Asia Vietnam Technology will help authorities locate and repatriate the remains of war martyrs, the soldiers who died in the Vietnam War; Deputy PM ordered the use of DNA testing, digital archives and mapping to identify remains and return them to families
Asia China The first cluster of satellites for a planned AI supercomputer system have been launched; it will be the first-of-its-kind array and will enable scientists to perform in-orbit data processing
Europe Norway High food prices, higher than ever, led to political debate these days: food price issues come up before national elections, but few things change mostly because of Norway’s own high tariffs on food imports, seldom under scrutiny
Europe Montenegro Million euros have been offered by Montenegro for information on the murder of journalist and editor Dusko Jovanovic outside his newspaper's office on 28 May 21 years ago - a case that remains unresolved
Europe Italy Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, erupted with a spectacular pyroclastic flow - an avalanche of hot lava blocks, ash, gas and volcanic material; the activity may have started following a collapse of material in South-East crater
Africa Seychelles An international conference has welcomed the arrival of Plastic Odyssey vessel, inaugurating 2 weeks of events, from entertaining-educational movies to support program for recycling entrepreneurs
Asia Qatar Adjusted working hours for the public healthcare sector -PHCC hospitals- during the Eid Al Adha holiday have been made public: emergency services, inpatient departments, Paediatric care and first aid, the Ambulance Service, will function around the clock
Asia Malaysia New amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act took effect, imposing stricter obligations on businesses to protect personal data, aligning Malaysia with global privacy standards
Europe Iceland With recent liquid-cocaine seizure, never registered before 2024, 2025 is becoming record-breaking for drug seizures at Keflavík Airport, with authorities reporting unprecedented amounts of cocaine, cannabis, and OxyContin intercepted at the border
Europe Croatia On second turn of local elections, Croatia’s ruling center-right HDZ consolidates its position of most powerful political force, while the opposition Social Democrats and the far-right Homeland Movement highlighted their own weaknesses
America Barbados Engaging in temporary or part-time work as an employment trend has led to the definition of 'transient worker' as a category: can be unskilled, moves frequently between jobs and locations, often without a fixed home or a specific business or location
Europe Latvia A new team from the Estonian Police and Border Guard has been sent to assist the ESTPOL10 mission on the Latvian-Belarusian border; officers will be deployed to the Robežnieki area, where there have been the most illegal border crossing attempts recently
Europe Estonia Inter-island ferry services revise schedules to meet demand, that registered a +8% in two years; there has been an increase in the use of smaller ferry routes, but the busiest remain Hiiumaa and Saaremaa, where passengers have to plan days in advance
Europe Albania Following Albania’s elections this month, an incendiary opinion piece - "correct and without political interests” - by a political analyst called Helen Bratt went viral; but the author’s identity remains elusive, starting what is becoming a media case