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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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CM Sindh to meet opposition to mull NAO Repeal Bill today

Opposition leader Khawaja Izhar Ul Hassan (left) and Chief Minister of Sindh Murad Ali Shah (right). Photo: File  KARACHI: The Chief Minister of Sindh Murad Ali Shah on Friday has called all opposition parties to mull over the bill that asks to repeal the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 1999 Repeal Bill 2017. The bill was passed by the Sindh Assembly amid opposition protests on July 3. However, on July 14 Sindh Governor Mohammad Zubair refused to sign the bill, sending it back to the
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Management shake-up as PHF names new coach, selection committee

File photo: AFP LAHORE: President Pakistan Hockey Federation Brig (retd) Khalid Sajjad Khokhar on Thursday appointed new management of the national senior team and also formed a new selection committee in the wake of the team's dismal seventh finish in the World Hockey League in England last month. Former hockey Olympian, Farhat Hassan Khan was named as the head coach and the manager of the team with Malik Muhammad Shafqat and Muhammad Sarwar as the coaches. By forming a new team management th
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Panama case: Counsel of PM's children continues arguments

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court?s Panama case implementation bench on Friday began its proceedings around 9:30am in what is its fifth consecutive hearing following the submission of the Joint Investigation Team?s (JIT) final probe report into the Sharif family?s businesses. On Thursday, the three-member bench, headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and comprising Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed and Justice Ijazul Ahsan, heard arguments from the counsel of the prime minister?s children, Salman Akram Raja.
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Lukaku, Rashford on target as Manchester United down City

Romelu Lukaku pictured during the Manchester derby in Houston. Photo: Man Utd Twitter  HOUSTON: Romelu Lukaku and Marcus Rashford were on target as Manchester United defeated Premier League rivals Manchester City 2-0 in their International Champions Cup pre-season clash here Thursday. Belgian international Lukaku grabbed his second goal in his second start for United as the Red Devils eased past a disjointed City at Houston´s NRG Stadium. England striker Rashford meanwhile continued his impres
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MET office forecasts more rain in southern parts of country

File photo.  Moderate monsoon currents are penetrating southern parts of the country, the Pakistan Meteorological Department said on Friday. Weak monsoon currents are penetrating upper parts of the country and likely to strengthen in the next 24 hours. A shallow westerly wave is still persisting over upper and central parts of the country and likely to persist during next few days, the PMD said. Rain and thunderstorm (with isolated heavy falls) are expected at scattered places in Kashmir, Punj
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Moroccan police fire tear gas to disperse protests in north

Police fired tear gas and used truncheons to scatter hundreds of protesters in northern Morocco, a Reuters witness said on Thursday, part of the biggest wave of demonstrations in the kingdom since Arab Spring-inspired rallies in 2011. People have taken to the streets in the Rif region around the city of Al-Hoceima since October over injustice, corruption and underdevelopment, and on Thursday thousands gathered to try to join in rallies that local authorities had banned. Police charged at small
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Roddick, Clijsters to be inducted into Tennis Hall of Fame

Former world number ones and Grand Slam singles champions Kim Clijsters and Andy Roddick are among five people who will be inducted Saturday into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Joining the former pro tour legends will be Dutch four-time Paralympic wheelchair tennis medalist Monique Kalkman-van den Bosch, tennis journalist and historian Steve Flink and the late Vic Braden, a groundbreaking tennis instructor who died in 2014 at age 85. Belgium's Clijsters, 34, won the 2005, 2009 and 2010
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Senate Republicans complain of chaos in healthcare effort

US President Donald Trump speaks during the announcement of a newly designed, Made in America pharmaceutical glass bottle jointly developed by Merck, Pfizer and Corning during a Made in America Week event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, July 20, 2017. AFP/Saul Loeb  WASHINGTON: US Senate Republicans, scolded by President Donald Trump for failing to overturn Obamacare, tried to salvage their seven-year effort for a new healthcare law on Thursday, but leading senators
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Musk touts approval of New York-Washington 'hyperloop'

