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French all-woman extremist group jailed in different terms

Shawdesh desk: A French court on Monday sentenced five members of an all-female jihadist cell to between five and 30 years in prison over a failed bid to detonate a

Greenpeace campaigners stand against ocean pollution

Shawdesh Desk: Greenpeace campaigners have boarded two Royal Dutch Shell oil platforms in a protest against leaving parts of old rigs in the North Sea, the environmental group said Monday.

Kolkata-born economist Abhijit Banerjee awarded Nobel Prize for Economics

Shawdesh desk: Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer were awarded the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for their approach to alleviate global poverty. Fifty-eight-year-old Banerjee was born

Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer win Nobel economics prize for studies on poverty

Shawdesh Desk: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has recognised Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer for “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer have won

Death toll rises to 20 as Typhoon Hagibis lashes Japan

Shawdesh Desk: More than 20 people were killed by powerful Typhoon Hagibis, local media reported Sunday, a day after the ferocious storm slammed into Japan, unleashing unprecedented rain and catastrophic

Turkey Syria offensive: 100,000 flee homes as assault continues

Shawdesh Desk: Some 100,000 people have fled their homes in north Syria, the UN reports, as Turkey presses on with its cross-border offensive on Kurdish-held areas. Many people are sheltering

Iran reports: Explosion at Iran oil tanker near Saudi Arabia

Shawdesh desk: An explosion damaged an Iranian oil tanker traveling through the Red Sea near Saudi Arabia on Friday, Iranian media reported. There was no immediate word from Saudi Arabia

Nobel Prize for Literature to name two winners on Thursday

Shawdesh Desk: The Nobel Prize for Literature is set to be awarded on Thursday. Twice. The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood, fellow Canadian Anne Carson and Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya