Europe Iceland With the highest show up ever recorded in Reykjavik, 52,8% of 225.031 of Icelanders voted against the government's proposal to resume talks on joining the EU after 13 years; Around 12.600 votes separated the figure from the 47,2% who voted in favor
Africa Guinea-Bissau Football club Sport Bissau and Benfica is the new national champion of Guinea-Bissau for the 2023-2024 football season
Asia Turkmenistan Six of the fourteen films by Turkmen authors made it into the final of the Central Asian 'Shoot in 48 Hours' competition; short film 'Owal Ram' (Addiction) won the 'Best Horror/Thriller' nomination
Asia Bahrain Huawei BNET, Bahrain's national fibre-optic infrastructure provider, has signed a MoU with Huawei Bahrain to improve the broadband experience for users in the country
Asia Vietnam To achieve the economic growth target of 7,5-8%, HCM City departments are working to remove bottlenecks in the delivery of public investment
Asia Sri Lanka Passports will be issued with new features and three different colours for the identification of diplomatic, official and regular persons from October this year
Africa Ghana Parliament passed a law to give more job opportunities to women nationwide, with the aim of increasing their participation in governance and decision-making to a minimum of 30% by 2030
Africa Zimbabwe Experts from Russian company HeliDrive, that supplied Zimbabwe with 18 helicopters, 6 of which will be used as air ambulances, are training pilots, doctors, nurses and health personnel to operate in national air ambulance service by the end of the year
Asia Armenia Russia's state-owned nuclear energy company, Rosatom, has started work on extending the life of the Metsamor nuclear power plant, 16 kilometres from Turkey, by starting operations on the unit 2 reactor, following an agreement with Armenia
Europe Austria The Austrian company that is offering part-time PhDs from an online business school in Malta for up to €32.000 has been declared 'not legal' by the Austrian authorities
Asia Saudi Arabia The General Authority for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises launched its e-Commerce Week, in which more than 40 public and private entities will participate to raise awareness of the importance of e-commerce and the impact on businesses
Africa Gabon Transitional President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema expressed his country's desire to reduce dependence on food imports and hoped to benefit from Uganda's experience in wealth creation
America Dominica Thea LaFond made history for the Caribbean island nation of Dominica by winning gold in the triple jump to claim the country's first-ever Olympic medal
Europe Slovenia 311 pairs of white storks nested in Slovenia, with 673 young emerging from the nests, a new record since the first annual census of white storks in the country was carried out in 1999