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    Photo: File  Weak monsoon currents continue to penetrate north-eastern parts of the country on Saturday and are likely to continue during next 48 hours, the Pakistan Meteorological Department said.

    A seasonal low lies over northeast Balochistan, the PMD said.
    Mainly hot and humid weather is expected in most parts of the country on Saturday. However, rain-thundershowers with gusty winds are expected at isolated places in Mirpurkhas, Hazara, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala divisions, FATA, GB and Kashmir, the PMD said.

    Past weather
    Rain-thundershowers with gusty winds occurred at scattered places in Karachi, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas divisions, while at isolated places in Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Gujranwala, Lahore, Malakand, Hazara, Kalat divisions and Lasbella.
    Rainfall (mm) in the last 24 hours
    Sindh: Diplo 70, Karachi (North Karachi 62, Saddar 59, Faisal base 56, Masroor, Nazimabad 51, Gulshan e Hadid 49, Model Observatory 39, Landhi 22), Badin 52, Thatta 40, Karachi A/P (Old Observatory 35, New Observatory 26), Nagarparker 24, Chhor 22, Mithi 17, Hyderabad 12, Mirpurkhas 08, Islamkot 03, Dahli 02, Punjab: Murree 58, Sialkot (City 34, A/P07), Gujrat 09, Gujranwala 07, Lahore (A/P 05, Punjab University 04, PBO 03), Kasur 03, Balochistan: Lasbella 13, Khuzdar 02, Kashmir: Rawalakot 09, Garidupatta 06, Muzaffarabad 05, KP: Malamjabba 08, Balakot 05, Kalam 03, GB: Gupis 02, Astore, Bagrote 01.
    Yesterday's highest maximum temperatures
    Jacobabad 44°C, Turbat, Nokkundi 43°C, Dadu, Larkana 42°C.


    Data courtesy: Pakistan Meteorological Department 


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    Fans watch as stars from the movie arrive at the world premiere of ?Spider-Man: Homecoming? in Los Angeles, California, US, June 28, 2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni  Fans were crawling up the walls with excitement as the stars of Spider-Man: Homecoming swung into the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe series of films, which have dominated the global box office for years.

    British actor Tom Holland, who plays the web-slinging hero, showed up at the premiere accompanied by an actor in full Spider-Man costume who was lying on the bonnet of a car and performing back flips for the crowd.
    Tom Holland, who plays Spider-Man/Peter Parker, arrives at the world premiere of ?Spider-Man: Homecoming? in Los Angeles, California, US, June 28, 2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni  "I think for me I've realised the responsibility of being a role model for young kids everywhere," Holland told reporters, adding that the character's motto that "with great power comes great responsibility", resonated with him.
    The film is the first time that Spider-Man ? one of Disney-owned Marvel's most popular characters ? is the lead in a film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
    Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee arrives at the world premiere of ?Spider-Man: Homecoming? in Los Angeles, California, US, June 28, 2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni  Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios, championed the cause of getting Spider-Man into the Disney-run sphere.
    "Now we have the first time Spider-Man in the Marvel Universe where he belongs," he stated at the premiere, adding "I sort of am still pinching myself. I can't believe it. I can't believe we're premiering the movie tonight and I can't wait for people to see it."
    Zendaya (L) and Robert Downey Jr. (R) arrive at the world premiere of ?Spider-Man: Homecoming? in Los Angeles, California, US, June 28, 2017. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni  The film sees Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr, another staple of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, who has featured in several of the series' films, taking a co-starring role alongside Holland.
    The film is released in European cinemas and the United States on July 5 and 7, respectively.


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    Paul McCartney has reached a confidential settlement of his lawsuit against Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC in which he sought to reclaim copyrights to songs by the Beatles.
    The accord disclosed on Thursday in filings with the US District Court in Manhattan ends the 75-year-old McCartney's pre-emptive effort to ensure that the copyrights, once owned by Michael Jackson, would go to him starting in October 2018.
    US District Judge Edgardo Ramos signed an order dismissing the case, but agreed to revisit it if a dispute arose.
    The dismissal request had been made by Michael Jacobs, a lawyer for McCartney, on behalf of the singer and Sony/ATV.
    It is unclear how the accord affects McCartney's copyright claims. The singer's representatives could not immediately be reached on Friday for comment.
    McCartney had sued on Jan. 18 for a declaration that he could reclaim more than 260 copyrights, including for songs credited to him and John Lennon such as "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "Yesterday" and "Hey Jude."
    The registrations at issue also covered "Maybe I'm Amazed" and several other songs McCartney recorded as a solo artist.
    They even covered such titles as "Scrambled Egg," which is close to the working lyric "Scrambled Eggs" that McCartney once used for the song that became "Yesterday."
    McCartney had been outbid by Jackson in 1985 for the Beatles' song rights, which were later rolled into Sony/ATV, a joint venture with Sony Corp.
    The pop star's estate sold its stake in that venture to Sony for $750 million last year.
    McCartney sued 1-1/2 months after a British court said the pop group Duran Duran could not reclaim rights to their songs, in its case against Sony/ATV's Gloucester Place Music unit.
    Changes made in 1976 to US copyright law let authors like McCartney reclaim song rights after periods of time elapsed.
    In his lawsuit, McCartney said he could begin exercising his rights on Beatles songs, starting with "Love Me Do," on Oct. 5, 2018.


