Europe Slovenia Anti-establishment populist party leader and current Parliament Speaker, Zoran Stevanović, is pushing to hold a national referendum on withdrawing from NATO and is strictly opposing the government's financial and military aid packages to Ukraine
Asia Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu arrived in Madinah to pray at the Prophet's Mosque while on official visit to Saudi Arabia
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Africa Sudan Médecins Sans Frontières has withdrawn staff from the Madani Teaching Hospital, the only functioning hospital for hundreds of thousands of people in the capital of Al Jazirah State - an 'extremely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
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
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 Ethiopia 40% of the Ethiopian population lacks proper personal documents, according to Yodahe Arayaselasie, CEO of the National ID Programme
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
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
Europe Albania Albania's football federation, FSHF, has joined forces with Serbia to bid to host the Euro 2027 under-21 football championships; FSHF described it as an 'ambitious project' that will 'put Albania at the centre of footballing attention across the continent
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
Asia Uzbekistan Uzbekistan's Airports Authority recorded a +42% increase in passenger traffic in Q1 of 2024 with 3,1 million passengers
America Saint Kitts and Nevis To stimulate direct investment from abroad, the Government of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis has appointed Joseph Borghese as Special Envoy for Foreign Direct Investment
America Venezuela Venezuela celebrated International Workers' Day with marches nationwide, with various labor leaders emphasized the significance of the Bolivarian Revolution in improving workers' rights and dignity