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🇮🇩 Indonesia is facing a cooking oil shortage. The world's largest exporter of palm oil is banning all non-crude exports effective April 28 to ensure domestic availability, as the Russia/Ukraine war – featuring two major sunflower producers – has led to higher local food prices. Palm oil is the most produced, traded, and consumed cooking oil in the world, and Indonesia produces more than half of the global supply (exporting much of it to India and China).

💨🇸🇮 The winds of change are blowing in Slovenia. Political newcomer Robert Golob's Freedom Movement party won 40 out of 90 seats in Sunday’s parliamentary election, ending incumbent Prime Minister Janez Janša’s two-year tenure. Turnout was higher than usual for the small Central European nation – about 67% of Slovenia’s 1.7 million voters cast their ballot, compared with 52% in the previous election in 2018.

🇺🇸➡️🇺🇦 US diplomats are returning to Ukraine. The resumption of American diplomatic operations in Ukraine this week was among the key steps announced after a high-level visit between US officials and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Sunday.

• Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also unveiled over $300 million in foreign military financing, along with plans to nominate the first US Ambassador to Ukraine since 2019 – Bridget Brink, the current ambassador to Slovakia.