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ECP claims jurisdiction on PTI's foreign funding case, hearing adjourned to May 17

ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan in a hearing on Monday ruled the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has the jurisdiction to continue with the PTI-foreign funding case and rejected the party’s petition challenging its authority. ECP has, therefore, adjourned the hearing – that includes the matter of contempt of court as well – till May 17, adding that this is Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) last chance. Talking to media afterwards, former PTI spokesman Akbar
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India finally name Champions Trophy squad

Title defenders India finally named their 15-member squad for next month's Champions Trophy in England and Wales after initially delaying the announcement amid a revenue sharing disagreement with the International Cricket Council (ICC). Unhappy with the new revenue model, which considerably slashes their share from global events in the 2015-23 cycle, India failed to submit a squad by an April 25 deadline, triggering panic among advertisers. Several members of the Indian cricket board (BCCI) we
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Jemima shares amusing chat with Imran Khan on social media

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan's marriage with Jemima Khan ended over a decade ago, longer than the marriage lasted, but seeing an exchange shared by the former Mrs Khan shows the two are still good friends.  The two still share a bond that many married couples would envy. Over the weekend Jemima shared a screenshot of her exchange with Imran over Whatsapp regarding their younger son Kasim.  #BoredonaSaturdaynight on Instagram. The post on Instagram with the hashtag #Boredo
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JIT to decide investigation method for Panama case today

ISLAMABAD: Members of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) will decide on the method of investigation for the Panama case in the first session of the JIT on Monday. Members of the JIT started arriving at the Judicial Academy in Islamabad today.    Read more: Panama case: Profiles of JIT members The Supreme Court’s special bench on Friday constituted the Joint Investigation Team to probe funds used by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's children to buy properties in London through offshore businesses.
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Woman hauls harasser to police in Chinese subway

A lady has the Internet cheering for her when she hit right back at a pervert who harassed her. As revealed by Chinese media outlet People’s Daily via a CCTV footage, a man on Friday stepped onto an escalator at a subway station in Nanning, south China, carrying a trolley bag, right behind an unnamed woman who was probably busy on her phone. Midway through, however, he looked left and right and proceeded to touch her posterior, upon which the girl immediately turned around and slapped him righ
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Aamir Khan-starrer 'Dangal' wins hearts in China too!

The latest milestone for Dangal – Aamir Khan’s latest, super-hit flick – comes from none other than China, a country with which India’s strategic relations are not quite well at present.     The biographical drama film debuted in China on May 5, at the second position just behind Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and churned in a total of $11.30 million (or INR 728.80 million) over the weekend. Dangal approximately played “some 30,000 screenings per day and achieved a per screen average very
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Woman killed by father, brother in the name of 'honour'

KARACHI: A father in collusion with his son strangled his daughter to death in Karachi’s Kemari area late Sunday. The woman’s body was found in a house near Kemari’s Maan roundabout, the police said. The deceased, identified as Farzana, was strangled by her father and brother in what appeared to be a case of honour killing. Read more: Four injured in explosion targeting CTD vehicle in Peshawar Both the accused, Ghulam Nabi and Nabeel, were arrested and admitted to the murder, the police told
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Census activities resume in Chaman after cross-border firing

CHAMAN: The Bab-e-Dosti gate remained closed for the fourth consecutive day on Monday following border tensions between the two countries. The joint activity by Pak-Afghan geological survey teams will resume today, security officials said. The census process that was suspended in urban areas after Afghan forces’ unprovoked firing martyred 11 on Friday, was resumed on Monday. New batches of the Pakistan army and Frontier Corps remained alerted on the border, following the Afghan show of aggres
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Trump congratulates Macron for ´big win´ in French election

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump congratulated Emmanuel Macron on his victory in France´s presidential election on Sunday. Trump had backed neither Macron nor his far-right rival Marine Le Pen ahead of the vote´s second round. "Congratulations to Emmanuel Macron on his big win today as the next President of France," he tweeted. "I look very much forward to working with him!" However, Trump had earlier hinted that Le Pen should benefit from security fears in France. Before the first roun
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Head of Daesh in Afghanistan confirmed killed

The head of Daesh in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, was killed in an operation on April 27 conducted jointly by Afghan and US Special Forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, US and Afghan officials said on Sunday. Hasib, appointed last year after his predecessor Hafiz Saeed Khan died in a US drone strike, is believed to have ordered a series of high-profile attacks including one in March 8 on the main military hospital in Kabul, a statement said. Last month, a Pentagon spokesman said Hasib had
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Former drama teacher seeks new role as French First Lady

PARIS: When they first met, he was 15, she was a married 40-year old teacher coaching him in a school play. Set to enter the Elysee presidential palace as First Lady, Brigitte Macron will keep coaching her husband, but on a bigger stage now. Newly-elected French President Emmanuel Macron's wife, now 64, has been constantly by his side during his campaign, managing his agenda, editing his speeches and advising him on his stage presence. For his victory speech after winning the first round of th
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Hot, dry weather expected in most plain areas of the country: MET

A shallow westerly wave persisted in the upper areas of the country on Monday according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD).   Hot and dry weather is expected in most plain areas of the country while very hot weather is likely in upper Sindh and south and central Punjab on Monday. Dust-thunderstorms and rain are expected at isolated places in Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat, Rawalpindi divisions, FATA, Islamabad, Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir, a few places in Gujranwala, Sargodha, an
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China to begin construction of manned space station in 2019

China will begin construction of a permanent manned space station in 2019 after carrying out a successful in-orbit refuelling from its Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft, officials leading the project said on Friday. The Tianzhou-1, China's first cargo spacecraft, launched on April 20 and completed the first of three planned docking attempts with the orbiting Tiangong-2 spacelab two days later, state media reported. The successful five-day refuelling, directed from technicians on Earth and completed
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UK super-rich got richer despite Brexit: rich list

