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Robert Downey Jr. signs on as Iron Man for next two 'Avengers'
LOS
ANGELES: Actor Robert Downey Jr., who has gained huge box-office
success with his portrayal of Iron Man, has signed on to star as the
superhero in the next two installments of the "The Avengers," Marvel
Studios said on Thursday.
Downey, 48, was one of the main stars
of the 2012 all-star superhero film "The Avengers," which united Iron
Man, The Hulk, Captain America, Thor and the Black Widow.
"The
Avengers," made by Walt Disney Co's Marvel Studios, became the third
highest-grossing film of all time, with $1.5 billion at the worldwide
box office.
Downey is expected to be joined by Chris Evans, Chris
Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson in reprising their
superhero roles for "The Avengers 2."
"The Avengers 2," set for
release on May 1, 2015, will be directed by Joss Whedon. Marvel said the
film would reunite the superheroes from the first film, as well as
introducing Marvel characters never seen in film before.
The three "Iron Man" films starring Downey from 2008 to 2013, have grossed more than $2.4 billion at the worldwide box office.
"Iron
Man 3" released last month has become the highest-grossing film of the
year, with $1.2 billion in global ticket sales, and the fifth
highest-grossing film of all time, Marvel said in a statement. REUTERS
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Karachi: Man abducted, killed near Ghas Bandar
KARACHI:
A man was killed in a gunfire attack on his car near the city area of
Kemari in today’s wee hours, SAMAA reported Friday.
According to
police sources, Muhammed Altaf was in his car, when some unidentified
miscreants abducted him and steered him away. A little later, they
pulled over his car near Ghas Bandar, Kemari Gate-15 and gunned him
down.
The deceased received three gunshot injuries.
According to police sources, Altaf was a resident of Khajoor Bazaar; the incident is further being looked into.
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Suicide bomber kills 7 after close of Iraq polls
BAGHDAD:
A suicide bomber killed seven people at an Iraqi vote counting centre
on Thursday evening, police said, hours after polls closed in two Sunni
Muslim-dominated provinces.
Most Iraqis voted for provincial
councils in April but the Shi'ite-led government postponed elections in
Anbar and Nineveh, citing security concerns after months of protests by
the country's Sunni minority.
The decision to delay voting in
those governorates was criticised by the United States, which said it
would compound a sense of Sunni marginalisation that has fuelled a wave
of violent unrest.
More than 1,000 people were killed in militant
attacks in Iraq in May, making it the deadliest month since the height
of sectarian bloodletting in 2006-07.
The suicide bomber blew
himself up at a vote-counting centre in the city of Ramadi in Anbar
province, killing seven people, four of whom were members of Iraq's
electoral commission.
Earlier on Thursday, a roadside bomb hit a
bus carrying five electoral officials in the town of Baiji in Nineveh,
killing one, police said. In the provincial capital Mosul, a mortar
round was fired at a checkpoint near a voting centre, wounding two
soldiers.
On Wednesday, a suicide bomber embraced and killed a Sunni political leader, also in Nineveh.
"The
people of Anbar and Nineveh overcame threats to cast their vote today,
and violence failed to disrupt the democratic process," United Nations
envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler said in a statement.
The first ballot
to be held since U.S. troops left the country will indicate the
strength of Iraq's Sunni political groupings before a parliamentary
election due in 2014.
"We voted for the sake of our children. We
want to get rid of the corrupt people and look forward to the future of
our children and city," said 40-year-old Um Mohammed after casting her
vote in Mosul.
The three provinces that make up the autonomous
Kurdistan region in the north of Iraq hold elections on their own
timetable and are scheduled to go to the polls in September.
Separately,
the bodies of three men kidnapped on Wednesday were found handcuffed
with bullets to the head and chest in the town of Sharqat, 260 km (160
miles) northwest of Baghdad. Two of the men were farmers and the third a
policeman.
Sectarian tensions are running high in Iraq. The
government has blamed attacks against both Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims on
the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, which has been
reinvigorated by the civil war in neighbouring Syria.
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GST suo motu notice: SC to announce verdict today
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The Supreme Court will announce it verdict on one percent raise in the General Sales Tax (GST) today.
A three-judge bench of Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, has reserved its judgment on Thursday a suo
motu notice regarding imposition of additional one per cent General
Sales Tax and increase in prices of petroleum products.
During the course of proceedings, Salman Akram Raja, the counsel for
Oil and Gas Regularity Authority (Ogra), told the bench that under
Article 63 (A) no treasury member could oppose the proposed
recommendations of the Finance Bill 2013 due to which the proposed
increase of the GST from 16 to 17 percent was passed on to petroleum
product prices.
Giving his remarks, Chief Justice said that the court had nothing to
do with the imposition of a tax but had concerns on the procedural
mechanism employed to implement GST increase from 16 to 17 percent.
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