fun zone: 2016-07-31

Thursday 4 August 2016

Chelsea pound AC Milan 3-1

Chelsea celebrates a goal by Oscar as Juraj Kucka of AC Milan looks on during the second half of the International Champions Cup match on August 3.

LOS ANGELES: Oscar scored a second half support as Chelsea traveled past AC Milan 3-1 in the last session of their globetrotting show visit, which took them to Australia, China, England, Scotland and the USA.

The Brazilian star scored in the 70th and 87th minutes on Wednesday for Chelsea, who bounced back from an uneven presentation misfortune to Real Madrid in their last trip.

Chelsea additionally got a first half objective from Bertrand Traore, who headed it in from the doorstep before a horde of more than 64,000 at the new US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

It was the primary major wearing occasion held in the 73,000-seat office, which is the home of the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings.

Oscar initially put a punishment into the top corner after a Milan hand ball and afterward pounded a low crash into the base corner.

French worldwide N'Golo Kante made his introduction for Chelsea, going ahead as a substitute in the second half.

Giancomo Bonaventura scored the main objective for Milan with an impeccably put bending free kick in the 38th moment.

In different Champions Cup play, Spanish monsters Real Madrid crushed Bayern Munich 1-0 in a challenge that checked Carlo Ancelotti's get-together with his previous group.

In any case, Ancelotti couldn't get one over on Real Madrid as substitute Danilo scored in the 79th moment with a staggering individual play to give Real Madrid the triumph.

Danilo pursued the flank then slice strongly to one side and split the Bayern safeguard before impacting a left-footed shot through the hands of goalkeeper Sven Ulreich.

In spite of the fact that Bayern Munich controlled the greater part of the play in the principal half, they were not able profit by their scoring possibilities.

Similar to the custom amid North American friendlies, both groups were without a few of their star players.

Portuguese hotshot Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Pepe and Toni Kroos chose to skirt the visit and Karim Benzema was discounted with a harmed hip.

Bayern Munich needed Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Muller and Douglas Costa. While the nonattendance of the stars upset numerous North American fans, it opened the entryway for youthful players like Julian Green. The 21-year-old let go a cap trap against Inter Milan a week ago.

Genuine Madrid now get prepared for the UEFA Super Cup on August 9 against Sevilla.

Pakistan invites US boycotting of TTP Jamaatul Ahrar

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has respected a United States choice to put Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), fragment gathering of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), on a rundown of uncommonly assigned worldwide terrorists.

"Pakistan has since quite a while ago argued solid activity against the TTP and their like who work in Afghanistan, and they have arranged and dispatched various assaults in Pakistan while working from that point," Foreign Office representative Nafees Zakaria said at a week after week preparation on Thursday.

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) is a branch of the TTP situated in the Pak-Afghan fringe area. The gathering, established by a previous TTP pioneer in August 2014, has organized different assaults in the area focusing on regular folks, religious minorities, military staff and law implementation organizations.

The US State Department reported that the assignment consequently forced on the gathering and its pioneers all endorses that connected to outside persons and gatherings resolved to have conferred, or representing a huge danger of submitting demonstrations of terrorism.

As an aftereffect of these assignments, all property subject to US locale in which Jamaat-ul-Ahrar has any interest is blocked and US persons are for the most part restricted from participating in any exchanges with the gathering.

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar was in charge of the slaughtering of two Pakistani representatives of the US Consulate in Peshawar in March. Later in that month, it completed a suicide attack at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal entertainment mecca in Lahore that killed more than 70 individuals — about portion of them ladies and youngsters — and harmed hundreds more. The Easter Sunday assault was the deadliest terrorist assault in Pakistan since December 2014.

'Pakistan has endured more than any nation'

The Pentagon's declaration that it won't pay Pakistan $300 million in military repayments did not summon a solid response from the Pakistan Foreign Office.

Notwithstanding, representative Zakaria in light of an inquiry described the penances the nation has made in the war against terrorism.

Pakistan has endured more than whatever other nation in the war on fear both as far as human and financial misfortunes, Radio Pakistan cited the FO representative as saying.

He said 60,000 individuals including 6,000 security work force had lost their lives amid the war on fear, including that the US installment under the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) was useful to the Pakistani hostile.

Operation Zarb-i-Azb has seen a reverberating accomplishment because of which bastions of terrorists in the tribal ranges have been cleared, the representative expressed.

