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Ex-US President Jimmy Carter in hospital for brain procedure

Shawdesh Desk: Former US President Jimmy Carter, 95, has been admitted to hospital in Atlanta for a procedure to relieve brain pressure. The pressure comes from bleeding caused by recent

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Babri mosque verdict: Disputed land given for temple, alternate land for mosque

Shawdesh Desk: The Supreme Court of India on Saturday announced its verdict in a decades-old land title dispute between Muslims and Hindus over plans to build a Hindu temple on

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Brazilian ex-President Lula released from jail

Shawdesh Desk: Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been freed after more than 18 months in prison. The left-wing former leader, known as Lula, was greeted with

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Imran Ahmed pays courtesy call on Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad

Shawdesh Desk: Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed on Thursday paid a courtesy call on Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad at his office in Kuala Lumpur. During the

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North Korean fishermen ‘killed 16 colleagues’ before fleeing to South

Shawdesh Desk: Two North Korean fishermen suspected of killing 16 fellow crew members before fleeing to the South, have been handed back to the North. They crossed the maritime border

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Soldier arrested for leaking border details to Pakistan-based ISI agent

Shawdesh desk: One of the two Indian soldiers who was taken into custody from the Jodhpur railway station on charges of sharing crucial information with a Pakistan-based woman ISI agent,

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15 killed in suspected rebel attacks in Thailand’s south: army

Shawdesh Desk: At least fifteen people were killed and another four injured in attacks by suspected Muslim rebels in Thailand’s violence-wracked south, an army spokesman said on Wenesday, the largest death

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Uyghur Muslim women forced to share bed with Chinese monitors

Shawdesh desk: Male Han Chinese “relatives” assigned to monitor the homes of Uyghur families in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) regularly sleep in the same beds as the

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