Asia Israel The Knesset has passed a media overhaul law giving government greater regulatory control; PM Netanyahu attended the debate, skipping the vote; the news has been released by a number of online media in the late hours of 16 July
America Nicaragua Nicaragua has opened a Center for Open Education in Managua, offering free Russian language classes with the collaboration of Russia's Korolenko State Pedagogical University and the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua
Africa Lesotho Lesotho's third Country Programme Framework, the framework for medium-term planning of technical cooperation between a Member State and the IAEA, has been signed for the period 2024-2029
Asia Armenia All 349 injured by the Azerbaijani attack and fuel depot explosion were evacuated from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia by airlift or overland
Asia Bahrain A Bahraini court reportedly sentenced 13 political prisoners who had protested against medical negligence in their prison at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to testimony documented by the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy
America Antigua and Barbuda The Calvin Ayre Foundation came to the aid of accident survivor Andy Edwards, who was transported to the Cayman Islands for orthopaedic surgery abroad
Asia Japan Outdoor study by Japanese researchers show that microplastics exist in clouds, affecting the climate in ways to be understood; nine different polymers were found on Mount Fuji and Oyama in the airborne microplastics, from 7,1 to 94,6 micrometers in size
Oceania Solomon Islands A team from the World Trade Organisation Secretariat visited Honiara last week to hold consultations ahead of Solomon Islands' next trade policy review, scheduled for 2024
Oceania Australia The Australian market value for leadership development programmes will exceed $3.635,63 million by 2033, fueled by the digital, according to data recently released by Future Market Insights
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina The office of the President Milorad Dodik has filed the first criminal complaint for defamation, which was recently criminalised in Republika Srpska
Europe Italy Almost 1,2 million people in the Naples metropolitan area are actually living inside the two 'red zones' identified by the latest plans for the volcanoes Vesuvius and the Campi Flegrei caldera; evacuation tests have not been carried out since 2006
Europe Lithuania Following the inclusion of Kaunas' modernist architecture on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the municipality of Lithuania's second-largest city says that maintenance and protection of the area "will become more effective, not stricter"
Africa Mali The transitional authorities announced the postponement 'until a later date' of the upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for February 2024; the French company Idemia was accused of taking the administrative census database 'hostage'
Africa Madagascar Roland Ratsiraka of the Malagasy party Tonga Saina, spokesperson for the Collectif, said that there was a violation of the Constitution and several obstacles to the smooth running of the pre-election campaign