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Deadly bus crash with truck kills 14, injures 25 in Egypt

Shawdesh desk: A passenger bus has slammed into a slowly moving truck on a highway in southwestern Egypt, killing at least 14 people, officials and local media say. The crash

Heavy rain, floods kill at least 136 in Rwanda, Uganda

Shawdesh desk: Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 129 people in Rwanda and six in Uganda, authorities said on Wednesday, as rescuers hunted survivors trapped

Indigenous leaders ask King Charles to apologise for colonialism

Shawdesh Desk: Indigenous leaders from a string of former British colonies on Thursday urged King Charles to swiftly apologise for ‘centuries of racism’ and the ‘legacy of genocide’ perpetrated by

Fighting between rival generals raged on in Sudan despite truce

Shawdesh Desk: Fierce fighting between rival generals raged on in Sudan Tuesday despite the latest truce, as warnings multiplied of the potential for a ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian crisis with hundreds of

18 dead in Mexico tourist bus crash

Shawdesh desk: At least 18 Mexican tourists died and two dozen were injured when their tourist bus plunged into a ravine in the western state of Nayarit on Sunday, reports

Suspected Islamic State chief Qurayshi killed in Syria, Turkey says

Shawdesh desk: Turkish forces have killed the suspected leader of Islamic State (IS) in Syria, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced. Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi is said to have taken

UN sending envoy over ‘unprecedented’ Sudan war fallout

Shawdesh Desk: The top United Nations humanitarian official is heading to the Sudan region due to the rapidly unfolding impact of the war there and its wider fallout, UN Secretary-General

Gas leak kills 11 in India’s Punjab

Shawdesh Desk: A gas leak killed 11 people in India, an official said on Sunday, in the latest deadly industrial accident in the vast developing economy of 1.4 billion people.