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
America Barbados Hunters' bounty on green monkeys has been increased in an attempt to cull the population of these wild animals, officially declared pests responsible for rampant crop destruction, announced Agriculture Minister Indar Weir
Asia Bangladesh Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat accepted the journalists' call for social media to be subject to an accountability policy and said he would take action on the matter after talking to all stakeholders
Asia Cambodia A team from Fisheries Administration and Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia collected 206 king turtle eggs from 20 hatchlings in last 2 months; the turtles are listed on International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List as critically endangered
Africa Algeria An initiative to open free trade zones in 2024 was announced to foster cooperation with five neighbouring countries, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Tunisia and Libya, as stated by the Algerian president
Europe Denmark In Denmark it is necessary to register as an organ donor, but the government intends to change the system so that you have to deregister as an organ donor, with the aim of getting more people to donate their organs
Asia Afghanistan The World Food Programme announced it has provided food and cash assistance to nearly 19 million people in Afghanistan over the past year to strengthen local communities, prevent malnutrition and improve student learning
Asia Brunei A Thai government spokesman announced a major recruitment drive by the Department of Labour for 40 positions on oil rigs in Brunei, offering high annual salaries, free housing and excellent benefits
Africa Central African Republic About 10.000 children are still fighting alongside armed groups in the Central African Republic, more than ten years after the beginning of the civil war, as stated by Marthe Kirima, Minister of Family and Gender Affairs of the Central African government
America Dominica PM Roosevelt Skerrit said the meeting held recently at Intercontinental Dominica Cabrits Resort with a EU delegation "went very well"; EU reportedly expressed concern about the low cost/high volume model of Dominica's citizenship-by-investment programme
Asia Georgia A new protected area, Guria National Park, will be created on 15 hectares in the municipalities of Chokhatauri and Ozurgetiche, that will receive national park status; no more than 20 people will work in the park administration
Europe Albania Edi Rama's government is trying to radically change the law on protected areas, paving the way for constructions for 'strategic purposes' and skipping the public consultation process
Oceania Fiji The term 'Micro' will be included, from 1 August, in the name of the Ministry that will be known as the 'Ministry of Commerce, Cooperatives, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Communications', given the growing importance of this category
Europe Germany Germany reached the NATO alliance target of spending 2% of its gross domestic product on defence for the first time since the early 1990s, at the end of the Cold War