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Russian citizens will from Friday, July 1, require a visa to enter Ukraine, as Kyiv scrapped a decade-long visa-free regime that facilitated travel across borders for citizens of both countries. The decision to end the visa-free regime was announced by ...

  At least 19 people, including one child, have died in overnight Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, Ukrainian officials say. The state emergency service, DSNS, says nearly all of the victims were in a nine-storey building hit ...

  Russia has placed an entry ban on the family of United States President, Joe Biden. The Foreign Ministry in Moscow said this on Tuesday. Biden’s wife, Jill and daughter, Ashley, would no longer be allowed to travel to Russia. ...

South Korea today confirmed its first case of monkeypox virus and pledged to strengthen monitoring and response systems as it raised the alert level to “caution” for the infectious disease. A Korean citizen, who is receiving treatment at the Incheon ...

A powerful earthquake has killed at least 920 people and left hundreds more injured in Afghanistan, Taliban officials have said. Pictures show landslides and ruined mud-built homes in eastern Paktika province, where rescuers have been scrambling to treat the injured. ...

A boy who has broken 100 bones during his life has been described as if he’s “made of glass” due to his rare bone condition. Rohit, 12, suffers from an illness known as osteoporosis, more commonly known as brittle bone ...

  North Korea says it is dealing with an outbreak of an unidentified intestinal sickness, adding to the strain caused by the spread of Covid-19. The country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has ordered quarantine measures be implemented, the official KCNA news ...

  South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is at the centre of a criminal investigation after it was revealed that he failed to report the theft of about $4 million in cash from his farm in northern Limpopo province. The theft, ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the introduction of a bill aimed at tightening gun laws. The announcement is coming less than a week after a mass shooting at a primary school in the U.S. state of Texas that ...

King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain have sent condolences to President Muhammadu Buhari on the recent tragedy in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The Rivers State Police Command confirmed the death of 31 persons in the stampede that occurred during ...

  Female TV presenters in Afghanistan have appeared on air with their faces covered after the Taliban ordered them to do so or face punishment. Some broadcasters had refused to follow the new rules when they came into force yesterday, ...

The Spanish government has donated 4.4 million Johnson & Johnson vaccines to Nigeria. The donation, it said, was in line with its unconditional defence of fair, equitable, and universal access to vaccines against COVID-19. A statement on Wednesday from the ...

North Korea fired three ballistic missiles early on Wednesday morning, South Korea’s military has said. Authorities in Seoul said the missiles were fired in the space of less than an hour from the Sunan area in Pyongyang. It comes just ...

May 19, 2022 1 India’s top court has granted the release of a man convicted of killing former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, 31 years after his imprisonment. Perarivalan was arrested a few weeks after Gandhi was assassinated in a ...

The UK Defence Ministry, on Thursday, revealed that Russia has suspended Lieutenant-General Serhiy Kisel for his failure to capture Kharkiv amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. It revealed this in a series of tweets via its Twitter handle ...

Russia may sever ties with prominent global bodies as Vladimir Putin continues to isolate his nation from the West following the invasion of Ukraine. Moscow’s Foreign Ministry yesterday sent a list of international organisations to parliament, with orders to review ...

Russian commanders are slaughtering their own wounded soldiers instead of retrieving them from the battlefield for treatment, Putin’s own troops have said. A lieutenant-colonel was accused of personally shooting dead multiple troops as they lay injured. It comes as investigations ...

After more than three decades in Russia, McDonald’s has put its Russia business up for sale as it works to leave the country completely. The move is a significant departure for a brand whose growth across the world became the ...

The United States has eclipsed one million COVID-19 deaths, the White House announced Thursday, the first nation to reach the grim total during the pandemic that has dominated life for the past two years. President Joe Biden paid his respects ...

  Vladimir Putin is “very ill with blood cancer” an oligarch with close ties to the Russian leader has reportedly been recorded as saying. The oligarch is believed to have spoken about Putin’s grave health during a conversation with a ...

Spain is planning to introduce medical leave for women who suffer from severe period pain, media reports suggest. A draft bill says women could have three days of leave a month – extended to five in some circumstances. But politicians ...

North Korea has confirmed its first death from Covid-19, with state media adding that tens of thousands more are experiencing fever symptoms. Six people died after suffering a fever with one testing positive for Omicron, state media reported on Friday. ...

The President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is dead. He died today, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced. The ministry also confirmed there would be 40 days of official mourning with flags across ...

The US has passed more than one million Covid-related deaths, says the White House. President Joe Biden said the country was marking “a tragic milestone” and each death was “an irreplaceable loss”. It’s the highest official total in the world ...

North Korea on Thursday confirmed its first-ever case of Covid-19, with state media calling it a ‘severe national emergency incident’ after more than two years of keeping the pandemic at bay. State-run KCNA news agency said samples taken from patients ...