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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s national carrier has posted an annual profit for the first time in more than two decades ahead of a second attempt by the government to sell the airline, the country’s defence minister said. The disclosure was made at a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) board meeting, the minister said late on Tuesday (Apr 9). “PIACL Board today has approved its accounts FY 2024, and after 21 years, it has achieved an operating profit of PKR 9.3 Billion (US$33.14 million) & Net Profit of PKR 26.2 Billion (after deferred tax adjustment),” Defence and Aviation Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said in…

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NewsFeedIran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says the country is “not after a nuclear bomb,” ahead of indirect US-Iran talks in Oman this weekend. He also floated allowing direct US investment in Iran if a deal is reached.Published On 9 Apr 20259 Apr 2025

President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, received a warm welcome from the Republican legislature in Arizona – while Democrats walked out of the special joint session in protest within seconds of his 30-minute speech.”I think this is just another reason why it just shows again that the Democrats are totally out of touch with Americans,” Arizona Senate President Warren Peterson told Fox News Digital in an interview. “We expanded our majorities because immigration is a top issue, especially here in Arizona as a border state. I guess what’s surprising is that they keep doubling down on issues that they’re…

Parental leave is hardly a cutting-edge subject in the year 2025.The 20 largest employers in the United States have for years offered paid parental leave to at least some of their workers. During his 2018 State of the Union address, President Trump endorsed paid family leave as a way to support working families.But Congress, which is exempt from labor and anti-discrimination laws, has long held itself apart from the way the rest of the country operates. And the failure this week of a bipartisan effort to update House rules to allow new parents to vote remotely after the birth of…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 9, 2025 1:39 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A 35-year-old man is facing a second-degree murder charge after he allegedly got into an altercation with a driver who had just hit a pedestrian in the Montréal-Nord borough. Justin Philip Cockburn was expected to appear in court Wednesday to be charged with killing 67-year-old Antonio Zaccagna. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Police say the altercation happened after Zaccagna…

South West Slammers women’s coach Mark Edman says he made no attempt to put a dampener on his side’s celebrations after they snapped a near three-year losing streak on Saturday.

TOKYO: Japan will cooperate with the Group of Seven advanced economies and the International Monetary Fund to help stablise a market rout unleashed by United States tariffs, the country’s top currency diplomat said on Wednesday (Apr 9). “Cooperation needs to be international to prevent market instability,” Atsushi Mimura told reporters after a trilateral meeting of executives from Japan’s Ministry of Finance, the Financial Services Agency and the Bank of Japan (BOJ). “We’ve been in discussions urgently through various international and bilateral channels including G7, Asian countries and international organisations like IMF, … and we’ll continue to make utmost efforts to…

An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City neighborhood killed 23 people on Wednesday, including eight children, and left more than 70 wounded, Gaza’s Civil Defense service said. About 20 people remained missing, but rescuers had little equipment to pull them from the rubble, officials said.The Israeli military said it had been targeting a Hamas operative who it said was responsible for planning attacks. It did not name the operative or give further details. Civil Defense’s death toll, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, could not be independently verified. Gaza’s Health Ministry had not yet released a death toll.A…

Federal judges in both New York and Texas have blocked the deportations of Venezuelan men likely to be deported under the Trump administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, again stopping the White House’s attempts to remove alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang after the Supreme Court cleared the way for their deportations this week.In one case filed in Manhattan, attorneys for two Venezuelan men who are currently being detained in Orange County, New York, successfully argued to block their clients’ deportations and movement outside of the state and the United States. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, appointed…