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‘No country stands to gain’ from Middle East escalation: G7

Shawdesh desk: G7 nations warned on Monday that “no country stands to gain from a further escalation in the Middle East,” as world leaders gathered in New York for the

274 killed in Israeli strikes on Hezbollah

Shawdesh Desk: Israeli air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon on Monday killed 274 people, according to the Lebanese health ministry, in by far the deadliest cross-border escalation since war

Tanzania arrests opposition leaders, blocks protest

Shawdesh desk: Police arrested Tanzania’s top opposition figures on Monday, their party said, as the authorities moved to block a mass protest in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam. Despite

Israel serves 45-day closure order on Al Jazeera in West Bank after raid

Shawdesh desk: Armed and masked Israeli forces raided the office of Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and served a 45-day closure order on the global news

Marxist leader Sri Lanka’s president-elect

Shawdesh desk: Sri Lanka’s election commission declared a previously fringe Marxist politician the country’s president-elect on Sunday after a vote coloured by discontent over the island nation’s response to an

Israeli jets pound Lebanon after deadly Beirut strike

Shawdesh Desk: Israeli warplanes pounded southern Lebanon Saturday, raising fears of all-out war a day after an Israeli strike on Beirut left senior Hezbollah commanders among the 37 people Lebanese

More than 50 workers die in Iran coal mine blast

Shawdesh Desk: A blast caused by a gas leak at an Iranian coal mine has killed more the 50 people, state media said Sunday, in one of the country’s deadliest

Death toll from Israeli airstrike on Beirut suburb rises to 31

Shawdesh Desk: Lebanon’s health minister said on Saturday the death toll from an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb the day before has risen to 31, including seven women and