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Political opponents fear defeat due to economic performance: Dar
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22 (APP): Finance Minister, Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar Saturday said that due to government’s prudent policies, the country’s economy has made a turnaround from...
No logic of PTI’s demonstrations, sit ins: Raja Zafar ul Haq
RAWALPINDI, Oct 22 (APP): Senator, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML N) Raja Zafar ul Haq Saturday said there was no logic of politics of...
Nov 2 to end PTI politics, says Ahsan Iqbal
LAHORE, Oct 22 (APP): Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal Saturday said Islamabad would not be closed down but nation would see...
Pakistan to observe Oct 27 as Black Day: Barjees
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22 (APP): Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Ch Muhammad Barjees Tahir has said the government will observe October 27 as Black Day...
NHA involves private sector in road building projects
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22 (APP): National Highway Authority (NHA) has been focusing on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) projects to involve private sector in highway building projects. According to...
Dr Adib Rizvi honored by American College of Surgeons
KARACHI, Oct 22 (APP): The prestigious American College of Surgeons has conferred honorary fellowship to Dr Adib Rizvi of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation...
APHC condemns sacking of govt employees over anti-India demos
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22 (APP): All Parties Hurriyet Conference has flayed the puppet administration for terminating several government employees for participating in the ongoing protests...
55 of 121 projects of Rs. 2 bln completed to promote ICT in remote...
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22 (APP): National ICT R&D Fund on Saturday announced that out of 121 approved projects worth Rs. 2 billion 55 have been...
Pakistan inks accord to supply 8 Mushshak aircraft to Qatar
ISLAMABAD, Oct 22 (APP): Pakistan on Saturday struck a deal with Qatar for the supply of eight Super Mushshak aircraft, Ministry of Defence Production said...
Russian helicopter crash kills 19 in northwest Siberia
A helicopter crashed in northwest Siberia on Friday, killing 19 people on board, Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency said on Saturday.
Three crew members and 16 passengers died when the Russian-made Mi-8 helicopter came down late on Friday in adverse weather conditions.
Two survivors were injured and a third unscathed, TASS news agency reported, citing a regional health official.
The helicopter was carrying employees of a contractor from oil major Rosneft's Suzun oilfield, part of the Vankor deposit, Russia's northernmost onshore oil production project.
(Reporting by Maria Kiselyova and Gleb Stolyarov; editing by Andrew Roche)
Clinton far ahead in Electoral College race
| NEW YORK
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton maintained her commanding lead in the race to win the Electoral College and claim the U.S. presidency, according to the latest States of the Nation project results released on Saturday.
In the last week, there has been little movement. Clinton leads Donald Trump in most of the states that Trump would need should he have a chance to win the minimum 270 votes needed to win. According to the project, she has a better than 95 percent chance of winning, if the election was held this week. The mostly likely outcome would be 326 votes for Clinton to 212 for Trump.
Trump came off his best debate performance of the campaign Wednesday evening but the polling consensus still showed Clinton winning the third and final face-off on prime-time TV. Trump disputes those findings.
And some national polls had the race tightening a wee bit this week though others had Clinton maintaining her solid lead. But the project illustrates that the broader picture remains bleak for Trump with 17 days to go until the Nov. 8 election.
Trump did gain ground in South Carolina where his slim lead last week expanded to seven points, moving it into his column from a toss-up. Unfortunately for him, he lost ground in Arizona, which is now too close to call.
Additionally, he is facing a challenge for Utah’s six Electoral College votes from former CIA operative and Utah native Evan McMullin. The independent candidate is siphoning votes away from Trump in a state that is Republican as any in the nation. In some polls, McMullin is even leading. (The States of the Nation is not polling on McMullin.)
Utah, like almost all of the states, is a winner-take-all contest.
Clinton has also maintained a lead in Florida and Pennsylvania, which have a combined 49 Electoral College votes. Ohio remains too close to call.
According to the project, lower voter turnout generally benefits Trump but his best hope for success is if Republican turnout surges and Democratic turnout is low.
To examine these results and other scenarios, go to the States of the Nation project here: here
(Editing by Bernard Orr)
Cameroon train crash death toll tops 70
| DOUALA, CAMEROON
Cameroon's president announced on Saturday that more than 70 people had been killed and another 600 injured when a passenger train crashed on Friday.
The packed Camrail train had been traveling from the capital Yaounde to the port city of Douala. It was derailed at around 11 a.m. local time (0600 EDT) near the station in the town of Eseka, 120 km (75 miles) west of the capital, causing carriages to overturn.
"My heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families of the Camrail train derailment in Eseka. Over 70 passengers died and 600 wounded in the accident," President Paul Biya, who is traveling abroad, wrote on his official Facebook page.
"I instructed the government to provide full assistance to the survivors, while investigations will be made to determine the cause of the derailment."
Witnesses, including a Reuters reporter traveling on the train, said rail workers had added additional carriages to accommodate extra passengers before its departure, though it is not clear if that decision contributed to the accident.
In a statement from Camrail, a unit of French industrial group Bollore, the company said it was working with Cameroonian authorities to ensure care for those injured and support for the families of victims.
"Technical investigations are under way currently to determine the causes of this dreadful accident and the conclusions, as soon as they are known, will be communicated," the emailed statement said.
