AKIpress reports that Turkmenistan plans to hold a summit Trans-Caspian gas pipeline project which aims the transportation of Caspian basin energy resources to the West through Azerbaijan and Turkey. It is expected the summit will be held on the level of high-level representatives from Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan governments. According to Trend news agency, the summit is planning to be held in late 2016. The official Ashgabat believes that the consent of the sides, covered by the project, that Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan are sufficient for laying the pipe through the bottom of the Caspian Sea, which the legal status of the Caspian Sea has not been defined yet. 

Independence may offer Scotland the greatest stability while the rest of the United Kingdom faces upheaval following last month’s vote to leave the European Union, Nicola Sturgeon has said. Today in Edinburg Scotland’s first minister also told an audience that the barriers to adequately protecting the country’s interests while remaining in the UK were really “substantial”. She distinguished the nonattendance of leadership and forward planning that became evident instantaneously after the leave vote as “one of the most shameful abdications of responsibility in modern political history.”

The Chinese authorities have forbidden the largest online companies to publish original news stories. About it writes Bloomberg, referring to the decision by China's Cyberspace Administration, about which local media reported. The biggest news services allowed to post on their websites publications that were previously printed, or published in the state-controlled media. Otherwise, authorities will apply penalties to the companies. Thus the Chinese authorities prohibit Internet companies to place "current news", meaning all publications related to politics, economics, and foreign and social problems. According to Bloomberg, the ban would lead to virtually complete control of the state in the Chinese media, which, as previously pointed out by Chinese President Xi Jinping, must serve the interests of the ruling Communist Party.

Turkish government issued an order to arrest 42 journalists – informs Turkish media channel NTV. It is the next stage of repression in Turkey after the coup attempt on 15 July 2016. Orders for arrest are also concerned the former member of the Turkish parliament and famous commentator Nazli Ilicak, who is claimed to be a leading figure of Turkish media environment. In 2013 she was fired from pro-governmental media service „Sabah” due to the critics of the ministers, who were involved in the corruption scandal.

Arab league summit at Nouakchott may not be called “the summit of leaders”. Most of the Arab kings and Head of states were not present in this summit. Some critics described it as a humiliation for “Mauritania” which is one of the poorest countries within the Arab League. Mauritania held the 27th summit meeting in a specially erected tent after President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz had pledged that his country was ready to host the event. It has happened right after Morocco declined earlier this year. Moroccan officials refuse to host the summit by publishing a statement which says:

Congolese President Joseph Kabila pardoned 6 pro-democracy activists whose were put in jail. Nevertheless they decided to serve their sentences to express their solidarity with other prisoners of conscience. Activists have made a public statement which was released by their support group Citizens Fighting for Change (Lucha). Organisation is based in Goma, the capital of North Kivu in eastern DRC.Accussed people are less that 30 years old. They were arrested on February during an opposition demonstration and then sentenced to 2 years in prison for starting riots and encouraging people to behave disobediently. After an appeal their sentence was reduced to 6 months in prison.