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    Jay-Z presents the Video Vanguard Award to his wife Beyonce as he holds their daughter Blue Ivy during the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards in Inglewood, California August 24, 2014. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo  LOS ANGELES: Rapper Jay-Z let his music do the talking with his new album 4:44 on Friday as he addressed cheating on his wife Beyonce, the birth of his twins, and this year's Oscars best picture.
    In the title track, Jay-Z admitted in his lyrics that he "often womanise", more than a year after R&B star Beyonce first shed light on his infidelities in her album Lemonade.
    Jay-Z pens a remorseful ode to his fractured marriage in 4:44, rapping that it "took for my child to be born, see through a woman's eyes" in reference to the couple's daughter Blue Ivy.
    He also mentioned their twins, who were reported to have been born this month but whose arrival has yet to be officially confirmed, saying it "took for these natural twins to believe in miracles, took me too long for this song, I don't deserve you".
    Jay-Z added, "What good is a menage a trois when you have a soul mate? You risked that for Blue? ? my heart breaks for the day I had to explain my mistakes."
    Fans were left stunned last year when Beyonce made accusations in Lemonade that Jay Z had cheated on her, a rare crack in the seemingly perfect facade of one of the music's highest-profile couples.
    In her song Sorry, Beyonce referred to a mystery woman, calling her "Becky with the good hair", which is echoed in Jay Z's track Family Feud, a duet with Beyonce in which he raps "Let me alone Becky".
    4:44 was released exclusively on premium music streaming platform Tidal, founded by Jay-Z, in partnership with US wireless carrier Sprint Corp, which purchased a 33 percent stake in Tidal this year and made the album available via a six-month Tidal subscription to Sprint mobile customers.
    It can also be heard throughout Friday across 160 US radio stations on iHeartRadio, the digital music service for a network of traditional radio stations.
    The 35-minute album features Blue Ivy on the track Legacy, in which the five-year-old asks "Daddy, what's a will?" as the rapper expresses hope that his children use their wealth to promote "black excellence".
    In Moonlight, Jay-Z tackles the impact of the film La La Land being named best picture at this year's Oscars while in The Story of O.J., the rapper explores black identity in America.


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    A small plane crashed on the 405 Freeway near John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California, US, June 30, 2017. Courtesy of Rafi Mamalian/Handout via REUTERS  LOS ANGELES: A small plane crash-landed on a freeway in Orange County, California, on Friday morning, critically injuring two people on board and snarling traffic on a major north-south artery through the area, authorities said.
    The fiery crash was captured on cell-phone video by a driver and broadcast on local KABC-TV. It showed the twin-engine Cessna 310 as it passed low over the northbound side of the San Diego (405) Freeway in southern California before slamming into the ground on the southbound lanes.
    The aircraft, which appeared to be rapidly losing power, is seen levelling out slightly before hitting the ground and bursting into flames about 1,000 feet from a runway at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana.
    Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the pilot declared an emergency shortly after taking off from John Wayne airport and was trying to return there when the plane crashed at about 9:35 AM local time.
    Captain Larry Kurtz of the Orange County Fire Authority told KABC that the plane clipped a car on the freeway immediately before crashing, but the occupants of the vehicle were not hurt.
    Televised images showed the wreckage resting in the southbound lanes of the freeway immediately adjacent to John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, covered in fire-retardant foam and surrounded by police and firefighters.
    The freeway, the main north-south route through southern Orange County, was shut in both directions for about an hour before the northbound side and one southbound lane was reopened. Still, traffic remained backed up for miles in both directions some two hours after the incident.
    Arrivals were halted at the airport for about 45 minutes after the crash, and officials there advised travellers to arrive several hours early for flights.
    An Orange County sheriff's spokesman said that two people, identified only as a male and female, had been pulled from the wreckage of the plane and were being taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.
    The plane was still on the freeway several hours after the crash and investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board, Federal Aviation Administration and John Wayne Airport were said to be en route to the scene.


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    Lionel Messi said ?I do? to childhood sweetheart Antonella Roccuzzo Friday in his Argentine hometown Rosario, where footballers and celebrities including pop singer Shakira had gathered for the ?wedding of the century.?
    Following the private ceremony the couple appeared happy and relaxed as they walked a red carpet before hundreds of media at a hotel and casino complex, Roccuzzo donning a tight, mermaid-style gown by the Spanish designer Rosa Clara.
    Shakira and her husband, Messi?s teammate Gerard Pique, flew in to join the 260 guests including numerous footballers such as Messi?s Barcelona strike partners Neymar and Luis Suarez.
    Argentine media called it the ?wedding of the century? for Rosario, the gritty northern port city where Messi, 30, and his bride, 29, met when the player was nine years old.
    Former Barca and current Chelsea star Cesc Fabregas was in attendance, along with Argentina and Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero.
    Roast gizzards

    The party was to be a respite for Messi from his legal woes. A Spanish court last month rejected his appeal against a conviction for tax fraud.
    Brunette bride Roccuzzo wore a white, curve-hugging dress with a deep sweetheart neckline and embroidered straps by Rosa Clara ? a Spanish designer who has dressed actress Eva Longoria and Spain?s Queen Letizia.
    The wedding was held at 2200 GMT in the City Center casino, which stands right next to a crime-ridden slum run by drug gangs.
    The civil wedding ceremony and party were all slated to take place inside the venue, and the guests will be lodged there too.
    The feast will reportedly feature Argentine delicacies such as roast gizzards.
    Uruguayan pop bands Rombai and Marama plus singer Karina, Aguero?s wife, will perform at the reception.
    There were also rumors that there would be singing by Shakira, the Colombian diva famous for ?Hips Don?t Lie? and ?Whenever, Wherever.?
    Shakira had recently denied rumours that she would miss the wedding due to a quarrel with Roccuzzo.
    Humble couple

    Messi and Roccuzzo live in Barcelona where he plays, but still return regularly to Rosario for vacations.
    He moved to Spain when he was 13 to join FC Barcelona, but the couple kept in touch.
    Messi has gone on to win the top Ballon d?Or award five times. He is widely regarded as the world?s best footballer.
    But various old friends of the couple in their home city said the bride and groom are humble folk who have never forgotten where they come from.
    ?They are the love of each other?s lives,? Messi?s childhood friend Diego Vallejos told AFP.
    Instead of wedding presents, they have asked for donations to a children?s charity.
    ?Leo and Anto?

