Africa Morocco Rivalry between Morocco and Algeria has a new geopolitical battlefield in the Sahel, where they are deploying radically different strategies; the area is under geopolitical reconstruction after the vacuum left by French withdrawal and the rise of Russia
Asia Bhutan With local Esports players moving up the ladder, the Bhutan Mobile Gaming Association is striving to organise national competitions to prepare Bhutan Esports players for the international arena
Europe Czech Republic The 79th edition of the Prague Spring International Music Festival, the country's largest and oldest classical music festival, will kick off next Sunday with a performance of Bedřich Smetana's My Country by the Berliner Philharmoniker
Africa Djibouti Djibouti set up a technical committee with Ethiopia to review the port use agreements signed 20 years ago
Europe Malta Students protested in front of court to express their anger at PM Abela's comments against the judiciary, in particular against magistrate Gabriella Vella who was overseeing the judicial enquiry into the sale of three hospitals to Vitals Global Healthcare
Asia Maldives Trans Maldivian Airways, the world's largest seaplane operator, has received a certificate of approval from De Havilland Canada, becoming the first operator in Asia to achieve this accolade
Asia Mongolia Each family in Tsogttsetsii soum will plant ten trees in their yard in Energy Resources' 'families with trees' project to increase citizen participation in the fight against desertification and reduce the effects of sandstorms
America Honduras Honduras has declared an official alert due to air pollution as smoke from around 650.000 vehicles hovers over the city
Europe Lithuania The Ministry of Agriculture is intensifying checks on imported vegetables, in cooperation with the State Food and Veterinary Service, to prevent illegal imports from Russia
America Ecuador Ecuador defended its raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito last month, stating to judges at a major UN court that it acted to apprehend a "common criminal," referring to former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas
Oceania Marshall Islands 17% of households in Majuro and Ebeye, 900 units, don't have a wage earner and need alternative means of social protection in addition to an increase in minimum wage, as new report on the minimum wage prepared by the US Graduate School for the government
Europe Belarus Belarus armed forces started a lightning inspection of delivery vehicles for non-strategic nuclear weapons upon presidential order, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Defence reported
Europe Germany The far-left Die Linke party have called for a cap on the price of doner kebabs, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz has admitted that the issue of what has been dubbed 'donerflation' is put to him 'everywhere he goes'
Asia East Timor Oxfam Aotearoa launched the new HAMRIIK project in Oé-Cusse that aims to strengthen the climate change adaptation capacities of rural households and communities and effectively address the intersections of gender, disability and climate change