America Bolivia 77 gold bars seized at Viru Viru Airport in compliance with a court order have been delivered to the Central Bank of Bolivia; the total weight recorded during the valuation process is 189.503,9 grams with an average purity over 90%
Europe Bulgaria 12 gold passports have been revoked and procedure for 5 more is ongoing, out of 120 passports for investments that had been issued; the programme was recently shelved due to criticism by the EC for irregularities in granting citizenship to investors
Europe Moldova To join vulnerability categories and benefit from compensation in energy bills, citizens can register on the www.compensatii.gov.md platform until March 2023
Asia South Korea Amid the demographic crisis affecting the country, a law will make its citizens one or two years younger on official documents, eliminating the traditional method of counting ages and adopting the international standard
Africa Angola The Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, representing 79 countries, held its penultimate meeting in capital Luanda on Friday under the theme 'Three continents, three oceans, one common destiny: Building a resilient and sustainable OACPS'
Africa Namibia A total of 23 telephone operators of the Windhoek municipality receive between 500 and 1.000 calls a day from residents of the capital, with a total of 2.000 calls per month handled
Europe Belarus Belarusian athletes - as well as Russian - have been granted the right to play under the FIDE flag until the end of 2023
Africa Somalia Somalia is the African country with the highest number of attacks on journalists for carrying out their professional activities, according to the International Press Institute's report on attacks on the press
Asia Japan Tokyo-based Japanese start-up ispace's spacecraft was launched yesterday on the country's first lunar mission and the first of its kind by a private company; so far, only the United States, Russia and China have succeeded in bringing a robot to the moon
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Médecins Sans Frontières has warned of a cholera outbreak in camps for war-displaced people in the east of the country, where the United Nations has counted nearly 300.000 displaced by fighting between the Congolese army and M23 rebels
Europe Kosovo Escalation of inter-ethnic tension with Serbia is intensifying, worrying international community, after 2 explosions were heard on Saturday evening in Zvecan and a shooting in Zubin Potok, two of the largest Kosovo municipalities with Serb majority
Africa Gabon The country plans to sell $200 million of 'green' bonds - i.e. to finance initiatives against climate change - in the hope of turning its green policies into a stable source of revenue
Africa Guinea The hearing of former Guinean president Camara, the most eagerly awaited moment since the opening of the trial for the 28 September 2009 massacre in Guinea, has been postponed until today
Europe Portugal The Portuguese parliament has passed a law allowing medically assisted suicide in limited circumstances; once enacted, the law will allow this form of euthanasia if an adult's wish to die is "current and repeated, serious, free and informed"