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Thousands protest against Mexican judicial reform

Shawdesh Desk; Thousands of Mexicans, mainly court employees and law students, protested in the capital on Sunday against a controversial judicial reform proposal that would see judges elected by popular

Le Pen urges Macron to hold referendum to break deadlock

Shawdesh Desk: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday urged president Emmanuel Macron to hold a referendum on key issues such as immigration, suggesting that giving the French a

Typhoon Yagi weakens after leaving dozens dead in Vietnam, China, Philippines

Shawdesh desk: Typhoon Yagi weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday, after killing over a dozen people, tearing roofs off buildings, sinking boats and triggering landslides across Vietnam. The typhoon

Shooting kills 3 Israeli guards at West Bank crossing, says army

Shawdesh desk: The Israeli military said a truck driver opened fire Sunday at an Israeli border crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan, killing three Israeli guards before being

UK, US spy chiefs warn of threat to world order

Shawdesh Desk: CIA director Bill Burns and UK MI6 chief Richard Moore warned on Saturday that the world order was ‘under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the

The holy city in India where thousands go to die

Shawdesh desk: Some stay only days, others wait decades, but the crowds of elderly Indian Hindu devotees are calm and confident that their one-way pilgrimage to death will deliver everlasting peace.

Macron mulls right-wing ex-minister as PM

Shawdesh desk: France’s president Emmanuel Macron was on Tuesday considering a former right-wing minister to lead a new government after almost two months of deadlock, sources with knowledge of the

Turkey launches fresh air strikes on PKK in N Iraq

Shawdesh desk: Turkey said on Tuesday it had launched fresh air strikes on what it said were Kurdish militants in the mountains of northern Iraq. The defence ministry said it