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General election 2019: Record number of women set to stand

Shawdesh desk: A record number of women look set to stand for Parliament next month, with female candidates likely to comprise about a third of the total, reports BBC. Provisional

Trump impeachment hearings about to go public

Shawdesh Desk: The closed doors of the Trump impeachment investigation are swinging wide open. When the gavel strikes at the start of the House hearing Wednesday morning, America and the

Trump offers to help Mexico in ‘war’ against the drugs cartels

Shawdesh Desk: President Donald Trump offered Tuesday to help Mexico hunt the killers of nine Mormon women and children shot dead in a lawless border area — and said the

UK lawmakers agree on December polls to break Brexit deadlock

Shawdesh desk: British MPs on Tuesday agreed to hold an early election on December 12, backing prime minister Boris Johnson’s call to try to break the crippling political deadlock that

British PM expected to make fresh attempt to force election

Shawdesh Desk: The British prime minister is expected to make a fresh attempt Tuesday to force an early election, despite MPs rejecting his plan, after the European Union agreed to

IS chief Baghdadi buried at sea by US military

Shawdesh Desk: US officials have said the body of Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was buried at sea, as fresh details surfaced about the US special forces operation

EU agrees Brexit delay to Jan31

Shawdesh Desk: The European Union agreed on Monday to delay Brexit until January 31, said the bloc’s chairman, Donald Tusk. ‘The EU27 has agreed that it will accept the UK’s

Trump asked aide to ‘screw Amazon out’ of defence contract

Shawdesh Desk: US President Donald Trump had directed his former Defence Secretary James Mattis to “screw Amazon’ out of Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract, his former speechwriter and communications