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52 rescued after cloud burst wrecks havoc in Pakistan

Shawdesh Desk: The Pakistani military rescued 52 people in a remote village of Pakistan’s Neelum Valley where torrential rains triggered off by a cloudburst wreaked havoc in the region, an

Death toll in Nepal floods rises to 55

Shawdesh Desk: The death toll in Nepal from flash floods and landslides in the past three days rose to 55 yesterday, with dozens missing and injured, the government said. Ten

Indonesia quake kills one, ousts hundreds

Shawdesh Desk: At least one person was found dead and hundreds were evacuated after a major 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit the remote Maluku islands in eastern Indonesia on Sunday, an official

26 killed in Somalia hotel siege

Shawdesh Desk: Twenty-six people were killed and 56 injured in a 12-hour attack by Al-Shabaab jihadists on a popular hotel that ended early Saturday in the southern Somali port city

Fresh allegations of war crimes in Rakhine

Shawdesh Desk: When 35-year-old Ah Hla showed up to a police station in western Myanmar in late April hoping to see her husband among the prisoners, she didn’t know whether

Rains, floods kill 17 in Nepal, 11 in India

Shawdesh Desk: At least 17 people have been killed across Nepal after torrential monsoon rains induced floods and landslides, officials said Friday. In neighbouring northeastern India the death toll rose

209 killed in railway accidents in six months: SCRF

Shawdesh Desk: Lack of people’s awareness and poor maintenance of level-crossings and railway bridges by the authorities concerned contributed to the rise in railway accidents across the country that claimed

New North Korea constitution calls Kim head of state

Shawdesh Desk: Kim Jong Un has been formally named head of state of North Korea and commander-in-chief of the military in a new constitution observers said was possibly aimed at