Imran to meet Trump for mending fences
Shawdesh desk: Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan travels to the United States on Sunday hoping the arrest of a militant leader with a $10 million US bounty on his head ReadMore
Mexican drug lord Guzman sentenced to life imprisonment
Shawdesh desk: Once one of the world’s most powerful and notorious criminals, Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday — the mandatory punishment for ReadMore
US House voters criticise Trump’s ‘racist comments’
Shawdesh Desk: The United States House of Representatives formally condemned Donald Trump on Tuesday for xenophobic attacks on four minority democratic lawmakers and hostile language targeting immigrants, as the president ReadMore
ICC team in Bangladesh to discuss Rohingya crisis
Shawdesh Desk: A delegation of the International Criminal Court, led by its Deputy Prosecutor James Kirkpatrick Stewart, arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday morning on a weeklong visit to Bangladesh to ReadMore
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 ReadMore
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 ReadMore
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 ReadMore
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 ReadMore
