Europe Spain A full majority of Spaniards approve the position of Pedro Sánchez, the President of the Government, who at the NATO summit refused to pledge for 5% GDP for military expenditure; the under 28 are one of the clusters not approving
America Bolivia Teachers in Bolivia have marched and clashed with police while demanding increased education funding, better wages, and more job positions, protesting deteriorating school conditions and economic hardship
Europe Monaco Monaco has joined the @ON network, a European anti-mafia initiative spearheaded by Europol and Eurojust, enhancing capacity to coordinate cross-border investigations and collaborate more effectively in the fight against transnational criminal networks
Asia Turkmenistan Turkmenistan proposed that Kazakhstan consider to increase comprehensive cooperation between the ports of Turkmenbashy, Aktau and Kuryk on the Caspian Sea, and create a joint transport and logistics company to develop cooperation in the transport sector
Africa Equatorial Guinea M. Rafael Eneme Enga Obono has been elected president of the 4th jurisdiction of the African Taekwondo Union AFTU during the general assembly recently held at the UN headquarters in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
Europe Sweden Police is seek power to force social media giants, especially TikTok, to remove assignments about gang murders; police chief Petra Lundh thinks the ads on the digital platforms are a sign of an insufficient response to the problem
America Ecuador Ecuador has reelected Daniel Noboa with 55,8% of the vote, while rival Luisa Gonzalez has alleged electoral fraud and requested a recount, despite the electoral authority calling the result irreversible
America Antigua and Barbuda Antigua Sailing Week 2025 will officially start tomorrow with the Round Antigua Race and the official opening party; the international sailing event, at its 56th edition, counts over 50 boats in its entry list
Asia Tajikistan Only 17 participants of the Great Patriotic War (22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945) remain in Tajikistan, according to the Republican Council of War and Labor Veterans, and were 24 last year, while 134 rear-area workers are still alive in the country
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina The exhibition "Children of War, People of Peace" opened at the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, presenting a series of paired images of children pictured in wartime Sarajevo and again today, decades later, photographed by Milomir Kovacevic Strasni
Africa Uganda At least 5.000 out-of-school children in Busoga, with a special attention for girls, will be re-enrolled together with 2.000 teachers to support Uganda’s new competency-based secondary school curriculum, in Government plan for gender-equitable education
Africa Ivory Coast 33 West Africans have been rescued from a human trafficking ring in Ivory Coast that lured people into paying up to $9.000 by promising them jobs in Canada, Interpol said, instead trafficked them to Abidjan, held under physical and psychological coercion
Europe Norway The Church of Norway is attracting record numbers of new members after years of decline; they are mostly young adults who’ve had their first child and researchers think they’re attracted more by the emphasis on fellowship, than just worship
Europe United Kingdom Large onshore windfarms, for long virtually impossibile to build, are now treated as other forms of infrastructure; should onshore wind projects be identified as nationally significant, local councils or communities would no longer be consulted