Alexandra Radu

Ukraine races against time to ex­port its grain through Ro­ma­nia be­fore the new har­vest be­gins.

Since the be­gin­ning of the Russ­ian in­va­sion of Ukraine, more than 67,000 Ukraini­ans have found refuge in Ro­ma­nia.

Years of hard work is start­ing to pay off for tree-plant­i­ng teams on Malaysia’s Kin­abatan­gan riv­er.

While strug­gling to make ends meet amid cri­sis, refugees help in re­lief re­sponse and start free lunch scheme for medics.

Just over 20 per­cent of Ro­ma­ni­ans turned up at ref­er­en­dum aimed at chang­ing the de­f­i­n­i­tion of mar­riage.

Se­cu­ri­ty forces fired tear gas and wa­ter can­non to dis­perse large crowds af­ter sev­er­al vi­o­lent out­bursts.

Ro­ma­ni­ans grow tired af­ter one and a half years of protest­ing against cor­rup­tion with no con­crete re­sults.

Malaysia has been ac­cept­ing Ro­hingya refugees but they are not giv­en le­gal doc­u­men­ta­tion and re­main state­less.

More than a mil­lion peo­ple at­tend­ed the biggest fes­ti­val in the world ded­i­cat­ed to the Hin­du god Mu­ru­gan.

An elab­o­rate five-day roy­al fu­ner­al cer­e­mo­ny will cul­mi­nate on Thurs­day evening with the roy­al cre­ma­tion cer­e­mo­ny.