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Egypt’s foreign ministry sharply criticized the U.S. Embassy in Cairo for advising citizens to avoid large gatherings in the capital until Sunday, calling the move “unjustifiable”. The largest Arab nation is currently battling an Islamist insurgency mainly concentrated in the Sinai Peninsula and which gained pace after its military ousted President Mohamed Mursi, an Islamist, in 2013 after mass protests ...

  Hurricane Matthew killed almost 900 people and displaced tens of thousands in Haiti before plowing northward on Saturday just off the southeast U.S. coast, where it caused major flooding and widespread power outages.   The number of deaths in Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, jumped to at least 877 on Friday as information trickled in from remote ...

Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif says the government is taking serious and sincere measures to stabilize the national economy. He was talking to a delegation of the leading businessmen which called on him in Lahore on Saturday. The CPEC projects and measures for the rehabilitation of national economy also came under discussion. He said the government attaches top priority to ...

Bloomberg news report said Pakistan’s economic growth has accelerated to almost five percent in the past three years after averting a balance of payments crisis in 2013. It said that along with an easing of inflation and as domestic security threats have abated, china announced last year it will invest in projects worth about 46 billion dollars in Pakistan as ...

Top seed Andy Murray cruised past Spain’s David Ferrer 6-2 6-3 on Saturday and Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov received a walkover into the China Open final after Milos Raonic withdrew due to an ankle injury.   The 29-year-old Murray, who is yet to drop a set this week, sealed victory in one hour 31 minutes, his seventh successive win over fifth ...

Curfew was re-imposed in Indian Kashmir on Saturday after the death of a teenager due to pellet gun firing in northern Bandipora district.   According to local media reports, 13-year-old Junaid Ahmad was injured when police used pellet guns to disperse protestors in Saidpora area. He was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.   Indian Interior ...

Two days after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s announcement to lockdown the federal capital by the end of this month, National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Saturday made it clear that Islamabad will remain open on October 30.   Speaking to reporters after inaugurating a new Academic Block of Queen Mary College in Lahore, Ayaz Sadiq said the ...

I’ve been in Lahore since July as my wife and I had been expecting our second child. I’ve received numerous requests from the media and from well wishers worldwide asking me for my thoughts on the sad incidents that took place in the past few weeks. As a father of two little children, I pray and wish like many others ...

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. dermatologists received payments worth a collective $34 million from drug companies in 2014, according to a new analysis of a public database. In most cases, the payments were worth less than $50, researchers found. But a few doctors were taking industry payments worth at least $93,622. “Most dermatologist in the U.S. – about 73 percent according ...

Production on the TV reality show “Keeping up with the Kardashians” is on hold, the E! Network said on Thursday, just days after the show’s star, Kim Kardashian, was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. “Kim’s well-being is our core focus right now. No decision has been made as to when production will resume,” a spokeswoman for the network, which broadcasts ...