Author Archives: Dunya

Four Civilians Embrace Martyrdom At LoC

Four civilians embraced Shahadat while six others seriously injured due to unprovoked Indian firing at Nakyal sector along the line of control. According to ISPR, Pakistan Army troops are effectively responding to the Indian firing.

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Tokyo Shares Fall By Break Over Clinton E-mail Woes

Tokyo stocks fell today morning, driven down by fresh concerns about us presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email controversy with just over a week to go before the election. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 0.44 percent to 17,369.48 points while the TOPIX index gave up 0.32 percent to 1,388.02 points.

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White House Says FBI Director Not Trying To Influence Election

The White House said President Barack Obama believes FBI Director James Comey is a man of integrity and is not trying to influence the U.S. Presidential election by announcing scrutiny of additional emails linked to democrat Hillary Clinton’s private server. White House spokesman Josh Earnest also said he has no “independent knowledge” of how Comey had arrived at his decision ...

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Iraqi forces make first push into Mosul

Advancing Iraq troops broke through Islamic State defence lines in an eastern suburb of Mosul on Monday, taking the battle for the insurgent stronghold to inside the city limits for the first time, a force commander said. They made the gain as the offensive to recapture Mosul — the largest military operation in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled ...

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Indian police shoot dead eight Islamists after prison escape

Indian police shot dead eight Islamist prisoners who had escaped from jail hours earlier on Monday by using knotted bedsheets to scale the walls, officials said. The men, members of a banned militant group awaiting trial, fled the high security jail in the early hours in the city of Bhopal, in Madhya Pradesh state, after slitting the throat of a ...

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Police rain tear-gas shells on PTI protestors at Attock Pul

Punjab Police on Monday fired tear gas to scatter hundreds of anti-government protesters heading for Islamabad, after a court cleared the way for Imran Khan to hold a mass protest this week. The crowd approaching roadblocks amid clouds of tear gas as night fell near the town of Swabi, on a highway linking the capital to the northwestern city of ...

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West Indies trail by 37 runs with 4 wickets remaining

Kraigg Brathwaite made a patient unbeaten 95 to lead West Indies to 244 for six at the close on the second day of the third and final test against Pakistan in Sharjah on Monday. The opener batted more than five hours and hit 10 fours as the touring side recovered from a poor start to move within 37 runs of ...

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One in seven children suffer high air pollution

Almost one in seven children worldwide live in areas with high levels of outdoor air pollution, mostly in South Asia, and their growing bodies are most vulnerable to damage, the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF said on Monday. UNICEF called on almost 200 governments, which will meet in Morocco from Nov. 7-18 for talks on global warming, to restrict use of ...

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EU and Canada sign free trade agreement

The European Union and Canada signed a free trade agreement on Sunday designed to boost growth and jobs and following weeks of uncertainty due to opposition in part of Belgium. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed the treaty along with the heads of EU institutions, which should pave the way for it partially to enter force early in 2017 with ...

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Imran can’t lockdown Islamabad

Islamabad Highcourt on Monday granted  Imran Khan permission to hold anti-government protests in the capital this week, but warned that demonstrations should not disrupt life for citizens. Khan had threatened to “shut down” the capital Islamabad on Wednesday as part of his push to unseat Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on grounds of alleged corruption linked to the “Panama Papers” leak. ...

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