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Hong Kong runs short of coffins for mounting COVID-19 deaths
Hong Kong is running short of traditional wooden coffins and authorities scramble to add mortuary space as the city battles with COVID-19 deaths. “I have never seen so many bodies piled up together,” said funeral director…
North Korea threatens nuclear strike if South attacks
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on January 30. Photo: AFP Kim Yo Jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong Un,…
Obama returns to White House today
Former U.S. President Barack Obama will return to the White House in Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office in 2017. He is returning to tout the benefits of his signature healthcare law and…
Russia-Ukraine war: Putin imposes visa restrictions on citizens of ‘unfriendly’ nations
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to introduce visa restrictions for citizens of nations that Russia considers…
Pope Francis for the first time implicitly criticizes Putin
Pope Francis came the closest he has yet to implicitly criticizing President Vladimir Putin over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying on Saturday a “potentate” was fomenting conflicts for nationalist interests.…
Moscow says Ukraine hit a fuel depot inside Russia
Russia accused Ukraine of carrying out an air strike against a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod on Friday, an incident the Kremlin said set an unfavourable tone for peace talks with Kyiv. Ukraine’s foreign…
BREAKING: Putin gives 24 hour ultimatum to EU to pay roubles for gas
Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding foreign buyers pay for Russian gas in roubles from Friday or else have their supplies cut. EU nations have rejected the ultimatum and Berlin said it amounted to…
Russia Sustains Attacks Despite Peace Talks, Refugees Climb To 4 Million
The Governor of Chernihiv region in Ukraine has said there is no let-up in attacks by Russia, despite its pledge to reduce military activities in the region. The governor, Viacheslav Chaus, told the BBC that…
India jacks up petrol, diesel prices, 8th time in 9 days
India on Wednesday increased petrol and diesel prices, making it the eighth time in the last nine days. According to a price notification by state fuel retailers, in the capital city of Delhi, petrol and diesel prices…
Russia’s military supply chains to be hit next – U.S. Treasury’s Wally Adeyemo
The United States and its allies plan new sanctions on Russia, including its military supply chains, Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said on Tuesday. The aim is to hit entities critical to sustaining…
NATO would rethink U.S. relationship if Trump wins in 2024 – Romney
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Tuesday in a CNN interview that if former President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the NATO alliance would be…
Ukraine war could create widespread food insecurity, UN warns
The UN on Tuesday warned that millions of Ukrainians may soon face serious food insecurity because of the ongoing conflict and amid reports that people are facing life-and-death decisions. People are facing life and…
Trump begs Putin to release dossier on the Bidens
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any damaging information he has about the Biden family. According to CNN, Trump made the brazen and reckless request to…
Billionaire Abramovich, Ukrainian peace negotiators hit by suspected poisoning – Reports
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and Ukrainian peace negotiators suffered symptoms of suspected poisoning earlier this month after a…
President Biden makes U-turn and denies he called for regime change in Russia after telling the…
President Biden has made a U-turn over his call for regime change in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine by troops ordered by Russian…
Ukraine is ready to accept neutral, non-nuclear status – Zelensky
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country is ready to accept neutral non-nuclear status as part of a peace deal with…
Israeli PM Bennett catches COVID, now in isolation
The Police Command in Kwara has arrested Mr Musibau Esinrogunjo, the Special Assistant on Rural Mmobilisation to Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, for assaulting a traffic warden on duty along Ahmadu Bello Way, Ilorin.…
‘Is NATO being run by Russia?’- President Zelensky accuses NATO of being intimidated by…
Ukraine's president, Volodimir Zelensky has demanded that Western nations hand over military hardware…
The Making of Vladimir Putin
Speaking in what he called “the language of Goethe, Schiller and Kant,” picked up during his time as a KGB officer in Dresden,…
Emmanuel Macron fears ‘escalation’ after Joe Biden calls Vladimir Putin a ‘butcher’
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday warned against verbal “escalation” with Moscow, after US President Joe Biden called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a “butcher” over his invasion of Ukraine. Macron told…
Russian oligarch Eugene Shvidler’s private jets held indefinitely
Private jets owned by a sanctioned Russian oligarch have been detained indefinitely by the British government. The two jets belonging to billionaire oil tycoon Eugene Shvidler had been under investigation at…
Was it a gaffe or an escalation? Biden stirs concern with remark that Putin ‘cannot remain in…
After four days of alliance building, emotional interactions with refugees and stirring words about the need to fight for…
Biden calls for overthrow of Putin
U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday called for Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s removal, saying, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” Biden also used a speech in Poland’s capital to make a vociferous…
BREAKING: Polish President’s plane in emergency landing as Biden visits
The airplane carrying Polish President Andrzej Duda has made an emergency landing in Warsaw. Duda was on his way to meet to meet U.S. President Joe Biden in eastern Poland. Duda’s advisor Jakub Kumoch disclosed…