Friday 21 July 2017

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US warns Iran of 'new and serious consequences' if Americans not returned

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Donald Trumps White House dialed up the pressure on Iran Friday, demanding the quick return of Americans detained in the Islamic Republic.President Trump is prepared to impose new and serious consequences on Iran unless all unjustly imprisoned American citizens are released and returned, the White House said in a statement.The tough warning comes just days after Trump rowed back on a campaign promise and upheld the Iran nuclear deal, while introducing new non-nuclear related sanctions.The threat of prisoner-related sanctions opens up a new front in tensions between Tehran and the Trump administration.The measure comes after a Chinese American accused of infiltration in Iran was sentenced to 10 years in prison.The man was identified as Xiyue Wang, a 37-year-old researcher at Princeton University.US officials say Trump has taken a keen interest in the fate of Americans held overseas and was deeply affected by the case of Otto Warmbier, a student who was released last month from a North Korean prison in a coma and died shortly after being sent back home.President Donald J. Trump and his Administration are redoubling efforts to bring home all Americans unjustly detained abroad, the White House statement said.The United States condemns hostage takers and nations that continue to take hostages and detain our citizens without just cause or due process.The statement mentioned Xiyue Wang by name, along with Siamak and Baquer Namazi and ex-FBI agent and CIA contractor Robert Levinson -- who went missing in March 2007.Washington and Tehran have had no diplomatic relations since April 1980 in the wake of the Islamic revolution, and tensions have sharpened under Trump after a brief warming under his predecessor, Barack Obama.The two countries along with other major powers signed an accord July 14, 2015 aimed at curbing Irans nuclear program. Washington has continued to honor the accord despite Trumps threats as a candidate last year to rip it up.

Karachi: Police nab 33 suspects during search operation

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KARACHI (Dunya News) – At least 33 suspects were taken into custody during police search operation in different localities of Baldia Town in Karachi on Friday, Dunya News reported.According to details, police carried out house-to-house search in different localities of Baldia Town durin which at least 33 suspects were taken into custody.According to SP Baldia Town, at least six accused were among the arrested persons. Police sources said that the arrested persons were later shifted to police station.

Youth martyred, 4 civilian injured in unprovoked Indian firing at LoC

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RAWALPINDI (Dunya News) – A young boy was martyred and four other civilians were wounded when Indian troops fired on civilians preparing for Friday prayers in Gheekot and Mandal villages of Lipa sector.According to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), Indian ceasefire violations continue despite facing losses of men and material inflicted by Pakistan Armys response.Giving details of the latest incident, ISPR said that the Indian Army targeted innocent civilians in Gheekot and Mandal villages of Lipa sector where civilians were preparing for Jumma prayers.One young boy was martyred and four civilians injured in the Indian forces shelling.The ISPR further stated that Pakistani troops befittingly responded to the Indian aggression, killing three Indian soldiers and wounding many more. Three Indian check posts were also destroyed.

Ch Nisar obtains official blue passport

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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has obtained the official blue passport which is will be valid for the next 10 years, Dunya News reported on Friday.Sources said that the blue passport was issued to Ch Nisar on Monday at 11:30am. The blue passport will be valid for the next 10 years.Ch Nisar already possesses diplomatic red passport and green passport. Sources said that Interior Ministers diplomatic red passport will expire in 2021.

FIA, relatives of Zafar Hijazi manhandle journalists at PIMS Hospital

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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Chairman Zafar Hijazi was taken into custody on Friday by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) after a special court dismissed his interim pre-arrest bail application in a case pertaining to tampering with records of Chaudhry Sugar Mills owned by the Sharif family.Zafar Hijazi fell ill during FIA interrogation and was brought to PIMS Hospital for different medical tests. The FIA officials and relatives of Zafar Hijazi manhandled a team of a private TV channel including a female reporter while they were performing their professional duties during the production of former SECP Chairman in PIMS hospital.Relatives of former SECP Chairman brutally toured a young journalist while FIA officials manhandled the female reporter and her male colleague and locked them up in a room.Meanwhile, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan while taking notice of the incident has sought an immediate report.

