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
Africa Mauritius The online workshop on the prevention, control and management of invasive alien species has ended; it has been held in Port-Luis at the initiative of, among others, the UN Development Program
Asia Lebanon Tripoli's 500 thousand residents, without electricity and around 50% of them in poverty, are staging protests which the army has been violently repressing
Europe Norway The National Institute of Public Health has asked students who will be studying abroad this fall to register for full vaccination before they travel
America Argentina After record 7478 days of engagement, the contract of Argentine Leo Messi - the player who has won the most Ballon d'Or in the history of soccer - and Barcelona Club has expired
Europe Belgium Brussels public night buses ‘Noctis’, which run on 11 routes on Friday and Saturday between midnight and 3:00 AM, will return to service tonight after over a year of disruption
Oceania Nauru The country recently announced its commitment to generate 50% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2023
Asia Cyprus British-Cypriot autistic author N.E. McMorran has won the Nautilus Award for the groundbreaking children's book 'Moojag and the Secret Auticode', an audiobook that includes autistic, dyslexic, ADHD and down-syndrome voices
Oceania Solomon Islands The United Nations Development Programme and the International Labour Organisation, in collaboration with the government, are empowering the country's youth and promoting their role as agents of peace and resilience
America Canada Temperature has reached 49.6C (121.3F) in Lytton, British Columbia this week; the Vancouver area has registered more than 150 sudden deaths but the number of heat-related fatalities is likely to rise as some areas have yet to collate the data
Asia Jordan Wesam Nasser from the King Abdullah II School for Excellence in Zarqa won the bronze medal in the 32nd International Computer Science Olympiad held virtually by UNESCO with 360 competitors from 89 countries
Africa Zimbabwe After seeing the challenges students were facing during the pandemic, Maxwell Chimedza started 'WhatsApp classrooms' to give lessons to students from home, starting with those who are taking high school exams
Asia Thailand The first international travelers arrived in Phuket last week; to reboot its tourism industry, quarantine is not required - despite the recent surge of Covid-19