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Four people were killed and seven others missing following a gas explosion at a coal mine in Southern Poland. Polish Deputy Prime Minister, Jacek Sasin, who disclosed this on Wednesday tweeted that rescuers were still looking for seven other people. Meanwhile, Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, expressed his condolences and promised to visit the affected area.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has appealed for a four-day ceasefire during the Orthodox Holy Week to allow for civilian evacuations and the delivery of humanitarian aid. Speaking to newsmen on Tuesday in New York, Guterres noted that the Orthodox Easter which is coming amid an intensifying Russian offensive in Eastern Ukraine stressed the urgent need for a ceasefire. The UN Chief urged all parties and all […]

The Head of Yemen’s newly formed Presidential Council, Rashad al-Alimi, has been sworn in along with other members of the eight-member council in a ceremony in the southern port city of Aden. The ceremony was conducted on Tuesday in front of members of the Yemeni Parliament. Members of the Presidential council, the head of the separatist Southern Transitional Council, United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg were in attendance, […]

Russia has urged Ukrainian forces to give up their resistance on the besieged port city of Mariupol. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Russian Defence Ministry on Tuesday. The statement made no direct mention of a new ground offensive in Eastern Ukraine. This came after Ukrainian President; Volodymyr Zelensky announced the start of a new offensive by Moscow.

At least 35 people have died and 71 injured in Zimbabwe when a bus carrying churchgoers veered off the road and landed in a gorge. Police spokesman, Paul Nyathi, confirmed the accident, noting thatthe bus was carrying members of a local Church who were travelling to an Easter meeting in the southeastern town of Chipinge. Nyathi added that the bus was overloaded, stressing that buses in Zimbabwe typically have an […]

South Korea has said it will lift all COVID-19 social distancing rules, except for the requirement to wear masks. Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum announced that the 10-person limit on private social gatherings and a midnight curfew at restaurants, and other indoor businesses will come to an end on Monday. Boo-kyum revealed that he Omicron variant has shown signs of weakening significantly after peaking in the third week of March. The […]

The death toll from South Africa’s floods has climbed to 341. Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Sihle Zikalala, said the level of devastation of human life, infrastructure, and service delivery network in the province was unprecedented. Zikalala added that a total number of 40,723 people have been affected. On thursday helicopters fanned out across the southeastern city of Durban in an increasingly desperate search for survivors

The death toll from landslides and flooding in the Philippines triggered has risen to at least 115. The city government said eighty-six of the casualties were in Baybay, a mountainous area prone to landslides in central Leyte province. Dozens of people are still missing and feared dead after several days of torrential rain with tens of thousands of people forced into evacuation centers. Emergency teams retrieved dozens of bodies from […]

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered to talk with protesters calling for the government to step down over its handling of an economic crisis. The country is in the worst financial crisis since independence in 1948. Thousands of people have taken to the streets to denounce the government led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his elder brother. Some of the protesters said they would only stop if the Rajapaksas stepped down.