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Queen Elizabeth II: record breaker

Shawdesh desk: Queen Elizabeth II has notched up a number of landmarks in her record-breaking 70 years on the throne. – Longevity – Elizabeth has reigned for 70 years and

Zelensky: Ukraine losing up to 100 soldiers a day

Shawdesh Desk: Between 60 and 100 Ukrainian soldiers are dying on the battlefield every day, and another 500 wounded, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky told US newsgroup Newsmax in an interview

Russia holds nuclear forces drill amid war: Report

Shawdesh Desk: Russian nuclear submarines sailed off for drills in the Barents Sea and mobile missile launchers roamed snow forests Tuesday in Siberia after President Vladimir Putin ordered his nation’s

EU leaders ban most Russian oil, as Moscow advances in Donbas

Shawdesh desk: European Union leaders agreed late Monday to ban more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports, tightening economic screws on the country even as Moscow’s forces made gains in

Australia election: PM Anthony Albanese secures majority government

Shawdesh desk: Australia’s new Labor government has secured a majority in parliament, election analysts say. The centre-left party, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, defeated Scott Morrison’s conservative coalition in

No concern yet monkeypox will cause pandemic: WHO

Shawdesh Desk: The WHO said Monday it was not concerned for now that the spread of monkeypox beyond the African countries where it is typically found could spark a global

All 22 bodies retrieved from Nepal plane crash

Shawdesh desk: Nepali rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all 22 people on board a plane that crashed in the Himalayas, authorities said Tuesday. “All bodies have now been found,”

Russians control ‘part’ of east Ukraine city Severodonetsk: governor

Shawdesh Desk: Russian forces have taken partial control of the east Ukraine city of Severodonetsk, the Ukrainian official in charge of the region said Tuesday, as Moscow’s army pushed deeper