Oceania Fiji A vacancy notice for the post of Director of Public Prosecutions has been posted by the Judicial Services Commission, inviting applications from suitably qualified local and overseas candidates to head Fiji's independent prosecuting authority
Asia Iran Mohammad Rasoulof, winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival with 'Evil does not exist', accused of plotting against national security by making films and documentaries against the regime is sentenced to caning and five years in prison
Europe North Macedonia Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, 70, will become the first female president of North Macedonia; she was the candidate of the nationalist opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, which also won the parliamentary elections
Africa Chad Mahamat Idriss Deby's victory in the first round of the presidential elections was announced by the National Election Management Authority; the current transitional president, heir to his father-president Idriss Deby Itno, obtained 61% of the vote
Asia Georgia Today, 11 May, at the Expo Georgia exhibition centre in Tbilisi, the country celebrates its first Europe Day as an EU candidate country
Africa Nigeria Death penalty for traffickers of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin has been established as extreme measure, passed by Senate, in a radical move to combat drug trafficking
Africa Ethiopia 40% of the Ethiopian population lacks proper personal documents, according to Yodahe Arayaselasie, CEO of the National ID Programme
Africa Sudan Médecins Sans Frontières has withdrawn staff from the Madani Teaching Hospital, the only functioning hospital for hundreds of thousands of people in the capital of Al Jazirah State - an 'extremely difficult' decision taken after months of challenges
Africa Ghana Abubakar Tahiru, a 29-year-old forestry student from Ghana, set a new world record for the most trees hugged in one hour: 1123 trees, 19 a minute; the record-breaking challenge took place at the Tuskegee National Forest in Alabama, United States
Africa Rwanda Diane Rwigara, a Rwandan activist known to be among the most critical of President Paul Kagame, has announced her intention to run in July's presidential elections; in 2017 she had been barred from running for 'technical reasons'
Africa Liberia A tribunal for economic and war crimes committed during the 14 years of civil war that plagued Liberia between the 1990s and 2000 will be established upon executive order signed by President Joseph Boakai
Asia Iraq Iraq has demanded that the UN assistance mission, established after the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, ends its work by the end of 2025, saying it is no longer needed because Iraq has made significant progress towards stability
Oceania Australia Australian airline Qantas will pay AUS$120 million ($79 million) to a consumer group after being accused of selling over 8.000 tickets for flights that had already been cancelled by its operating systems
Africa Tunisia Several members of the Assembly of People's Representatives asked the Tunisian government to clarify its policy on the migration issue and to explain the solutions adopted to tackle the phenomenon