    The couple have reportedly spent the past two weeks in Rosario with family, but have kept out of sight of the reporters who have invaded the city.
    Rumours circulated of bachelor and bachelorette parties, but the only evidence that emerged was a photo, posted by ex-Barca goalkeeper Jose Pinto, of Messi enjoying a barbecue with a few friends.
    Some friends of Roccuzzo have shared pictures of her relaxing with relatives.
    On the eve of the wedding, a festive atmosphere reigned in the Las Heras neighbourhood where Messi grew up.
    ?We will celebrate,? said Damian Lugoni, 27, a local sausage sandwich vendor.
    ?I wish good luck to Leo and Anto, who is just as simple and nice as him.?
    ?We are all happy for them,? said Lisandro Urteaga, an artist who was called in to paint a mural of Messi in the neighbourhood for the occasion.
    ?Let him celebrate the way someone like him deserves. He is a real example as a human being ? although when he plays football he doesn?t seem to be from this planet.?


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    Kedar Jadhav triggered a late run explosion in partnership with Mahendra Singh Dhoni as India reached 251 for four batting first against the West Indies at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Friday.
    Dhoni top-scored in the third fixture of a five-match One-Day International series with an unbeaten 78 off 79 balls on a sluggish pitch.
    However, the real impetus came from Jadhav, who blazed 40 off 26 balls in an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 81 runs off just 46 deliveries.
    Ajinkya Rahane had earlier held the innings together after the loss of early wickets, the opening batsman extending his excellent run of form in the series with 72 off 112 balls, his third consecutive score over 50 in the Caribbean.
    Comprehensively beaten by 105 runs in the second match in Trinidad five days earlier following a rain-ruined no-result to start the series, West Indies took early advantage of the pitch conditions which made free scoring difficult.
    Miguel Cummins removed Shikhar Dhawan in just the third over of the match to a catch at third man while Jason Holder justified his decision to field first on winning the toss when he claimed the prized scalp of Virat Kohli, his Indian counterpart being brilliantly caught by Kyle Hope at gully.
    Hope, elder brother of wicketkeeper-batsman Shai Hope, is one of two ODI debutants in the West Indies team, the other being fast bowler Kesrick Williams.
    From 34 for two in the tenth over, Rahane found a reliable partner in Yuvraj Singh, the pair putting on 66 for the third wicket before Devendra Bishoo trapped Yuvraj lbw for 39, the original 'not out' decision on the field being overturned on review.
    Dhoni then joined Rahane in another important stand of 70, although both found the spinners especially hard to get away on the turgid surface.
    Bishoo and off-spinner Ashley Nurse completed a combined 20 overs at a cost of just 72 runs.
    However, the acceleration finally came with the arrival of Jadhav at the crease in the 43rd over when Rahane became Cummins' second wicket of the innings.
    Both batsmen took on the faster bowlers with gusto and rattled a West Indies team that looked on course to keep the Indians well below the 250-run mark.
    A measure of the difficulty in scoring was the failure of any of the batsmen except the adventurous Jadhav to score at better than a run-a-ball.
    Seeking victory to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the series, India are fielding the same XI for the third consecutive match.




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    A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck just off the coast of central Ecuador on Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, though the government said damage was limited.
    The government's ECU 911 safety service said there were no major incidents and a tsunami had been ruled out.
    The USGS said the quake's epicentre was 55 miles (88.5 km)northwest of Portoviejo at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 km) below the Pacific seabed. The quake, initially reported as a magnitude 6.1, struck at 5:29 p.m. (2229 GMT).
    Last year, a devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador's Pacific coast in April, killing more than 650 people.
    State oil company Petroecuador's operations remained normal after Friday's quake, a spokesman said.


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    Image courtesy: CNN Money CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA.: United Launch Alliance (ULA) ? a partnership of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co ? for the first time beat Elon Musk's SpaceX in competition for an Air Force satellite launch, both companies said on Friday.
    The contract covers launch services for multiple satellites aboard an Atlas 5 rocket in June 2019 and is valued at just over $191 million, the Air Force said.
    The award is the first for United Launch Alliance since the Air Force certified rival SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets for flight and opened bidding for launch contracts in 2015. ULA, which previously had a monopoly on the military?s launch business, sat out the Air Force?s first solicitation and lost the second. Both were awarded to SpaceX.
    A SpaceX official told Reuters it did not expect to win this bidding competition because the mission required a heavy-lift launcher and its Falcon Heavy booster has not yet flown.
    ?The mission performance required that we bid Falcon Heavy,? SpaceX spokesman John Taylor wrote in an email. ?We did submit a bid, but with the knowledge that our first Falcon Heavy flight might occur after the time of the award. Given we have not flown Falcon Heavy, we did not anticipate winning this mission,? he added.
    SpaceX?s Falcon Heavy is expected to debut this year.
    The new booster would need to fly successfully at least once before the Air Force would award SpaceX a Falcon Heavy launch contract and thrice before any high-priority military satellites would fly on it, Claire Leon ? the launch enterprise director for the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center ? told reporters during a conference call.
    Typically, the Air Force awards contracts two years ahead of a launch. Another branch of the Air Force that handles experimental programs bought a Falcon Heavy rocket ride in 2012. That mission is currently targeted to fly early next year, Leon said.
    SpaceX also won Falcon 9 contracts to fly a US National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite, which launched in April and is scheduled to launch the X-37B robotic space plane for the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office later this year.
    SpaceX is preparing for its 39th launch ? and third in nine days ? on Sunday.


