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North Korea announces ‘satellite’ launch, says Japan

Shawdesh desk: Japan said on Monday that it was preparing for North Korea to launch in the coming weeks what Pyongyang has described as a satellite, but Tokyo believes may

Republicans, Biden reach debt ceiling deal, Congress to vote Wednesday

Shawdesh Desk: Top Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden announced a deal Saturday to raise the debt ceiling, dragging the United States from the precipice of default with

Kashmir in the shadows

Shawdesh Desk: WHILE few of the world’s governments seem to care about Palestine, at least their officials will occasionally pay lip service to the extreme violations of human rights and

Putin confident of Russia’s ‘bright future’

Shawdesh Desk: Russia has a bright future, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, pointing to the country’s enormous resources. “As for the future, everyone actually has a future but the

Biden ‘hopeful’ of imminent US debt deal

Shawdesh Desk: WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden said Friday that Democratic and Republican negotiators were on the verge of resolving a debt ceiling standoff, as the deadline for a potentially catastrophic

Pakistan diplomat, family escape unhurt after bus hits his car

Shawdesh Desk: The deputy high commissioner of Pakistan to Bangladesh and his family members narrowly escaped unhurt after a speeding bus collided head-on with his car in Brahmanbaria on Friday

EU defense ministers fail to agree on new military aid to Ukraine

Shawdesh desk; The defense ministers of the European Union (EU) member states have failed to reach an agreement on new military aid to Ukraine, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep

Extreme weather kills 2 million, costs $4 trillion in 50 years: WMO

Shawdesh desk: Extreme weather events accelerated by man-made global warming caused 11 778 reported disasters in the last 50 years, with just over 2 million deaths and US$ 4.3 trillion