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
Oceania Micronesia Settlement patterns in ancient Micronesia will be studied using state-of-the-art technology thanks to a grant of nearly US$150.000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Asia Saudi Arabia At least 89 US citizens, legal permanent residents and visa holders and their relatives have been detained by authorities in Saudi Arabia or banned from leaving the country in 2021, according to a new report by Freedom Initiative
America Brazil Supporters of the opposition united to protest against president Jair Bolsonaro on the streets this week, demanding once again his impeachment mostly for the rise in fuel prices and his alleged mishandling of the pandemic
America El Salvador Ever since the country made Bitcoin a legal tender, the percentage of Salvadorians that would rather have back and keep their savings increased from 36.7% to 50.4%
Africa Gabon The country has become the 14th member state to deposit the instrument of ratification of the African Medicines Agency, aimed among other things at harmonising the regulation of medical products and improving the competence of GMP inspectors
Africa Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has been appointed as a champion of family planning, seen as an important lever for development, and signed the country's commitments and their official integration into the Family Planning 2030 initiative
Europe Montenegro Health Minister Jelena Borovinic Bojovic is in the midst of a lot of criticism for choosing to destroy the expiring AstraZeneca vaccines, instead of donating them when they could still have been used
Africa Burundi The decision by the Ngozi Court of Appeal to uphold the conviction and 5-year prison sentence for a lawyer who had been affiliated with a human rights group was a "travesty of justice" according to Human Rights Watch and 5 other human rights groups
Africa Mali In a country consisting mainly of desert or semi-desert, water is becoming a precious resource in decline and Lake Faguibine has now become a dry bed, with sand dunes replacing the vast expanse of water
America United States Electric automaker Tesla is moving its corporate HQ from California to Austin, Texas, validating the rise of the city to technology hub; CEO Elon Musk said they will be creating ‘an ecological paradise around the Colorado River’
Africa Sierra Leone Kingho Investment Company, through various donations of equipment to the Information Crimes Unit in the capital has furthered its collaborative work with the security sector; it also donated bags of cement for the construction of a hospital in Makeni
Europe Netherlands Thousands of volunteers have been helping to clean up the plastic swimming in Friesland's waters during the Skjin Wetter clean-up campaign, which ends today; 30 organisations and six municipalities have been involved in this goal
America Uruguay The country re-entered the European Union’s tax haven “graylist” due to the recent publishing of the Pandora Papers, making the government start discussions in regards as to how the nation can improve fiscal transparency