Asia Tajikistan An amnesty law signed by President Rahmon to celebrate 35 years of independence will cover 18.038 convicted people, with full release for 11.305 people, reduced terms for 6.733; of 507 women, 248 will be released, of 134 minors, 99 will be freed
Europe Slovakia Slovakia should leave NATO and the European Union, while the most important power of the president is the ratification of international agreements, said presidential candidate Robert Svec in a much debated declaration
Asia Cyprus The Cyprus Shipping Chamber condemned the Houthi missile attack on the ship True Confidence, with three crew members dead and at least four others injured; the commercial vessel is managed by a Company registered to a Cyprus address in Limassol
Asia Afghanistan 10 million doses of bivalent oral polio vaccine have been donated to Afghanistan by the Indonesian Agency for International Development
America Mexico Hundreds of protesters demanding justice for 43 missing student teachers from the Ayotzinapa area forcefully entered Mexico's presidential palace, claiming that the government needed to take better action regarding this matter
Asia Bahrain Around 14 cutting-edge technology companies from Bahrain took centre stage at LEAP 2024, held in Riyadh from 4 to 7 March
Asia Tajikistan Tajikistan must reconsider its attitude towards civil society and consider human rights defenders as allies instead of enemies, said a UN expert after the dissolution of 700 NGOs in the country
Africa South Sudan The elections to be held in South Sudan in December are not on the way to a credible process without urgent action, a senior US State Department official warned, and the government is behind in its preparations
America Trinidad and Tobago US President Joe Biden nominated a Trinidadian woman to be a district judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia
Europe Ukraine The Secretary of the Ukrainian Council for Security and National Defence admitted the possibility of the West starting to help Ukraine not only with weapons, but also sending troops, Ukrainska Pravda reported
Asia United Arab Emirates Starbucks employees based in the United Arab Emirates expressed fears they will lose their livelihoods, as the Gulf retail giant Alshaya Group, which operates the coffee chain in the Middle East, announced plans to cut jobs
Asia Azerbaijan France has no moral right to raise accusations against Azerbaijan, said the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, firmly rejecting the statement about alleged attacks on freedom of expression and the press and arbitrary arrests in Azerbaijan
Oceania Papua New Guinea The International Monetary Fund re-established a resident mission in Papua New Guinea, ending an absence of more than two decades from a Pacific island country with which it has had stormy relations
Africa Angola Angola's central bank intends to increase its exposure to the euro due to rising interest rates in the currency bloc, said a spokesman for Banco Nacional de Angola