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84.5 mln people infected with Covid-19 globally

Shawdesh dEsk: The total Covid-19 case count globally reached 84,535,117 while the death toll climbed to 1,834,963 in the morning. The US, which remained the world’s worst-hit country in terms

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5 women killed as blast hits Yemen wedding hall

Shawdesh desk: Five women were killed in war-torn Yemen when a projectile exploded at a wedding held on New Year’s Day in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, officials

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18 killed in Honduras during New Year’s Eve celebrations

Shawdesh desk: The Honduran police said on Friday 18 people were killed in several violent incidents during New Year’s Eve celebrations. According to Deputy Inspector of the National Police Rigoberto

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Over 83.9m infected with COVID globally

Shawdesh dEsk: COVID is continuing its spread across the world, with total cases crossing the 83.9 million mark on Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The total caseload across

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Global COVID-19 cases exceed 82 million

Shawdesh Desk: The global COVID-19 caseload crossed 82 million on Thursday amid reports of a new, more contagious coronavirus variant affecting a number of countries. Data compiled by Johns Hopkins

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IS bus ambush kills 37 soldiers in Syria: monitor

Shawdesh dEsk: Islamic State group jihadists killed 37 soldiers when they ambushed a bus Wednesday in one of the deadliest attacks since the fall of their “caliphate” last year, a

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Yemen airport blasts kill 26 as government plane arrives

Shawdesh desk: At least 26 people were killed when explosions rocked Yemen’s Aden airport moments after a new unity government flew in, in what some officials charged was a “cowardly”

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Nepal unity elusive, China delegation may return empty-handed

Shawdesh dEsk: A Chinese delegation in Nepal, led by the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign affairs committee, may be forced to return to Beijing without the party unity they had sought

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