America Panama A tanker paid a record $5,3 million for priority passage through the Panama Canal before the number of daily transits will be reduced due to the El Niño weather phenomenon; rainfall deficits and drought deplete water reserves needed to operate the canal
Africa Namibia Regulatory authority has awarded three 4G/5G licences to Loc8 Mobile, Telecom Namibia and Mobile Telecommunications
America Canada In a vision to become the 1st First Nation (indigenous people neither Inuit nor Métis) north of 60° without a housing crisis, Liard First Nation is building timber homes using frame parts cut on-site at a brand new production plant
Europe Serbia On 1 October, changes to the Serbian excise law came into force, increasing excise duties on fuel, cigarettes, alcohol and coffee by 8%
Europe Italy Salvini, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, posted a video of magistrate Apostolico demonstrating as private citizen in 2018 to discredit a recent sentence of hers, raising further debate on the autonomy of the three powers
Africa Guinea Logging activities have resumed across the country, authorized nationwide from October 6, 2023 to June 30, 2024, exclusively for local consumption
America Trinidad and Tobago The Tobago Carnival - scheduled for the weekend of 27-29 October - has been allocated a budget of $12.590.660
Oceania Marshall Islands Dr Irene Taafaki, a woman who had a huge impact on education in the Marshall Islands, died unexpectedly in Majuro last week
Oceania Tuvalu Discrimination on the basis of gender and disability - as long as it does not conflict with traditional values - has been banned under a new constitution that came into effect this week
Asia Tajikistan Nizomiddin Nasriddinov, a former activist of the opposition movement Group 24, was sentenced to 8½ years in prison on charges of making public appeals to forcibly change Tajikistan's constitutional order
Asia Turkey Turkey has become one of the worst countries in the world for Internet freedom, according to the latest report by the Observatory for Human Rights
Africa Sierra Leone The 24th Chinese medical team in the country provided medical care services to some schoolchildren in Jui, a town in the western area of Sierra Leone
Europe Spain Nearly 50 European leaders took advantage of a summit held Thursday in Granada to underline their support for Ukraine
Europe Ukraine After the Russian missile attack that killed over 50 people, the UN sent a team to the village of Groza in the Kharkiv region for inspection