Sunday 4 December 2016

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11 killed, 65 injured in Karachi hotel fire

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KARACHI (Dunya News) - At least 11 people were killed when a four-star hotel in Pakistan‘s southern port city of Karachi caught fire early Monday.Reportedly, 65 people suffered injuries in the blaze, which started in the hotel kitchen.TV footage of the incident showed guests at the hotel using bedsheets to climb down from windows.Head of emergency at Karachi’s Jinnah Hospital, Dr. Semi Jamali said some foreigners were among those being treated for burns.The cause of fire is not confirmed yet.

Bhakkar: Three bogies of Khushal Express derailed

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BHAKKAR (Dunya News) – Khushal Express from escaped a major disaster when its three bogies were derails at the Bahal Phattak near Bhakkar on Sunday, Dunya News reported.Khushal Express was en-route to Peshawar from Karachi. Luckily all the passengers of the train remained safe. The railway traffic at the Kot Addu-Kundiyan Section was suspended after the accident.Rescue teams of Pakistan Railway reached the spot a started work to repair damaged railway track.

Pindi Bhattian: Man commits suicide after killing wife, 4 others

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PINDI BHATTIAN (Dunya News) – A family dispute claimed lives of six people in Pindi Bhattian on Sunday, Dunya News reported. Two people were also wounded in the incident.According to details, a man identified as Mansab went to his in-laws house to bring back his estrange wife but she refused to return. Her refusal infuriated Mansab who resorted to indiscriminate firing, killing his wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law while his two daughters were also wounded by firing. Mansab committed suicide soon after the massacre. Police have reached the spot and shifted the dead and injured to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital.

Two killed, 37 injured in Karachi hotel fire

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KARACHI (Dunya News) – At least two people were killed and 37 other received burn injuries when fire broke out at a six-storey hotel near Jinnah Hospital in Karachi on Sunday night, Dunya News reported.At least 50 people including foreigners, who were trapped in the hotel building, were rescued safely by the rescue teams. The dead and injured were shifted to Jinnah Hospital.Fire brigade from across Karachi reached the spot which brought the blaze under control after several hours’ hectic effort while cooling process is still ongoing.Teams of Pakistan Army, Rangers and police also participated in the rescue operation. Mayor Karachi, Waseem Akhtar also reached the spot to monitor rescue operation.

Punjab CM Shehbaz Sharif reaches London

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LONDON (Dunya News) - Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif reached London after the tour of Turkey on Monday, reported Dunya News.Shehbaz Sharif has gone to London for his medical check-up. He was received by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supporters on the airport. Before his arrival his supporters clashed with each other and police had to intervene to control them.

Punjab CM Shehbaz Sharif meets Turkish president Erdogan

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ANKARA (Dunya News) - Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif met the Turkish president Teyyep Erdogan on Monday in Ankara, reported Dunya News.Erdogan said that Turkey will always stand with Pakistan in good and bad times. He thanked Pakistan for supporting Turkey against the rebellion.He added that Pakistan and Turkey have always been good friends and it will continue same way. Shehbaz Sharif also met the Turkish prime minister Binali Yldrm.

Mourinho says Man United are victims of double standards

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LIVERPOOL (AFP) - Jose Mourinho claimed he is being judged unfairly by critics after Manchester United conceded a late Leighton Baines penalty in a damaging 1-1 draw at Everton.Mourinhos team have won just twice in the league since the end of August, a run which has featured numerous draws and has derailed Uniteds hopes of winning a title in their managers debut season at Old Trafford.However, Mourinho, who earned a reputation for not always winning in the most attractive style when in charge of Chelsea, insists his side is playing well and that he is being held to a double standard.You have to make a decision because when my teams are playing pragmatic football and winning matches and winning titles, you say it is not right and nice, Mourinho said.When my teams play very, very well, there is a huge change in relation to the past two or three years. Now you say what matters is to get result, no matter what.At the moment teams are getting results, defending with 11 players, keeping the ball and playing on the counter-attack. You have to make a decision.The last comment may have been a thinly-disguised reference to Chelsea and their current style of play.But, in any case, United had only themselves to blame for their latest disappointment as late substitute Marouane Fellaini tripped Idrissa Gueye and Baines struck the equalising penalty.Mourinho, whose side are 13 points behind leaders Chelsea, did not take kindly to questions about his decision to bring on the Belgian and said: I thought you would know more about football than you do.It is obvious. Everton is not a passing team. They play direct. Everything is direct.When a team is losing it plays direct, when you have a player on the bench with two metres (height) you play that player in front of the defensive line to win the match.Bainess penalty cancelled out the opening goal from Zlatan Ibrahimovic and a strong spell from United who also saw Ander Herrera hit a post.It was another game with a very good performance in a very difficult place to play, said MourinhoA very emotional stadium against a team with very good players.We are playing very well at home, being super dominant. We are playing very well away controlling matches and performing really well with some amazing performance but not getting the results we deserve.United defender Phil Jones, who continued his impressive recent form after returning from injury problems, articulated the frustration in the visitors camp.Its happened too many times, weve dropped too many points, said Jones.Thats four or five games I can think of where we have completely dominated and didnt win. Its happened again.United might have had greater problems had defender Marcos Rojo been dismissed in the first half, instead of earning a yellow card, for a horrific lunge at Gueye, although Everton manager Ronald Koeman refused to criticise the Argentinian.Its difficult, said Koeman who made three excellent substitutions to rescue the point.Maybe if the referee could watch it back, maybe it would be a red card. We always have discussions about red or yellow, if its a penalty, but finally its a fair result. Both teams didnt deserve to lose.We can fight back, we showed that today. It was disappointing to go 1-0 down but we didnt deserve to lose the match.We showed that commitment and qualities and the three subs had a big impact on the game. We deserved it because we were dangerous in the second half.