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    Tight security contained protesters in Hong Kong Friday night as China's President Xi Jinping led lavish celebrations to mark 20 years since the politically divided city was handed back to China by Britain.
    A huge security operation has shut down large parts of Hong Kong, with thousands of police deployed to keep away demonstrators angry at Beijing's tightening grip on the freedoms of nearly eight million people.
    An official protest zone near the harbourfront convention centre where Xi was guest of honour at an anniversary banquet and variety show was heavily patrolled as dozens of demonstrators gathered there chanting: "End one-party dictatorship!".
    They demanded the release of cancer-stricken Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who remains on medical parole on the mainland, and that China take responsibility for the brutal Tiananmen crackdown against student democracy protesters in Beijing in 1989.
    "Those who are causing a public nuisance are not us. It's Xi Jinping!" democracy campaigner Joshua Wong told demonstrators.
    Wong was among 26 activists arrested for "public nuisance" over an anti-China protest Wednesday and released Friday morning.
    Police banned a pro-independence rally and cordoned off the harbourfront spot where defiant protesters had said they would gather. Some activists in the area scuffled with pro-China protesters before dispersing.
    Tensions also flared Friday afternoon as democracy campaigners and pro-China supporters swore and shouted at each other near the convention centre, with police separating the two sides.
    Xi praised Hong Kong for its role in China's economic development as he addressed the banquet, which included lawmakers and business figures, and told Hong Kong citizens to believe in themselves and China.
    "Hong Kong has developed from a small unknown fishing village into a large international metropolis, forged by the hard work of generations of Hong Kongers," he said.
    "When the country does well, Hong Kong will do even better," he added, before raising a glass of red wine for a toast.
    Xi had earlier met with business leaders including the city's richest man, Li Ka-shing, with whom he shared a lengthy handshake.
    The variety show saw musicians, including star Chinese pianist Lang Lang, perform alongside dancers, drummers and acrobats.
    At the end of the night Xi stepped onstage alongside new city leader Carrie Lam, outgoing leader Leung Chun-ying and the show's performers to sing patriotic song "Ode to the Motherland".
    Military might

    Tanks, missile launchers and chanting troops greeted Xi in a potent display of Chinese military might Friday morning.
    He inspected troops at China's People's Liberation Army airfield in rural northern Hong Kong, wearing a black Mao suit and riding an open-top camouflage jeep in the largest military parade since the 1997 handover.
    Armoured vehicles topped with missile launchers and military helicopters lined Xi's path along the airstrip for the eight-minute extravaganza.
    There were fears that the PLA would crack down in Hong Kong when it was returned to China, particularly after Tiananmen, but it has kept a very low profile.
    The PLA is responsible for defending the city and comprises only mainland troops, with Hong Kong residents unable to serve, but it is barred from interfering in local affairs.
    As part of the handover deal, Hong Kong was guaranteed rights including freedom of speech and an independent judiciary for 50 years, but there are concerns those liberties are disappearing as Beijing becomes ever more assertive.
    Xi's three-day visit is his first since becoming leader in 2013, and comes three years after huge pro-democracy rallies crippled Hong Kong.
    In many major Hong Kong newspapers, coverage of protests has been eclipsed by exhaustive accounts of Xi's itinerary and quotes from him, at a time when the media stands accused of succumbing to pressure from Beijing.
    The US State Department urged China to respect civil liberties in Hong Kong, including press freedom, in a statement Thursday.
    During his visit Xi has pledged support for Hong Kong and assured that its semi-autonomous system of government is intact.
    But he also praised the government for "dealing a blow" to an independence movement that has infuriated Beijing.
    Calls for the city to break away from China grew out of the failure of the mass pro-democracy rallies in 2014 to win political reform.


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    President Donald Trump declared that the US had run out of patience with North Korea over its nuclear drive Friday as he welcomed South Korea's new leader Moon Jae-In to talks at the White House.
    While Moon has been arguing for greater engagement with Pyongyang as the best way to put the brakes on its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Trump made clear that he was in no mood to pursue diplomacy with a regime he accused of having no respect for human life.
    And while Moon announced that Trump had accepted an offer to visit Seoul later this year, the leaders failed to map out any kind of joint strategy on how best to deal with the threat posed by the North Korean leadership.
    "Together, we are facing the threat of the reckless and brutal regime in North Korea. The nuclear and ballistic missile programs of that regime require a determined response," said Trump.
    "The North Korean dictatorship has no regard for the safety and security of its people, for its neighbours and has no respect for human life."
    The Trump administration has been growing increasingly exasperated with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's regime which has staged a barrage of missile tests in recent months.
    There was also deep anger in the United States after Otto Warmbier, an American student who was detained in North Korea on a tourist trip around 18 months ago, was returned home in a coma earlier this month. He died several days later.
    Trump had been pinning his hopes on China -- North Korea's main diplomatic ally -- to bring pressure to bear on Pyongyang but declared last week that their efforts had failed.
    "The era of strategic patience with the North Korean regime has failed, many years it has failed. Frankly, that patience is over," Trump said at a press briefing in the Rose Garden.
    And while he avoided criticising his guest's approach, Trump made clear he was in no mood to enter dialogue with North Korea but rather saw sanctions as the best way to proceed.
    "The United States calls on other regional powers and all responsible nations to join us in implementing sanctions and demanding that the North Korean regime choose a better path and do it quickly and a different future for its long suffering people," he said.
    'Gravest challenge'

    Washington, South Korea's security guarantor, has more than 28,000 troops in the country to defend it from its communist neighbour, which has been intensifying missile tests -- including five since Moon's inauguration.
    Moon said there was no dispute between his government and Trump over the nature of the threat posed by North Korea.
    "The gravest challenge confronting our two nations is the nuclear and missile threat posed by North Korea," he said.
    "President Trump and I decided to place a top priority on addressing this issue, and coordinate closely on relevant policies.
    "To this end, we will employ both sanctions and dialogue in a phased and comprehensive approach... to seek a fundamental resolution of the North Korean nuclear problem."
    Moon has used his first foreign trip to lobby the Trump administration and congressional leaders to back his policy of engagement with the North.
    Ahead of his arrival, Moon argued that Seoul and Washington must offer concessions to Pyongyang if it complies with demands for a nuclear freeze -- as a gateway to dialogue, and to eventual dismantlement of its nuclear program.
    But the Trump administration's hardening stance was illustrated on Thursday when it slapped sanctions on a Chinese bank linked to North Korea -- drawing an angry response from Beijing.
    The two leaders also spoke about bilateral trade, with Trump saying the current $17 billion dollar trade deficit with Seoul was unacceptable, highlighting the number of Korean-made cars on American roads.
    "I'm encouraged by President Moon's assurances that he will work to create a level playing field so that American workers and businesses and especially automakers can have a fair shake at dealing with South Korea," he said.


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    The family of a man who died in a car crash involving Venus Williams plan to sue the tennis superstar, a lawyer said Friday.

