Europe Slovenia Anti-establishment populist party leader and current Parliament Speaker, Zoran Stevanović, is pushing to hold a national referendum on withdrawing from NATO and is strictly opposing the government's financial and military aid packages to Ukraine
Europe Sweden The government has refused to extradite one of its citizens accused of terrorism from Ankara, despite the fact that extradition was one of the things the country promised in order to overcome Turkey's blockade of its NATO candidacy
America Uruguay The Tannat, a hard-to-grow red grape from France, has successfully flourished in the country - over 6.000 miles away from its origin, putting Uruguay on the global wine map
Asia Qatar The Mega Park Carnival at Al Bidda Park in Doha will open from 16 to 30 April 2023 from 7:00 pm to 12:00 midnight during Ramadan nights and from 4:00 pm to 1:00 am during Eid days; the entertainment event comes to Qatar for the first time this year
Europe Serbia Kosovo will remain in Serbia until the end of the term of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, he said on live TV, adding he would implement parts of the European proposal on the normalisation of relations with Pristina
Europe United Kingdom The government will resume bank checks on accounts opened by people suspected of living illegally in the UK in a bid to deter illegal immigration
Europe Luxembourg Luxembourg was the first member state to unilaterally ban the use of glyphosate on 1 January 2021; however, a court has ruled that the ban lacks a legal basis
Africa Liberia The National Electoral Commission has extended daily working hours by an additional two hours over the weekend for the last two days of the first phase of the biometric voter registration process
Europe Netherlands The country will send 150 marines to Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the EU's EUFOR Althea mission, a military mission under the Common Security and Defence Policy
Europe Montenegro Milo Djukanovic resigned as leader of the once-dominant Democratic Party of Socialists following a crushing defeat in the presidential elections
Asia Kyrgyzstan An auction for the sale of the city's old buses will be organized, upon request of the Bishkek Passenger Car Transport Company submitted to the Municipal Property Management Department,
Asia Brunei The Department of Housing Development has recorded arrears of over $64 million due to non-payment of loans and rents, according to the Development Minister
Africa Burkina Faso The Thomas Sankara University of Burkina Faso won the final of the French version of the International Criminal Court's mock trial competition, which took place in Courtroom I of the ICC in The Hague
Oceania Kiribati The opposition in Kiribati calls for answers from the government on the ongoing crisis in the country's judiciary; last year the government sacked the Chief Justice and three Court of Appeal judges - all New Zealanders