INTERNATIONAL NEWS

       Russian President Vladimir Putin As European countries look to wean themselves off of Russian energy, Moscow is looking to fill at least part of the gap by increasing oil exports to Asia. There is a market “in South East-Asia, in the East,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. The world market […]

Zelensky As Ukrainian cities are under renewed Russian attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on people around the world to demonstrate on Thursday to mark one month since the start of Russia’s attack of Ukraine. He said Russia started the war against freedom as it is. He added that Moscow is trying to defeat […]

Joe Biden, U.S. President U.S. President Joe Biden is meeting NATO and EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday, a show of trans-Atlantic unity exactly one month after the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Biden joins Western allies for a special meeting of NATO leaders, a G7 summit and an EU leaders’ summit for talks […]

WHO logo Ukrainian health care institutions have been attacked 64 times since Russia invaded its western neighbour one month ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed Thursday. These attacks, equating to two to three every day, had caused 15 deaths and 37 injuries, the international health body said in a statement. WHO condemns these attacks […]

The Ministry of Education in Afghanistan which has been ruled by the Islamist Taliban since last summer, has announced that all schools in the country will resume lessons on Wednesday. For the first time since the Taliban took over, girls over the sixth grade will be allowed to return to their classes but under certain […]

The United Nations General Assembly is set to meet Wednesday in a bid to agree on a fresh resolution on Russia’s war against Ukraine. A draft resolution regarding the humanitarian consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine is expected to be widely approved in the largest UN body with 193 members. It is likely but not […]

  Wales on Monday bans any physical punishment for children which includes any type of corporal punishment, including smacking, hitting, slapping and shaking. The “smacking ban”, as it was known, was brought in under the Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) (Wales) Act 2020 and marks the end of the common law defence of […]

    Attacks on hospitals and schools in Ukraine are putting around six million children in acute danger, the humanitarian organisation Save the Children said on Monday. Roughly one in five children has had to flee their home country to escape the war, while those children who remain in the war zone are lacking food, […]

  A China Eastern Boeing 737 with 132 onboard was hit by an accident and caused a mountain fire in South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the number of casualties is not clear yet, CCTV reported on Monday afternoon. The plane, MU 5735 took off from Kunming Changshui airport in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province at […]

The Government of Chad and the humanitarian community have inaugurated the country’s 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan to support the vulnerable populations and refugees in the country. The Humanitarian Response Plan will prioritize food security and nutrition, health emergencies, and addresses the impacts of climate change, according to UN Spokesperson, Mr Stéphane Dujarric, briefing journalists in […]