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71 soldiers killed in Niger military camp attack

Shawdesh Desk: Hundreds of jihadists attacked a Niger military camp near the border with Mali with shelling and mortars, killing 71 soldiers, the defence ministry said Wednesday. Tuesday’s attack in

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Police officer among six people killed in New Jersey shooting

Shawdesh Desk: Authorities say six people, including a police officer and three bystanders are dead after a furious gun battle that filled the streets of Jersey City, New Jersey, with

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Justice Nanavati-Mehta Commission gives clean chit to Narendra Modi in 2002 Gujarat riots

Shawdesh Desk: The Gujarat government has tabled the final part of the Justice Nanavati-Mehta Commission report on the 2002 riots, in the Assembly on Wednesday. The report deals with post-Godhra

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Hearing starts at top UN court on Rohingya genocide allegations

Shawdesh desk: The U.N.’s highest court on Tuesday began a hearing into allegations of genocide in Myanmar over the military campaign against the Rohingya minority, with leader Aung San Suu

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Myanmar must stop this genocide of Rohingyas, Gambia tells UN court

Shawdesh Desk: The Gambia asked the UN’s top court Tuesday to order Myanmar to “stop this genocide” of the Rohingya Muslim minority, as a hearing attended by Myanmar’s former peace

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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi arrives at UN court for genocide hearing

Shawdesh Desk: Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at the UN’s top court on Tuesday to personally defend Myanmar against accusations of genocide against Rohingya Muslims. Wearing traditional

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“Consider Sanctions Against Amit Shah”: US Commission

Shawdesh desk: Describing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill as a “dangerous turn in the wrong direction”, a federal US commission on international religious freedom has sought American sanctions against Home Minister

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Another Indian girl set on fire after failed rape bid

Shadesh Desk: A young woman was allegedly set on fire by a neighbour after she resisted his attempt to rape her at Muzaffarpur of Bihar in India, a police officer

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