Work began during the night to remove the derailed wagons from the line - one of the main routes for goods and passengers between the main port and the interior.
"The train with wounded and the bodies of victims has arrived at Yaounde station in the presence of government and Camrail officials," Camrail posted on its official Facebook page earlier on Saturday.
"Buses drove passengers who escaped yesterday's incident to Douala."
A Bollore official based in the region, who was not authorized to speak with the press and asked not to be named, said the company was cooperating with authorities examining the crash.
"Camrail has made the train's conductor and its mechanic available to the judicial police, because in these kinds of circumstances that is the procedure. That will allow for an understanding of what happened," the official said.
He added that traffic along the Yaounde to Douala line, which was halted following the crash, was expected to resume soon and engineers were at the site of the accident to evaluate the damage.
The collapse of a section of the main highway between Yaounde and Douala amid heavy rain earlier on Friday had blocked hundreds of vehicles on the road and prompted increased numbers of passengers to make the journey by rail.
The two incidents on the same day cut the main transport axis in the central African nation of over 22 million people.
(Additional reporting by Anne Mireille Nzouankeu in Yaounde; Additional reporting and writing by Joe Bavier; Editing by Andrew Roche)
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The world’s second biggest mining company pledges that half of its workforce will be female by 2025
It's an industry that’s been dominated by men for thousands of years.
But this is set to change as the world’s second biggest mining company wants women to make up half of its workforce by 2025.
BHP Billiton, which mines petroleum, copper, iron ore and coal, said women had been disadvantaged for too long in a male-dominated environment.
It has already brought more women into its workforce at a junior level, with 49pc of its graduate trainees now women.
But the new policy is a steep climb from the 17pc of women already in the business, and suggests it would have 50pc of women at board at executive level, as well as workers in its mines across Australia and South America.
Andrew Mackenzie, chief executive, said while progress had been made, without new initiatives it would take 30 years just to get 30pc female representation.
3 states reject Russian requests to send election monitors
Russian President Vladimir Putin talks to journalists at a forum in India. Three U.S. states denied a request by a Russian official to allow Russian election monitors inside select polling places. Kremlin Pool Photo
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Three states have denied a request by Russian officials to send election monitors to polling locations to observe the Nov. 8 election in person.
Officials in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana each declined a request by Alexander Zakharov, the Russian consul general in Houston, to have Russian election monitors see how the states hold their elections.
The request was denied in all three states for different reasons. Texas and Oklahoma flat out said no. Texas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos said state law prohibits unauthorized individuals from being inside a polling place -- and noted violators could be charged with a class C misdemeanor. Oklahoma Secretary of State Chris Benge said his state has a similar law on the books, though he suggested Russians watch television coverage of the election on Nov. 8.
Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler denied the request on the grounds the state's capital, Baton Rouge, was the location of devastating floods that damaged his office, thus prohibiting him from allowing visitors during the hectic election season.
"Had this flood event not occurred, we certainly would have been open to such a visit, but I cannot meet such a request with the situation I currently have in front of me," Schedler wrote.
Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the election have become a major campaign issue after U.S. intelligence officials tied hacks of Democratic groups and officials in the Hillary Clinton campaign to Russian operatives. Clinton has charged the Russians are trying to damage her campaign and influence the outcome of the election.
A White House spokesman said it was "unclear what their intent is." State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner called the request by the Russians a "PR stunt."
Russian officials criticized the U.S. response to the state-sponsored media outlet RT, saying international monitors are a common occurrence in other countries' elections.
"Americans obstruct Russia's attempts to monitor their elections because they see them as a threat. The refusal to allow Russian diplomats to perform their direct duties is a demonstrative violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations," said head of the Central Election Commission's department for international relations, Vasily Likhachev.
Islamic State 'sleeper cells' kill dozens in Kirkuk, Iraq, power plant attack
KIRKUK, Iraq, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Islamic State militants on Friday attacked Iraqi government buildings in the northern city of Kirkuk as well as a nearby power plant, killing dozens of people about 100 miles away from Mosul, Iraqi officials said.
Three police stations and an Iraqi political party headquarters were attacked within Kirkuk in the Kirkuk Governorate, whose governor later said the attack carried out by IS sleeper cells had been "foiled." At least six police officers and 16 civilians died in Kirkuk, while at least 13 died in the power plant attack in the nearby Dibbis village.
"All of the militants who attacked the police emergency building and the old building of the Kirkuk police directorate have been killed, but a number of other militants are still in Dumez district," Iraqi Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir told BBC News.
At least 12 IS militants, including suicide bombers, died in the attack. Kirkuk Gov. Najmaldin Karim told Rudaw that some of the IS militants who carried out the attack could have disguised themselves as refugees who recently fled a nearby city.
"It was expected that ISIS sleeper cells would make a move one day in Kirkuk now that the Mosul offensive has started and they want to boost their own morale this way," Karim said.
The Islamic State attack comes as Iraqi security forces, the Kurdish Peshmerga and a U.S.-led international coalition are engaged in an offensive to take Mosul -- Iraq's second-largest city -- away from IS control.
Peshmerga forces on Thursday shot down a drone operated by the Islamic State in Nawaran, northeast of Mosul. The Peshmerga earlier this week said they had seen drones fitted with explosives operated by the Islamic State.
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