UKRAINE: India should play a bigger role in helping end Russia’s war, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister Emine Dzhaparova said on Tuesday during the first visit by a senior Ukrainian official to India since the war began last year.

India “can play a bigger and greater role” and Ukraine would “welcome any effort that is directed at resolving the war,” Ms Dzhaparova said.

She made the comments in a speech at the Indian Council of World Affairs, a think tank in New Delhi.

CHILE: Chile’s Congress on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a Bill to reduce the work week from 45 to 40 hours over five years, a decision hailed by the left-wing government as a breakthrough for workers’ rights.

The measure passed the lower house 127-14, after being unanimously approved by the Senate three weeks ago. President Gabriel Boric, who took office in March 2022 after making the measure a campaign promise, was expected to sign it into law before May 1.

COLOMBIA: Luz Fabiola Rubiano could face up to three years in prison after being convicted on Monday of making racist comments about Colombia’s first black vice-president Francia Marquez during an anti-government protest last year.

Ms Rubiano was protesting in front of Colombia’s congress and responded to a question from a journalist by hurling insults against Ms Marquez.

SYRIA: Syria will reopen its embassy in Tunisia after the north African country announced the appointment of a new ambassador to Damascus, Syrian state media reported today.

Tunisia has become the latest Arab state to re-establish diplomatic ties with Syria after cutting off relations a decade ago.