LONDON: Britain's super-rich "kept calm and carried on making billions" despite worries about Brexit, according to The Sunday Times newspaper's Rich List for 2017, with more billionaires living in the country than ever before. In the past 12 months, the total wealth of Britain's richest 1,000 individuals and families surged 14 percent to £658 billion ($854 billion, 777 billion euros), the paper said. It said that there are now more UK-based billionaires than ever before, at 134. Industrialist
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Crackdown against kite flyers in Lahore, 23 arrested

LAHORE: At least 23 kite flyers were arrested in a crackdown on Sunday by the police and cases were registered against them. Despite a ban on kite-flying in Lahore and frequent crackdown operations by the police since three months, some people still continue making and flying kites, while disobeying the law. According to police officials, in crackdown operations across various areas of Lahore, the police arrested 42 kite flyers in total, from the areas of Baghbanpura, Gujjar Pura, Mughalpura a
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Lion cubs born in Chile after world first veterinary procedure

Two baby lion cubs were presented to the public at a zoo in Chile on Thursday, born after a pioneering veterinary procedure that involved a reversed vasectomy of their father. The cubs' mother "Masai" became pregnant after the father "Maucho" underwent the procedure, which vets at Buin Zoo in the suburbs of Santiago said took months of planning and a five-hour operation. Both parents had been rescued from circuses. "This is the first successful reversal of a lion vasectomy reported in the wor
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Runners battling infections are less likely to finish a race

Light, localized illnesses like a runny nose may not affect distance runners’ performance, but racing within days of an acute, systemic infection raises the odds of never finishing, researchers say. Typically, less than half of runners who have been recently diagnosed with acute systemic infections, such as respiratory infections or gastritis, follow their doctors’ advice not to run in a race, the study team writes in British Journal of Sports Medicine. “We previously showed that about 10 perc
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Dzeko double, El Shaarawy strike down mediocre Milan

MILAN: Edin Dzeko hit a brace and former AC Milan striker Stephan El Shaarawy added a third as Roma secured a 4-1 win that sent the capital side back up to second in Serie A Sunday. Roma travelled to the San Siro under plenty of pressure after Napoli's 3-1 win over Cagliari on Saturday took the southerners up to second to sit eight points behind leaders Juventus. Lazio also kept Luciano Spalletti's men on their toes with a 7-3 thrashing of Sampdoria that moved them to within three points of th
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'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2' Rockets to No.1 with $145 million

LOS ANGELES: And just like that, Star-Lord and his band of super buddies are back on top of the box office. "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" blasted into domestic theaters this weekend to kick off the summer box office to the tune of $145 million at 4,347 locations. The latest from Disney and Marvel was expected to make $140 million, but possibly more by some analysts considering the studio's track record and enthusiasm that the first go-around generated. "We feel great. It is a spectacular nu
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Euro rallies after Macron wins French presidency

The euro rallied to a six-month high against the dollar Monday after pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron's victory in the French presidential election eased concerns about the country's future in the eurozone. The single currency briefly reached $1.1023, its highest level since November and up from $1.0998 on Friday, in response to the 39-year-old former investment banker's victory over far-right rival Marine Le Pen. In other Asian trading, the European single currency rose to 124.59 yen fro
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Merkel's party scores strong win in state poll test

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives secured a strong win Sunday in state polls in northern Germany, partial results showed, giving a boost to her bid to retain power in national elections in September. Voters in the small, northern state of Schleswig-Holstein handed her CDU party 32.3 percent, leaving the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) trailing with 26.9 percent, partial results showed. The vote outcome marked a blow for the Social Democrats who had earlier this year seen a sur
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Minnesota's Gordy the goat rescued from kidnappers

When St. Paul, Minnesota, police early Friday searched a GMC Yukon Denali that had crashed following a chase, they found an unlikely victim in the cargo area. Four people fled the sports-utility vehicle, but Gordy the goat was found lying down with an orange electrical cord around his neck. Police said Gordy had been abducted at Indian Mounds Park from a herd of goats that had been rented by the St. Paul Parks and Recreation department. Their job: To eat invasive plants on a difficult-to-reach
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Root leads England to easy win over Ireland

Joe Root shone with bat and ball to inspire England to a comfortable 85-run victory over Ireland in the second and final one-day international at Lord's on Sunday. Root made a fluent 73 to lay the platform for England's imposing total of 328 for six and he took three wickets with his part-time off-spinners to help the hosts win the series 2-0. Eoin Morgan scored 76 and shared a third-wicket partnership of 140 with Root before Jonny Bairstow's sparkling unbeaten 72 off 44 deliveries gave the En
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Slick Arsenal end United's long unbeaten run

Arsenal scored twice in three minutes through a deflected Granit Xhaka strike and Danny Welbeck's header to claim a deserved 2-0 win over Manchester United on Sunday and inflict a first Premier League defeat on the visitors in 26 games. The victory at the Emirates Stadium keeps sixth-placed Arsenal's hopes of a top-four finish alive, but they are six points adrift of Manchester City, who currently occupy the final Champions League qualifying slot, albeit with a game in hand. The win also takes
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Liverpool miss penalty in scoreless draw with Southampton

Liverpool's James Milner missed a penalty as his side wasted a chance to bolster their bid to qualify for the Champions League in an uninspiring 0-0 draw with Southampton on Sunday. With rivals Arsenal and Manchester United clashing in Sunday's late kick-off, Jurgen Klopp's team had a golden opportunity to seize the initiative in the race for a top-four finish. But the Reds never got out of first gear at Anfield in a terrible contest best remembered for Fraser Forster's brilliant penalty save
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