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Amazon fires a global crisis

Shawdesh Desk: Paris, the United Nations and EU called for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil’s right-wing president accused his French counterpart of having a “colonialist mentality”

Pakistan SC orders action against judge

Shawdesh Desk: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered disciplinary action against a judge who convicted former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, effectively giving a boost to Sharif’s appeal against a seven-year

Kashmiris protest amid curfew

Shawdesh Desk: An Indian soldier was killed by Pakistani forces on the Kashmir border, the military said Friday, as a tense lockdown in the region of seven million residents continued

Myanmar blames Rohingya repatriation failure on Bangladesh

Shawdesh desk: Myanmar on Friday pushed blame for its second failed attempt to repatriate the Rohingya on Bangladesh, a day after not a single refugee turned up to return to

India faces defiance in ‘Kashmir’s Gaza’

Shawdesh Desk: Young men sit beside a pile of rocks and a bonfire, protecting the only entrance to a besieged neighbourhood they call ‘Kashmir’s Gaza’ as a mosque loudspeaker broadcasts

FM’s stance likely to hamper Bangladesh interests

Shawdesh Desk: Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen’s position for withdrawing objections lodged with the United Nations on the disputes with India and Myanmar involving Bangladesh’s claim in deep sea is

Pompeo a diehard toxin, complicates denuclearisation: N Korea

Shawdesh Desk: North Korea’s top diplomat said on Friday that US secretary of state Mike Pompeo was a ‘diehard toxin’ who only complicates denuclearisation talks and that Pyongyang was ready

6 Indian soldiers killed as Pakistan Army responds to cross-LoC firing

Shawdesh Desk: Six soldiers of the Indian army, including an officer, were killed and many others injured when Pakistan Army troops gave a “befitting response” to recent Indian ceasefire violations