{
  "id": 783018,
  "title": "NST Leader: Passport validity confusion leaves travellers in pickle",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/nst-leader-passport-validity-confusion-leaves-travellers-in-pickle",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T15:30:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Straits Times",
    "slug": "new-straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/leaders/2026/08/1510687/nst-leader-passport-validity-confusion-leaves-travellers-pickle"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "MALAYSIAN passport holders, familiar with the vagaries of foreign check-in counters, have been floored by recent rigid and flawed technical verifications at many such counters.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}