INTERNATIONAL NEWS

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 […]

The UK is under threat as Russia has warned that they will “immediately” launch a “high precision” attack if Britain continues to “provoke” Ukraine to bomb strategic sites on Russian soil. The Kremlin has warned the UK that they are “ready to carry out the strike with high-precision,” and they could strike British diplomats when […]

    French President Emmanuel Macron defeated his rival Marine Le Pen on Sunday by a comfortable margin, securing a second term and heading off what would have been a political earthquake. Cheers of joy erupted as the results appeared on a giant screen at the Champ de Mars park at the foot of the […]

  At least 201 people died and 98 injured, in violence in West Darfur state in Sudan, an official working for the governor of the region said on Monday. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) reported that tens of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes by the violence. It added that houses have […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday claimed that his main spy agency had foiled a Western plot to kill a prominent Russian journalist. He did not immediately provide evidence to support his claims. Reuters was unable to immediately verify the claims. The Interfax news agency said that members of a nationalist group had been detained […]

Kenya’s former president Mwai Kibaki has died at the age of 90, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced in a statement on Friday. Kenyatta hailed Kibaki as a “notable father figure’’ in Kenya’s history and ordered several days of national mourning until the funeral. Kibaki left behind a more united and prosperous country, Kenyatta said. Kibaki was […]