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• Three more killed in Karachi violence
• US presidential election will be held today
• Native shamans in Peru give Obama the win
• Polls show Obama has slight lead over Romney
• UN orders global sanction against Haqqani network
• US court upholds Dr Aafia Siddiquis sentence
• Obama, Romney target swing states in final hours
• Notification of increase in prices of 14 drugs issued
• Breaching whale lands on boat in S Afriaca
• Study: Vitamins don't lower heart risks in men
• Djokovic, Murray win opening matches at ATP finals
• Dortmund can win Champions League: Mourinho
• Oil prices rise on eve of tight US presidential vote
• Dollar rises to 2-month high against euro
• CAS sets Feb.5-7 for Asif's appeal

Three more killed in Karachi violence Posted: According to details, police was informed about the presence of three dead bodies near flyover in Karimabad. Police reached the spot and shifted the dead bodies to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.Police said that the victims were subjected to torture and then were shot dead. The identity of the deceased is not yet known.On the other hand, Rangers launched a target operation in Pehalwan Goth area of Gulistan Jauhar on a tip off that some miscreants are present in the area.The accused opened fire on Rangers as a result one official received bullet wounds. The Rangers returned the fire due to which one person was killed.The targeted operation continued for two hours. According to Rangers sources, arms were also recovered during operation. Three accused, Abbas, Khalid Umar and Amjad, were also arrested by Rangers.

US presidential election will be held today Posted: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both confidently predicted victory Monday, as they rallied supporters in the dying hours of a bitter White House race, which the US president leads by a whisker.The foes, drained by fatigue, charged through the swing states that will dictate their fates, taking final shots at one another hours before polls open in an election that will decide whether Obama wins a second White House term.This is a campaign about America and about the future that we will leave to our children and their children, Romney told raucous supporters in the battleground state of Virginia.We thank you and ask you to stay with it all the way until we win tomorrow night, Romney said, sparking wild cheers.Obama, barnstorming with rock legend Bruce Springsteen and rapper Jay-Z, delivered a similar message in the liberal college town of Madison, Wisconsin, pleading with supporters to stick with him in a final push to the finish.If youre willing to work with me again, and knock on some doors with me, make some phone calls for me, turn out for me, well win Wisconsin. Well win this election. Well finish what we started, he said.Election eve polls cemented the impression that Obama has the slightest of leads after a campaign that has cost billions of dollars, but cannot take victory, and the historical validation of re-election for granted.The final national polls showed an effective tie, with either Romney or Obama favored by a single point in most surveys, reflecting the polarized politics of a deeply divided nation.Obama was, however, up by three points in national polls conducted by Pew Research and by the Washington Post and ABC News, suggesting that if either candidate could boast of 11th-hour momentum, it was the 44th US president.His last line of defense in the industrial midwest also seemed to be holding: Obama led the RealClearPolitics.com average of polls in crucial Ohio by three percent, and was up by 2.4 points and 4.2 points in Iowa and Wisconsin.Should those polls be reflected in vote totals on Tuesday, Obama would become only the second Democrat, after Bill Clinton, to win a second four-year term since World War II.Obama was also up by a narrow margin in swing states Virginia, New Hampshire, Colorado and Nevada while Romney led by similarly thin margins in poll averages of Florida and North Carolina.Romneys camp however insists that the former Massachusetts governor will profit from an anti-Obama wave on Tuesday and contends the polls overstate the proportion of Democrats in the electorate and Republican enthusiasm.Obamas team however, cheered by early vote data and the neighborhood-by-neighborhood political machine the president has assembled, insisted that they would be vindicated by the election.Were going to win the electoral vote and were going to win the popular vote, said Obamas political guru David Axelrod.Its going to be a close election as we always said. This is the season for weird theories, but were very very confident of both those things.Romney fired the first shots on Monday, as a crowd shouted, One More Day, One More Day before heading onto Virginia, Ohio and with plans to finish up for the night in New Hampshire.But his campaign will not end Monday night, as Romney announced plans to visit local campaign offices and help get out the vote in Ohio and Pennsylvania on Tuesday.Obama, increasingly wistful, in what will be his last day on the campaign trail, win or lose, dismissed Romneys latest claim to being an agent of change, taking the stage after Springsteen rocked an 18,000 strong crowd in Madison.You have seen the scars on me to prove it. Youve seen the gray hair on my head to show you what it means for fight for change, and you have been there with me, he said.Springsteen told the crowd that his life in music had been dedicated to charting the distance between the American dream and American reality.Our vote tomorrow is the one undeniable way we get to determine the distance in that equation, said The Boss, who was traveling with Obama aboard Air Force One.Obama planned to return home to Chicago later Monday to await the outcome of the election, in which he seeks to defy conventional wisdom that high unemployment and a sluggish economy doom incumbent presidents.His campaign deployed former president Bill Clinton to Pennsylvania, ostensibly a safe Democratic state but one which has seen a late run by Romney -- evidence, according to Obamas team, of desperation.Im for President Obama because ... hes got a much better plan for the future, said Clinton, who has overcome acrimony left over from Obamas 2008 primary defeat of Hillary Clinton, to embrace the president.

