Wednesday 14 September 2016

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Ronaldo rescues Real Madrid against Sporting Lisbon

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MADRID, Sept 14, 2016 (AFP) - Cristiano Ronaldo and Alvaro Morata struck in the closing minutes to seal a stunning Real Madrid comeback to beat Sporting Lisbon 2-1 to start their Champions League defence on Wednesday.Madrid looked to be heading for their first home defeat in the competition for five years after Bruno Cesars low effort three minutes into the second-half handed Sporting a thoroughly merited lead.However, in a frantic finale, Ronaldos free-kick levelled the game in normal time before Morata met James Rodriguezs cross deep into stoppage time to complete a dramatic fightback.We started the game a little passively, Ronaldo told BeIN Sports after netting against the side where he started his career.But football is like this and Real Madrid are like this. The comebacks form part of this legendary stadium.Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane hailed Reals belief despite a sub-par display.I am happy because we have to suffer, but we never gave up, said the Frenchman.I dont know if it was a fair result or not, but we believed until the end. You have to play 90 minutes.The clash pitted two of Europes most in-form teams against one another with Madrid having won 15 La Liga games on top of claiming their 11th Champions League in May, whilst Sporting are on a 13-game winning streak in Portugal.Yet, it was the visitors who looked by far the more confident as they bossed Madrid for the opening hour, to the delight of the boisterous travelling thousands from Lisbon.The pace of Gelson Martins caused the Madrid defence no end of problems and the diminutive winger had the first effort on goal when his low shot was turned away by Kiko Casilla.Reals star front three of Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema started together for the first time this season, but all three looked rusty as a long-range effort from Ronaldo turned over by Rui Patricio was the only serious threat to the Sporting goal before half-time.- Jesus disgruntled -=====================Sporting finally got their reward just three minutes into the second-half when Luka Modric and Sergio Ramos failed to clear and the ball fell kindly for Cesar to curl into the far corner.However, Sporting boss Jorge Jesuss joy was short-lived as he was sent to the stands for protesting a dubious yellow card for William Carvalho.Real Madrid players were talking to the referee and nothing happened to them so I thought it was ok if I did the same thing, said a disgruntled Jesus.I dont know if we would have lost if I was on the bench until the end of the match.Instead it was Jesuss opposite number Zidane who turned the game in Madrids favour with three vital substitutions in the final quarter.Zidane sacrificed Bale, Benzema and Toni Kroos for Lucas Vazquez, Morata and Rodriguez as Madrid piled on the pressure in the final 20 minutes.Ronaldo looked to have missed his chance to net against his boyhood club when he smashed against the post with eight minutes remaining.However, the three-time World Player of the Year, who was given a rousing reception by the Sporting fans before kick-off, curled home a free-kick that just had too much power for his Portuguese international teammate Patricio.Ronaldo refused to celebrate his goal, but there was no shortage of joy just moments later when Morata met Rodriguezs in-swinging cross with a bullet header to deny Sporting in the cruellest of circumstances.Next up for Madrid is a mouth-watering trip to face Borussia Dortmund in a repeat of the 2013 semi-final that Dortmund won 4-3 on aggregate.The Germans got their European campaign off to a flying start with a 6-0 thrashing of Legia Warsaw in the other game in Group F Wednesday.

Daulatpur: 5 dead after a collision between car and trailer

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DAULATPUR (Dunya News) - 5 died as a car collided with a trailer near Daulatpur at Shahpur Jahanian on Thursday, reported Dunya News.The car was going to Sadiqabad from Jahanian when the accident took place, leaving 5 people dead. Four of them were identied whereas one was not identied yet. The dead bodies of all five were shifted to Civil Hospital Shahpur Jahanian.According to motorway police, the accident took place due to the negligence of trailer driver.

PM Nawaz calls important meeting regarding NAP on Friday

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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif called the important meeting to discuss the implementation of National Action Plan (NAP) on Friday, reported Dunya News.Heads of all the armed forces, heads of other security institutions and chief ministers of all provinces would be present in the meeting. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar would also give briefing about security situation in the country. Operation Zarb-e-Azb and Karachi operation would also be discussed in the meeting.On the other hand chief minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah will take notice of the important decisions in the Apex committee meeting.