Sri Lanka skipper Chandimal to miss India Test

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COLOMBO (AFP) - Rangana Herath will lead Sri Lanka in the first Test against India after Dinesh Chandimal was admitted to hospital Friday with pneumonia, chief selector Sanath Jayasuriya said.He (Chandimal) was down with flu, but today it got worse and he was taken to hospital, Jayasuriya told AFP. He is down with pneumonia and will not be able to play the first Test starting on Wednesday.Jayasuriya said Chandimals health would be monitored before a call is taken on his availability for the second Test.Chandimal was named as skipper of the Test squad last week after Angelo Mathews quit following a humiliating 3-2 defeat in the one-day international series against Zimbabwe.Herath, 39, took 11 wickets in the one-off Test against Zimbabwe with his left-arm spin to jump to the second place in world rankings behind Indias Ravindra Jadeja.India and Sri Lanka will play three Tests, five one-day internationals and one T20 in their first series involving all three formats of the game in eight years.

Lord's revellers hit with booze reduction

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LONDON (AFP) - English cricket ground Lords is clamping down on alcohol allowance for fans after a recent incident at the first Test between England and South Africa, the Marylebone Cricket Club announced.Fans at the famous stadium have long been allowed to bring in as much of their own booze as they like, but new rules suggest that this will be a thing of the past.Lords members may only be allowed to take up to two pints of beer into the grounds if it is under six per cent alcohol, or a single 75cl bottle of wine if it is between six and 18 per cent -- the same restrictions as Wimbledon.Amounts of alcohol in excess of these limits... will be confiscated, said the MCC.Under no circumstances will any spectator be readmitted to Lords Ground at any time during the day if in possession of any alcohol.MCC reserves the right to confiscate any quantity of alcohol from any spectator, leaving or entering Lords Ground.Lords has not commented on the extensity of the incident referred to during Englands victory over the Proteas.The decision follows a ban on champagne in the Lords stands, which was issued by the club last year, with the corks seen as a potential hazard to boundary fielders.

Siemens scales back Russian ops over Crimea turbines

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FRANKFURT AM MAIN (AFP) - German industrial conglomerate Siemens said Friday it would scale back its Russia operations after confirming gas turbines it sold to companies there had been diverted to Ukraines Russian-annexed Crimea region in breach of sanctions.All four gas turbines that were delivered in the summer of 2016... have since been locally modified and illegally moved to Crimea, the group said in a statement.The peninsula has been subject to EU sanctions on energy technology since Russia annexed it from Ukraine in 2014.Munich-based Siemens said it would freeze deliveries of power generation equipment to state-controlled Russian customers.It will also divest its minority stake in Russian company Interautomatika, which sells power-plant control systems.And it will terminate a licensing agreement for power generation equipment that it had signed with Russian firms.Siemens is implementing an additional controls regime that is exceeding legal requirements by far, it said.New gas power projects in Russia would only be carried out through companies it controls, ensuring Siemens-controlled delivery and installation overseen by Siemens personnel, it added.After confirming that two of the turbines had been delivered to Crimea almost two weeks ago, Siemens announced that it had launched legal proceedings against the individuals responsible.A German government spokesman told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that Russian President Vladimir Putin himself had assured Berlin the turbines would not end up in Crimea.Putin gave the assurances to Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, the papers Saturday edition reported.The turbines had originally been supplied for a power-plant project in Taman, in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia -- separated from Crimea by just a few kilometres of water.Chancellor Angela Merkels spokesman Steffen Seibert last week pressed Siemens to bring the details of the sanctions breach to light, calling the turbine delivery to Crimea remarkable and completely unacceptable.

Pentagon chief says he thinks IS leader Baghdadi is alive

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Friday that he believes Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive, following various claims he was dead.I think Baghdadis alive... and Ill believe otherwise when we know weve killed him, Mattis told Pentagon reporters.We are going after him, but we assume he is alive.There have been persistent rumors that Baghdadi has died in recent months.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a longtime conflict monitor, last week said it had heard from senior IS leaders in Syrias Deir Ezzor province that Baghdadi was dead.Russias army said in mid-June that it was seeking to verify whether it had killed the IS chief in a May air strike in Syria.With a $25 million US bounty on his head, Baghdadi has kept a low profile but was rumored to move regularly throughout IS-held territory in Iraq and Syria.The Iraqi native has not been seen since making his only known public appearance as caliph in 2014 at the Grand Mosque of Al-Nuri in Mosul, which was destroyed in the battle for Iraqs second city.

