Ukrainian officials said 18 people including Ukraine’s interior minister, other senior ministry officials and three children died on Wednesday morning when a helicopter crashed near a nursery outside Kyiv.

Jinan, the capital of east China’s Shandong Province, began to hand out cash subsidies starting this year to encourage families to have more children.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk has warned that the recent U.S. administration border policy reforms “risk undermining the basic foundations of international human rights and refugee law”.

The United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) is collaborating with presidential candidates and other stakeholders in Nigeria to ensure peaceful elections in the country.

Health authorities of Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) urged local residents to be cautious with mosquito bites on Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia is lifting restrictions imposed on the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage in 2023, after the coronavirus pandemic forced a downsizing of the annual event for three years.

Air traffic in the U.S. has been severely affected, with hundreds of flights delayed and many canceled after a major technical malfunction.

Beijing has suspended short-term visas for South Koreans starting from Tuesday following the introduction of extra travel requirements for visitors from China by Seoul in December.