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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,

9 people wounded in San Francisco mass shooting; 1 remains in critical condition

Shawdesh desk: Nine people were wounded in a mass shooting in San Francisco’s Mission District on Friday night in what police said appeared to be a “targeted and isolated” incident.

US confirms China has had a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019

Shawdesh Desk: China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019, part of a global effort by Beijing to upgrade its intelligence-gathering capabilities, according to a

Clashes in South Sudan civilian camp leave 13 dead

Shawdesh desk: Clashes between ethnic groups in a South Sudanese civilian protection camp have left 13 people dead and 20 injured, the UN humanitarian agency said on Friday. A 14-year-old

Twenty-two killed in ordnance blast in Somalia

Shawdesh desk: Twenty-two people, including two children, died in southern Somalia when mortar shells exploded, a local district official said on Friday. Abdi Ahmed Ali told a press conference that

UN aid chief says Ukraine faces `hugely worse’ humanitarian situation after the dam rupture

Shawdesh Desk: The humanitarian situation in Ukraine is “hugely worse” than before the Kakhovka dam collapsed, the U.N.’s top aid official warned Friday. Undersecretary-General Martin Griffiths said an “extraordinary” 700,000

Flooding from dam break strands hundreds and leaves thousands with no drinking water in Ukraine

Shawdesh desk: Authorities rushed to rescue hundreds of people stranded on rooftops and supply drinking water to areas flooded by a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, in a