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Trump poses threat to peace, economic development: German Vice Chancellor
German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has criticised leading US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as a right-wing populist whose political views pose a threat to peace and prosperity. The comments by Gabriel, economy minister and leader of the Social Democrats, are the clearest sign yet that ruling politicians in Europe are...
Svitolina, Bouchard head to Malaysian Open final
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Second seed Elina Svitolina will square off against sixth seed Eugenie Bouchard in the Malaysian Open final Sunday after both won their semi-final matches in straight sets.Svitolina, ranked 19th in the world, easily dispatched Chinas Lin Zhu 6-3, 6-3 in the first semi-final match which only lasted about an hour on...
Politics of protest
Useless It seems there is a global rise in street protests from causes ranging from fare increase for students to corruption by status quo politicians. No country is immune from these protests whether it is streets of Sao Palo, Istanbul, Hong Kong and Islamabad just to name few. The major reason for this growing reliance on street protest is the...
Pakistan, China set for near-record wheat harvest in 2016: UN
Pakistan and China are expected to have near-record wheat harvests in 2016, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in its first global forecast for the commodity in the current year on Friday. The FAO forecast for the world’s 2016 wheat harvest projected 723 million tonnes of total production, about 10 million tonnes below last...
US refuses to reveal details shared with Dutch investigators over MH-17
WASHINGTON – The US State Department has declined to answer questions about what information Washington may have shared with the Dutch authorities in the MH-17 probe, the Russia Today channel reported on Friday. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 on board, most of them...
NATO commander says Russia, Syria using migrant crisis as weapon
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Top NATO General Philip Breedlove warned US lawmakers Tuesday that Russia is helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turn the refugee crisis into a weapon against the West.The supreme allied commander in Europe for the 28-member military alliance said the massive flow of migrants from war-torn Syria has had a...
High school senior was Ukrainian man, 23, with fake ID
PENNSYLVANIA (AP) – A Pennsylvania high school honors student just months from graduation was actually a 23-year-old Ukrainian national using a false identity after his visa expired, police said Thursday.Artur Samarin, who used the alias Asher Potts, was arrested and charged Tuesday in Harrisburg, the capital city, police said.Samarin is...
Football: Man City beat Liverpool in League Cup final
LONDON (AFP) – Willy Caballero proved an unlikely hero with three penalty saves as Manchester City beat Liverpool 3-1 in a Wembley Stadium shootout on Sunday to win the English League Cup.The game finished 1-1 following extra time, Philippe Coutinho equalising for Liverpool in the 83rd minute after Fernandinho had put City ahead early in...
Nanga Parbat scaled for initial time in winter
PHOTO: TWITTER ISLAMABAD: In a ancestral attempt, mountaineers from Pakistan, Spain and Italy have managed to stand a feared Nanga Parbat for a initial time in a winter season. “Ali Sadpara (Pakistan,) Alex Txikon (Spain) and Simone Moro (Italy) have reached a tip of Nanga Parbat,” Karrar Haidri, a orator of a Alpine Club of Pakistan told AFP,...
True grip: Ukrainian pulls five tramcars with his teeth
LVIV (AFP) – All it took was a steel cable and a set of very strong front teeth.A Ukrainian children’s doctor pulled five tramcars over a stretch of 14 metres (46 feet) Friday in a stunt in Lviv aimed at drawing attention to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.The 38-tonne weight was pulled by 34-year-old Oleg Skavysh —...
