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Xi Jinping holds talks with Blinken in Beijing

Shawdesh Desk: President Xi Jinping hosted Antony Blinken for talks in Beijing on Monday, capping two days of high-level talks by the United States secretary of state with Chinese officials.

UK to allocate $32 mln to reinforce Ukraine’s cybersecurity

Shawdesh desk: The British government will allocate 25 million pounds (about $32 million) in the next two years for reinforcement of cybersecurity in Ukraine, the British Prime Minister’s Office said

Cyclone leaves 11 dead, 20 missing in southern Brazil

Shawdesh desk: SAO PAULO: At least 11 people have been killed in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul after an extra-tropical cyclone struck the region on Friday, according

Uganda school attack: 40 killed by militants linked to Islamic State group

Shawdesh desk: Around 40 people, mostly students, have been killed at a school in western Uganda by rebels linked to the Islamic State group. A further eight people remain in

Putin says sent nuclear warheads to Belarus

Shawdesh desk: President Vladimir Putin on Friday confirmed Russia had sent nuclear arms to its ally Belarus which borders Ukraine. “The first nuclear warheads were delivered to the territory of

110 million people worldwide forcibly displaced from home: UN

Shawdesh desk: A record 110 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced from their homes, the United Nations said Wednesday, branding the huge upsurge an ‘indictment’ of the world. Russia’s

Dam flood death toll rises to 10, with 41 missing: Kyiv

Shawdesh Desk: Ukraine on Monday said 41 people were still missing in the floods caused by a dam breach that it blamed on Russia, and which killed 10 people in

28 killed, 140 injured as rain, thunderstorms hits parts of Pakistan

Shawdesh desk; As many as 28 people were killed and more than 140 injured as heavy rain and thunderstorms hit several parts of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab on Saturday,