Africa Morocco Rivalry between Morocco and Algeria has a new geopolitical battlefield in the Sahel, where they are deploying radically different strategies; the area is under geopolitical reconstruction after the vacuum left by French withdrawal and the rise of Russia
Europe Switzerland Donato Kofel, an environmental engineer at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, said that through work on positive and negative effects of trees on air quality, he noticed that some plants are not only positive
Europe Kosovo The Kosovo Center for the Rehabilitation of Survivors of Torture believes that apart from the 230-euro pension, other rights are almost impossible to realize for women and men who were violated during the war
Asia Cyprus The UN Refugee Agency said it was "extremely concerned" about the return of more than 100 Syrian nationals from Cyprus to Lebanon without them being screened to determine whether they need legal protection
Europe Hungary Traveling exhibition The Road - János Fajó and the Pest Workshop will tour several major cities in China, in collaboration with the Art and Culture Division of the Central Bank of Hungary and the Fajó Foundation
Europe Latvia Soldiers and national guardsmen of the Latvian National Armed Forces have taken part in the military exercise 'Northern Strike 2023', in Michigan, USA, from 5 to today, 19 August
America Uruguay Along with El Salvador, the country leads in democracy satisfaction with 59% of it population approving of it, as per a Latinobarómetro report, despite the region's overall historical low of 28% satisfaction in 2023, attributed to factors like corruption
America Paraguay Social, political, human rights and indigenous organisations have marched in the Asunción capital on August 15th, coinciding with the presidential inauguration of Santiago Peña, to demand fair wages, labor rights, healthcare and education improvements
Oceania Tonga The Houma police station has resumed operations after more than eight years, ceased in early 2015, because to the "very old, rusty and unsafe" building
Asia Taiwan The number of dengue fever cases increased by 469 in the week ended Aug. 14, the highest number of infections of the mosquito-borne disease in a single week since June
Asia Syria There are still between 5.000 and 7.000 members of the Islamic State group ISIS in Syria and Iraq, the UN estimates
America Nicaragua Nicaragua and North Korea have announced plans to establish embassies in each other's capitals to strengthen their decades-old relationship
Africa Malawi Owen Chirwa, one of Malawi's rising stars and a Musicology student at Malawi University of Science and Technology, has released a gospel album titled Like Joseph
Asia China Amid the rise in youth unemployment rate, which reached an unprecedented level of 21,3% in June, China's National Bureau of Statistics announced it will suspend disclosure of the figure citing the need to re-evaluate its methodology