Native shamans in Peru give Obama the win Posted: Using maracas, coca leaves and a hallucinogenic brew, shamans in Peru got down to business Monday using pre-Columbian traditional ceremonies to pick a winner in the US presidential race.The apus (gods of the hills in indigenous mythology) tell us (Barack) Obama will be reelected, predicted Juan Osco, known as the Shaman of the Andes on San Cristobal hill overlooking Lima.Members of the group placed flower petals on photos of the candidates that were also swept over with tobacco smoke. The shamans chewed coca leaves, a traditional ceremonial and medicinal plant since Inca times that helps fight altitude sickness.And the crew took some swigs of ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew used widely among Amazon basin indigenous people. At least one thing was clear, they said: Obama should defeat Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday.

Polls show Obama has slight lead over Romney Posted: President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney engaged in frantic get-out-the-vote efforts and made final pleas to voters on Monday in a sprint through battleground states that will determine who wins their agonizingly close White House race.Both candidates sought to generate strong turnout from supporters and to sway independent voters to their side in the last hours of a race that polls showed was deadlocked nationally. Obama had a slight lead in the eight or nine battleground states that will decide the race on Election Day.The latest poll of likely voters, a daily tracking poll, gave Obama a slight edge, with 48 percent support compared to Romneys 46 percent. The difference was within the 3.4 percentage point credibility interval, which allows for statistical variation in Internet-based polls.Obama was up 4 percentage points in must-win Ohio, 50 percent to 46 percent, and held slimmer leads in Virginia and Colorado. Romney led in Florida by 1 percentage point, the poll found.The candidates are seeking to piece together the 270 Electoral College votes needed for victory in the state-by-state battle for the presidency. Despite the close national opinion polls, Obama has an easier path to victory: If he won the three states he was visiting on Monday - Wisconsin, Ohio and Iowa - then he would likely carry the day.

UN orders global sanction against Haqqani network Posted: The UN Security Council on Monday ordered global sanctions against the Haqqani militant network in Afghanistan and its chief organizer of suicide attacks.The network, which has been widely linked to Pakistan, has been blamed for a string of murderous attacks in Afghanistan.The militant group and its chief organizer of suicide attacks, Qari Zakir, were added to the UNs Afghanistan-Taliban sanctions list. This means nations must apply an assets freeze and travel ban against Zakir and seize any assets belonging to the network as well as impose an arms embargo.The United States put the Haqqani network on its terror blacklist in September.Founded by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a CIA asset turned Al-Qaeda ally who was close to Pakistani intelligence, the network is considered the most dangerous faction in the Taliban army in Afghanistan.The militants have been blamed for spectacular attacks on Afghan government and NATO targets across Afghanistan as well as kidnappings and other murders.Afghanistans spy agency said in August that Haqqanis operational commander, Badruddin Haqqani, a son of the founder, had been killed in a US drone attack.The designation could embarrass Pakistan, which is currently a member of the UN Security Council.But it was welcomed by the United States.Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN, said the measures expand upon the US moves and confirms the international communitys resolve to end the Haqqani networks ability to execute violent attacks in Afghanistan.It also reflects the Security Councils commitment to use and enforce sanctions against those who threaten peace in Afghanistan, in conjunction with a strong commitment to support Afghan-led peace and reconciliation.Rice said that Zakir has been involved in many of the Haqqani networks highest-profile suicide attacks and has trained individuals to use small arms, heavy weapons and improvised explosive devices.She said operatives trained by Zakir attacked two international coalition bases in 2010, the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul in June 2011 -- an attack which killed 11 civilians and two Afghan police -- and the US embassy in Kabul in September 2011, which killed 16 Afghans, including at least six children.

