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15 people killed in India stampede at Hindu mega-fest Kumbh Mela

Shawdesh Desk: A stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering in India killed at least 15 people with many more injured, a doctor at the Kumbh Mela festival told AFP

Lebanese try again to return to southern border villages

Shawdesh desk: South Lebanon residents accompanied by the army tried to return to their villages on Monday, official media and AFP correspondents reported, a day after Israeli fire killed more

Imran Khan, wife appeal against graft convictions

Shawdesh desk: Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi appealed against their convictions for graft on Monday, his lawyer said. Imran Khan, 72, has been

Japanese man ends 6,000km Africa rickshaw trek in Cape Town

Shawdesh Desk: A 34-year-old Japanese man on Sunday arrived in Cape Town to end a more than 6,000-kilometre (3,700-mile) journey from Kenya to South Africa on foot while pulling a

Mbappe treble extends Liga leaders Madrid’s edge on Atletico

Shawdesh desk: Kylian Mbappe continued his rich vein of form with a hat-trick on Saturday to power Real Madrid to a 3-0 win over Valladolid and a four-point lead at

North Korea test-fires sea-to-surface strategic cruise missile: KCNA

Shawdesh desk: North Korea has test-fired sea-to-surface strategic guided cruise missiles, state news agency KCNA reported Sunday, adding that the weapons ‘precisely’ hit their targets. ‘The war deterrence means of

US freezes almost all aid except for Israel, Egypt arms: memo

Shawdesh Desk: The United States, the world’s biggest donor, froze virtually all foreign aid on Friday, making exceptions only for emergency food, and military funding for Israel and Egypt. Secretary

Gaza development put back 60 years by war: UNDP chief

Shawdesh desk: The Israel-Hamas war has put back development in Gaza by 60 years and mobilising the tens of billions of dollars needed for reconstruction will be an uphill task,