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Global Covid cases top 394 million amid Omicron spread

Shawdesh desk: The overall number of Covid cases has surpassed 394 million, with Omicron variant’s rapid spread across the globe. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count

N Korea funding missile projects with stolen crypto

Shawdesh desk: North Korean cyber-attacks have stolen millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency to fund the country’s missile programmes, a UN report briefed to media says. Between 2020 and mid-2021

Rape convict Ram Rahim allowed to leave jail for 21 days

Shawdesh desk: Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh – serving a life term for the murder of his manager in 2002 and another for the murder of a

Israeli President Herzog extends get well soon wishes to Erdogan

Shawdesh desk: Israeli President Isaac Herzog called President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday to wish him and first lady Emine Erdoğan a speedy recovery after they tested positive for COVID-19.

Morocco boy found dead in tragic end to well ordeal

Shawdesh Desk: Moroccan emergency crews found a five-year-old boy dead at the bottom of a well late Saturday in a tragic end to a painstaking five-day rescue operation that gripped

Global Covid cases surpass 392 million amid Omicron spread

Shawdesh Desk: The overall number of Covid cases has surpassed 392 million as Omicron infections keep rising across the globe. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count

Global Covid cases surpass 390 million amid Omicron spread

Shawdesh desk: The overall number of Covid cases has surpassed 390 million as Omicron infections keep rising across the globe. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count

Omicron: US death toll from COVID-19 hits 900,000

Shawdesh desk: Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000. The two-year