Raids kill dozens in Syria's Idlib, army advances in Aleppo

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ALEPPO (AFP) - Suspected Russian air strikes killed at least 46 people in opposition-held parts of Syria Sunday, a monitor said, as government forces advanced in fierce clashes with rebels in east Aleppo.Syrias government is waging an offensive to recapture all of second city Aleppo, and it has so far captured more than 60 percent of eastern districts that fell to rebels in 2012.In Idlib province, in northwest Syria, at least 26 civilians were killed in suspected Russian strikes on the town of Kafr Nabel, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.An eyewitness told AFP warplanes hit several places in the town, including a market.The Observatory says it determines whose planes carry out raids according to their type, location, flight patterns and the munitions involved.The group said 18 people were also killed in suspected Russian strikes on the town of Maaret al-Numan, where an AFP photographer saw rescue workers and residents trying to pull survivors from rubble at a market.The monitor reported two additional deaths, one in an earlier strike on Maaret al-Numan and another in Al-Naqir, also in Idlib.It said six civilians, four of them children, had been killed in a government barrel bomb attack on the town of Al-Tamanah in the same province.Russia, a staunch ally of President Bashar al-Assads government, began a military intervention in support of Damascus in September 2015.Moscow says it is targeting terrorists and has dismissed reports of civilian casualties in its strikes.In east Aleppo, government forces advanced against rebels, taking three neighbourhoods and pushing into a fourth, state media and the Russian defence ministry said.The army and allied forces are nearly three weeks into an operation to recapture all of the city, divided between regime and rebel forces since 2012.Tens of thousands of civilians have fled the offensive, which has made steady gains and threatens to deal Syrias opposition its worst defeat in the five-year civil war.State television said late Sunday the army had captured the districts of Karm al-Tahan and Myessar and advanced into the Qadi Askar neighbourhood.The Russian defence ministry said regime forces had also taken the district of Karm al-Katurji.Rebels are increasingly under pressure in the remaining southeastern districts they control.State news agency SANA said the air force was dropping leaflets over rebel-held areas urging militants to abandon their weapons and... allow civilians and the sick and wounded to leave.Damascus says rebels are preventing civilians from leaving the east and trying to use them as human shields.But tens of thousands of residents have fled the east as the army has advanced, with some heading south to remaining rebel territory and others going to areas under government or Kurdish control.The east has been pounded with air strikes, barrel bombs and artillery fire.At least 311 civilians, including 42 children, have been killed in east Aleppo since the government assault began, the Observatory says.Rebel fire on west Aleppo in the same period has killed 69 civilians, including 28 children, it says.On Sunday, the bombardment of rebel districts was so fierce it shook buildings in the west as well as in the east, AFP correspondents on both sides said.The Observatory said a woman and two children were killed in the eastern neighbourhood of Fardos in government artillery fire.The latest assault has added to the massive destruction in east Aleppo, which has seen some of the worst violence in the conflict that began in March 2011 with anti-government protests.The army has encouraged residents to return to recently recaptured neighbourhoods, but many who have ventured across to see their old homes have found nothing but rubble.This is all we found, this photo of my niece. It is precious to us, and we found a copy of the Koran, so we brought that too, said Um Yayha, 55.The Russian defence ministry also said Syrian government forces took control of the town of Al-Tal outside Damascus after a local truce. More than 500 rebels from the Fateh al-Sham Front have left Al-Tal for Idlib over the last days with 1,500 family members, it said, referring to Al-Qaedas former Syrian affiliate.Despite international outcry over the conflict, successive attempts to end it have failed.UN envoy Staffan de Mistura on Saturday urged a return to negotiations, warning of a creeping, ongoing guerilla (war) and no reconstruction unless peace talks resumed.

