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Elton John receives flak for allegedly breaking mask rules on Italian island


October 2, 2020

Elton John received flak from as he allegedly flouted face mask rules during a visit to the Italian island of Capri this week Codacons, Italy’s leading consumers’ association, filed a complaint to local and regional authorities, saying John should be fined. The Campania region, of which Capri is part, last week made it obligatory for face coverings to be worn …

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Nicki Minaj welcomes first child with husband Kenneth Petty


October 2, 2020

US rapper Nicki Minaj has been blessed with her first baby with husband Kenneth Petty. The 37-year-old gave birth to her little one on Wednesday, September 30 in Los Angeles. Minaj announced the news of her pregnancy back in July while debuting her burgeoning baby bump in a bunch of photos on Instagram. “#Preggers,” she captioned her first post. She …

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Actor Latif Munna breathes his last in Karachi


October 2, 2020

Famous comedy actor Latif Munna has passed away after brief ailment at a hospital in Karachi, his family said on Friday. The actor’s family said he had been hospitalised some days back as he was not well for several months. He died of cardiac arrest, according to the family sources. He was admitted to the hospital after he complained of …

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Judge to give verdict on Assange’s US extradition on Jan 4


October 2, 2020

LONDON: A British judge said on Thursday she would give her decision early next year on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the United States to face 18 charges, including espionage. The US authorities accuse Australian-born Assange, 49, of conspiring to hack government computers and of violating a secrecy law with Wikileaks release of confidential official communications …

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Chrissy Teigen breaks her silence on traumatic miscarriage following high risk pregnancy scare


October 2, 2020

ge Chrissy Teigen’s miscarriage has shaken up the internet to no end, and soon after her gut wrenching tribute to her unborn child went viral, the discombobulated mother-of-two shared one of her most heartbreaking realizations as she headed home from the hospital with ‘no baby’. Announcing her thoughts regarding the loss of her third baby, Teigen took to her Twitter …

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UK finances production of breathing devices in Pakistan


October 2, 2020

ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom through Karandaaz’s Risk Participation Facility with Meezan Bank is financing the development and production of a High Flow Nasal Oxygen (HFNO) device, which can also be used as a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) device, by Alsons Group, Pakistan’s premier precision engineering company. Karandaaz, funded by the UK’s Office of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), …

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Turkey rebuffs Russia, France, US over Karabakh truce moves


October 2, 2020

BAKU: The presidents of France, Russia and the United States called on Thursday for an immediate ceasefire between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces around Nagorno-Karabakh, but Turkey said the three big powers should have no role in peace moves. France, Russia and the US are co-chair of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group, set up …

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Police briefly detain Rahul, Priyanka


October 2, 2020

LUCKNOW: Police brie­fly detained several opposition leaders on Thursday as they headed toward the site where a low-caste young woman died this week after being gang-raped, the latest such attack to whip up nationwide anger and protests. Priyanka and Rahul Gandhi, siblings and leaders of the Congress Party, were blocked and arrested by police as they tried to drive then walk to …

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Lebanon, Israel to hold US-brokered border talks


October 2, 2020

BEIRUT: Lebanon and Israel said on Thursday they would hold US-brokered negotiations on their disputed land and maritime borders, in what Washington hailed as a “historic” agreement between two sides technically still at war. The United States will act as a facilitator during the UN-backed talks to be held in the southern Lebanon border town of Naqoura, Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker …

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