US court upholds Dr Aafia Siddiquis sentence Posted: The court on Monday upheld the conviction of Dr Aafia Siddiqui accused of trying to kill US troops and FBI agents in Afghanistan four years ago.Aafia Siddiqui, who trained as a scientist in the US, was sentenced to 86 years in prison after she was convicted of grabbing a US soldiers M-4 assault rifle and trying to shoot a group of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and soldiers at an Afghan police compound in July 2008.The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said a lower court judge had not made a mistake in allowing Aafia Siddiqui, 40, to testify in her own defense at trial and in allowing certain evidence against her.On appeal, her attorneys challenged her conviction and sentence on many grounds. They said the judge improperly allowed jurors to consider the crumpled notes, and that the judge should never have allowed Siddiqui to decide whether to take the stand.“The district court went to extraordinary lengths to ensure that Siddiqui understood the implications of testifying and had the capacity to testify,” the opinion said.The appeals court also sided with lower court in finding that Siddiqui had likely premeditated the attack, and that terrorism sentencing requirements were applicable because of her willingness to harm Americans.

Obama, Romney target swing states in final hours Posted: US President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Monday entered the last day before the presidential election, sprinting towards finish line with multiple events in swing states.Obama started his day in Madison, the US state of Wisconsin, with rock star Bruce Spreensteen. The two went on to events in Columbus, Ohio, and Des Moines, Iowa. The three states represent what was viewed as Obamas Midwestern firewall, which could almost guarantee his victory if he sweeps those states, provided other Democratic leaning swing states hold.Tomorrow you have a choice to make, said Obama at the rally in Madison. And its not just a choice between two candidates or two parties. Its a choice between two different visions for America. Its a choice between returning to the top-down policies that crashed our economy, or a future thats built on providing opportunity to everybody and growing a strong middle class.Romney, on the other hand, started his day in Sanford, Florida, and continued to hold events in Lynchburg and Fairfax, both in the US state of Virginia. He then went on to Columbus, Ohio, and Manchester, New Hampshire.With the right leadership, America is about to come roaring back, said Romney at the Sanford rally. The only thing that stands between us and some of the best years weve ever imagined is lack of leadership. And that is why we have elections.But the Romney campaign clearly think those events are not enough. They announced Monday afternoon that Romney would continue campaigning Tuesday, the Election Day, heading to the all important Ohio and the once considered safe Democratic leaning Pennsylvania.Romney has been making a push in the last few days for Pennsylvania, buying ad times there and visiting the state on Sunday. Jen Psaki, the Obama campaign spokeswoman, said Monday that the aspiration was fake.Psaki also said the Obama campaign isnt surprised Romney is scheduling many Ohio visits, because without that state its an insurmountable road for him.A myriad of polls have shown Obama holding on to a slight but consistent lead in Ohio.

Notification of increase in prices of 14 drugs issued Posted: According to Pakistan Pharmaceutical Association, the approval of increase in prices of 14 drugs was given during a meeting of Drug Pricing Committee of Ministry of regulation and Services.The notification in this regard has also been issued. The prices of these 14 drugs has been increased by 25 to 50 percent.

Breaching whale lands on boat in S Afriaca Posted: A breaching whale leapt out of the sea off South Africa and landed on a boat Monday, injuring three men, one seriously, sea rescue officials said.The men claim they were motoring slowly approximately a kilometre off-shore when a whale breached in front of their boat and came onto their boat, causing the boat and all three men to go under water as the whale sunk back into the water, said Ian Gray, NSRI Port Elizabeth station commander.The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) used illuminating flares to find and rescue the men off Port Elizabeth, in the coastal province of the Eastern Cape.A 41-year-old was taken to hospital in a serious condition with suspected rib fractures and injuries to his arm, leg and soft tissue.A 25-year-old was also taken to hospital with soft tissue injuries, while the skipper, 35, had minor injuries.The boat has sustained extensive damage, said Gray.While the species of whale is unknown, he said breaching humpback whales have been spotted in the area.South Africa is on the humpbacks migratory route, with the ocean giants returning to Antarctic waters toward the end of the year.