Kerry accuses Israeli right of sabotaging peace process

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday accused right-wing Israelis of deliberately thwarting efforts to broker a peace deal with the Palestinians.In unusually stark terms, Washingtons top diplomat warned that Israeli settlement building was undermining any hope of an agreement to allow two states to live side-by-side.At the Saban Forum, an annual gathering of senior Israeli and US policymakers, Kerry said some members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus government had made profoundly disturbing statements.And more than 50 percent of the ministers in the current government have publicly stated they are opposed to a Palestinian state and that there will be no Palestinian state, he said.Earlier in the day, Netanyahu had addressed the forum via video link, arguing that Israeli settlement building was not an obstacle to peace.Israel was ready for talks with no preconditions, he said, urging Arab governments to recognize the state of Israel.However, Kerry dismissed the idea that more Arab states would strike peace deals with Israel without any moves towards an agreement with the Palestinians.There will be no advance and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace, he said. Everybody needs to understand that. That is a hard reality.In the US governments view, Israels accelerated building on Palestinian-owned land is not only an obstacle to peace but deliberately so, Kerry added.Im not here to tell you that the settlements are the reason for the conflict, no, theyre not, Kerry said.But I also can not accept the notion that they dont affect the peace process, that they arent a barrier to the capacity to have peace, he argued. And Ill tell you why I know that: because the left in Israel is telling everybody they are a barrier to peace and the right that supports it openly supports it because they dont want peace.US President Barack Obamas administration, which comes to an end next month with no prospect of a revived peace process, has been frustrated by the attitude of Netanyahus government.Still, Kerry insisted Israel has no greater friend than Washington.Since he arrived at the State Department in February 2013, he has spoken to Netanyahu on 375 formally recorded occasions for more than 130 hours of discussions, he said.Washington has opposed all attempts to pressure Israel through votes on United Nations bodies, he added, and has just signed a 10-year $38 billion military support deal, the biggest in US history.

Putin says 'clever' Trump will soon grasp weighty role

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MOSCOW (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin in an interview aired Sunday called US President-elect Donald Trump intelligent and predicted he would quickly grasp his new level of responsibility and act accordingly.Since he managed to achieve success in business, that shows he is a clever person, the Russian strongman said in an interview with NTV television that has already aired in the countrys far east, quoted by TASS news agency.If hes clever, that means he will fully and quite quickly grasp a different level of responsibility.Putin said that Russia expects that he will act precisely on this basis.The Kremlin said last month that the two men agreed, in their first phone call after Trumps election win in November, on the need to normalise Russia-US relations.Putin on Thursday reiterated Moscows readiness to work with Trumps administration once the president-elect takes office in January. It is important to normalise and start to develop bilateral relations on an equal and mutually-beneficial basis, Putin said in his annual state of the nation address.Trump has praised Putins leadership and said he looks forward to a strong and enduring relationship with Russia.During the US election campaign, Putin praised him for appealing effectively to disenchanted American electors.He represents the views of a significant part of society in the United States that is tired of those elites who have been in power for decades, he said in October. He just represents the interests of such ordinary people, and he presents himself as an ordinary guy who criticises those who have already been in power for decades.

