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Turkey to pay for some Russian gas in rubles: Erdogan

Shawdesh Desk: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed that Turkey will start paying for some of its Russian natural gas imports in rubles. The announcement was initially made by Moscow

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Bomb kills 8 in Shiite area of Afghan capital

Shawdesh desk: A bomb attached to a handcart exploded in Kabul on Friday, officials said, killing eight civilians in an area largely inhabited by Afghanistan’s minority Shiite Muslim community. The blast, which

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Blaze kills firefighter’s 10 relatives, 3 of them children

Shawdesh Desk: Fire tore quickly through a house in northeastern Pennsylvania early Friday morning, killing seven adults and three children and horrifying a volunteer firefighter who arrived to battle the

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North Korea slams Pelosi over visit to DMZ

Shawdesh desk: North Korea on Saturday slammed US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her recent visit to the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone, calling her the “worst destroyer of international peace”.

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Nuclear weapons a ‘loaded gun’, UN chief warns in Hiroshima

Shawdesh desk: “Humanity is playing with a loaded gun” as crises with the potential for nuclear disaster proliferate worldwide, UN head Antonio Guterres said in Hiroshima on Saturday, the 77th

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Israel and Gaza militants exchange fire after deadly strikes

Shawdesh desk: Israeli jets pounded militant targets in Gaza on Saturday as rockets rained on southern Israel, hours after a wave of Israeli airstrikes on the coastal enclave killed at

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Major fall in global food prices for July, but future supply worries remain

Shawdesh desk: Food prices dropped significantly in July, marking the fifth consecutive monthly decline since hitting record highs earlier in the year in the wake of the war in Ukraine,

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First coal shipment for Rampal power plant arrives

Shawdesh Desk: The first shipment of fuel for the coal-powered Rampal Power Plant in Bagerhat has arrived from Indonesia, paving the way for electricity production from October, officials said on

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