Oceania Fiji A vacancy notice for the post of Director of Public Prosecutions has been posted by the Judicial Services Commission, inviting applications from suitably qualified local and overseas candidates to head Fiji's independent prosecuting authority
Europe Estonia Following the inaction of the Narva city government, the central government decided to change the names of streets in Narva that are not considered appropriate in Estonia because of their links to the Soviet Union
Asia Armenia Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan will attend today the emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Nagorno-Karabakh requested by the country due to the deteriorating humanitarian situation
Asia Malaysia Key state elections to determine governments in six states have concluded, with the status quo as each coalition retained the states it governed before the elections
Africa Liberia Presidential candidate Allen Brown has promised a no-holds-barred fight against corruption with his administration's zero-tolerance policy in the country where systemic corruption is a major problem
Africa Burundi Croatian police are still searching for the 10 young Burundi handball players who disappeared before a world championship match in Croatia
Asia Cyprus Thousands of residents have celebrated the ‘Easter of Summer’, the catholic festivity of the Assumption of Virgin Mary on 15th August; the millennial tradition sees people flocking to churches and monasteries, bells ring even in the most remote chapels
Africa Egypt Rights groups have called for accountability for the deaths of hundreds of people killed in one day 10 years ago when Egyptian security forces dispersed a protest against the ouster of the country's first democratically elected president
Europe North Macedonia Former BESA vice-president Arjanit Hoxha said he had collected the signatures needed to register his new party, the European Democratic Party
Asia Philippines The 100 million seedling project of the Department of Agriculture and the Philippine Coconut Authority will begin this month and guidelines are being drafted
Oceania Kiribati Air Kiribati has wet-leased a B737-700 from Nauru Airlines to operate scheduled flights between Tarawa and Kiritimati, which began last Friday
Africa Sao Tome and Principe The UNICEF Representative for the Sub-Region of Central Africa was received by the Attorney General of the Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe expressing willingness to continue to support actions on behalf of children in the country
Oceania Nauru Nauru Airlines has introduced a Boeing 737-800 freighter into its fleet, the first of its kind in the Australian region
Europe Serbia Serbia's average annual inflation fell to 12,5% in July from 13,7% in the previous month, according to data from the National Statistical Office