Supreme Court notifies Imran Khan to submit London flat money trail

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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has been notified by the top court to submit money trail of London apartment.His counsel Naeem Bukhari had assured Supreme Court to submit the money trail within one week which is about to be completed. The money trail cannot be submitted after the due date.In the notification, Imran Khan was told about the consequences of not submitting the money trail within time. The apex court registrar told him to submit the money trail as soon as possible.The court also attached an attested copy of the July 13 order with the notice. Imran’s lawyer had requested Supreme Court to allow some time after which the judge extended the date for money trail submission.The next hearing is due on July 25.Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Hanif Abbasi had earlier filed a petition against PTI Chairman and demanded a money trail from him.

Op Khyber-4: One sepoy martyred, Pak Army soldiers march forward

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(Web Desk) – Operation Khyber-4 has been successfully eradicating terrorism from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) regions. One sepoy embraced shahadat due to improvised explosive device (IED) blast on Friday, according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).The ground troops of Pakistan Army have established their posts on significant heights of Rajgal Valley situated in Khyber Agency, KP. While the soldiers of Pak Army have been quick to march forward, the engineers skillfully neutralized IEDs and provided their support during clearance operations.The army Jawan named Muhammad Yasir, who was martyred in the IED blast, was paid tribute by the state force with funeral prayer at Peshawar Garrison on Friday.Khyber-IV was launched onJuly 16 and its aim is defend the country from Islamic State (IS) infiltration from Afghanistan to tribal areas. Yesterday, 13 terrorists werekilled and Pak Army soldiers cleared 90 square kilometer land from the occupation of terrorist outfits.

Chelsea complete signing of Alvaro Morata

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LONDON (AFP) - Premier League champions Chelsea completed the signing of Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata on a five-year-deal on Friday in a deal reported to be worth 80 million euros.I am so happy to be here. Its an incredible emotion to be part of this big club. I am looking to work hard, score as many goals as I can and to win as many trophies as possible, the 24-year-old told chelseafc.com

Jihadists battle rebels for control of key Syria province

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BEIRUT (AFP) - A former Al-Qaeda affiliate was locked in fierce clashes Friday with a leading rebel group for control of one of the last major parts of Syria not held by the regime.The clashes in Syrias Idlib province in the countrys northwest pit the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) against the key rebel group Ahrar al-Sham, which is supported by Turkey and some Gulf countries.The factions were once allies and fought alongside each other to capture most of Idlib province from the Syrian government in 2015.But growing tensions between the two have been exacerbated, analysts say, by HTSs fears of a plan to expel the internationally designated terror group from the province.The current fighting erupted on Tuesday and quickly spread throughout the province, including overnight to the key Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.The crossing was previously controlled by Ahrar al-Sham.The fighting is now inside the crossing. It has become a battlefield, with part of it under Hayat Tahrir al-Shams control, and part under Ahrar al-Shams control, Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Observatory, said.HTS also seized two villages and dispatched huge military reinforcements to a third to take on Ahrar al-Sham, he added.The monitor said the fighting has so far killed at least 83 people, including 15 civilians.An AFP correspondent in the province also reported heavy clashes as HTS fighters attempted to break into the town of Ram Hamdan, in the east of the province, including the sound of large explosions and heavy weaponry.Jihadist fire on protestsHTS is dominated by the Fateh al-Sham faction, which was previously known as Al-Nusra Front before renouncing its ties to Al-Qaeda.The clashes have been accompanied by sporadic demonstrations against HTS in several parts of the province, including in the town of Saraqeb where the jihadists on Wednesday and Thursday opened fire on protests against them.On Wednesday, the shots killed a media activist participating in the demonstrations in the town.Both sides have set up new checkpoints, and parts of the province have been transformed into virtual ghost towns with residents staying home for fear of being caught in the crossfire, AFPs correspondent said.The Observatory four civilians and the media activist were among the 15 civilians who have lost their lives in the violence so far.It also reported that 68 fighters from both sides had been killed.Experts said the outbreak of violence comes against the backdrop of a deal agreed in the Kazakh capital Astana in May for four de-escalation zones in Syria.The agreement between regime allies Russia and Iran, and rebel backer Turkey, designates the Idlib region as one of the mooted zones where combat between the government and rebels would halt.HTS opposes the agreement, which calls for continued fighting against jihadist groups like its main component Fateh al-Sham Front.Vying for controlAs soon as there was the announcement of Idlib as a de-escalation zone, thats it, said Nawar Oliver, a military analyst at the Istanbul-based Omran Centre think-tank.HTS felt like a war is upon it, he told AFP.You have these two main rebel forces that are vying for control for Idlib province, added Sam Heller, a Syria expert at the Century Foundation.Whatever kind of political or ideological differences existed between them have been exacerbated or inflamed by the Astana talks, as well as by the rumours -- if not the reality -- of some larger deal that would work against HTS, he said.Oliver added that the fighting was a chance for each side to gain valuable territory, including the border crossing where taxes and tariffs can be extracted.This is an attempt by each faction to extend more influence and control over new areas, he said.Idlib is one of the last major parts of Syria beyond the control of the government, which has recaptured vast swathes of territory from opposition fighters since its ally Russia intervened on its behalf in September 2015.More than 330,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011 with anti-government protests.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer resigns

