Asia Indonesia After a 7,7 magnitude earthquake hit Flores, the scientific community said consecutive major earthquakes, (like Venezuela, Colombia) are normal: global earthquake rates remain steady, averaging about 16 major earthquakes, magnitude 7 or higher, each year
Africa Somalia In the Sool region of Somaliland, the plant that makes the water from the Caynabo well drinkable is now operational, thanks to Genius Watter, which has applied its solar drinking water project in the area
Africa Zimbabwe The World Bank has classified Zimbabwe as a lower middle-income country for the 2023 fiscal year
Asia South Korea Daily COVID-19 infections are going up again, ending the downward trend that continued since the omicron-driven wave was curbed in march; health authorities reported that the country added 6.253 new COVID-19 infections during the 24 hours of Sunday
America Chile After 13 years of the ongoing drought, the Peñuelas water reservoir in Central Chile has now officially become a desert
Europe Andorra The month of June has been the hottest since 1950; data recorded at elaborated at Andorra Recerca + Innovació show an average temperature of 20 degrees celsius
Asia Japan Nearly 40 million Japan residents spent the weekend as if in the era before smartphones, after local phone company KDDI Corp. suffered its largest outage to date, affecting both voice calls and data communications
Europe Greece The Guardian and other European media report that the Greek police are forcing asylum seekers to participate in the illegal refoulement of migrants from Turkey in exchange for a temporary residence permit, with the threat of deportation if they refuse
Asia Armenia Armenia has agreed to normalisation talks with Turkey to open their common border for third-country nationals and to begin direct cargo flights, notwithstanding decades of strained relations between the two neighbours
Europe Serbia Interior Minister Vulin stated that Western countries should apologise to Serbia rather than forcing it to become a "NATO footsoldier" in the war with Russia, saying that Belgrade will not allow itself to be dragged into the "wars of others"
Asia Singapore The publication of statistics on the racial composition of the prison population and criminals could "deepen" stereotypes, said Law and Home Affairs Minister Shanmugam
Asia Yemen Yemeni special forces have launched an offensive against al-Qaeda in the southern governorate of Abyan, following reports that the terrorist group is attempting a comeback
Africa Egypt The managing director and head of sustainable finance at the Institute of International Finance said she welcomes Egypt's efforts to host the UN Climate Change Conference in November, given the great global importance of the event
America Antigua and Barbuda The launch of the 2022 school uniform grant programme kicked off at the Multipurpose Cultural Centre, providing school uniforms to beneficiaries until 2 September