Multan: 4 dead, 100 injured as trains collide

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MULTAN (Dunya News) - 4 people died and 100 were injured on Thursday as Awami Express, which was going to Peshawar from Karachi, collided into another train in Multan, reported Dunya News.According to sources, 4 boggies of Awami Express got off track, after crashing into the other train, which was there on the track without schedule. All the injured people were shifted to Nishtar Hospital.District Coordination Officer (DCO) Multan told that all those who were stranded inside train were rescued.

Model town incident: Tahirul Qadri decides to take the case to EU

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LAHORE (Dunya News) - Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) would take the Model Town incident case to European Union (EU) as he reached London on Thursday with all the CDs and other evidences, reported Dunya News.Dr Qadri will stay in London for two weeks, where he will raise the issue infront of EU. He will consult some senior lawyers on Thursday and will discuss the points.According to Dr Qadri, they were forced to raise the issue in EU after the violation of human rights in Model Town incident. He will decide the next strategy after consulting the lawyers and will also hold a press conference in London.

Uber launches groundbreaking driverless car service

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PITTSBURGH, Sept 14, 2016 (AFP) - Uber launched a groundbreaking driverless car service Wednesday, jumping ahead of Detroit auto giants and Silicon Valley rivals with technology that could revolutionize transportation.In an ambitious experiment, a fleet of cars laden with lasers, cameras and other sensors -- but with no ones hands on the wheel -- were deployed by the web-based ride service on the challenging roads of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, steering themselves to pick up regular Uber passengers used to being fetched by cars driven by humans.Four of the Ford Fusion hybrids with their ungainly rooftop load of technology were deployed to select customers on Wednesday, with the company showing at least a dozen more ready to put on the streets.And Uber is well-advanced in developing a self-drive car with Swedens Volvo, expected to become the mainstay of the program in the near future.- Solid driving, with help -==============================The cars and their backing technology have been trained on the citys complicated road grid for less than two years.But demonstration rides ahead of the launch showed them very able to handle most situations -- as able as many drivers.Still, just to be sure, the Pittsburgh Uber regulars who summon a driverless car will also get two company technicians with them to make sure everything goes right.One will sit behind the wheel, with hands at the ready to take over in sticky spots, while the other monitors the cars behavior.Uber will not give a timeline, but it aims to reduce that to one technician, still behind the wheel, to intervene and to satisfy existing state policies that require a driver in a car.The goal, Uber officials say, is to get to zero interventions, and no technician along for the ride.The move has put Uber ahead of the rest of the auto industry in getting such cars out for the general public. The major automakers all have driverless car development programs, as do tech giants Google and Apple. And many automakers already have cars on the road with advanced driver assist technology, most notably Tesla.Indeed, Uber itself was beaten to the punch at launching the first driverless call service by the Singapore startup nuTonomy, which put six cars on the road at the end of August.But the Singapore experiment is so far limited to a smallish area on the very flat, well-planned Southeast Asia island. Ubers landscape is the whole of Pittsburgh, a major US city with very steep hills, old narrow streets and multiple bridges and highways built through the middle.What allowed Uber to get to the front of the pack was not auto engineering but rather its ability to accumulate and crunch massive amounts of data on road and driving conditions collected from the billions of miles driven by Uber drivers.We have one of the strongest self-driving engineering groups in the world, as well as the experience that comes from running a ridesharing and delivery network in hundreds of cities, said Uber founder and chief executive Travis Kalanick in a blog post Wednesday.- Future for Uber drivers? -==============================The driverless cars challenge the image of what Uber has become: an app-based service of the gig economy that gave millions of car owners around the world the chance to make money ferrying passengers without taxicab licenses.Just blocks from Ubers new driverless car center in Pittsburgh, a huge billboard pitched for new Uber drivers: Start earning this week it said.But Ubers vision suggests a world of taxis on call by app with no drivers at all. That would be far away, Uber officials stress.Even when these technology issues get fixed, we believe ridesharing will be a mix -- with services provided by both drivers and self-driving Ubers, Kalanick said.Nevertheless, says Anthony Levandowski, Ubers vice president of engineering, Self-driving is core to Ubers mission.Indeed, Levandowski came to Uber when it took over his own startup Otto, which was developing self-driving technology for commercial trucks. The company now has six driverless trucks being tested on California roads.Kalanick says the main aim is to create safer roads by cutting down accidents, freeing space used by surplus private cars, and lowering congestion.As for the driverless cars own safety record, company officials say that so far in Pittsburgh they havent had any accidents. But they have trained the cars minders on how to respond when the inevitable happens.