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON: Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Thursday he had received "verbal" approval to start building an ultra-high-speed underground transport system linking New York and Washington that would cut travel time between the cities to about half an hour. He offered no details on what entity had greenlighted the project that could result in the world's longest tunnel. Musk ? the chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc and rocket company SpaceX ? seeks to revolutionise
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Nolan's 'Dunkirk' builds suspense of war without the gore

For the filmmaker who re-imagined Batman as "The Dark Knight" and explored deep space in "Interstellar," the story of British troops trapped on a French beach during World War Two may seem like an unlikely draw. But the events of May 1940 that Christopher Nolan explores in "Dunkirk" is a "very suspenseful, thrilling tale that isn't necessarily one that fits in exactly and neatly into films that you've seen before," the British director told Reuters. "Dunkirk," out in theaters on Friday, recoun
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One in eight people who voted for Trump having second thoughts: poll

US President Donald Trump speaks during a "Made in America" products showcase event at the White House in Washington, US, July 17, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria  NEW YORK: About one in eight people who voted for President Donald Trump said they are not sure they would do so again after witnessing Trump's tumultuous first six months in office, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll of 2016 voters. While most of the people who voted for Trump on November 8 said they would back him again, the erosion o
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Thousands protest controversial Polish court reform

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across Poland Thursday after lawmakers adopted a controversial reform of the Supreme Court despite the threat of unprecedented EU sanctions. The rallies sprung up after the lower house of parliament, which is controlled by the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, voted 235 to 192 -- with 23 abstentions -- in favour of giving the government power to select candidates for the court. The capital Warsaw alone saw up to 50,000 demonstr
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Google, EU dig in for long war

Google and the EU are gearing up for a battle that could last years, with the Silicon Valley behemoth facing a relentless challenge to its ambition to expand beyond search results. Brussels has already spent seven years targeting Google, fuelled by a deep apprehension of the company's dominance of Internet search across Europe, where it commands about 90 percent of the market. In a verdict that could redraw the online map worldwide, the EU's top anti-trust sheriff Margrethe Vestager in June im
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Judge will not allow auction of Madonna's personal items

American pop music singer Madonna at an opening ceremony at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Malawi's Commercial City of Blantyre on July 11, 2017. AFP/Amos Gumulira  NEW YORK: A New York state judge on Thursday said an online auction of Madonna's personal items including worn satin panties, a hair brush with her hair, and a break-up letter from a former boyfriend ? late rapper Tupac Shakur ? cannot go forward. Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits in Manhattan let stand his July 18 temporary rest
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Case filed for attempted murder of medical student in Lahore

LAHORE: A case has been registered here late Thursday night in the related police station for injuring the student of a private medical college, Geo News reported. The case, which was filed on behalf of victim Rizwan's brother against unknown persons in the Mughalpura police station last night, includes the charge of attempted murder, police said, adding that the student's neck bears wound marks. Rizwan was allegedly stabbed in the neck and thrown off from the second floor of a building in the
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IMF approves in principle $1.8-billion standby loan arrangement for Greece

A man looks down while a Greek national flag flutters atop one of the bastions of the 17th-century fortress of Palamidi under an overcast sky at the southern port city of Nafplio, Greece, February 19, 2017. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis/File Photo  WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund on Thursday approved in principle a $1.8 billion standby arrangement for Greece, joining a bailout currently shouldered exclusively by European institutions. When IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde pr
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Malaysia bans 'Despacito' on state broadcaster for offensive lyrics

Singer Luis Fonsi performs at the 2015 Latin Billboard Awards in Coral Gables, Florida, US, April 30, 2015. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo  KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has banned the catchy summer dance song "Despacito" from state radio and television broadcasts after critics in the Muslim-majority country complained the lyrics were obscene. The ban was announced on the government's Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) on Wednesday by Salleh Said Keruak, the communications and multimedia minister, bu
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Swedish train to be named Trainy McTrainface in tribute to Boaty

