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BEYROUTH: Lebanese security forces stormed a building in the capital Beirut early Thursday following a shootout during the night with a man holed up inside a flat, an AFP correspondent at the site said. The gunman was killed and the body of another man was found inside the flat located on the sixth floor of a building in west Beirut’s Karakass district, a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The spark for the shootout appears to have been a personal dispute between at least one of the men and a woman in her early 20s.
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Rapport du personnel ISLAMABAD: Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaqat Baloch has supported three names for the chief election commissioner suggested by Chaudhry Nisar, SAMAA reported Thursday. While talking with media here Baloch said that Nisar telephoned him and suggested three names, i.e Fakhruddin J. Ibrahim, Nasir Aslam Zahid and Shakirullah Jan.
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CANNES: Nicole Kidman sizzles as a small-town vamp drawn to a convicted murderer in Lee Daniels’ “The Paperboy”, marking the US director’s return to Cannes Thursday after his harrowing hit “Precious”. The steamy new picture, set partly in Florida’s humid swamps, features a bleached-blonde Kidman as Charlotte, an “oversexed Barbie doll” who carries on correspondence with dozens of prison inmates in the late 1960s.
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Rapport du personnel ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India on Thursday began their two-day talks here in Islamabad, focusing on visa relaxation and progress on the Mumbai terror attack investigations, Rapports Samaa. The Indian delegation led by Home Secretary R K Singh and the Pakistani team led by Interior Secretary Khwaja Siddique Akbar gathered at a hotel in the heart of Islamabad for the talks.
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Rapport du personnel KARACHI: The attempt to kidnap a chief of a private bank has been was foiled late yesterday night, SAMAA reports Thursday. Selon les détails, Hussain Lawai, head of a private bank and a high-profile figure came out of his residence to offer Isha (late night) prayers when miscreants ambushed and caught hold of him.
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AMMAN: The main Syrian National Council opposition group said it had accepted the resignation of its president, setting the stage for a showdown between the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and its political rivals over who will be the new leader. The internal conflicts have come to a head over the position held by Burhan Ghalioun, a secular sociologist backed by the Brotherhood, who offered to step down as leader of the 313-member council last week if a replacement could be found. Squabbling in the council has undermined international support for the opposition, as a military crackdown against the 14-month revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, now coupled with an armed insurgency against his rule, shows no signs of relenting.
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QUEBEC CITY: The race to host the 2020 Summer Games is now a three-way battle between Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo after Qatar’s Doha and Azerbaijan’s Baku were dumped as candidates, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Wednesday. The shortlist of candidates to host the world’s biggest multi-sports event was announced at the IOC’s executive board meetings in Quebec City. Baku, which invested more than a billion dollars in sports venues in the past 10 années, was bidding for a second successive time after falling at the first hurdle for the 2016 Games
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Rapport du personnel KARACHI: Great juggernaut force behind Pakistan’s cinema with multiple fortes and flairs, Rangeela is being remembered on his death anniversary today (Jeudi). Rangeela was born as Mohammad Saeed Khan in 1937, in Parachinar, Le Pakistan
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PALO ALTO, Calif: Hewlett-Packard says it’s laying off 27,000 workers, 8 percent of its work force, as it restructures the business.
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The euro hit its lowest point against the dollar since July 2010 on Wednesday ahead of a European Union summit aimed at dealing with the threat that Greece could exit the eurozone. A day after former Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos warned that the possibility that Athens could give up the euro is "real", the euro fell to $1.2582 against the dollar at 2100 GMT, from $1.2684 late Tuesday