    Attorney Michael Steinger told ABC television's "Good Morning America" that the family of Jerome Barson would file a wrongful death suit against Williams following the June 9 crash in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
    Barson, who suffered head injuries in the accident, died two weeks later on June 22.

    "At this point we are attempting to both preserve the evidence and gain access to evidence," Steinger said.

    According to a police report, Williams' 2010 Toyota Sequoia SUV was in collision with a 2016 Hyundai Accent driven by Barson's wife, Linda Barson.

    The police report described Williams as being "at fault" in the incident. The accident remains under investigation and she has not been charged.


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    CHICAGO: American Muslim leaders yesterday decried Donald Trump?s rhetoric towards their community and predicted the president?s travel ban would eventually be proven unlawful, a day after a weakened version of the measure came into force.
    A limited version of Trump?s travel ban ? temporarily barring refugees and visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen ? took effect on Thursday, after the US Supreme Court allowed it to be enforced pending a full hearing in October.
    The Trump administration says the ban is necessary to keep terrorists out of the country, but immigrant advocates charge that it illegally singles out Muslims ? in line with campaign pledges by Trump to bar all Muslims from the country.
    Leaders of the Islamic Society of North America, which claims to be the largest Muslim advocacy group on the continent, slammed the ban as they gathered for a weekend convention in Chicago.
    ?His statements and his rhetoric have caused a great amount of harm to the American Muslim community,? said Azhar Azeez, president of the ISNA, which believes the ban will ultimately be proven unconstitutional.
    ?This country has always been an inclusive nation, a tolerant nation,? Azeez said, ?and we as Americans have an obligation to make sure we uphold all these things.?
    Several participants said they had been heartened by the show of support by Americans of many faiths, with members of Catholic, Lutheran and Jewish faiths set to attend the three-day convention.
    They pointed to the protesters who showed up at US airports, along with lawyers offering pro-bono legal help, as the new ban took effect.
    ?We were deeply touched by the response we received,? Azeez said.
    But he and other speakers also pointed to recent incidents of attacks against Muslims as evidence of increased Islamophobia, and accused far-right groups, and the US president himself, of fanning tensions.
    ?This Ramadan, in particular, was a very difficult one for many in the community,? said Asra Ali, a Chicago-area dentist and convention organiser, referring to the Muslim holiday of fasting which ended last Saturday.
    In May, a man who had gone on an anti-Muslim rant fatally stabbed two people who came to the defence of two girls on a train in Portland, Oregon.
    And earlier this month, Nabra Hassanen, a 17-year-old Virginia girl, was beaten to death after she left late-night prayers at a mosque. A 22-year-old man was charged in that attack, which police said was an act of road-rage not a hate crime, but many Muslims remain convinced she was targeted over her faith.
    There was a special prayer planned for Hassanen during the convention.


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    A Chicago Police vehicle patrols a neighbourhood as it drives past a memorial for kids killed by violence in Chicago, August 3, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young  CHICAGO/WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Friday he was sending federal help to fight crime in Chicago that has reached "epidemic" proportions.

    The government is sending federal agents to Chicago and plans to prosecute firearms cases aggressively, Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Fox News when asked about Trump's statement about the plan in an early-morning Twitter post.
    "Crime and killings in Chicago have reached such epidemic proportions that I am sending in Federal help. 1714 shootings in Chicago this year!" Trump wrote on Twitter.
    The president has regularly singled out Chicago's violent crime problem and in January decried the high crime rate in the third-most populous US city as "carnage".
    In 2016, the number of murders in Chicago exceeded 760, a jump of nearly 60 percent, and was more than New York and Los Angeles combined. There were more than 4,300 shooting victims in the city last year, according to police.
    The number of murders, shootings and shooting victims have all decreased slightly this year in the city of 2.7 million. There have been 320 murders, down from 322 over the same period last year. There have been 1,703 shooting victims, down from 1,935, according to police figures.
    Sessions said the anti-crime policies in Chicago have not worked and police "have been demoralised in many ways".
    The federal assistance will come in the form of the Chicago Crime Gun Strike Force, a collaboration between the police and the Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
    The group, including police officers, federal agents, and intelligence analysts, will work to impede the flow of illegal guns throughout Chicago and target repeat gun offenders.
    "The Trump Administration will not let the bloodshed go on; we cannot accept these levels of violence," Sessions said in a statement on Friday afternoon. The group became operational on June 1, Sessions said.
    It will "significantly help our police officers stem the flow of illegal guns and create a culture of accountability" for the gangs that drive violence in the city, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said in a statement.
    On Monday, the Chicago police announced that the ATF's mobile ballistics lab had arrived in the city to help process shooting scenes.
    "Six months ago we made it clear that we would welcome additional federal support, and six months later we appreciate the 20 new ATF agents that are now arriving," Adam Collins, a spokesman for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, said.
    "But the progress CPD (Chicago Police Department) has made this year has happened without any of the new resources from the federal government we requested."
    Chicago is also in the midst of reforming its police department after a federal investigation found officers routinely violated the civil rights of people, citing excessive force and racially discriminatory conduct.
    Joseph Ferguson, the city?s inspector general, called on Chicago officials to agree to a consent decree to oversee changes to the department at a committee meeting on Tuesday ? splitting with the mayor, who has said a court-enforced settlement is not necessary for reform.
    In response to questions about Ferguson?s comments, Emanuel told reporters on Wednesday that the Justice Department has "walked away" from doing consent decrees, and so the city has sought a different strategy.
    "There are multiple roads that allow you to make sure you make the changes and reform," he said.


