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UK press takes swipe at Assange and UN panel

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UK Press takes Swipe at Assange and UN Panel LONDON: British newspaper columnists on Saturday took aim at Julian Assange and the UN panel that found the anti-secrecy campaigner had been “arbitrarily detained”. The WikiLeaks founder, who faces a rape allegation in Sweden, urged Britain to let him walk free from Ecuador’s London embassy following the panel’s findings Friday. The 44-year-old Australian, who has been in the embassy for approaching four years, has refused to go to Sweden, fearing deportation to the United States over WikiLeaks’ release of 500,000 secret military files. “So that settles it then — everyone’s to blame except Julian Assange,” wrote Marina Hyde in The Guardian.

Supermodel Cindy Crawford, turning 50, denies plans to retire

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Supermodel Cindy Crawford, Turning 50, Denies Plans to Retire NEW YORK: Supermodel Cindy Crawford on Monday denied reports that she planned to retire from modeling this month, saying she had made no final statements and that her “retirement” was a running joke in her family. Crawford appeared to suggest in an interview with United Airlines magazine Hemispheres last week that she would quit modeling when she turns 50 on February 20. But on Monday she wrote on her Instagram page that “ not all headlines tell the whole story. ”

Messi to meet young Afghan famed for shirt made from plastic bag

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Messi to meet young Afghan Boy in Plastic Messi jersey KABUL: Barcelona star Lionel Messi will meet an Afghan boy who gained Internet fame after a touching series of photographs went viral, showing him playing in a shirt improvised from a plastic bag and bearing the name and playing number of his hero.. Five year-old Murtaza, from a poor family in the Jaghori district in the central province of Ghazni, became an unlikely Internet sensation after the pictures were shared on Facebook and other social media sites. Also Read:  Afghan boy in plastic Messi jersey becomes Internet star

Pakistan urges UN to take notice of Modi’s statement

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ISLAMABAD: Advisor to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz Wednesday strongly condemned the confessional statement of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for committing terrorism against Pakistan in early seventies. For More Details Visit:  Pakistan Latest Breaking News