Odebrecht corruption scandal: disgraced Ecuador and Peru leaders freed

Quito, April 11 (AFP/APP):Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glas, jailed for corruption involving the Brazilian company Odebrecht, was freed on parole Sunday. In neighboring Peru, meanwhile, ex-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was also granted conditional freedom by a court after serving 36 months of house arrest. Glas, while serving a six-year sentence for receiving millions of […]

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IHC dismisses petition seeking ex-PM Imran Khan’s name on ECL

ISLAMABAD:Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed a petition seeking orders for registration of high treason case against former prime minister Imran Khan and his former cabinet members, and placing their names on exit control list in ‘letter gate’ matter. The court declared the petition as non-maintainable and imposed a fine worth Rs,100,000 against the […]

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Commissioner for resolving water supply, drainage issues

HYDERABAD: Commissioner Nadeem-ur-Rehman Memon, while directing the officers of HDA and WASA to provide clean drinking water to the residents of Hyderabad and to improve drainage system, said that it was fundamental right of the people to have clean drinking water and better cleanliness facilities. He was presiding over a meeting regarding water supply and […]

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Low intensity blast ripped apart railway track near Kotri

HYDERABAD:A low intensity blast ripped apart around one foot of the railway track near Railway Station Kotri in Jamshoro district on Sunday night. According to the police, unknown terrorists carried out the explosion but luckily no train was passing through that part of the downtrack. The incident suspended movement of trains from the track. The […]

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Indonesia tech giant GoTo soars on market debut

Jakarta, April 11 (AFP/APP):Indonesia’s biggest tech firm soared in Jakarta trade Monday after a billion-dollar IPO that was the world’s fifth-biggest this year, defying recent heavy weather for Asian tech stocks. GoTo, the largest digital ecosystem in the archipelago nation of 270 million people, was formed by the merger of ride-hailing company Gojek and e-commerce […]

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Sydney airport faces continued delays as workers isolate

SYDNEY, April 11 (Xinhua/APP):Prolonged delays at Australia’s busiest airport, Sydney Airport, has seen travelers waiting hours amid worker shortages and a rush for domestic travel ahead of the Easter holidays. The disruptions have now entered into the fourth day as travelers have crowded the airport for getaways since last Friday morning, with Saturday being the […]

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