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    French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was charged Friday over claims her party illegally claimed millions of euros from the European Parliament to pay for France-based staff.
    Rodolphe Bosselut said Le Pen had been summoned by investigating magistrates in Paris and that they had, "as expected, charged her", adding that she would appeal.
    A judicial source told AFP she had been charged with breach of trust over the salaries paid to her chief of staff Catherine Griset and her bodyguard Thierry Legier and for complicity in breach of trust as FN leader.
    If tried and convicted, Le Pen faces up to three years imprisonment and a fine of up to 375,000 euros ($425,000), although it is unlikely she would receive a custodial sentence.
    The 48-year-old National Front leader, who made a failed run for president this year, invoked her immunity as a member of the European Parliament in refusing to answer questions from investigators during the campaign.
    She had however promised to cooperate with the investigation after the May presidential and June parliamentary elections were over.
    At Friday's meeting with the magistrates, she read out a declaration and declined to answer questions, as allowed by the law, her lawyer told AFP.
    Investigators suspect the FN used money from Brussels earmarked for parliamentary assistants to pay staff for party work in France.
    The European Parliament claims it was defrauded of up to five million euros.
    Griset and another FN assistant have already been charged with covering up breach of trust.
    Le Pen was first elected to the European Parliament in 2004.
    Macron allies probed

    She is one of 17 National Front lawmakers -- along with her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, from whom she is estranged, and her partner, FN vice-president Louis Aliot -- being investigated over salaries paid to around 40 parliamentary assistants.
    The centrist MoDem party, which is allied to President Emmanuel Macron's Republic on the Move party, has been targeted in a preliminary probe over similar allegations involving assistants' salaries.
    Le Pen, an anti-EU nationalist, beat the candidates of the traditional right and left to secure a spot in May's presidential run-off against Macron, a pro-EU centrist.
    But she was soundly beaten by Macron in the second round, by 66.1 to 33.9 percent.
    Her legal woes took a back seat during the campaign to the scandal ensnaring her conservative rival Francois Fillon, whose wife was paid nearly 700,000 euros for a suspected fake job as a French parliamentary assistant.
    In legislative elections held directly afterwards she was elected to the National Assembly for the first time, winning a seat in the northern former coalmining region of Pas-de-Calais.


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    The head of the local council in the London borough where at least 80 people died in a fire in a social housing tower block resigned on Friday after he was criticised for the organisation's handling of the disaster.
    "As council leader, I have to accept my share of responsibility for these perceived failings," Nicholas Paget-Brown, the leader of Kensington & Chelsea council, said in a statement.
    He acknowledged criticism of his decision on Thursday to suspend a council meeting on the June 14 disaster at Grenfell Tower when media attempted to follow proceedings, something he said was necessary to avoid compromising a public inquiry.
    A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May earlier on Friday criticised the decision to try to hold the council meeting in private.
    "It cannot be right that this should have become the focus of attention when so many are dead or are unaccounted for," Paget-Brown, a member of May's Conservative Party, said.
    Britain named a former judge on Thursday to lead the inquiry into the inferno.
    Residents of the block want to know why the fire spread so rapidly and whether proper fire safety measures had been in place. They also want explanations about why their concerns had been ignored.
    May has also been widely criticised for her initial response to the blaze.
    Earlier on Friday, the government said 149 high-rise buildings have failed safety tests carried out after the fire at Grenfell Tower.


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    NEW YORK: Foo Fighters will play a televised concert at the Acropolis in a rare rock show at one of the world's most iconic historical sites, producers announced Friday.
    The alternative rock icons ? led by Dave Grohl of Nirvana fame ? will perform July 10 at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the nearly 2,000-old stone theatre on a slope of the ancient citadel that overlooks Athens.
    Proceeds from the concert will go to unspecified Greek charities.
    The concert will later air on US public broadcaster PBS as part of the series Landmarks Live in Concert, in which artists play celebrated venues and discuss the significance with Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith.
    "I've always wanted to work with the Foo Fighters and do a show in Greece," Daniel Catullo, the director of the series, said in a statement. "We've had some incredible shows so far, but this one officially sets our standard at a new level," he added.
    Other episodes include Italian crossover tenor Andrea Bocelli playing Florence's central Palazzo Vecchio and Alicia Keys singing at the Apollo Theater ? New York's historic jazz venue.
    The so-called Herodeon ? built in the first century AD under Roman rule ? seats nearly 5,000 people and has frequently been the site of historic concerts, though generally from the classical and opera world.
    Artists from other genres who have played the Acropolis include Elton John, Frank Sinatra, and Sting as well as French electronic pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre.
    Foo Fighters on September 15 release their ninth studio album, Concrete and Gold, which according to early indications will mark a return to the heavy, whirling guitars reminiscent of Nirvana.


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    NEW YORK: Shots were fired inside New York City's Bronx Lebanon hospital on Friday, and police said a short time later that one suspect was dead, while local media reported several people ? including at least three doctors ? were wounded in the gunfire.
    Few details were immediately available about the incident from official sources.
    The New York Times ? citing information furnished by an unnamed city Fire Department official ? reported that three physicians had been shot, though their conditions were unknown.
    As least one of the wounded doctors was being treated by people inside the hospital who fashioned a tourniquet from an emergency fire hose, according to the official, the Times said.
    As many as five or six people may have been wounded, the Times said, citing a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
    Police had yet to secure the area, preventing emergency medical workers from entering, the Times said.
    Police swarmed the hospital searching for an assailant, the New York Daily News said.
    CBS News reported that the gunman, believed to be a former hospital employee, had a rifle and had barricaded himself inside the building.
    New York Police Department spokesman Peter Donald posted a message a short time later on Twitter, saying, "One shooter is deceased at the hospital."
    It was not immediately clear whether police were looking for any other suspects.
    On Twitter, the New York Police Department told members of the public to avoid the area around the hospital, located in the borough of the Bronx at 1650 Grand Concourse.
    An official who answered the phone at the hospital said she had no immediate information.


