Author Archives: Dunya

Death toll rise as Matthew heads to sea

  Raging North Carolina rivers still rising after Hurricane Matthew threaten up to a week more of death and destruction, the state’s governor said on Sunday as the storm’s remnant headed out to sea, leaving a path of carnage from the Caribbean up the U.S. Southeast coast. Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic storm since 2007, was downgraded to a post-tropical ...

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Trump disagrees with his running mate on Syria

Republican Donald Trump publicly broke with his running mate, Mike Pence, on how to deal with the civil war in Syria in comments during Sunday’s U.S. presidential debate that exposed further tensions within their campaign. “He and I haven’t spoken, and I disagree,” Trump said in response to a question from a moderator about comments by Pence that the United ...

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US carriers halt Samsung Note 7 exchanges on safety concerns

Two U.S. mobile carriers said they will stop issuing Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s new Galaxy Note 7 smartphones due to safety concerns, a further setback for the world’s top smartphone maker trying to manage a growing recall crisis.   AT&T Inc said on Sunday it will stop exchanging new Note 7 smartphones due to reports of fires from replacement devices ...

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German police capture suspected terrorist, after 3-day hunt

German police said on Monday they had captured a man suspected of planning a bomb attack who had slipped through their grasp during a raid two days ago. “Tired but overjoyed: we captured the terror suspect last night in Leipzig,” Saxony state police said on twitter. Police had been looking for the suspect, 22-year-old Syrian refugee Jaber Albakr, since he ...

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Clinton ahead , Trump furious

Donald Trump exceeded expectations, but Hillary Clinton won the second presidential debate, according to a CNN / ORC poll of debate watchers. The results showed a clear victory for Clinton, with 57% saying Clinton won, as opposed to 34% for Trump. Hillary goes to twitter and propagated her win over Trump. It’s a strong showing for Clinton, but not as ...

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Trump vows to put Clinton behind the bars

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed on Sunday in Presidential Debate to put his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in jail if he wins the White House next month because she operated a private email server while U.S. secretary of state.   Trump said he would appoint a special prosecutor to look into the matter because she had endangered national security ...

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Matthew can’t stop ‘Girl on the Train’

“The Girl on the Train” pulled into the station with a $24.7 million opening, a solid result despite the fact that the mystery debuted as much of the U.S. Southeast was being pummeled by Hurricane Matthew. Its success is a shot in the arm to DreamWorks, which optioned the Paula Hawkins’ best-seller about an alcoholic woman (Emily Blunt), who must ...

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Russia says U.S. actions threaten its national security

  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he had detected increasing U.S. hostility towards Moscow and complained about what he said was a series of aggressive U.S. steps that threatened Russia’s national security. In an interview with Russian state TV likely to worsen already poor relations with Washington, Lavrov made it clear he blamed the Obama administration for what he ...

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UNSC Fails To Adopt Rival Resolutions On Syria

Western governments and Russia have clashed at the UN Security Council even while the Syrian government presses ahead with its military offensive against Rebel-held areas of Aleppo. The UN Security Council voted on two rival resolutions on the fighting, one drafted by France calling for an end to air strikes and a second by Russia that urged a ceasefire but ...

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Afghan Taliban leader taught, preached in Pakistan: Reuters

KUCHLAK-  For 15 years until his sudden disappearance in May, the new leader of the Afghan Taliban insurgency openly taught and preached at the Al Haaj mosque in a dusty town in southwestern Pakistan, associates and students told Reuters.   Details of Haibatullah Akhundzada’s life in Kuchlak, near the city of Quetta, have not previously been reported, and could put ...

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