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DOHA, Qatar — Zaki Anwari, a former Afghan national youth team footballer, died after falling from a US aircraft while escaping Kabul. After falling from a US military aircraft, the 19-year-old footballer died on Aug.16, announced […]

GENEVA — The International Air Transport Association on Aug. 19 urged governments to abide by international agreements and treaty obligations to enable airlines to repatriate close to nearly one billion dollars in blocked funds from the sale of […]

BENGALURU, India — A man who was lodged in a Saudi Arabia prison on blasphemy charges and for posting derogatory messages about Mecca and the king of Saudi Arabia on Facebook returned to India after 20 […]

NIAMEY, Niger — At least 37 people, including thirteen children aged 15 to 17 and four women, were killed in an attack in western Niger’s Tillabery region on Aug. 19.  The United Nations International Children’s Education […]

LONDON — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani Nobel laureate, expressed her fear for Afghan women girls after the Taliban took control of the war-torn country after two decades of US military operations. “In the last two decades, […]

TORONTO — The extradition process against Huawei Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Meng Wanzhou could not be any fairer, Crown attorney Robert Frater said to a British Columbia Supreme Court judge, rejecting the defense’s appeal to end […]

NEW DELHI — The Indian government’s decision to away with retrospective taxation will strengthen the trust between the government and the industry, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Aug. 11, noting that reforms are not […]