US gives $181 million in additional relief aid to Iraq

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BAGHDAD, Sept 14, 2016 (AFP) - The United States on Wednesday announced it was providing $181 million (160 million euros) in additional humanitarian assistance to Iraq ahead of an operation to retake the jihadist hub of Mosul.The announcement was made by US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken shortly after he arrived in Baghdad for meetings, including with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.Today I am pleased to announce that the United States is providing more than $181 million in additional life-saving assistance to help meet critical humanitarian needs of those displaced by conflict, including those who will be affected as Mosul is liberated, he told reporters.Blinken said the additional funding brought to around $1.1 billion the amount of humanitarian aid from the US to Iraq since 2014, when the Islamic State group took over parts of the country.The United Nations has warned that an upcoming military operation on Mosul -- Iraqs second city and IS last remaining major stronghold in the country -- could displace up to one million people.The new funding... will enable humanitarian workers to preposition emergency food supplies and basic relief items, Blinken said.He said it would also provide for health care and education, as well as camp management, which was identified as a major flaw during the displacement that resulted from an operation to retake the city of Fallujah in June.Blinken said Iraqi forces backed by the US-led coalition had retaken 50 percent of the territory IS held in Iraq two years ago and added that nearly a million displaced people had been able to return to their homes in liberated areas.Ultimately however, victory against Daesh (IS) on the battlefield is necessary but not sufficient to give citizens the confidence, the support and the services they need to return home, he said.The aid community has said that aid appeals remain massively under-funded, leaving the country unprepared for what the UN has warned could be Iraqs biggest humanitarian crisis yet.Abadi has promised Mosul would be retaken by the end of the year but the scope of the humanitarian needs and the difficulty of bringing all political forces together could make that deadline a hard one to meet.Around 3.4 million Iraqis have been displaced since the start of 2014.

France's Monfils out of the Davis Cup tie against Croatia

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ZADAR, Croatia, Sept 14, 2016 (AFP) - France received a second blow ahead of their Davis Cup World Group semi-final clash in Croatia with US Open semi-finalist Gael Monfils ruled out Wednesday with a knee injury.World number eight Monfils pulled up with a bad pain in his knee during training, aggravating an injury he picked up on his arrival at his hotel in Zadar.France are already without Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who was forced out of his US Open quarter-final clash with Novak Djokovic with a left knee problem.Richard Gasquet, ranked 17th, who had been called up in to replace Tsonga, will now fulfil singles duties, along with 18th-ranked Lucas Pouille.Its a shock for us, France captain Yannick Noah said on the French Tennis Federation website.We gave him the morning off but at midday (Wednesday) it still wasnt better. So we had to make a decision and as we speak he should be on his way home.Weve worked a lot with Richard. He already worked a lot in Paris and we pushed him hard. Richard is ready.The two countries have met once before in 2004, with France winning 4-1 winners in Metz. The winner will meet either defending champions Great Britain or Argentina in Novembers final.

