Oceania Solomon Islands With newly improved roads in Auki, provincial police appealed to drivers in Malaita to use responsibility and greater care in driving; reckless driving had reportedly increased since works began, forcing to monitor underage drivers and speeding vehicles
Europe Romania Over 100 traditional houses in rural Romania are to be rehabilitated thanks to an EU-funded project that is part of the PNRR to create a tourist route that allows people to observe traditional architecture in its natural environment
America Argentina All of the country's money bills will be re-designed to include an equal amount of historical women and men, as a way to advocate for gender equality
America Barbados Pre-entry test requirement for fully vaccinated travellers will be removed from tomorrow: fully vaccinated persons will be no longer required to present a COVID-19 test result in order to enter Barbados
Europe Portugal Portuguese association 'Sustainable Earth' has called the collective irrigation system fed by the Alqueva reservoir 'a possible ecocide', having caused a collapse of biodiversity in the area
Europe Malta A 500.000€ fund will support the work of printed newspapers to cushion the impact of rising print and paper prices due to the war in Ukraine, supporting the key role of the press as an instrument of democracy as defined by PM Abela
America Bolivia The indigenous people of San Andrés and Santiago de Machaca have built specific waterways used by their ancestors to save water reserves that aid hundreds of indigenous people; something that couldn’t be done by authorities throughout the years
Oceania Vanuatu Air Vanuatu domestic and international flights resumed on Saturday after bad weather caused the cancellation of services due to flooding at Bauerfield International Airport
Asia Pakistan To save energy and meet the country's demand in the scorching summer, the federal government reinstated two days of weekly holidays in public offices, which were abolished on 12 April by the PM
Europe Denmark New data from Statistics Denmark show that the number of people in paid employment now stands at 2.947.000, recording 14th consecutive month in which the number of people working has increased
Europe Norway The shortage of medical specialists in Norway has doubled in three years, especially in smaller hospitals, and is now estimated around 1.200 professionals
Africa Burkina Faso 35 designers walked the runway at the third edition of Ouaga Fashion Week in Ouagadougou, and for the first time, most of the designers were local
Asia Japan From this week, borders will reopen to 50 foreign tourists who will visit the country on organised tours in small groups of up to four people, an experiment to see how and when to fully reopen to international tourists not yet admitted
Europe Slovakia The Slovak economy has been hit harder by the Russian invasion in Ukraine than any other EU country, according to a comparison of the European Commission's February and May macroeconomic forecasts