Ukraine has encircled Russia’s forces around the eastern town of Lyman, in an operation that is still under way, a Ukrainian military spokesperson said on Saturday.
The 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting returned to an in-person gathering in New York for the first time in three years since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The King travelled to Scotland soon after the late Queen's funeral last Monday, with the period of royal mourning lasting for seven days after the monarch's burial.
Ukrainian officials say that Russia is using so-called secession referendums in occupied portions of four Ukrainian regions as a pretense to draft Ukrainians into the Russian military.
Nigeria’s crude oil production has been declining since 2012. In August 2022 it fell below 1 million barrels a day, the lowest since the 1990s. And it’s lost its position as the biggest oil producer on the African continent, falling to third place after Angola and Libya.
Brothers of Italyleader Giorgia Meloni has claimed victory in a general election that seems set to install her as Italy’s first female prime minister, leading the most far-right government since the fascist era of Benito Mussolini.
Russia’s “partial mobilization” for its war in Ukraine is off to a chaotic start amid protests, drafting mistakes and an exodus of citizens fleeing Russia, as the Kremlin tightens rules around evading military orders.
The Hong Kong government has announced the ending of formal quarantine for international travelers after more than two and a half years of stringent pandemic controls.
A Magistrates’ Court in the northern Nigerian city of Kano has remanded in custody a Chinese businessman who is accused of killing his Nigerian girlfriend.
It’s a long-standing Kenyan tradition to offer congratulations in paid print and TV messages to an incoming president. The bulk of these messages are put out by government agencies – and county governments in recent years – but also private commercial corporations. This year, however, the newly elected president William Ruto would have none of this.
![An Ukrainian soldier looks out from a tank in the frontline city of Lyman, Donetsk region in April 2022. [File: Jorge Silva//Reuters]](/images/2022/oct/01/Ukranian soldier in a tank.jpg)