STOCKHOLM: A Swedish rail operator has vowed to name one of its trains "Trainy McTrainface" after a public vote, saying it would bring joy to people disappointed when Britain rejected the name Boaty McBoatface for a polar research ship following a similar poll. Trainy McTrainface won 49 percent of the votes in the naming competition, conducted online by train operator MTR Express and Swedish newspaper Metro, beating choices such as Hakan, Miriam, and Poseidon. "(This is) news that will be rece
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Britain's royals make pretzels, cox boat race in Germany

Britain's Duke of Cambridge Prince William and his wife Princess Kate ? the Duchess of Cambridge ? attend a reception at Claerchens Ballhaus, in Berlin, Germany, July 20, 2017. REUTERS/Britta Pedersen  BERLIN: Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine made traditional German pretzels and coxed rival teams in a rowing boat race in the southern university town of Heidelberg as part of a three-day tour through Germany. William, second in line to the British throne, and Catherine took a les
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Germany vows economic steps against Turkey as row escalates

Germany on Thursday vowed stinging measures hitting tourism and investment in Turkey and a full "overhaul" of their troubled relations, signalling its patience had snapped after Ankara's arrests of human rights activists. The government stepped up its travel advisory for the NATO ally as Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel warned it could no longer guarantee its citizens' safety in the face of "arbitrary" mass arrests, a step set to hit a sector crucial to Turkey's ailing economy. A day after his
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Dali exhumed to test if fortune teller is his daughter

LEFT: Undertakers take a casket inside the Teatre-Museu Dali (Theatre-Museum Dali) after the arrival of forensic examiners for the exhumation of Salvador Dali's remains in Figueras on July 20, 2017. AFP/Lluis Gene  FIGUERAS: Forensics experts exhumed Salvador Dali's remains from a tomb in his Spanish hometown on Thursday, nearly three decades after his death, in order to test a fortune teller's claims that she is the only daughter of the renowned surrealist. Working behind closed doors, they
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Magnitude 6.7 quake hits off Turkey: USGS

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.7 struck off the southwestern Turkish coast on Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake, which struck at 1:31 am (2231 GMT on Thursday), was located off the southwestern coastal city of Marmaris, the USGS said. It was close to the Turkish town of Bodrum and the Greek island of Kos in the Dodecanese Islands archipelago. The temblor, initially reported as a magnitude 6.9, was very shallow, only 6.2 miles (10 km) below the seabed, the USGS said.
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Trump lashes out as presidency hits six-month mark

US President Donald Trump at a "Made in America Week" event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, July 20, 2017. AFP/Saul Loeb  WASHINGTON: Donald Trump hit the six-month point of his turbulent presidency Thursday in combative style ? lashing out at his own attorney general over the probe into Russia's alleged election meddling that has dogged him from day one. Since taking office on January 20, Trump has been on a roller coaster ride, and the gut-wrenching twists an
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Police detains 26 in search operations, raid on sheesha cafe in Karachi

KARACHI: 21 suspects were taken into custody early Thursday night during different search operations carried out by police in various areas of the metropolis, Geo News reported. During a raid in SITE area at night, police arrested 13 suspects, Superintendent of Police (SP)-SITE said, adding that female officers also partook in the operation, which included door-to-door search. Two other suspects were detained in an operation conducted near Karachi's Jinnah International Airport early Thursday
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Ryan Seacrest to return as host of 'American Idol' reboot in 2018

Ryan Seacrest confirmed on Thursday that he will return as host of "American Idol," the most popular music reality show in US television history, when it comes back to the screen on ABC TV in 2018. After much anticipation and speculation, Seacrest, who served as host of the talent competition show during its initial 15-season run that ended in April 2016, confirmed the news on "Live with Kelly and Ryan" Thursday morning. "Is it OK if I announce this big news?" talk show host Kelly Ripa asked S
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