Yes it works now but using a VPN.
This is not supposed to happen, all the data that is collected is from sources available to all, and I do not think that the site is banned in your country, there is no page for privacy or terms of use to support my position, but it is wrong that there are restrictions according to the IP address.
I do not know if we can get the choice to filter out the news sources. I haven't made the account on this site so i also do not know what additional benefits we will get once we create an account there.
There are two filters, the first is according to Trust score and the second is according to Sources. I don't know how trust works, but the results are still random.
We show interest more than @OP since he did not answer any of our questions.