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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...
Congo fear increases as sacrificial animals being brought to Lahore
The fear of Congo fever has increased in the city as sacrificial animals are being brought to Lahore from other parts of the province for Eidul Azha. According to an estimate, as many as 0.3 million sacrificial animals are slaughtered every year in the metropolis on the occasion of Eidul Azha and most of them are brought from southern Punjab,...
Fourth Olympic gold for Biles, China flop in Gymnastics
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 16, 2016 (AFP) – US star Simone Biles claimed a record-equalling fourth Olympic womens gold on the floor in Rio on Tuesday as former gymnastics giants China flopped to their worst Games showing in 32 years.The 19-year-old Biles sealed the floor title with a powerful display of acrobatics and tumbling to add to her team,...
First American Olympian to compete in hijab wins bronze medal
Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad came to the Rio Games determined to show the world that Muslim-American women could compete in elite sports. And the 30-year-old from New Jersey, the first US Olympian to wear ahijab during competition, came away with a bronze medal on Saturday in the women’s team saber event. The four-woman US team — which also...
Trump vows ‘Cold War’ terror fight, immigrant controls
NEW YORK (AFP) – Donald Trump on Monday laid out a US blueprint for defeating global terrorism in partnership with NATO and Middle East allies, demanding extreme restrictions on immigration and likening the fight to the Cold War.The Republican nominee, who is tanking in the polls following weeks of self-inflicted disasters, made his pitch...
‘Foreign policy realism’ to replace nation building, says Donald Trump
Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as “foreign policy realism” focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other terrorist organisations. In a speech the Republican presidential nominee will deliver on Monday in Ohio, Trump will argue that the country needs to...
Pope surprises 20 ex-prostitutes by knocking on their door in Rome
Pope Francis surprised 20 former prostitutes on Friday by knocking on their door in Rome and popping in for a chat. The Argentine, who has repeatedly described the human trafficking behind much prostitution as “a crime against humanity”, sat down with the group, including four women from Albania, seven from Nigeria and six from Romania. The other...
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...
Countries with best and worst reputations for 2016 revealed
As terror incidents cause tourism to cool off in Turkey and social media spreads images of US police shootings, a country’s reputation has perhaps never been so easily made and broken. That is the warning from a study which ranks how 70 nations around the world are viewed in the eyes of its ever-observant international audience. Sweden took...
Olympics: Phelps peeved after ‘screwing up’ timetable
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 11, 2016 (AFP) – Michael Phelps launched his assault on a fourth successive Olympic 100m butterfly title Thursday but added an awkward complication to his schedule after a rare miscalculation.The world record holder has remarkably won the event at the past three Games but was peeved after failing to qualify for the...