Oil prices drop as Libya moves to boost exports

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NEW YORK, Sept 14, 2016 (AFP) - World crude prices sank Wednesday as Libyas state oil company said it would double production within four weeks after rebels handed it control of the vital Oil Crescent ports.Also supporting prices was the weekly US oil reserves report, which showed an unexpectedly sharp increase in stockpiled refined products while crude stocks were only slightly lower.US crude benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for delivery in October fell $1.32 to $43.58 a barrel.In London, Brent North Sea crude for November delivery lost $1.25 to $45.85 a barrel.The fall came after Libyas National Oil Corporation said it would start working immediately to restore exports from the key ports that were seized from the government by rival troops on Sunday and Monday, threatening the countrys financial lifeblood.On Tuesday the rebels said they would turn the ports over to NOC.Shortly after that NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla said in a statement that it could raise production from the current 290,000 barrels a day to 600,000 barrels within four weeks. By the end of the year, he said, NOC could by production 950,000 barrels a day.That would add a substantial supply of crude to world markets even as the OPEC cartel and Russia are to hold talks this month on capping output.Sanalla stressed in a statement that meeting those goals depends on the Oil Crescent ports and the closed pipelines in the southwest being opened and kept open.Meanwhile the US Department of Energy reported Wednesday that commercial crude inventories fell about 600,000 barrels in the week to September 9, but that a jump in stored refined products meant the overall petroleum stocks balance jumped by 6.0 million barrels.The oil report was not as bullish as the headline number may have suggested, so concerns about oversupply remain firmly in place, City Index oil analyst Fawad Razaqzada told AFP.Not only did stocks of gasoline and distillates rise sharply, crude production was up for the first time in four weeks, too.

Politics of protests is hurdle in Pakistan's progress: Shehbaz Sharif

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LAHORE (Dunya News) - Chief Minister (CM) Punjab Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that Pakistanis only want progress but politics of protests is hurdle in progress and development of Pakistan, reported Dunya News.Shehbaz Sharif was talking on the second day of Eid as he said that some people are trying to create probems for government by stopping the projects. He said that some people are afraid of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawazs (PML-N) performance as they have a fear that if ongoing projects would be completed before 2018, PML-N will win elections again.

Multan: Swing broken in Jinnah park, 1 dead, 7 injured

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MULTAN (Dunya News) - 1 died, 7 were injured on Wednesday in Multan as a swing was broken in Jinnah Park, reported Dunya News.Rescue teams reached the spot soon and took the injured people to the Nishtar Hospital for treatment. Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif took notice and asked administration to submit the report of the incident.He also instructed the hospital administration to give special treatment to the children. He ordered that investigation should be done as soon as possible and action should be taken against those who are guilty.As a result, 2, including the contractor were arrested by police. An eye witnessed told that operator did not fasten the seat belts properly after having an argument with a person.Parks & Horticulture Authority (PHA) had issued the certificate about the swings.

Everyone talked on phone, MQM founder asked about health on Twitter: Farooq Sattar

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KARACHI (Dunya News) - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar said on Wednesday that heads of all parties talked to him on phone to inquire about health but MQM founder only asked about his health on Twitter, reported Dunya News.Farooq Sattar was discharged from hospital after getting treat for few days. He was admitted in hospital after meeting a car accident on Sunday, while he was coming back to Karachi from Hyderabad.The MQM leader said that it was nothing else than miracle that he was saved in the accident. He told that he was happy when Jamaat Islami (JI) contingent came to meet him. He added that Governor Sindh and DG Rangers also inquired about his health whereas Nadeem Nusrat sent well wishes from London.

India, Afghanistan to enhance intelligence sharing against terrorism

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New Delhi (Dunya News) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in New Delhi, reported Dunya News.Both the leaders agreed to enhance intelligence sharing against terrorism.The friendly relationships between India and Afghanistan are reaching new levels as India pledges $1 Billion in economic aid to Afghanistan.Both the countries also agreed to enhance intelligence sharing and mutualstrategic coordination against extremism.Afghan President also expressed his grief over the ongoing arm race in the area and termed it as a serious threat to regional peace.

Rangers apprehend three terror suspects in Karachi

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Karachi (Dunya News) – Rangers arrested three terror suspects in a search operation inside Baldia Town and Gadap Town areas of Karachi, reported Dunya news.According to details, heavy ammunition and explosives were also recovered from the terrorists in the search operation.Sources confirmed that the terrorists were hatching a heaving terrorist activity inside Karachi.

Earthquake tremors felt in Swat and surrounding vicinities

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Swat (Dunya News) – Earthquake jolted Swat and surrounding areas, reported Dunya News.According to details, the quake measured 5 on the Ritcher scale and had a depth of 180 kilometers.The epicenter of the earthquake was located somewhere around Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan’s border areas.
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