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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia granted citizenship on Thursday to a robot named Sophia to underline its hi-tech ambitions at an exhibition previewing major development projects. Visitors sat in a virtual reality roller coaster and interacted with a hologram of a lion. But some of the bottlenecks that have slowed growth in the past reappeared at the conference. …
October 26, 2017 | by RaheelSTRASBOURG: The European Parliament called Thursday for a committee of outside experts to investigate sexual harassment at the institution, as the Harvey Weinstein scandal in Hollywood continues to make waves at the EU. The parliament’s procedures for dealing with allegations of unwanted sexual advances have come under scrutiny this week amid increasing talk of harassment within …
October 26, 2017 | by RaheelArmy chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa witnessed the ongoing multinational exercise ‘ACES Meet 2017’ at the Air Power Centre of Excellence (ACE) during his visit to the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) base Mushaf Sargodha, Punjab on Thursday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), contingents of the Royal Saudi Airforce and Turkish Airforce also took part in …
October 26, 2017 | by RaheelMOSCOW: Editors of Russia’s opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta said Thursday they were planning to give their employees weapons training and arm them with non-lethal weapons to protect themselves against possible attacks. The decision comes amid a spike in violence against dissenters in Russia, including this week’s attack on a radio journalist who was stabbed in the …
October 26, 2017 | by RaheelISLAMABAD: Human rights activists warned Thursday that nearly 300 Turkish nationals are facing forced deportation from Pakistan as they called on authorities to protect them. The warning came almost two weeks after a Turkish teacher Kacmaz Mesut, his wife and two young daughters were deported, despite the court’s stay order. The family was picked up in …
October 26, 2017 | by RaheelVATICAN CITY: Pope Francis chatted with six astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, kicking off the rare interview with a philosophical question on “man’s place in the universe”. Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, 60, admitted that despite the bird’s eye view of Earth he too remained “perplexed”, while American Mark Vande Hei said seeing …
October 26, 2017 | by RaheelPakistan and Sri Lanka are ready to battle it out in the first T20I of the three-match series on Thursday in Abu Dhabi. ‘Sri Lanka series one of Pakistan’s best-ever’ The Men in Green white washed visitors in the five-match ODI series and will ready to continue their dominance in the shortest format of the …
October 26, 2017 | by RaheelAll Pakistan Muslim League (APML) chairman General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has said that there were no chances of either martial law or immediate general elections but a ‘national government’ could be formed in the country. Addressing the newly-elected office bearers of his party in Dubai on Thursday, he said Pakistani politics revolved around ethnic, racial …
October 26, 2017 | by RaheelKARACHI: The stock market succumbed to political noise on a day when most companies also posted disappointing quarterly financial results as the KSE-100 fell below the 41,500 level on Thursday. Futures’ rollover week, coupled with below-expectation results posted by major players, and rising political noise added to investors’ worry that have been on the sidelines for …
October 26, 2017 | by RaheelQUETTA: Suspected militants hurled a hand grenade at the press club in Hub, an industrial town on the outskirts of Karachi on Wednesday night amid reports that newspapers could not be delivered throughout Balochistan – including the provincial capital – for the second day in row. According to police, suspected militants hurled a hand grenade at …
October 26, 2017 | by Raheel