Asia United Arab Emirates Emirates customers made over one million connections to Starlink Wi-Fi in seven months, using more than one petabyte of data through the satellite internet service accessible free onboard aircraft in the fleet
Africa Cameroon Solidarité technologique is an NGO committed to recycling e-waste, offering an alternative to the IT industry and giving a new life to this equipment while respecting environmental standards
Asia Taiwan The country recorded its first case of cholera in two years as a patient developed severe diarrhoea after consuming raw prawns and oysters
Africa Uganda Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng visited the new Ebola treatment centre, built by the charity Doctors Without Borders, along with US Ambassador to Uganda Natali Brown and other health agency officials
Asia Bahrain Pope Francis will travel to Bahrain on Thursday for the first time ever, to attend a government-sponsored conference on dialogue between East and West and to minister to the tiny local Catholic community
Africa Ethiopia A peace agreement ending the bloody two-year war in the northern areas of Ethiopia was signed in Pretoria, with the Tigray People's Liberation Front (Tplf) agreeing to lay down its arms
Europe Switzerland Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin, representing the Swiss government, has denied the possibility of Germany sending Swiss-made war material to Kiev, for which express authorisation from Bern is required
Europe Monaco In partnership with a high-end pet food brand, Monaco's Crazy Pizza is now offering free gourmet menus to puppies when accompanied by their owners
Africa Mali The new law militarising the Malian police and civil defence came into force a few days ago, with its publication in the Official Gazette, and they are therefore now governed by the general status of the military
Asia United Arab Emirates Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation, with the University of Cambridge, launched the 6th cohort of Public Sector Innovation Diploma programme, with 60 Emirati public sector innovators from federal and local government backgrounds
America United States After having been invited to ‘please return home’ yesterday if ‘in an office or on the way to an office’, today thousands of employees will know by email whether they will continue to work at Twitter, on work address if confirmed, personal if fired
Asia Thailand The main opposition Pheu Thai party has joined the campaign to liberalise the beer and spirits industry
Oceania Tuvalu The Japan International Cooperation Agency will provide emergency relief goods in response to the severe drought, at the request of the government
Asia Uzbekistan The city of Samarkand is hosting the second Uzbekistan Economic Forum on 3-4 November, which is bringing together some of the world's leading economists, influential investors and international experts