Europe Albania Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj will run the capital from jail until the next elections in 2027, creating an unprecedented situation in local politics, PM Edi Rama apparently confirmed; Veliaj denies charges of corruption, money laundering and concealing wealth
Africa Burkina Faso The remains of Alain Christophe Traoré, aka Alino Faso, a social media influencer, have been repatriated from Ivory Coast, were he was found dead in his cell, detained for allegedly collaborating with foreign agents; a mourning BF calls for accountability
Europe Belarus The national canoe sprint team got five medals at the 2025 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships: one gold, two silvers, and two bronzes, with Volha Klimava winning the champion title in the Women C1 5.000m
Europe Slovenia A national test of a new emergency alert system will be run: all mobile phone users connected to wireless networks will receive a push notification from Civil Protection/Disaster Relief, also in English; message in Italian, Hungarian in minority areas
America Guatemala Temporary humanitarian status has been granted by authorities in Guatemala to 161 Mexicans, mostly families with children, who have fled Frontera Comalapa escaping cartel violence despite official denials from Mexico
Europe Norway 34-year-old woman from Ethiopia who was working at a youth welfare institution in Oslo was murdered on the job by 18-year-old resident with history of right-wing extremism; he’s also been charged with terrorism as he said attack was politically motivated
Asia Bangladesh Stone looting incidents at the Sada Pathor tourist site, in Bholaganj, Sylhet, have been more frequent and bolder in the past months, occurring in daylight, changing the landscape; reported by media, started investigation into local and national officials
Europe Latvia Riga Vice Mayor Edvards Ratnieks announced to the press that he is urging illegal immigrants to leave Riga and Latvia in a month, as citizens reportedly feel less safe; migration was one of the issues highlighted in the campaign this year
Africa Liberia 30 institutions participated in a comprehensive legal assessment that examined constitutional, statutory, customary laws through a gender lens identifying direct or indirect discriminations against women or girls, also comparing to international standards
Asia India Nearly 30% of private cars taking the Delhi-Chandigarh highway have chosen the FASTag annual pass, though much more expensive than the average toll, a higher percentage compared to other areas; 1 million users are expected this year
Asia Azerbaijan Innovation and Supply Center, a public legal entity has reportedly opened the due procedures for the procurement of medicines to ensure the supply of essential drugs for patients belonging to socially vulnerable groups for a value of 13,4m manats, €6,7m
Asia Vietnam Plans have started for the evacuation of over half a million people and all boats are ordered to stay ashore as Vietnam braces for an intensifying Typhoon Kajiki
America Costa Rica The FLAIR system, a news technology for marine conservation, identifies and tracks sharks in real time with image segmentation and recognition models, drastically reducing analysis time from 20 hours of manual annotation to around one for a 5-minute video
Africa Tunisia Members and backers of Tunisia's largest trade union rallied in support of the organisation, which has faced mounting pressure from President Kais Saied; it was the largest demonstration recently held in the country, denouncing a rollback of freedoms