Study: Vitamins don't lower heart risks in men Posted: Multivitamins might help lower the risk for cancer in healthy older men but do not affect their chances of developing heart disease, new research suggests.Two other studies found fish oil didnt work for an irregular heartbeat condition called atrial fibrillation, even though it is thought to help certain people with heart disease or high levels of fats called triglycerides in their blood.The bottom line: Dietary supplements have varied effects and whether one is right for you may depend on your personal health profile, diet and lifestyle.Many people take vitamin supplements as a crutch, said study leader Dr. Howard Sesso of Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston. Theyre no substitute for a heart-healthy diet, exercising, not smoking, keeping your weight down, especially for lowering heart risks.The studies were presented Monday at an American Heart Association conference in Los Angeles.A separate analysis released in connection with the meeting showed that at least 1 in 3 baby boomers who are in good shape will eventually develop heart problems or have a stroke. The upside is that that will happen about seven years later than for their less healthy peers.The study is a wake-up call that this disease is very prevalent in the United States and even if youre doing a good job, youre not immune, said Dr. Vincent Bufalino, a Chicago-area cardiologist and spokesman for the American Heart Association.The findings came in an analysis of five major studies involving nearly 50,000 adults aged 45 and older who were followed for up to 50 years.The research was published online by the Journal of the American Medical Association, along with the vitamin paper and one fish oil study.Multivitamins are Americas favorite dietary supplement. About one-third of adults take them. Yet no government agency recommends their routine use for preventing chronic diseases, and few studies have tested them to see if they can.A leading preventive medicine task force even recommends against beta-carotene supplements, alone or with other vitamins, to prevent cancer or heart disease because some studies have found them harmful. And vitamin K can affect bleeding and interfere with some commonly used heart drugs.Sessos study involved nearly 15,000 healthy male doctors given monthly packets of Centrum Silver or fake multivitamins. After about 11 years, there were no differences between the groups in heart attacks, strokes, chest pain, heart failure or heart-related deaths.Side effects were fairly similar except for more rashes among vitamin users. The National Institutes of Health paid for most of the study. Pfizer Inc. supplied the pills and other companies supplied the packaging.The same study a few weeks ago found that multivitamins cut the chance of developing cancer by 8 percent a modest amount and less than what can be achieved from a good diet, exercise and not smoking.Multivitamins also may have different results in women or people less healthy than those in this study only 4 percent smoked, for example.The fish-oil studies tested prescription-strength omega-3 capsules from several companies in two different groups of people for preventing atrial fibrillation, a fluttering, irregular heartbeat.One study from South America aimed to prevent recurrent episodes in 600 participants who already had the condition. The other sought to prevent it from developing in 1,500 people from the U.S., Italy and Argentina having various types of heart surgery, such as valve replacement. About one third of heart-surgery patients develop atrial fibrillation as a complication.Both studies found fish oil ineffective.

Djokovic, Murray win opening matches at ATP finals Posted: Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray won their opening matches Monday at the ATP finals, setting up a Wednesday showdown between two of the top three players in the world.The top-ranked Djokovic beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6 (4), 6-3 in Group A, hours after third-ranked Murray rallied to defeat Tomas Berdych 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.The ATP finals is the season-ending tournament for the top eight players in the world. Fourth-ranked Rafael Nadal, however, pulled out because of injury.Group B, which includes six-time champion Roger Federer, will play Tuesday at the O2 Arena.Djokovic saved three break points against Tsonga in the opening set, and then looked dominant the rest of the way.After winning the tiebreaker, the Serb broke Tsongas serve in the opening game of the second set, and then again in the final game.In the early match, the clang of an advertising sign must have served as a wake-up call for a frustrated Murray.The U.S. Open champion, playing at home in Britain for the first time since winning his first major title two months ago, failed to convert 10 break points before finally finding his game and beating Berdych.Murray missed all seven of his break chances in the first set, and then wasted three more in the fourth game of the second set. After the third, he whacked the ball in anguish, but even that failed to make it to the other side of the court. Instead, it clanged off the sponsor sign hanging on the net.Berdych then put a forehand wide, and Murray finally earned the break he needed to take the second set when his Czech opponents forehand sailed long, making it 3-1.In the third set, Murray didnt waste his only opportunity. He converted the one break point he earned in that final set to take a 2-1 lead, and then lost only three points on his serve the rest of the way.Murray was playing in Britain for the first time since ending the countrys 76-year wait for a mens Grand Slam champion. Although he reached the Wimbledon final and won the gold medal at the London Olympics, no British man had won a major tennis title since Fred Perry in 1936.The cheering at the O2 Arena died down once the match got going, especially as Murray lost the first set.