Italy's Renzi quits after crushing referendum defeat

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ROME (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced his resignation on Monday, hours after learning he had suffered a crushing defeat in a referendum on constitutional reform.My experience of government finishes here, Renzi told a press conference, acknowledging that the No campaign had won an extraordinarily clear victory in a vote on which he had staked his future.Interior Ministry projections suggested the No camp, led by the populist Five Star Movement, had been backed by 59.5 percent of those who voted.Nearly 70 percent of Italians entitled to vote on Sunday cast their ballots, an exceptionally high turnout that reflected the high stakes and the intensity of the various issues involved.Renzi said he would be visiting President Sergio Mattarella on Monday to hand in his resignation following a final meeting of his cabinet.Mattarella will then be charged with brokering the appointment of a new government or, if he cant do that, ordering early elections.Most analysts see the most likely scenario as being Renzis administration being replaced by a caretaker one dominated by his Democratic Party which will carry on until an election due to take place by the spring of 2018.Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan is the favourite to succeed Renzi as the President of the Council of Ministers, as Italys premier is formally titledThe scale of the No victory was even bigger than opinion polls had been indicating up until November 18, after which the media were banned from publishing survey results.Renzis departure will plunge Italy into a new phase of political uncertainty and possible economic turmoil.The main opposition parties went into the vote insisting that there should be early elections if the proposals -- curtailing the size and powers of Italys Senate and transferring powers from regions to the national government -- were defeated.Renzi had gone into the final weekend of the campaign insisting he could still win voters around but he acknowledged he had failed. The Italian people spoke today in unequivocal fashion, he said.Opposition parties had denounced the proposed amendments to the 68-year-old constitution as dangerous for democracy because they would have removed important checks and balances on executive power.Spearheaded by Five Star, the biggest rival to Renzis Democratic party, the No campaign also capitalised on Renzis declining popularity, a sluggish economy and the problems caused by tens of thousands of migrants arriving in Italy from Africa.Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right Northern League said Renzi should resign immediately and called for early elections.God willing its over. A new era starts tomorrow I hope, he had said earlier in the day.The No vote represents a major victory for Five Star leader Beppe Grillo, who had urged Italians to follow their gut instincts.Renzis backers believed they were voting for overdue change.Outside a polling station in Rome, business owner Raffaele Pasquini, 37, told AFP he had voted Yes in the interest of his two-year-old son.We are voting to try and change a country that has been stalled for far too long, he said.With the euro dipping on the news of Renzis exit, further market turbulence looks inevitable, at least in the short term.And some analysts fear a deeper crisis of investor confidence that could derail a rescue scheme for Italys most indebted banks, triggering a wider financial crisis across the eurozone.After the Brexit vote and Donald Trumps victory in the US presidential election, the No vote is likely to be interpreted as another victory for populist forces and a potential stepping stone to government for Grillos Five Star.But the campaign was not just about popular discontent with the state of Italy. Many Italians of a similar political bent to Renzi had deep reservations about the proposed changes to the constitution.Under the proposals, the second-chamber Senate, currently a body of 315 directly-elected and five lifetime lawmakers, would have been reduced to only 100 members, mostly nominated by the regions. The chamber would also have been stripped of most of its powers to block and revise legislation, and to unseat governments.

Cuba buries Castro, embarking on post-Fidel era

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SANTIAGO DE CUBA (AFP) - Fidel Castros ashes were entombed in a massive stone next to other national heroes on Sunday, opening a new era in Cuba without the revolutionary leader who ruled the island for decades.President Raul Castro placed the cedar urn containing his brothers remains inside the tall round monolith near the mausoleums of the 19th-century independence icon Jose Marti and comrades of Castros rebellion in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.Capping a week of massive tributes, a simple, dark green marble plaque bearing just his first name -- Fidel -- was placed over the niche at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery.Raul Castro gave a military salute at the private ceremony attended by his family and some foreign dignitaries, including Latin American allies from Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, official photos showed.There were no speeches. It was very simple. There were just the ashes that were interred, the family, the government and officials, French Environment Minister Segolene Royal -- criticized in her country for defending Castros human rights record -- told AFP after the hour-long funeral.Castro, who died on November 25 at age 90, was revered by supporters for the free health care and education he provided across the island, but vilified by dissidents who saw him as a brutal dictator.The burial marked the end of nine days of national mourning during which Cubans, often encouraged by the government, flooded the streets to pay tribute to Castro, chanting I am Fidel as his ashes were driven across the Caribbean country.As a military jeep took the urn toward the ceremony, thousands who lined the streets of Santiago shouted viva FidelOn Saturday night, Raul Castro led a final rally in his brothers honor at Santiagos Revolution Plaza, leading the crowd in a pledge to uphold socialist ideals.In front of Fidels remains... we swear to defend the Fatherland and socialism, Raul Castro said.Fidel Castro remained a towering figure in Cuba a decade after intestinal surgery forced him to hand power to his younger brother.Although his image was omnipresent in Cubans lives, Raul Castro said the national assembly will fulfill his brothers dying wish to forbid any statues in his memory or streets named after him.The leader of the revolution rejected any manifestation of a cult of personality, he said.Many held an all-night vigil at Santiagos Revolution Plaza, reading poems and holding pictures of the late leader before his morning funeral.For me, Fidel is a second god and his death has hurt me a lot, said 59-year-old restaurant worker Daisy Vera Ramirez.The government nurtured the religious-like fervor, with state media calling Castro the eternal comandante. During the past week, Cubans were urged to go to schools and other public buildings to sign an oath of loyalty to his revolution.The grief ends. What wont end is what Fidel has said, what he taught us, said Jose Luis Soria, 42, who works in recycling. Fidel Castro came to national prominence launching a botched raid on the Moncada military barracks on July 26, 1953, planting the seed of the revolution that eventually triumphed in 1959.After taking power, he became an ally of the Soviet Union and a thorn in the side of successive US presidents until illness forced him to relinquish power to his brother in 2006.Raul Castro, 85, has implemented modest economic reforms in recent years, restored diplomatic relations with the United States and vowed to step down in 2018.No longer under the shadow of his older brother, Raul may now feel freer to pursue the modest economic reforms he initiated in the last decade, said Jorge Duany, director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University.Although US President Barack Obama has chipped away at the trade and travel restrictions of a decades-long American embargo on Cuba, foreign companies still face obstacles to investing there.Food supplies are tight and public services are being cut back while Cubas key socialist ally Venezuela, which has been providing Cubans with cheap oil, endures a political and economic crisis.That is compounding pressure on Castro to pick up the pace of reforms to kick-start the economy and ensure a smooth transition to his successor in 2018, says Ted Piccone of the Washington-based Brookings Institution think-tank.The legitimacy of the post-Raul government will depend on a much better economic performance, said Piccone, a senior foreign policy adviser under former president Bill Clinton.And although Castro is gone from the scene, his legacy will not vanish overnight.Given his outsized impact on Cuba and the region, its not really goodbye, Piccone said. His memory will cast a shadow over Cuba for a long time.

