Oman Daily Observer - 2016-08-26

• Italy looks for quake survivors
• Czech man builds plane to cut commuting time
• RO 60m contract awarded for Duqm fishery port
• Agreement signed to provide prosthetic devices for disabled
• Barrel bomb attack kills 11 kids in Aleppo
• Social media giants ‘must do more to police sites’
• Camp for football referees begins in Nizwa
• Quality care for renal patients
• Africa’s kids to account for 40 pc of world’s poorest people by 2030
• Attack on Kabul American University leaves 12 dead
• Myanmar weighs damage after earthquake rattles Bagan pagodas
• Chinese military will train Syrian troops: Govt
• Pokemon Go-playing driver kills pedestrian
• Rajnath appeals for peace in Valley
• Defying SC, Maharashtr­a celebrates Dahi Handi with protests
• Congress leaders defect to Trinamool in Bengal
• After tribal walks with wife’s body, Odisha launches hearse scheme
• Colombia announces historic peace pact with Farc rebels
• Poor voters turn their ire on Brazil’s leftist leader
• Can Italy make itself more earthquake-proof?
• Timeline of the armed struggle
• Lawsuit opens new front in Obama immigratio­n legal fight
• Economic crisis weighs heavily on heritage
• Egypt’s minister of supply quits amid graft investigat­ion
• Defence minister sacked as Mosul battle looms
• Erdogan to inaugurate 3rd Bosphorus bridge today
• Innovation is key to India’s progress
• Tech firms encryption foe seeks US Senate re-election
• Jobless youth count swelling
• Celine Dion to release first album since husband’s death
• Monsanto pulls new GM cotton seed from India
• US existing home sales decline, prices still strong
• S’pore trials driverless taxis in world first
• UK consumer boom set to flag as Brexit ignites inflation
• Iron ore at risk as China veteran warns steel output to drop
• Sears posts Q2 loss as decline in sales persists
• Asia energy stocks hit by oil sell-off, eyes on Yellen
• Deutsche Bank warns of ‘fatal consequenc­es’ from ECB’s policies
• CNOOC reports $1.16 billion net loss
• Maybank posts third straight profit drop on loan impairment­s
• Nordea, DNB banks to merge operations in Baltic states
• French govt, EDF strike deal to close N-plant
• PetroChina profit almost wiped out in H1
• Welspun caught up in a spin-cycle of bad publicity
• Hedge fund bloodletti­ng should prompt contemplat­ion
• Size isn’t everything for PetroChina jettisonin­g assets
• FEDERER, NADAL TO TEAM UP FOR NEW LAVER CUP
• Rose returns to regular job after Rio
• Gasquet beats Robert in French clash at Winston-Salem Open
• England prevail by 44 runs in first ODI
• Hamilton faces penalty on return after summer break
• Dilshan to retire after Australia one-day series
• Fifa panel opens probes into S Africa match-fixing cases
• Embattled Blatter wages final Fifa ban appeal
• Lacazette, Fekir back to French squad
• Al Nasr, FC Seoul take quarters grip
• Spanish giants to be feared in CL draw
• Klopp unconcerne­d by Sturridge frustratio­ns
• Rio Olympics was like a cold war: Efimova

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