Dortmund can win Champions League: Mourinho Posted: Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho thinks German champions Borussia Dortmund are a team capable of winning the Champions League as the two clubs get set to do battle in their Group D tie on Tuesday.They are an excellent team and can win the competition if they qualify for the second round, said the 49-year-old Mourinho who lifted Europes most prestigious tournament in 2004 with Porto and with Inter Milan in 2010.Dortmund are an excellent team and it is not by chance that they have twice won the German championship. If they can reach the second round, they are even capable of winning the competition.They are very strong on the counter-attack and in transitional play. Their players are creative and quick but at the same time rigorous in defence. It is going to be complicated but I think we can get a good result.Mourinho who has made it clear he would love to return to management in England once his era in Madrid is over also gave no credence to connections with an approach from big-spending French side Paris Saint Germain.Its not true, he retorted to reports the Qatari-backed capital club were offering 100 million euros for Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo plus a mega-money deal to also bring Mourinho to the helm at Parc des Princes.Real Madrid come into the match a point behind Dortmund at the top of the pool following their 2-1 defeat in Germany during the last round of matches.

Oil prices rise on eve of tight US presidential vote Posted: Oil prices rose modestly Monday in cautious trade ahead of a down-to-the-wire US presidential election and a looming political power shift in China.New Yorks main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, settled at $85.65 a barrel, up 79 cents from Fridays close.Brent North Sea crude for December leaped $2.05 to close at $107.73 a barrel in London trade.Crude oil recovered some of its poise today after Fridays sharp sell-off, said Fawad Razaqzada at GFT.Prices in New York fluctuated in a tight range, as some traders took advantage of recent sell-offs to snap up the futures contract at an attractive price.But political uncertainty in the United States, ahead of Tuesdays election, and in China, which begins a once-in-a-decade power transition Thursday, kept investors on edge, said Rich Ilczyszyn at iiTrader.com.The US is the worlds biggest consumer of crude oil, while China is the largest overall energy consumer.UniCredit analysts noted that the price of Brent dropped by almost four percent last week.We see the stronger USD (dollar) and investors cautiousness ahead of the US presidential election as well as the handover of power in China as the main reasons for this, they said.

Dollar rises to 2-month high against euro Posted: Resurgent fears that Greece may leave the euro pushed the dollar to a two-month high against the 17-nation currency on Monday.Traders also bought dollars a day before the U.S. presidential election, which is expected to be a tight race.The dollar is considered a safe haven currency and tends to strengthen during global turmoil.The euro fell to $1.2792 in late trading Monday from $1.2829 late Friday. The euro fell as low as $1.2766 earlier, its lowest point against the dollar since Sept. 11.In Greece, two votes in Parliament this week could determine if the cash-strapped country stays in the European monetary union.The British pound fell to $1.5972 from $1.6021.The dollar rose to 0.9435 Swiss franc from 0.9411 Swiss franc and to 99.68 Canadian cents from 99.56 Canadian cents.The dollar fell to 80.26 Japanese yen from 80.42 Japanese yen.

CAS sets Feb.5-7 for Asif's appeal Posted: The Court of Arbitration for Sport has set Mohammad Asifs appeal against a seven-year ban for spot-fixing for Feb. 5-7 next year.Asif was released from prison in London in May after serving half of his one-year sentence for involvement in the scandal.The Southwark Crown Court in London also imprisoned former captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Amir for their roles in receiving money to deliberately bowl no-balls in a test against England in 2010.Butt and Amir were also released and returned home.Asif was banned for seven years from all forms of cricket, two of which were suspended, while Butt was banned for 10 years five of which are suspended.According to the CAS website, Butts appeal will take place on Feb. 8.

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