More than 100 people were killed overnight in an explosion at an illegal oil refining depot in Nigeria’s Rivers state, a local government official and an environmental group said. Unemployment and poverty in the oil-producing Niger Delta have made illegal crude refining an attractive business but with deadly consequences. Crude

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin are to visit Kyiv on Sunday to discuss the Ukrainian crisis. The visit, announced by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday, would be the highest-level visit by US officials to the country since the start of the conflict on

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Ankara before heading to Moscow next week to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and then to Ukraine for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a UN statement said on Saturday. Guterres will visit the Turkish capital on Monday, where he will be received by

  Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Transport wants toll to be collected from cars entering the traffic-clogged inner districts as a means to reduce gridlock and pollution. It has submitted a proposal to the municipal People’s Committee to implement the plan by 2025. 36 tollbooths are expected to be

The northern and central regions on Sunday began to experience a heat wave which is forecast to reach its peak from Monday to Wednesday, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. Temperatures are predicted to reach 35-37 degrees Celsius in lowland and western areas of the north, even over 37 degrees

  The Friendship Journey 2022, a cultural exchange aiming at helping enhance Vietnam’s relations with international friends, was held in Hanoi’s Quoc Oai district on Sunday. The program, part of annual activities organised by the Hanoi Union of Friendship Organisations and the municipal Department of Tourism, drew representatives from foreign embassies,