BOTTOM PHOTOS: The three images on bottom ? released by the FBI in Philadelphia ? are security camera images of women dressed as nuns attempting to rob a bank in Tannersville, Pennsylvania, on August 28, 2017. AFP/FBI Philadelphia; BACKGROUND: Still image from the movie 'Nuns on the run'  NEW YORK: Police are searching for two would-be robbers disguised as nuns, after a failed bank heist in a sleepy Pennsylvania town. Surveillance footage released by the FBI shows two suspects wearing long nu
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Lack of REM sleep tied to increased risk of dementia

People who spend less time in deep, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep may be more likely to develop dementia than individuals who get better quality rest, a recent study suggests. Patients with dementia often have difficulty sleeping, but previous research has offered a mixed picture of which comes first ? the cognitive decline or the sleep deficit. For the current study, researchers examined data from overnight sleep studies for 321 adults age 60 or older who didn?t have dementia. After an avera
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Erdogan critic urges Spain to block his extradition to Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) and Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim (R) attend a ceremony marking the 95th anniversary of Victory Day at the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Ankara, August 30, 2017. AFP/Adem Altan  MADRID: A Turkish-born German writer facing extradition from Spain to Turkey, which accuses him of "terrorism", on Wednesday urged Madrid not to send him to a country that is "slipping towards fascism". Dogan Akhanli ? who has lived in Germany since 1991 ? was
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Damon's 'Downsizing' on the up in Venice

Director Alexander Payne arrives at the opening ceremony of the 74th Venice Film Festival and the premiere of the movie 'Downsizing' on August 30, 2017, at Venice Lido. AFP/Filippo Monteforte  VENICE: The Venice film festival kicked off Wednesday with Downsizing, a sci-fi-inspired drama starring a miniaturised Matt Damon, opening to effusive reviews. Occupying a curtain-raising slot that has come to be seen as a launchpad for films with Oscar ambitions, Alexander Payne's part satirical, part
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'No way to prevent' explosion at Texas chemical plant

The operators of a flooded chemical plant outside Houston warned Wednesday they are dealing with a "critical issue" as a result of Harvey's torrential rains and have no means to prevent a possible explosion at the site. As a precautionary measure officials had already ordered the evacuation of an area within 1.5 miles (three km) of the organic peroxides plant in Harris County, which is owned by French group Arkema. Rich Rowe, president and chief executive of Arkema Inc, said in a statement tha
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France seeks $715 million in taxes from Microsoft: report

The Microsoft logo is seen before the start of a media event in San Francisco, California, March 27, 2014. AFP/Josh Edelson PARIS: France's tax authority is seeking $715 million (600 million euros) from Microsoft's local subsidiary for billing French customers from Ireland, the weekly L'Express reported on Wednesday. The magazine reported that the bills concerned internet advertising and keywords for internet searches. Despite a considerable presence in France, Microsoft paid only 32.2 millio
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Security tightened at Spain's tomato throwing festival after attacks

Extra police were deployed at Spain's annual "Tomatina" tomato throwing festival in the eastern town of Bunol on Wednesday in the wake of the deadly twin vehicle attacks in Catalonia. A total of 740 security forces were on duty, including police officers, firefighters and ambulance workers, an increase of around five percent over the same time last year, according to Bunol city hall. In addition, police cars were parked at the entrance to the town's narrow streets, where half-naked revellers p
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World's biggest X-ray laser opens vast research vistas

This photo ? taken on October 6, 2016 ? shows the tunnel system of the European XFEL X-ray laser, with a length of 3.5 kilometres, in Schönefeld, northern Germany. AFP/dpa/Markus Scholz/Files  PARIS: A sleek, subterranean X-ray laser to be unveiled Friday in Germany, by far the most powerful in the world, has scientists in a dozen fields jostling to train its mighty beam on their projects. European XFEL will reveal ? and capture in images ? secrets at the sub-atomic level, promising breakthrou
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Steamroller destroys unpublished Pratchett novels

A steamroller was used to destroy a hard drive containing unfinished works by late British comic fantasy author Terry Pratchett in accordance with his wishes. "One lousy steamroller, 10 unpublished novels and look at all the trouble I'm in!" Rob Wilkins, the writer's long-serving assistant, said on Twitter on Wednesday with a photo of him in front of the steamroller. Before destroying the hard drive, Wilkins tweeted that he was "about to fulfil my obligation to Terry". He used a six-and-a-hal
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