Africa Zambia To support formalized and safe gold mining in Chitambo district, government pledged to provide equipment to registered cooperatives, enabling small scale miners enhance their operations, and to build a district hospital with mortuary services
Oceania Marshall Islands The arrival of the USNS hospital ship Mercy in Majuro marked the start of a wide range of humanitarian and medical programmes taking place at three locations
Europe Montenegro Direct financial transactions between Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina will resume in November thank to a move orchestrated by Universal Capital Bank after a 16-year gap
Asia Iran An Iranian court ordered a five-year prison sentence against a French citizen tried on national security charges; France called the sentence 'unacceptable' as there appears to be no evidence to support it
Africa Republic of the Congo On the occasion of the 37th National Tree Planting Day, instituted in 1986, 1.200 trees have been planted upon iniziative of President Denis Sassou N'Guesso in the village of Miaba, near Oyo, in the Cuvette department
Africa Botswana Botswana's ban on vegetable imports, many of them from South Africa, is effectively protecting internal market, according to President Mokgweetsi Masisi
America Peru Archaeologists have reconstructed the 3D face of a 500-year-old Inca girl, known as "La Doncella de Hielo," found frozen in the Andes, shedding light on ancient rituals and history in an exhibition at the Museo Santuarios Andinos in Peru
Asia Japan The country is set to issue nearly 9 trillion yen ($59.8 billion) in bonds in its second supplementary budget to finance an economic package to ease rising living costs
Asia Israel Amnesty International reported a dramatical increase the use of administrative detention since the beginning of the war against Hamas, while turning a blind eye to cases of torture and degrading treatment in prisons
Africa Mauritius The Mauritius Research and Innovation Council and the Indian Space Research Organisation have signed an MoU providing for the design, assembly, integration, testing, launch and operation of an Earth observation satellite for Mauritius
Africa Zambia Zambia's central bank has increased the statutory reserve ratio, the rate at which commercial banks keep funds at the central bank, following consistent pressures in the foreign exchange market
Oceania Vanuatu Power and telecommunications outages exacerbated the challenges of responding to Cyclone Lola said the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme Secretariat
Africa Tunisia The country ranks first in Africa and the Arab world in terms of female enrolment in public universities
America Nicaragua Nicaragua's Vice President, Rosario Murillo, with wife of President Daniel Ortega, has taken full control of the country's Supreme Court, with reports of a controversial police operation that removed the Court's now former president, Alba Luz Ramos