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Five Chinese tourists killed in NZ bus accident

Shawdesh Desk: At least five Chinese nationals were killed and another six injured when a tourist bus veered off a highway and flipped during bad weather in New Zealand’s North

Dorian death toll raises to seven

Shawdesh Desk: Hurricane Dorian churned along the south-eastern coast of the United States on Tuesday as the storm’s death toll in the Bahamas rose to seven. The hurricane is weakening

HK police fire beanbag rounds on protesters

Shawdesh Desk: Hong Kong police fired beanbag rounds and used pepper spray in late night skirmishes with pro-democracy protesters, broadcaster RTHK said on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of people have

HK withdraws extradition bill

Shawdesh Desk: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill that has plunged the city into its worst political crisis in decades, a source with

Carrie Lam insists she won’t step down

Shawdesh Desk: Hong Kong’s embattled leader insisted on Tuesday that she had no intention of stepping down, after an audio recording emerged of her saying she wanted to quit and

Eight schoolchildren killed in China

Shawdesh Desk: Eight schoolchildren have died and two others were injured in a ‘school-related criminal case’ in central China, with a 40-year-old suspect arrested, local authorities said Tuesday, the latest

Saudi-led airstrikes kill at least 100 in rebel-run prison

Shawdesh Desk: The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen staged multiple airstrikes on a detention center operated by the Houthi rebels in the southwestern province of Dhamar, killing at least 100

‘State of economy deeply worrying’

Shawdesh Desk: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday, in a statement in a video, said the state of the economy today was “deeply worrying”. He said the “all-round mismanagement”