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Bear bites off Palestinian boy's arm in West Bank zoo

A bear bit off the forearm of a nine-year old Palestinian boy who tried to feed it during a school visit to a zoo in the occupied West Bank town of Qalqilya on Tuesday, Palestinian police said. A police spokesman said the boy approached the caged bear with food when the animal pounced, severing the limb at the elbow. The bear then ate the arm. The boy was being treated at a local hospital.
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Poetess succumbs to wounds after falling from stage

ISLAMABAD: Farzana Naz, a poetess, passed away in a private hospital in Islamabad after succumbing to her wounds on Tuesday. The young poetess had been critically injured after she fell from the stage during the closing ceremony of the National Book Festival, a three-day festival which kicked off on April 22, at the Pakistan-China Centre on Monday. According to the doctors, she got a head injury after falling from some height. She was shifted to the intensive care unit of a private hospital in
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Nisar approves new SOPs for delegates visiting Pakistan for hunting 

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Tuesday approved new Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) relating to transportation of delegates and their staff, who visit Pakistan for hunting purpose. The SOPs, prepared by the Ministry of Interior, have been dispatched to the relevant ministries, foreign embassies in Pakistan and Pakistani Missions abroad. According to the SOPs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs would provide advance information about the staff of i
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Kenya´s last northern white rhino joins Tinder

NAIROBI: Like many guys using the Tinder dating app, Sudan loves the outdoors and travels widely. The catch: he's the world's last male white northern rhino and desperately needs to mate. "I don't mean to be too forward, but the fate of my species literally depends on me," reads his profile. "I perform well under pressure. I like to eat grass and chill in the mud. No problems. 6 feet tall and 5,000 pounds if it matters." Conservationists are hoping that Sudan's Tinder profile will help them ra
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Ivanka forced to defend Trump at women´s summit

BERLIN: Ivanka Trump, making her overseas debut as the US "First Daughter" at a women´s summit in Berlin on Tuesday, was forced to defend her father´s attitude towards women. Sitting on a G20 panel with female leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Donald Trump´s daughter drew chuckles from the audience when she praised "my father´s advocacy" on the issue and his role as "a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive". The panel moderator, a finance journ
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Pirsig, author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, passes away

WASHINGTON: Robert Pirsig, author of the iconic novel "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," has died at the age of 88, US media reported on Tuesday. Despite its title, the book published in 1974 to rave reviews and explosive popularity is more a reflexion on metaphysics and existential philosophy than a book on how to fix a motorbike. It has sold around five million copies around the world. Pirsig died at his home in Maine on Monday, news reports said. The book is a first person narra
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Humans threaten ´fossil´ groundwater: study

VIENNA: Human activity risks contaminating pristine water stockpiled deep underground since the age of the mammoths, said a study on Tuesday that warns of a looming threat to a critical life source. So-called "fossil" groundwater -- more than 12,000 years old -- trickled into sub-surface aquifers long before it could be tarnished by pollution from farming and factory chemicals. Generally stored at depths of more than 250 metres (820 feet) under the Earth´s surface, the ancient resource had bee
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A peek into how Zaheer Khan proposed girlfriend amid IPL madness

Indian cricketer Zaheer Khan finally popped the question to his longtime girlfriend Sagarika Ghatge and the social media couldn’t resist having enough of the news. While the Internet had a field day regarding the cricketer’s proposal, everyone had the same question in their mind that how come the cricketer managed to propose with the Indian Premier League season being at its peak. The ‘Chak De India’ star was herself in the dark about the big news, according to Sagarika, her beau even left he
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Russia calls US allegation it arms Taliban unsubstantiated

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that a US allegation Moscow was supplying arms to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan was unsubstantiated. The head of US and international forces in Afghanistan said on Monday he was "not refuting" reports that Russia was providing support, including weapons, to the Taliban. General John Nicholson was speaking in Kabul during a visit by US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis. For some time, American officials have complained of what Nicholson onc
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Actress Zoe Saldana welcomes ?Avatar? sequel filming announcement

LONDON: Actress Zoe Saldana is happy release dates for the long-anticipated sequels to 2009 box office smash hit "Avatar" have been announced, joking she does not want to get "too old" to not be able to do her own stunts in the adventure fantasy. At the weekend, the official "Avatar" Facebook page posted a photo of director James Cameron with a production team beneath a caption reading: "Great to be working with the best team in the business! Avatar takes flight as we begin concurrent productio
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M9 motorway road broken months after PM`s inauguration

KARACHI: Hardly two months after its official inauguration by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, broken patches have appeared on Karachi-Hyderabad M9 motorway –risking lives of thousands of commuters on daily basis. The M9 motorway started deteriorating as it was unable to stand the regular heavy traffic – resulting in unevenness on the road surface- three kilometres from Lonikot toll plaza tire marks are seen all over a lane. Image of an uneven section of road Speaking to Geo News, commuters lame
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Azhar Ali, Umar Akmal make a comeback in Pakistan?s Champions Trophy squad

LAHORE: Azhar Ali and Umar Akmal make a comeback into Pakistan’s ODI team as the squad for the ICC Champions Trophy was announced on Tuesday. A 15-member squad was selected by the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) National Selection Committee headed by Inzamam-ul-Haq. The ICC Champions Trophy will be played in England and Wales from June 1-18 with Pakistan playing their first match against India on June 4. A press release from the PCB said the team was selected keeping in mind the conditions and
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As govt employee bound to follow rules: AD Khawaja

KARACHI: Inspector General of Police Sindh AD Khawaja on Tuesday said that he is a government employee and he is bound to follow rules and regulations. The IG Sindh was speaking to media representatives outside the Sindh Assembly, he said that he could not leave his post merely based on his will. His statements come in relation to the ongoing tug-of-war between the Sindh government and federal government pertaining to his appointment and holding office. “I don’t have any issues with the PPP,
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India plans to tag millions of cows with details like age, breed, horn type

New Delhi: India could issue millions of cows with unique identification numbers, the latest effort to protect the sacred animals amid a spike in violence by Hindu vigilantes against farmers accused of cattle smuggling. The government has told the Supreme Court that millions of cows will be tagged with a tamper-proof plastic tag linked to a national database in a bid to curb smuggling within India and beyond its borders. Cows are considered sacred in Hindu-majority India, and their slaughter i
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Jam Madad Ali takes oath as Sindh MPA

KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League (Functional) lawmaker and former opposition leader in Sindh Assembly Jam Madad Ali has taken oath in the Sindh Assembly after winning the PS-81 (Sanghar-Mirpurkhas) seat. An oath-taking ceremony was held today at the Sindh Assembly in honour of Ali. Speaking on the occasion, Senior PPP leader Nisar Ahmed Khuhro said that he congratulates Ali for getting freedom from giving forced respect. PML-F lawmakers protested against Khuhro's remarks in the assembly session
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Former CJP says PM should resign

ISLAMABAD: Former Chief Justice Supreme Court Iftikhar Chaudhry has demanded the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign in light of the Panama case verdict, which ordered formation of Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe money trail. He warned that the JIT should not end up under the prime minister. “Asghar Khan case is before everyone,” Justice (retd) Chaudhry said. He also said that Nawaz Sharif has many connections and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is ruling two provincial gov
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Pak Army contacts India to ensure safety of census team

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army on Tuesday contacted Indian Army through hotline as part of a confidence-building measure regarding the movement of civil and military enumerators near the Line of Control (LoC) as part of the ongoing census, an Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said. ISPR said that Indian Army has been approached through Hotline Contact and asked to inform ground troops about the movement of civil and military enumerators to civil populated areas lying close to LOC in A
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Tortured teenage maid recovered from Lahore?s Muslim Town

LAHORE: Another grueling case of brutality against domestic help came to the forefront as a 14-year-old maid, with visible torture marks on her body, was recovered from Lahore’s Muslim Town area on Tuesday. The teenager, identified as Palwasha, had run away from the house where she was employed and eventually rescued by Child Protection Bureau. The victim has bruises and torture marks on her nose, hands and fingers. The maid, is a resident of Sardarpura village and her dad works as a labourer.
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Imran?s video message aimed at influencing JIT: Rana Sanaullah

LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday while criticising Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said that the cricketer-turned-politician is trying to influence the Joint Investigation team constituted to probe the Sharif family’s means to buy properties in London through offshore businesses. The provincial law minister was addressing media outside the Punjab Assembly. He said that the PTI first aimed to sway the decision of the Supreme Court in the Panama Leaks case and no
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Why is Ronaldo upset with Zidane?

There seems to be some tension in the air between Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane. According to reports in the Spanish media, Zidane praised Lionel Messi following the El Clasico in which the Barcelona star scored a last minute goal to help secure the win for his side. “Messi makes the difference in his team. Today he scored twice, but it's not just Messi, we played against a great rival,” Zidane said after the match. Zidane’s comments did not sit well with his star
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20 dead after boat capsizes in Senegal: firefighters

DAKAR: At least 20 people, the vast majority of them women, were killed when a wooden boat capsized off the coast of central Senegal in a delta region popular with tourists, firefighters told AFP on Tuesday. A traditional wooden boat overturned near the coastal town of Bettenty on Monday night, with 72 on board, all except two of them women, said Commander Oumar Kane, a senior official with Senegal´s national firefighters. "Unfortunately, we have 20 dead bodies and one missing," Kane told AFP
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Global China Telecom to set up resources to complete China-Pakistan information corridor

BEIJING: China Telecommunications Corp will set up resources to complete cross-border telecom infrastructure initiatives including the China-Pakistan information corridor, the China-Laos-Thailand and the China-Bangladesh-Myanmar-India projects. “Cross-border telecommunication infrastructure is one of the first steps for international cooperation,” Deng Xiaofeng, CEO of its international unit China Telecom Global Ltd said on Tuesday. “Our experience in deploying one of the world’s largest infor
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Ruckus in KP Assembly over amendments in KPEC Act

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly session on Tuesday turned chaotic as government and opposition benches protested over a number of issues including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation. The opposition benches protested over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) Act. The KPEC Act was presented to the Assembly for approval, although opposition members wanted time to mull over the amendments in the act, which they weren’t granted. The protest started over a resolution present
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Thai man murders child, kills himself on Facebook Live

BANGKOK: A man in Phuket filmed himself killing his child and then himself on Facebook Live, Thai police said Tuesday, the latest example of the social network's live-streaming function being used to broadcast grisly crimes. Officers on the southern resort island said they were alerted to the video by friends of the man and rushed to an abandoned hotel near the international airport on Monday afternoon. "They had already died when I arrived there," Lieutenant Jullaus Suvannin, one of the first
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May the ore be with you: Japan sells gold Darth Vader mask

TOKYO: A solid gold Darth Vader mask is going on sale in Japan, with a $1.4 million price tag for a one-of-a-kind likeness of science fiction's most famous villain. Jeweller Ginza Tanaka on Tuesday showcased the 15-kilogramme (33-pound) sculpture, which has been commissioned to mark the 40th anniversary this year of the release of "Star Wars". The mask will be available for purchase on May the fourth -- a date known among fans as "Star Wars Day" because of its similarity to one of the franchis
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