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
Africa Libya EU support for Libyan authorities 'aided and abetted' rights violations against migrants and crimes against humanity, according to UN fact-finding mission investigating rights violations in Libya
Europe Belgium Around 80% of active substances labelled as highly toxic by the European Union continue to be used in Belgium, a new study by Nature&Progrès and PAN Europe reveals
Europe Austria Amnesty International listed among the country's human rights failures inadequate social benefits, racial profiling, inadequate protection of unaccompanied children, housing shortage, increased pressure on media freedom and failure to meet climate targets
Europe Vatican City Vatican repudiates the 'Doctrine of Discovery,' which underpinned colonialism; with origins in the 15th century, it was invoked as a legal and religious standing by Europeans who "discovered" new lands and violently seized it from people living there
Europe United Kingdom Public satisfaction with the NHS has plummeted to the lowest level ever recorded by the long-running British Social Attitudes survey, with only 29% saying they will be satisfied in 2022
Africa Chad Interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby pardoned 380 rebels from Front for Change and Concord in Chad group who had been given life imprisonment for killing his father Idriss Deby Itno, country's long-time ruler
Asia Turkey Turkey's Higher Education Council is launching a new project to enable students and postgraduate researchers to conduct research abroad in line with international standards
Asia Saudi Arabia Two of the oldest mosques in Jeddah and Baha, Al-Khidr Mosque and Al-Safa Mosque, will be restored as part of Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Project for the Development of Historic Mosques
Europe Albania Unemployment, poverty, and disillusionment with the political elite is emptying small Albanian towns and villages of people, with the young mostly moving abroad; a trend growing in 2023 according to the first statistics issued
Asia Qatar Gold sales rose by 50% since start of Ramadan, traditionally a good period for gold business; reports indicate a recovery in sales despite the rise in prices
Africa Mali Between 1 October and 31 December 2022, approximately 347 violations and abuses of human rights and international humanitarian law were documented in Mali, according to the local UN Mission
America El Salvador For the first time, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will hear a case on the legality of denying a woman access to abortion; El Salvador will be on trial for allegedly forcing a woman to carry a non-viable fetus despite being a risk to her health
Africa Sudan Sudan's military leaders and pro-democracy forces promised to start establishing a new civilian-led transitional government on 11 April