Asia Syria Hundreds of Kurdish students in Hassakeh and Kobani refused to enter their classrooms as the 2026–27 school year began, protesting a decision that reduces Kurdish-language instruction to three periods per week, demanding the decision be reversed
Europe North Macedonia The immediate political future after PM Zoran Zaev resigned on Sunday presents 3 options: the existing parliament majority led by the Social Democrats in power with a new PM, a new opposition-led majority, or snap general elections
Asia Kazakhstan In an agreement, the first of its kind in Central Asia, obtained after threatening Facebook with blocking the 3,2 million local users, the country gained access to FB's internal content reporting system, thus being able to remove content deemed harmful
Oceania Nauru Nauru Police Force is urging the public to report any object believed to be an unexploded ordnance bomb as soon as they see it
Africa Madagascar The World Food Programme has reported that successive years of extreme weather events have plunged thousands of people in the country into what officials have described as the world's first climate-induced famine
Africa Zimbabwe Government will cover the costs of the funerals of eight elders of the Vadzizi VaJeso Apostolic sect - which mixes Christian and traditional belief - who drowned last weekend during a ceremony that would determine who would baptize the congregation
Africa South Africa Damon Galgut, a 59-year-old novelist and playwright, has won yesterday the Booker 2021, one of Britain's most prestigious literary prizes for English-language writers; the author urged people to listen more to his continent, which has so much to tell
Europe Greece To mitigate the effects of climate change on cultural heritage, the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection called for international action; cultural heritage is one of the country's four pillars of sustainable development
Asia Israel The government labelled six leading Palestinian human rights groups as 'terrorist organizations', allegedly linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a left-wing movement with an armed group; the decision has been condemned by the UN
Oceania New Zealand The government has decided to extend compulsory vaccination to all workers who have close contact with the public, or they could risk dismissal; the measure would regard 40% of workers will have to be vaccinated
Europe Latvia 68% of businesses had their own website at the beginning of 2021, as reported by the Central Statistical Office's annual survey on the use of information and communication technologies and e-commerce in businesses
Africa Lesotho Wool farmers this season will be paid cash directly by the government, in an effort to support their livelihood and the industry, once florid and destroyed in a decade by wrong brokerage agreements
Europe Serbia A newly built wastewater treatment plant in the town of Kruševac is producing biogas, extracting energy from sludge, a new approach for a country that still discharges most of its wastewater directly into rivers
Asia Azerbaijan The documentary film "Shusha, you are free!", supported by the Ministry of Culture, is being screened today, on the eve of Victory Day, the liberation of Shusha and other towns and villages from Armenian occupation in the Second Karabakh War in 2020