Stirs to miss fourth Pakistan Test because of calf damage

“There was a possibility of being fit for the last Test but rather than risk more damage we decided to take it easy,” Ben Stokes told the BBC. — AFP/File

Britain's Ben Stokes has been discounted of the fourth and last Test against Pakistan at The Oval because of a calf harm yet the all-rounder declined to discount his odds of playing in the consequent constrained overs matches against the same adversaries.

The 25-year-old separated while knocking down some pins amid England's arrangement leveling win against the voyagers at Old Trafford a week ago and was supplanted by quick bowler Steven Finn for the progressing third Test in Birmingham.

Stirs had just barely come back to the England side in the wake of spending a spell on the sidelines taking after knee surgery in May.

"There was a plausibility of being fit for the last Test yet rather than danger more harm we chose to relax," he told the BBC.

"It's been baffling however I haven't composed my mid year off yet."

The four-Test arrangement is right now level at 1-1 and England were released for 297 toward the end of the main day of the third Test on Wednesday.

The last Test begins on Aug. 11.

Pakistan hope to surmount 297-run trail

After right-arm fast-bowler Sohail Khan caused havoc on his comeback with an immaculate line and length to pick up his first five-fer in the format, Pakistan have a soft trail of 297 to surmount. — AFP

BIRMINGHAM: Pakistan on Thursday started their first innings toward the begin of day two of the third Test against England at Edgbaston.

Twenty-year-old opener Sami Aslam, making his Test return following a year, joined Mohammad Hafeez to start the trail.

After right-arm quick bowler Sohail Khan created destruction on his rebound with a faultless line and length to get his initial five-fer in the arrangement, Pakistan have a delicate trail of 297 to surmount.

The 32-year-old made early advances by putting a conclusion to a 36-run opening stand by expelling Alex Hales in the tenth over of the day.

He expelled Joe Root, man-of-the-match of the Old Trafford Test, in his next over to put Alastair Cook's men on the backfoot.

As the top-request disintegrated to three for 75, Gary Ballance (70) and Moeen Ali (63) set up an extreme battle and evacuated the "delicate center request" disgrace.

Wearing white unit at the global level following five years, Sohail gave back the innings figures of five for 96 in 23-overs.

Pakistan's other two pacers — Mohammad Amir and Rahat Ali — oversaw two wickets each and Yasir Shah expelled Ballance to enlist his lone wicket.

No less than six individuals harmed as remote sightseers assaulted in western Afghanistan

HERAT: Suspected Taliban aggressors assaulted remote vacationers escorted by an Afghan armed force guard in the western territory of Herat on Thursday, authorities said, with a military representative saying no less than six individuals were injured.

The Taliban have formally not guaranteed obligation so far for the assault and the nationality of the visitors was not quickly known.

"The guard was trapped by the Taliban in Chesht-e-Sharif locale. The visitors were headed to Herat from Bamiyan and Ghor areas," said Jilani Farhad, the representative for Herat's senator.

Military representative Najibullah Najibi said the snare left no less than five outside visitors and their Afghan driver injured, including that they were being escorted to Herat city.

The assault comes as Taliban aggressors heighten their yearly summer hostile after a brief respite amid Ramazan, which finished toward the beginning of July.

Expressways in Afghanistan going through uprising inclined ranges have turned out to be exceedingly perilous, with the Taliban and other furnished gatherings as often as possible hijacking or executing explorers.

London cutting spree abandons one lady dead, five others harmed

Police forces clear police tape off at Russell Square in London, Thursday, Aug. 4.—AP

LONDON: London's leader offered for watchfulness and quiet Thursday after a wounding spree in the heart of the city that left one lady dead and five harmed.

Police captured a 19-year-old suspect and said that early signs proposed that "psychological wellness was a variable in this terrible assault."

Notwithstanding, with regards to a string of late assaults in Europe, powers said they were keeping a receptive outlook and that "terrorism stays one line of request being investigated."

London police's counter-dread boss Mark Rowley said there would be "an expanded nearness in the city" of the capital on Thursday, including furnished officers — an irregular sight in Britain.

"A Taser (electric immobilizer) was released amid the capture of the suspect, a 19-year-old man."

Police later said in a tweet that the suspect had left clinic, where he had been accepting treatment.

He is in care at a south London police headquarters, an announcement said.

Police captured the youngster after reports of a cutting spree in Russell Square, a tranquil range near a few famous vacation spots including the British Museum.

Paramedics battled to spare the life of a lady accepted to be in her 60s yet claimed her dead at the scene. Two ladies and three men were additionally harmed yet no points of interest have been discharged about their condition.

The suspect himself was taken to healing facility subsequent to being immobilized with a Taser electroshock weapon.

