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HRW urges Myanmar to end mass detention of Rohingya in Rakhine

Shawdesh Desk: The Myanmar government should urgently end the arbitrary and indefinite detention of approximately 130,000 Rohingya Muslims in squalid and abusive camps in Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said

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Masks made mandatory outdoors across Italy

Shawdesh desk: Italy has made it mandatory to wear face masks in outdoor spaces across the country in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Italians must also

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White House press secretary tests positive for coronavirus

Shawdesh Desk: White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has tested positive for Covid-19, she tweeted in a statement Monday morning. McEnany emphasized that she had previously tested negatively “consistently” and

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Cities under fire as Armenia-Azerbaijan fighting intensifies

Shawdesh desk: Armenian and Azerbaijani forces exchanged rocket fire as fighting intensified over Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, with the breakaway region’s capital and Azerbaijan’s second-largest city bombarded. Yerevan said Nagorno-Karabakh’s main

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China is carrying out ‘cultural genocide’ in Xinjiang: Report

Shawdesh Desk: China is carrying out ‘cultural genocide’ in Xinjiang and its repressive measures against the ethnic minority are to homogenise Uyghurs into the country’s Han Chinese majority and erasing

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International Boyfriend Day today

Shawdesh dEsk: Boyfriend Day on October 3rd recognizes the sweetheart in your life. Like special days for family members, this day dedicates attention to the boyfriends in our lives. Whether

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Rahul Gandhi, sister Priyanka detained

Shawdesh desk; Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka were detained by India’s Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday near Yamuna Expressway when the duo, after being stopped on the highway, decided to

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India to allow schools, colleges to reopen from October 15

Shawdesh desk: Schools and colleges across India will be allowed to reopen from October 15 as the government tonight announced a fresh phase of lifting of Covid-19 curbs. Cinemas, theatres

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