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    ISLAMABAD: The chances of survival for two climbers missing on a treacherous peak known as "Killer Mountain" have faded as bad weather hampers search and rescue efforts, police said Friday.
    The two climbers, Alberto Zerain, a Spanish alpinist, and Mariano Galvan, an Argentinian national, went missing while attempting to summit the 8,125 meter peak, Nanga Parbat.
    "Helicopters have been trying to fly over the mountain since Wednesday but bad weather and poor visibility mean they haven´t found anything," a police official at base camp told AFP.
    "The mountain has been shrouded in cloud for the past few days and the rain is causing constant avalanches," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
    Karrar Haidri, spokesman of the Alpine Club of Pakistan confirmed that the climbers had not yet been found.
    "Bad weather is hampering rescue efforts however the attempts will continue," he said.
    A total of 14 foreign climbers were attempting to summit Nanga Parbat this year when bad weather forced them to return to base camp last week.
    The two missing climbers left base camp on June 19 but were holed up in their tent for three days at an altitude of 20,000 feet due to bad weather. They tried to summit again but lost contact with fellow climbers last Friday.
    The "Killer Mountain" Nanga Parbat earned its grisly nickname after more than 30 climbers died trying to conquer it before the first successful summit in 1953.
    Northern Pakistan is a magnet for mountaineers and is home to some of the tallest mountains in the world, including K2 - at 8,611 metres, the world´s second highest peak, but often deemed a more challenging climb than the highest, Mount Everest.

    Nestled between the western end of the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush mountains and the Karakoram range, the Gilgit-Baltistan region houses 18 of the world´s 50 highest peaks.
    It is also home to three of the world´s seven longest glaciers outside the polar regions. Hundreds of its mountains have never been climbed.


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    Tennis star Aisam ul Haq Qureshi gets another feather in his cap after winning the final of ATP World Tennis Championship on Friday.

    Aisam Qureshi and Robert Lindstedt won the final being played on the lush green grass courts in Antalya Turkey. The duo defeated Crotian-Austrian pair of Mate Pavic and Oliver Marach after an intense competition with both teams serving big.
    Aisam and Robert succeeded to break their opponent's serve to clinch the first set 7-5. In the second set they broke their opponent's at 2-1 to take a 3-1 lead which they consolidated by winning their own serve to make it 4-1. At this stage their opponent's conceded the match.
    With this win Aisam ul Haq has bagged fourth title of the year.


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    People celebrate as they attend a rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on June 30, 2017.?AFP photo Germany's parliament backed the legalisation of same-*** marriage on Friday in a historic vote hailed by gay activists and leftist parties but criticised by some in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling conservative bloc and by the Catholic Church.
    The move brings Germany into line with many other European nations including France, Britain and Spain and follows Merkel's surprise decision this week to allow her lawmakers to follow their own conscience rather than the party line on the issue.
    Merkel, daughter of a Protestant pastor, voted against the bill. 
    Hundreds of gay activists, some with painted faces, celebrated outside the Bundestag lower house of parliament after the vote, waving rainbow flags and placards that read "Marriage for all ? make love for all".
    Earlier this year, parliament agreed to grant compensation to thousands of gay men jailed under a 19th century law that was strengthened by the Nazis and only dropped in 1969 when homosexuality was decriminalised in West Germany.

    Merkel, who is seeking a fourth term in a national election on Sept.24, said she had voted against the bill because she believed that marriage, as defined under German law, was between a man and a woman.
    But she said her decision was a personal one, adding that she had become convinced in recent years that same-*** couples should be allowed to adopt children.
    "I hope that the vote today not only promotes respect between the different opinions but also brings more social cohesion and peace," she said.
    CRITICISM
    Lawmakers voted by 393 votes in favour of same-*** marriage to 226 against, with four abstentions.
    Merkel's announcement on Monday that she would allow lawmakers to vote on same-*** marriage according to their individual conscience drew the ire of some in her traditionally Catholic conservative bloc.
    Erika Steinbach, an independent lawmaker who quit Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in protest over her open-door policy towards asylum seekers, accused the chancellor of betraying the party's values in a clumsy attempt to defuse the politically sensitive issue before the September election.
    "It runs against the CDU's own party programme, which sees marriage as being between a man and a woman, so CDU decisions are clearly not worth the paper they are written on. It would be hard to exaggerate how excruciating this is," said Steinbach.
    To Merkel?s right, the anti-Islam Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which opposed marriage equality, accused her of "abandoning the last conservative nuances her party had".
    The Catholic Church said it regretted the decision. 
    "An appreciation of same-*** cohabitation can also be expressed by a different institutional design," said Archbishop Heiner Kochof of Berlin.
    Political analysts say the issue will likely have faded from voters' minds by the time the September election comes around.
    The vote marks a rare victory for Merkel's Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners, who are trailing the conservatives in opinion polls. They had seized on Merkel's comments on Monday to say they would push for an early vote before parliament's summer recess.
    SPD General Secretary Hubertus Heil accused Merkel of political cowardice over her decision to make the issue a matter of private conscience.
    "After 17 years with her at the top, the CDU has become cowardly," he told RND news. "Hers is a politics of no conviction."
    The same-*** bill, which had the backing of the opposition Greens and the far-left Linke party, will likely be signed into law by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier some time after July 7.


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    NEW DELHI: India condemned a new road that China is building on the rivals' Himalayan border on Friday, saying it raises "serious security" concerns.
    The two sides are trading increasingly stern diplomatic warnings over the new hotspot, a remote scrap of territory where the frontiers of China, India and Bhutan meet.
    Beijing made a formal protest this week, accusing Indian border guards of crossing from the northeastern state of Sikkim into its Tibetan territory to stop the road building.
    India´s foreign ministry said Friday that China´s People´s Liberation Army (PLA) troops entered the area to "unilaterally" construct the road.
    "India is deeply concerned at the recent Chinese actions and has conveyed to the Chinese government that such construction would represent a significant change of status quo with serious security implications for India," a ministry statement said.
    "India cherishes peace and tranquillity in the India-China border areas. It has not come easily," it said, urging Beijing to resolve the skirmish through dialogue.
    India and China have long disputed parts of their Himalayan border, and regularly accuse each other of making illegal troop encroachments.
    Bhutan has also lodged a formal protest to China, saying the road violated a bilateral agreement.
    Bhutan, which does not have diplomatic relations with China, still disputes the sovereignty of the land. And the showdown is part of a wider friction between India and China over the 4,057 kilometre (2,520 mile) border.
    Border woes
    China has insisted India several times this week to withdraw troops who are "trespassing" on its side of the frontier.
    It insists that it has every right to build the road and that it controls the territory under an 1890 accord made with Britain when it was a colonial power in the region.
    "We can tell you that the Chinese people hold a friendly and goodwill relations to the Bhutan people but our determination to uphold our territorial integrity and sovereignty is unwavering," a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Friday.
    "The nature of this standoff is quite clear, it´s a trespass by the Indian side to the Chinese border. So the obvious thing is their withdrawal from the Chinese side."
    India has a number of disputes with China. It is angry at China for proposing to finance Pakistan infrastructure in Azad Kashmir, which India also claims.