Donald Trump picks Twitter fight with China

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President-elect Donald Trump fired a Twitter broadside at China on Sunday, accusing the Asian giant of currency manipulation and military expansionism in the South China Sea.The taunt came two days after Trump risked offending Beijing by accepting a call from the Taiwanese president, and heralded the prospect of a trade battle between the worlds largest economies.China was a frequent target of Trumps during his presidential campaign and, as he prepares to take office next month, every sign points to his taking an aggressive line with Beijing.Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into their country (the US doesnt tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? he demanded, adding: I dont think soChina is the United States largest trading partner, but America ran a $366 billion deficit with Beijing in goods and services in 2015, up 6.6 percent on the year before.US politicians often accuse China of artificially depressing its currency, the renminbi, in order to boost its exports -- its value has fallen by around 15 percent in the past two-and-half years.Trump has vowed to formally declare China a currency manipulator on the first day of his presidency, which would oblige the US Treasury to open negotiations with Beijing on allowing the renminbi to rise.With China holding about a trillion dollars in US government debt, Washington would have little leverage in such talks, but the declaration would harm ties and boost the prospect of a trade war.China charges an average 15.6 percent tariff on US agricultural imports and nine percent on other goods, according to the World Trade Organization.Chinese farm products pay 4.4 percent and other goods 3.6 percent when coming into the United States.On Friday, Trump courted Chinese anger by accepting a congratulatory call from Taiwans president Tsai Ing-wen.China regards self-ruling Taiwan as part of its own territory awaiting reunification, and any US move implying support for independence would gravely offend Beijing.Trumps incoming vice president, Mike Pence, played down the significance of the call, describing it as a courtesy, and said any new policy on China would be decided after his inauguration.China responded cautiously to the call, with state media putting it down to Trumps inexperience.

Euro falls as Italian prime minister resigns

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TOKYO (AFP) - The euro briefly fell to a 20-month low against the dollar early Monday after Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced his resignation after losing a referendum on constitutional reform.The euro hit $1.0508 at 8:22 am (2322 GMT), the lowest since March 2015 and down from $1.0664 late Friday.The single currency has since rebounded to $1.0554.Interior Ministry projections suggested the No camp, led by the populist Five Star Movement, had been backed by 59.5 percent of those who voted.The defeat and Renzis departure will plunge Italy into a new phase of political uncertainty and possible economic turmoil.President Sergio Mattarella will be charged with brokering the appointment of a new government to run Italy until the next general election, which is due to take place by the spring of 2018.

Karachi: Couple killed in truck, motorcycle collision

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KARACHI (Dunya News) – According to details, A speeding truck hit a motorcycle at the Mai Colachi Road in Karachi on Sunday, killing a man and his wife on the spot, Dunya News reported.Police sources said that the deceased were identified as Nasir and his wife Mah Jabeen. Sources further informed that the couple was on their way to beach to participate in Sindh Cultural Day celebrations.
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