Xavery Richert, 22, a French traveler staying in a young inn on the square, told AFP: "I was purchasing a brew when I heard a lady yelling who was being pursued by a man.

"I thought it was a pack grabbing... she was not hurt. I turned out for a cigarette, I about-faced, there were firefighters, police, and after that I saw the body under a sheet. You could just see the feet standing out."

Russell Square occupant Constantine Somerville said: "It's such a protected territory and calm particularly during the evening — why might some individual confer an assault in such a tranquil region?"

'IS-motivated assaults'

Chairman Sadiq Khan said police were looking for "to build up the full certainties including thought processes" for the assault and encouraged the city's occupants to stay quiet yet ready.

"I ask all Londoners to stay cool and cautious... We as a whole have an imperative part to play as eyes and ears for our police and security administrations and in guaranteeing London is ensured."

Europe has been tense for quite a long time taking after a string of late aggressor assaults.

A month ago a driver pushed a truck through a group leaving a firecrackers show in the French ocean side resort of Nice, killing 84.

Under two weeks after the fact, two men raged a congregation in northern France, cutting the cleric's throat at the sacrificial stone. The aggressor Islamic State bunch guaranteed that both assaults were completed by their "warriors."

London was at that point on high ready after these assaults and others in Europe, incorporating a few in Germany.

Since August 2014, the fear danger level in Britain has been "serious" — the second largest amount, which means an assault is "exceedingly likely".

Writing in the Mail on Sunday daily paper, Metropolitan Police Chief Bernard Hogan-Howe said an assault was an issue of "when, not if".

The cutting assault happened near where one of the suicide planes in the July 7, 2005 assaults exploded his gadget on the city's open transport framework.

While the "7/7 assaults" which slaughtered 52 individuals was the last huge scale terrorist ambush on Britain, there have been a string of littler occurrences since.

On Monday, a court sentenced to life a suspicious schizophrenic man who attempted to guillotine a worker at a London Underground station in December in another IS-enlivened assault.

What's more, in 2013, two British Muslim believers killed officer Lee Rigby with no attempt at being subtle.

Briton captured over savage Bangladesh bistro attack

DHAKA: A British national and an understudy at a Canadian college have been captured on suspicion of contribution in a month ago's savage attack at a bistro in Bangladesh's capital, police said Thursday.

Hasnat Karim, a Bangladeshi birthplace British national, and Tahmid Khan, who is an understudy at the University of Toronto, were confined on Wednesday night, police representative A.K.M Shahidur Rahman told AFP.

"We can affirm that they were captured under Section 54 of criminal methodology," Rahman said, alluding to a law under which police can keep somebody for suspicion over any wrongdoing.

Rahman said that police had connected to justices for authorization to remand Karim and Khan in guardianship for 10 days yet there has been no reaction to their application in this way.

Karim and Khan were both inside the Holey Artisan bistro when shooters attacked the premises on the night of July 1, taking a gathering of principally Western coffee shops prisoner and afterward slaughtering 20 of them, alongside two policemen.

Be that as it may, neither one of the mans has been found in broad daylight since the end of the attack when commandos raged the bistro in Dhaka's upmarket Gulshan neighborhood on the morning of July 2.

Their families have beforehand said that both Karim and Khan were being held by the security administrations, demanding there is no confirmation to connection them to the assailants and that they were close to blameless observers.

Reports in neighborhood media said both were being researched for suspicious movement amid the attack.

They said Khan was seen holding a gun and Karim walking around the assailants on the rooftop. The 47-year-old Karim was an instructor at Bangladesh's private North-South University in Dhaka which was the place of graduation of two of the five aggressors who were gunned down toward the end of the attack.

All the more as of late, he had been functioning as a chief at his dad's designing organization in Dhaka.

The 22-year-old Khan, who is a Bangladeshi native, was back in his country while on leave from his college in Canada.

Police recently named a Canadian subject called Tamim Chowdhury as the driving force of the assault, offering a prize of up to $25,000 for any data prompting his capture.

The attack at the Holey Artisan bistro was by a wide margin the deadliest in a series of assaults asserted by activist gatherings which have scourged Bangladesh throughout the most recent three years.

The activist Islamic State (IS) gathering guaranteed obligation regarding the assault and the shooters were all envisioned posturing with IS banners in pictures posted on a site subsidiary to the gathering.

Prime Minsiter Sheik Hasina's legislature has said however that the assault was the work of a homegrown activist gathering, demanding worldwide aggressor bunches lack a toehold in Bangladesh.