    It also blames China for blocking its efforts to become a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the international club that controls the legal global nuclear trade.


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    [embed_video1 url=http://stream.jeem.tv/vod/faa8fd03e927093e433781a47a92b73f.mp4/playlist.m3u8?wmsAuthSign=c2VydmVyX3RpbWU9Ni8zMC8yMDE3IDQ6MjI6NDggUE0maGFzaF92YWx1ZT1KY1c4b1RHbk5hOGhNcEwyREZDbitRPT0mdmFsaWRtaW51dGVzPTYwJmlkPTE= style=center] KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet on Friday gave their approval to repeal the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) ordinance in the province.

    The approval was given in a high-level meeting chaired by Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah at the CM house after a briefing on the subject by Advocate General for Sindh Zamir Ghumro.
    NAB will only have the mandate to probe and hear cases related to federal institution after a formal endorsement from the Sindh Assembly, which is expected on Monday.
    According to Sindh''s advocate general, corruption cases related to provincial institutions will now be probed by the Provincial Ehtesab Bureau.
    A committee has been constituted by the cabinet to give recommendations for changes in the anti-corruption laws within a month.
    The provincial cabinet also approved a proposal to impose restrictions on the establishment of new sugar mills in the province. 
    According to a Sindh government spokesman, the decision was taken in view of stablising provincial cotton production, further adding that the same ban was imposed by Punjab government. 


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    KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement - Pakistan leader Dr Farooq Sattar has strongly condemned the anti-Pakistan activities of Nadeem Nusrat, and expressed disassociation of his party with the London-based leader.
    Speaking at a press conference here on Friday, Dr Sattar said he strongly condemns Nusrat's meeting with anti-Pakistan lobbies in his recent visit to the United States. The MQM-P leader called the activities of Nusrat a "continuation of August 22 policies".
    Dr Sattar warned the MQM founder against misusing the Mohajir name, saying that audio statements from London and Nusrat's meeting with anti-Pakistan elements were not in the favour of the Mohajir community.
    MQM-London seeks help of US congressmen
    The MQM?s London-based founder approved the plan to reach out to those organisations and US lawmakers who have traditionally worked for lobbies working against Pakistan.
    ?Activities of Nadeem Nusrat are not in the favor of Mohajirs, neither do they represent the aspirations of the Mohajir people. We cannot give permission to Nadeem Nusrat to meeting with anti-Pakistan lobbies and conspire against Pakistan, its people, and its army in the name of Mohajirs.?
    ?No Mohajir in his right state of mind can accept that any state institution was behind the murder of Amjad Sabri, the plane crash in which Junaid Jamshed died, or the unfortunate accident of Ahmedpur Sharqiya," Dr Sattar said in response to a recent controversial audio statement made by Nusrat.
    ?Concocted...stories have nothing to do with reality,? the MQM-Pakistan leader said. 
    He added that Nadeem Nusrat "does not have the mandate of the people of Pakistan.?
    MQM-London seeks help of anti-Pakistan US congressmen
    Sattar's press conference follows Nusrat's recent meeting with US Congressmen Dana Rohrabacher and Ted Poe, who are known to have a track record of campaigning and lobbying against the Pakistani state.

    Dana Rohrabacher is known for being on the pay of Indian lobbyists and a few years back demanded a referendum to be held in Balochistan.
    Nusrat and Rohrabacher met for three hours and in a joint statement alleged that Pakistan was ?sponsoring extremist groups as proxies in the region?.
    Nadeem Nusrat (centre) pictured here with US congressmen Dana Rohrabacher and Ted Poe. The MQM-London confirmed Nusrat's meeting with Ted Poe at the Capitol Hill and his following speech against Pakistan. 
    Moreover, Dana Rohrabacher is known for being on the pay of Indian lobbyists. Congressman Ted Poe, who is known to be linked with the Indian lobby, invited the attention of the US government towards alleged human rights violations. 
    In a statement, the MQM-London accused Pakistan of ?suppressing? Mohajirs and demanded cutting of US aid to Pakistan.
    Ted Poe told the Congress that he was raising the issue because the ?World Muhajir Congress has written a letter to the United States Congress?.



    It is understood that the World Muhajir Council is linked with the MQM-London and its press releases have been issued from MQM-London?s office and from the official MQM email addresses.


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    Sikandar Raza celebrates the victory of the first one-day international GALLE: Solomon Mire smashed 112 off 96 balls as Zimbabwe scored a historic six-wicket win over Sri Lanka in their opening one-day international in Galle on Friday.

    Zimbabwe hit 322-4 as they passed Sri Lanka´s 316 with more than two overs to spare. It was the first time a visiting team has scored more than a 300 run target to get a victory in Sri Lanka.
    Sikandar Raza hit 67 and Sean Williams 65 as Zimbabwe stunned the home side in the first one-day international to be held in Galle for 17 years.
    It was the first match of a Zimbabwe tour that will see five one-day internationals and a Test played.
    Earlier, Kusal Mendis blasted 86 off 80 balls as Sri Lanka plundered 316-5 off Zimbabwe´s lacklustre bowling attack.
    Upul Tharanga hit 79 and Danushka Gunathilaka made 60 as Sri Lanka forged ahead after captain Angelo Mathews won the toss and chose to bat in the first one day international.
    Mendis and Tharanga each hit eight fours and a six in their quickfire innings that brought the crowd to its feet.
    Sri Lanka packed their side with slow bowlers for the game, with off-spinner Akila Dananjaya playing his first international since 2013. Zimabwe made one change to the side that beat Scotland in their last one-day game, bringing in Donald Tiripano for fellow right-arm seamer Chris Mpofu.


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