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  Pope Francis is using a wheelchair to protect his injured knee. The head of the Catholic Church, 85, was pushed by a Vatican employee to an audience with nuns on Thursday. The pontiff said recently that his doctors had told him to rest his painful right knee. He has been seen hobbling in recent […]

The World Veterinary Day celebration was started by the World Veterinary Association in the year 2000; and is celebrated every year on the last Saturday of April. The World Veterinary Association has membership in more than 70 countries of the world with active support from both local and national associations of the Veterinary Medical Practitioners […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Israel has lambasted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for claiming Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, saying it was an “unforgivable” falsehood that debased the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Leaders from several Western nations denounced the foreign minister’s comments and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of having forgotten the […]

Protesters against U.S. Supreme Court Anti-abortion activists and pro-abortion rights supporters took to the streets of Washington on Tuesday after news that the U.S. Supreme Court may overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling which legalized abortion nationwide. A leaked initial draft majority opinion suggests the court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, Politico […]

Nigeria has signed an agreement with Cuba to implement actions on contract manufacturing, technology transfer, vaccine production and commercialisation of the Cuban biopharmaceutical products in Nigeria. Nigeria’s Ambassador to Cuba, Benaoyagha Okoyen, in a statement made available to the News men in New York, said the two countries also agreed to partner in other areas. He said […]

The Russian foreign ministry said Wednesday that it has banned entry to 287 British MPs after the UK blacklisted Russian lawmakers over Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine.  It said that the MPs are barred from entering the country from now on. The House of Commons has a total of 650 members. Moscow said the list […]

Indonesia began imposing a complete ban on palm oil exports Thursday, as the world’s largest producer of the commodity risked destabilising a global vegetable oil market already hitting peak prices. The archipelago nation is facing a shortage of domestic supplies of cooking oil and soaring prices, with consumers in several cities having to wait for […]

UN Secretary, General António Guterres visited several destroyed suburbs of Kiev as he attempted to help broker a peaceful solution to the war in Ukraine. Speaking on Thursday in the area of Borodyanka, just north-west of the Ukrainian capital, he said “I am imagining my family in one of these houses, which are now destroyed […]

Israel came to halt to the sound of sirens on Thursday morning to commemorate the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. At 10 a.m. (0700 GMT), as the two-minute sirens pierced the air, people across the country stood in solemn silence in honour of the six million Jewish victims of the Nazis during World […]

International arrivals entering Vietnam would no longer have to submit health declaration forms starting from Wednesday, the daily newspaper Vietnam News cited the country’s Ministry of Health as reporting. The ministry has submitted an urgent document to the People’s Committees of provinces and cities regarding medical quarantine activities. The ministry asked the localities to temporarily […]