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - White House press secretary Sean Spicer and a member of President Donald Trumps legal team resigned Friday in a one-two punch to a reeling administration, as pressure mounts from a broadening investigation into the Trump campaigns ties to Russia.Spicer resigned in opposition to Trumps naming of Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street financier and longtime supporter of the billionaire investor-turned-president, as the new White House communications director, a White House official told AFP.Mark Corallo, who coordinated the Trump legal teams public response to the crisis over a probe into possible campaign collusion with Moscow, also stepped down, according to an email he sent to AFP.Spicers press briefings -- often combative affairs with White House reporters -- became increasingly infrequent in recent months, with deputy spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders stepping in to address journalists, often in off-camera briefings.Sanders however was due to go in front of the cameras later Friday.Spicers departure dramatically escalates the tensions within the administration over the direction the investigation is taking, and how the White House is responding.No reason was given for Corallos departure, and Spicer so far has remained publicly silent. But the moves come after Trump waded into potentially perilous legal territory by warning investigators not to look into his family finances.In an expansive interview with The New York Times earlier this week, Trump appeared to make that a red line for special counsel Robert Mueller.Mueller is examining whether Trump or his aides colluded with Russias apparent efforts to help tilt the 2016 presidential election in Trumps favor.Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, but has struggled to explain why his eldest son and key aides met Russian operatives who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton.- Fundamental line -With the investigation apparently extending to financial transactions, US media reported that Trump allies were looking into issuing presidential pardons and for ways to discredit Muellers investigation.Trump himself has suggested that Mueller -- a widely respected former FBI director -- may have a conflict of interest.There is NO basis to question the integrity of Mueller or those serving with him in the special counsels office, said former attorney general Eric Holder.Trump cannot define or constrain Mueller investigation. If he tries to do so this creates issues of constitutional and criminal dimension.The White House has pointedly refused to rule out the possibility that Trump would fire Mueller -- an act that would prompt a political firestorm and perhaps a constitutional crisis.Trump has already fired his FBI director James Comey over the Russia investigation and lashed out at his own attorney general Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the probe.Adam Schiff, the leading Democrat on a House of Representatives intelligence committee that is separately investigating Russian actions around the time of the election, also warned that Trump was wandering into dangerous territory.There is no doubt that Mueller has the authority to investigate anything that arises from his investigation into the Trump campaigns ties to Russia, including financial links, Schiff said.The top Democrat on the Senates intelligence committee, Mark Warner, warned that pardoning anybody who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line.

Beware A creepy virus can spy on you pretending to be WhatsApp

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(Web Desk) – Android users have to be very careful while installing anything from Play Store as a new Android virus called GhostCTRL can reportedly call records,steal photos and browser history.Smartphone users can be tricked into installing the app. The malware software can steal everything from inside the phone including photos and videos. It can even get access to the microphone and spy on people by listening to their calls.Trend Micro researchers identified GhostCTRL and told it can get into the phone through popular Android apps like WhatsApp and Pokemon Go. This virus has some exceptional advance techniques through which it can record each and everything through the phone’s camera and microphone. Moreover, the browser activity and call records can become unprotected as well.It was highlighted that the malware is programmed better than other smartphone viruses. It can help cyber criminals to collect sensitive and cause harm to Android users, so users need to remain cautious and avoid installing applications from unauthentic sources.
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