Section: Geo TV (Pakistan)
Trump’s campaign chairman Manafort resigns: statement
WASHINGTON: Paul Manafort resigned as chairman of US Republican candidate Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on Friday, days after he was effectively demoted in a shake-up of the campaign’s leadership. “This morning Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign,” Trump said in a statement....
Trump shakes up campaign team again as Clinton surges
NEW YORK: Donald Trump on Wednesday restructured his campaign team for the second time in two months, fending off suggestions that his presidential run is in crisis as polls show Hillary Clinton cruising towards victory. The Republican White House nominee, who is tanking in swing states to his Democratic rival, hired a news executive from a...
Putin dismisses powerful chief of staff
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday unexpectedly dismissed his close ally and powerful chief of staff Sergei Ivanov, in the highest-level change inside the Kremlin in several years. The Kremlin said in a statement that Putin had “decreed to relieve Ivanov of his duties” and handed him a job as a special representative...
Authorities in Kuwait seize 1.5 million tablets of controlled substance
MANAMA: Kuwaiti authorities seized a large shipment of amphetamine tablets as they arrived from Ukraine into the northern Arabian Gulf state. According to media reports, 1.5 million pills of the controlled drug Captagon valued at KD3 million ($9.94 million) were stashed inside two containers carrying hardwood charcoal. A Syrian and a Saudi...
Putin says Russia will end sanctions on Turkey gradually
ST PETERSBURG: Russia will phase out sanctions against Turkey step-by-step but the priority is to bring bilateral ties between the two countries to their pre-crisis level, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. Putin, after meeting with President Tayyip Erdogan, said the talks will have an important bearing on the future of...
U.S. urges Russia to halt Syria sieges; Russia slams aid politicization
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council must not allow civilians on both sides of the Syrian city of Aleppo to be cut off from humanitarian aid, the United States said on Monday as Russia accused Washington of politicizing a humanitarian issue. Insurgents effectively broke a month-long government siege of eastern, opposition-held...
I ran the CIA, now I endorse Hillary: former acting director
A former top official of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recently gave backing to presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In an article written in the New York Times on Aug 5 , Michael J. Morell, CIA’s former acting director and deputy director from 2010 to 2013 said that in the upcoming presidential elections on Nov 8, he will...
Obama calls on Republicans to reject ?unfit? Trump
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on Republicans to reject Donald Trump in some of his strongest comments yet about the party’s White House nominee, saying he is “woefully unprepared” and “unfit” to be president. “This isn’t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. This is daily...
At least 84 dead in ?terrorist? Nice truck rampage
NICE: A Tunisian-born man zigzagged a truck through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice, killing at least 84 and injuring dozens of children in what President Francois Hollande on Friday called a “terrorist” attack. One witness said a motorcyclist tried to stop the rampage by drawing level with the truck and...
Russia says two US diplomats expelled in tit-for-tat move
MOSCOW: Moscow on Saturday said it had expelled two US diplomats as a retaliatory move after Washington turfed out two Russian officials over an attack on a US embassy worker last month. “After their unfriendly step two employees of the United States embassy had to leave Moscow,” Russia´s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said....
