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Britain starts hearing US case for extraditing Assange

Shawdesh Desk: Britain on Monday starts hearing Washington’s extradition request for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a test case of media freedoms in the digital age and the limits of

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UK to start issuing post-Brexit blue passports

Shawdesh Desk: Britain will issue blue passports next month for the first time in almost three decades following its departure from the European Union, the government said on Saturday, reports

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Bangladesh rejects US senator Chuck Grassley’s remark on religious persecution

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC has strongly protested and categorically rejected the remarks on religious freedom in Bangladesh made by US Senator Chuck Grassley. In a statement, the

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US President Trump and first lady Melania to visit Delhi February 24

Shawdesh Desk: US first lady Melania Trump will visit a Delhi government school in Nanakpura of South Delhi, on Tuesday (February 25) to interact with students who are being taught

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Coronavirus: First passengers disembark from Diamond Princess in Japan

Shawdesh Desk: The first passengers have begun disembarking from the virus-hit cruise ship moored off Yokohama, Japan after 14 days of quarantine, reports BBC. An outbreak of the Covid-19 virus

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Coronavirus: Largest study suggests elderly and sick are most at risk

Health officials in China have published the first details of more than 70,000 cases of Covid-19, in the biggest study since the outbreak began, Reports BBC. Data from the Chinese

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14 killed in bus-truck collision in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad

Shawdesh Desk: Fourteen people were killed and several others injured when a private bus in which they were travelling rammed a stationary truck on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway late on Wednesday

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New Hampshire primary: Bernie Sanders narrowly beats Pete Buttigieg

Shawdesh Desk: Bernie Sanders has won the New Hampshire Democratic primary contest, on a terrible night for former vice-president Joe Biden, reports BBC. The left-wing senator took a tight victory

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