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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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Qatar tells Gulf residents they are free to stay

Saudi Arabia and allies including the UAE and Bahrain cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, severing air, sea and land links. Photo: AFP  DOHA: Qatar has said citizens of states that have cut ties with the emirate will be allowed to stay in the country despite measures against its own nationals. A statement carried on state media said Doha would "not take any measures against residents of Qatar who hold the nationalities of countries that severed diplomatic ties or lowered diplomatic representations
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Injured Sharapova out of Wimbledon

Tennis star Maria Sharapova. Photo: GETTY IMAGES LONDON: Maria Sharapova withdrew from Wimbledon on Saturday after failing to recover from a thigh injury, dealing another blow to the superstar´s bid to rebuild her career following a doping ban. The 30-year-old Russian, who was champion at the All England Club in 2004, was due to play in the qualifying event in the hope of making the main draw. "After an additional scan, the muscle tear that I sustained in Rome will unfortunately not allow me t
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Rain, strong winds leave 13 dead, 100 injured across Punjab

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/9e3b72ece58afa8f2af595a516cf5911.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ni8xMS8yMDE3IDQ6NTE6NTEgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1KRC82WjE3aE56UGxWNlpmb3h2aXVRPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] LAHORE: Around 13 people died and over 100 were injured in separate incidents after rain and windstorms lashed several cities across Punjab on Saturday.  Several cities, including
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Pakistani becomes world number one boxer in flyweight category

Pakistani boxer Muhammad Waseem. Photo: File QUETTA: Pakistan?s professional boxer and two-time silver flyweight world champion Muhammad Waseem brought high honour to Pakistan after he was declared as world?s top-ranked boxer by the World Boxing Council (WBC). The flyweight class, in boxing, includes fighters weighing 49 kg (108 lb) and up to 52 kg (112 lb). Waseem is the first Pakistani boxer to be listed as the number one boxer in the flyweight category. He will participate in WBC's two tr
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Special bench to hear JIT?s account on ?hurdles?, leaked picture on Monday

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/008fede2bd5345a8cf0e386be1444c0a.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ni8xMS8yMDE3IDc6NTY6MTcgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1WTDJ0aGt1QVFpdDVHVFFlNEkzWHdBPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] ISLAMABAD: The special implementation bench of the Supreme Court will hear issues related to the working of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in the Panama case on Monday. P
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Cristiano Ronaldo ´father to twins with surrogate mum´

LISBON: Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has become a father to twins with a surrogate mother, Portuguese media reported Saturday. Reports said the babies, a girl and boy named Eva and Mateo, were born on Thursday to a woman living on the US West Coast. The captain of Portugal's victorious Euro 2016 team had his first son Cristiano Junior in June 2010, also reportedly with a surrogate mother, although he has never confirmed it. British tabloid The Sun had reported in March that the quadrupl
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Macron seeks majority as France votes for new parliament

French President Emmanuel Macron. Photo: Reuters  PARIS: French voters went back to the polls on Sunday for the first round of parliamentary elections that are tipped to give President Emmanuel Macron´s centrist party a commanding majority. Polling stations opened across France at 8:00 am (0600 GMT) and voting will continue in the largest cities until 8:00 pm (1800 GMT) with exit polls released immediately afterwards. Macron has enjoyed a smooth start in the five weeks since he beat far-right
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Apple's Cook tells MIT graduates: temper technology with humanity

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Friday warned graduates at MIT, a pioneer in fields like computers and robots, about technology's dehumanising aspects and urged them to infuse its development with their own values. "I?m not worried about artificial intelligence giving computers the ability to think like humans," Cook said in his commencement speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "I'm more concerned about people thinking like computers, without values or compassion, without concern for cons
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Customs seizes over 1,200kg of smuggled goods

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/6ddd290883fd4ed033d23098b3238e0d.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ni8xMS8yMDE3IDY6NDc6MDAgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1tdVQ5akVaUFJyckJhNTFTZ1VGTjh3PT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] RAWALPINDI: The anti-smuggling cell of the Customs department seized 1,225kg worth of smuggled items from a bus in an operation in Dhudial, Chakwal on Sunday. A statement by the Cus
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Three US soldiers killed in Afghan 'insider attack'

KABUL: An Afghan commando who opened fire on American troops killed three of them and wounded another, US and Afghan officials said, in an insider attack that was claimed by the Taliban. The so-called "green-on-blue" attack on Saturday is the latest in a line of incidents where Afghan soldiers have turned their weapons on international forces they are working with. It also comes as the Taliban ramp up their campaign against the Western-backed government in Afghanistan, and as US President Dona
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Kashmiri youth martyred in IoK, toll rises to seven

SRINAGAR: Indian troops, in Indian occupied Kashmir, martyred a Kashmiri youth in Bandipora district on Saturday, raising the number of killed in fake encounters in the territory to seven since Friday. The Kashmiri youth was martyred by Indian troops during a military operation in Bandipora?s Gurez area. The troops had killed six youth during a similar operation in Uri area of Baramulla district, Friday evening. Occupational troops also launched a siege and search operation in Vessu area of Is
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Panama case JIT is working as PML-N?s election cell, alleges Qadri

[embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/58a5d995e7e8773e1da9a186a73e6bea.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ni8xMS8yMDE3IDU6NDQ6MjQgQU0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1zUGVHbk1VdEs0bTFBQWJQUkh4UjdRPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has claimed that the Panama case Joint Investigation Team (JIT) is working as an election cell of the Pakistan Muslim Leagu
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Trump to make room soon for Melania and son at White House

First lady Melania Trump reads the children's book "Party Animals" at the 139th annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, April 17, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts  WASHINGTON: The US first couple has hardly gotten off to a conventional start. Now, after a period spent apart, it's in for a very public test: life together in the Petri dish that is Washington. President Donald Trump, for instance, all but ignored First Lady Melania ? left clambering out
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French elect parliament as polls forecast Macron landslide

