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HANOI — Vietnam’s aviation authority said on Monday it had grounded all Pakistani pilots working for local airlines, amid concern from global regulators that some pilots may have been using “dubious” licenses. Pakistan said last week it will ground 262 airline pilots whose credentials may have been falsified, after global …

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is eyeing the reopening of mosques in Makkah from Sunday after a three months closure due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, state television reported. The kingdom has taken restrictive measures against the virus, particularly in Makkah, but the number of new coronavirus cases has notably increased in …

Exiled Pakistani journalist Sajid Hussain found dead in Sweden A Pakistani journalist living in exile in Sweden and who had been missing since March has been found dead in a river. Sajid Hussain, who was granted political asylum in Sweden in 2019 after fleeing Pakistan, had been missing since 2 …

Prince Charles following his COVID-19 diagnosis has given birth to health concerns for the rest of the British royal family members as well who recently underwent a handful of royal engagements. The 71-year-old Prince of Wales may have put his sons, Prince Harry and William at risk of contracting the …

US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Kabul on Wednesday for talks with Afghan leaders to save the fragile peace agreement as US air strikes on Taliban positions, Taliban attacks on Afghan forces and President Ashraf Ghani’s refusal to release Taliban prisoners raised concerns about the fate of the deal. …

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday pushed Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to walk away from the purchase of a Russian missile defense system, calling it a “very serious challenge” to bilateral ties, even though he described a meeting between the two leaders as “wonderful”. After the much-anticipated meeting at the …

School students in the Indian state of Karnataka were this week forced to wear cardboard cartons on their heads during an exam, presumably in order to stop them from cheating in the test. According to a report published by Indian news outlet NDTV, the pictures of the students wearing the …

NEW DELHI: International money-laundering watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) can anytime blacklist Pakistan for terror financing, defence minister Rajnath Singh claimed on Tuesday. In August, the Asia Pacific Group of the FATF had put Pakistan in a terror ‘blacklist’ for its failure to curb funneling of funds to groups …

HAZANO, SYRIA: Near the village of Hazano in northwestern Syria, children come running through the olive groves every morning to meet the bus that brings the school to their improvised tented camp. Years of fighting and displacement in Idlib province have wrought chaos for the education of children, destroying schools …

For Luis Joaquin Caro, who was about 2 years old when Argentina last defaulted on its debt in 2001, casting his vote for left-leaning Peronist candidate Alberto Fernandez in the country’s recent primary election was a no-brainer. “During the Kirchner years, I lived very well,” he said, referring to what …