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Shanghai fences up Covid-hit areas, fuelling fresh outcry
Reuters, Published on 24/04/2022
» SHANGHAI: Shanghai authorities battling an outbreak of Covid-19 have erected fences outside residential buildings, sparking fresh public outcry over a lockdown that has forced much of the city's 25 million people indoors.
Indonesian farmers support palm oil export ban
Reuters, Published on 24/04/2022
» JAKARTA: Indonesia's Oil Palm Farmers Union said on Sunday it supported the government's ban on palm oil exports, calling it a temporary measure that was needed to ensure supply and affordability of cooking oil in the domestic market.
Slovenian PM Jansa risks defeat in tight vote
AFP, Published on 24/04/2022
» LJUBLJANA - Slovenians go to the polls on Sunday for parliamentary elections expected to be a tight race between conservative Prime Minister Janez Jansa and a political newcomer, in the polarised EU country.
Car bomb rocks Myawaddy, putting Mae Sot on security alert
Online Reporters, Published on 24/04/2022
» MAE SOT, TAK: A car bomb went off at the foot of the first Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge on the Myawaddy side of the border opposite Thailand's Mae Sot district late on Saturday night, prompting Thai security units to be put on alert, according to Thai media reports.
Too little, too late
News, Postbag, Published on 24/04/2022
» Re: "Jurin sorry as assault probe widens", (BP, April 20).
Routine Russian bombardment terrifies Kharkiv
AFP, Published on 24/04/2022
» KHARKIV (UKRAINE) - "Close the window, smoke is getting in," a policeman yells. Vyacheslav Pavlov and his elderly mother live on the ninth floor in Ukraine's second city Kharkiv and the next-door flat is ablaze after a Russian rocket attack.