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives at his home on a bicycle in Le Touquet, on the eve of the first round of the parliamentary election, France June 10, 2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer  PARIS: French voters head to the polls on Sunday for the first of two rounds of a parliamentary election expected to give new President Emmanuel Macron a solid majority that should allow him to carry out far-reaching reforms. Just a month after the 39-year old ex-banker defied the odds to be elected to the
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Snap election fad: Kosovo jumps on voting with economy in focus

Supporters of the opposition party 'Self determination' (Vetevendosje) during an electoral rally in Pristina, Kosovo June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Agron Beqiri PRISTINA: Kosovars vote on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election, hoping to elect a government that can improve the Balkan state's impoverished economy and make progress in joining the European Union (EU). About 1.9 million Kosovars, of which nearly half a million live abroad, are registered to vote in the third election since Kosovo declared
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Qatar, accused of supporting terrorism, hires ex-US attorney general

Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft Washington, September 21, 2007. REUTERS/Larry Downing The government of Qatar has hired John Ashcroft, the US attorney general during the September 11 attacks, as it seeks to rebut accusations from US President Donald Trump and its Arab neighbours that it supports terrorism. Qatar will pay the Ashcroft Law Firm $2.5 million for a 90-day period as the country seeks to confirm its efforts to fight global terrorism and comply with financial regulations incl
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Iran's Aseman signs final deal for 30 Boeing 737s: IRNA

Aseman Airlines has signed a final deal to buy 30 Boeing (BA.N) 737 MAX jets in Iran's first new business with the US planemaker since President Donald Trump took office vowing to take a tougher stance toward the country. Aseman and Boeing had signed a tentative deal in April. Iran's state news agency IRNA reported that representatives of Aseman and Boeing signed the final agreement in the capital Tehran on Saturday. "I am very pleased that after a year of negotiation with Boeing, the contract
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Italians vote for mayors as parties gear up for national election

Italy's Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni addresses a news conference during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, December 15, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir  ROME: Italians are electing municipal mayors on Sunday in a test of parties' support ahead of a parliamentary election to be held by next spring at the latest. Some 9 million voters will elect mayors in more than 1,000 towns and cities, with runoffs to be held on June 25 where no candidate gets more than 50 percent in the fi
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Iran kills mastermind behind Tehran attacks, arrests more

Smoke is seen during an attack on the Iranian parliament in central Tehran, Iran. Tasnim News Agency/Handout via REUTERS  Iran said its security forces on Saturday killed the mastermind of a twin attack on Tehran that left 17 people dead this week, as security was tightened around the country to prevent other possible plots. Daesh has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings and gun attacks on parliament and the mausoleum of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
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UK's May seals deal to prop up government, losing key aides in process

BACKGROUND: Stormy clouds surround Big Ben in Westminster, central London, Britain, June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne; RIGHT: British Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband walk into number 10 Downing Street after addressing the country in London, Britain, June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth  LONDON/BELFAST: British Prime Minister Theresa May secured a deal on Saturday to prop up her minority government but looked increasingly isolated after a botched election gamble plunged Britain i
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi freed from prison in Zintan

A statement from the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Battalion, a militia which controls Zintan, a mountainous region south-west of Libya?s capital Tripoli, said Saif al-Islam was released late on Saturday. The most prominent of Gaddafi's sons, Saif al-Islam, 44, was captured in Zintan in November 2011 as he was fleeing to neighbouring Niger after opposition fighters seized Tripoli. Saif al-Islam, the most prominent of Gaddafi?s eight children, was sentenced to death in July 2015 by a court in Tripoli in a
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Police register FIR for murder attempt on MQM-P's Jamal Ahmed

File photo KARACHI: A First Information Report (FIR) has been filed in the Shahrah-e-Noor Jahan police station against the person who attempted a fatal assault at Jamal Ahmed ? a member of Sindh Assembly belonging to Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) ? near his North Nazimabad residence here on Saturday, Geo News reported. The FIR was registered on behalf of Ahmed?s guard Bakht Ali and includes charges of attempted murder on the MPA. An unknown man astride a motorcycle shot at Ahmed i
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Hot, dry weather expected in most parts of country: MET

A shallow westerly wave is affecting upper and central parts of the country and is likely to persist during the next two days, the Pakistan Meteorological Department said on Sunday. Hot and dry weather is expected in most parts of the country in the next twenty-four hours. However, rain and thunderstorm with gusty winds are expected at isolated places in Bannu, Kohat, Sargodha, D.I. Khan, Hazara, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Multan, D.G. Khan, Bahawalpur divisions, FATA
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Three held for 'terrorist matters' as London-bound plane makes emergency landing in Cologne

Image: Airbus BERLIN: Three male passengers were detained on Saturday evening in Cologne, Germany after their easyJet flight from Ljubljana, Slovenia to London made an unscheduled landing there, Cologne police said in a statement. The aircraft landed 6 PM local time (9 PM PST) at Cologne-Bonn Airport after passengers reported that the men were talking about "terrorist matters," according to the statement. The men, however, were not identified by then. Police carried out security checks on th
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Notre Dame attacker a self-radicalised novice: prosecutor

French police officials gather at the entrance to Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on June 6, 2017. AFP/Martin Bureau  PARIS: An Algerian man who attacked a policeman with a hammer outside Notre Dame cathedral was a loner with a deep interest in Daesh's extremist propaganda, the Paris prosecutor said Saturday. Farid Ikken, a 40-year-old doctorate student, was shot and wounded by another policeman during Tuesday's attack in which he shouted: "This is for Syria". He was officially charged late S
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