As we head into the new week, the Star did a compilation of some of the biggest stories that hit headlines on the international front.
The week was filled with reports on world leader's activities including the G7 meeting, floods, and elections in different countries, among others.
Here are some of the events that hit the headlines.
Zelensky at G7 Summit
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky made a scene-stealing arrival at the G7 summit in Japan on Saturday, as world leaders issued a veiled warning to China.
The Ukrainian president arrived in Hiroshima on a French government plane, after a stopover in Saudi Arabia.
His hastily-organised visit prompted G7 leaders to issue a statement early, in which they condemned Russia.
They also warned against "economic coercion", which Beijing is accused of using against several countries.
This year's gathering of the world's richest democracies saw them extending invitations to several emerging economies in the so-called Global South, as well as India and Australia.
Prince Harry and Meghan
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan seem to have experienced exactly what they ran away from as they sought to have a private life, away from Royalty.
Last week, the two were involved in a "near catastrophic car chase" involving paparazzi, a spokesperson for the prince has said.
The incident happened after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended an awards ceremony in New York on Tuesday.
"While being a public figure comes with a level of interest from the public, it should never come at the cost of anyone's safety," the spokesperson said.
"Dissemination of these images, given the ways in which they were obtained, encourages a highly intrusive practice that is dangerous to all involved."
Putin’s arrest warrant on ICC Prosecutor
Russia's President Vladimir Putin issued an arrest warrant for International Criminal Court British prosecutor Karim Khan.
According to the Guardian, Russia's interior ministry was seeking to detain the ICC prosecutor.
This is after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin for allegations of overseeing the kidnapping of children from Ukraine.
Burundi-born ex-cop wants to be Greece’s first black MP
Burundi-born ex-policeman Spiros Richard Hagabimana is seeking to become Greece’s first black MP, in a country where migrants rarely hold public offices.
He is contesting in the south-eastern Piraeus II electoral district under the conservative New Democracy party, in the 21 May election.
The 54-year-old told the Reuters news agency how as a police office he was jailed in Burundi in 2015 for refusing to open fire on anti-government protesters.
Ex-France president's conviction
France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy lost an appeal against a corruption conviction.
However, the Paris appeals court ruled that he could wear a tag instead of going to jail.
Sarkozy was convicted in 2021 of trying to influence a judge by securing a prestigious job for the judge in return for information about a separate case.
The 68-year-old was the first former French president to get a custodial sentence.
F1 canceled over floods
The Emilia-Romagna F1 Grand Prix meant for this weekend was called off due to heavy flooding in Italy.
Discussions on Wednesday between local authorities and organisers of the race at Imola concluded that the event could not go ahead.
At least 13 have been killed and several are missing following the heavy rains in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region, officials said.
The authorities said 14 rivers have broken their banks, flooding 23 towns.
Turkey presidential poll
Turkey's powerful president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will go head to head with his opposition rival in a run-off vote, the supreme election council has confirmed.
Erdogan led the first round with 49.51% of the vote while his main challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, polled 44.88%. He needed more than half the vote to win the race outright.
A second round will go ahead on May 28, with Erdogan as the clear favourite.
Zimbabwe pardons 4,000 inmates
Zimbabwe released about a fifth of all prisoners under a presidential amnesty order meant to decongest the country’s overcrowded jails.
The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) said more than 4,000 inmates - mostly men - were let out, in what it described as a noble gesture.
Violent criminals as well as those convicted of robbery, treason and public order offences were excluded.