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Hymen repair surgery and virginity testing to be banned in UK

Shawdesh Desk: The government is planning on banning a cosmetic surgery called hymenoplasty across the UK. It attempts to recreate a woman’s hymen, which in some cultures is linked to

Global Covid cases top 372 million

Shawdesh Desk: The overall number of Covid cases has surpassed 372 million amid a surge in Omicron infections across the globe. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case

Thousands of flights cancelled as Eastern US braces for winter storm

Shawdesh desk: Thousands of flights in the United States were cancelled on Saturday as parts of the East Coast braced for a shellacking by a powerful winter storm packing heavy

Global Covid cases top 369 million

Shawdesh desk: The overall number of Covid cases has surpassed 369 million amid a surge in Omicron infections across the globe. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case

Pittsburgh bridge collapses, drops city bus into ravine

Shawdesh dEsk: A 50-year-old bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh early Friday, requiring rescuers to rappel down a ravine and form a human chain to reach a few occupants of a municipal

US Senator Mitt Romney tests positive for COVID-19

Shawdesh dEsk: US Senator Mitt Romney tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, his office said in a statement, Xinhua reported. Romney, 74, “is currently asymptomatic and will be isolating and

Erdogan sacks controversial state statistics chief

Shawdesh dEsk: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sacked the head of the state statistics agency, according to a decree published Saturday, after annual inflation figures angered both the pro-government and opposition

Nearly 40 percent of Tigrayans face ‘extreme lack of food’: UN

Shawdesh DEsk: Nearly 40 percent of people in Ethiopia’s Tigray are suffering “an extreme lack of food” in the face of an extended de-facto blockade of the war-hit region, a