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Six injured in Paris station knife attack

Shawdesh Desk: Six people have been injured with one in a critical condition after a knife attack at Paris’s international Gare du Nord station early on Wednesday. Interior Minister Gerald

Russia hits Ukraine’s Kharkiv after German minister visits

Shawdesh Desk: Russian strikes hit eastern Ukraine’s city of Kharkiv late Tuesday, the regional governor said, just hours after a surprise visit by the German foreign minister with her Ukrainian

A child died once every 4.4 seconds in 2021: UN report

Shawdesh Desk: An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5–24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to

Powerful quake hits off Indonesia, rattles islands

Shawdesh Desk: A 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit deep under the ocean off Indonesia and East Timor early Tuesday, injuring at least one person after rattling nearby islands, damaging homes and forcing

Death toll in latest Peru unrest rises to 17

Shawdesh desk: At least 17 people died Monday in Peru as protesters trying to storm an airport clashed with security forces in the latest violent spasm of a month-old political

7.6-magnitude earthquake hits off Indonesia, rattles islands

Shawdesh Desk: A 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit deep under the ocean off Indonesia and East Timor early Tuesday, injuring at least one person after rattling nearby islands, damaging homes and forcing

112 Rohingya people jailed in Myanmar for travelling ‘without paper’

Shawdesh Desk: Myanmar authorities have sentenced 112 Rohingya, including a dozen children, to between two and five years in prison for attempting to travel to Malaysia ‘without legal documents’, state

90pc of people in China province infected with Covid: official

Shawdesh desk: Almost 90 per cent of people in China’s third most populous province have now been infected with Covid-19, a top official said on Monday, as the country battles