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Two killed as Kenyan anniv protests turn violent

Marches in Kenya to mark a year since massive anti-government demos turned violent on Wednesday, with two killed and running battles between protesters and police, who flooded Nairobi’s streets with

South Korea’s Lee on course to win presidency by landslide

Shawdesh Desk: Centre-left Lee Jae-myung was set Tuesday to win South Korea’s presidential election by a landslide, capping months of political chaos in a vote which drew the highest turnout

Meloni, Macron seek to mend fences in Rome talks

Shawdesh Desk: Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and France’s president Emmanuel Macron will aim to reconcile their difference in talks in Rome on Tuesday, with both sides seeking to cope

No nuclear deal if deprived of peaceful activities: Iran

Iran said Monday it will not accept a nuclear agreement that deprives it of what it calls ‘peaceful activities’, a reference to uranium enrichment, as it pressed the United States

UN chief calls for probe into deaths near Gaza aid site

Shawdesh Desk: UN chief Antonio Guterres called Monday for an independent investigation into the killing of dozens of Palestinians near a US-backed aid centre in Gaza after rescuers blamed the

Eight injured in ‘flamethrower’ attack on Israeli hostage protest in US

Shawdesh desk: A man yelling ‘free Palestine’ used incendiary devices to torch protesters rallying in support of Israeli hostages, injuring at least eight people in the US state of Colorado

China preparing for military action in Asia: Pentagon

Shawdesh Desk: US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth warned on Saturday that China was ‘credibly preparing’ to use military force to upend the balance of power in Asia, vowing the

Chinese students in US will ‘be ok’: Trump

Shawdesh Desk: US president Donald Trump told reporters late Friday he wanted to assure Chinese international students in the country that they would be fine amid his administration’s crackdown on