Asia Cyprus Cyprus is one of Europe’s ten largest video game industries by revenue, with over 400 companies generating an estimated €3,2 billion in 2025; report by Cyprus Game Makers Association CYGMA says sector is dynamic and largely absent from official statistics
Asia Taiwan Minister of Labour seemed hesitant about a minimum wage increase next year, after President Tsai Ing-wen called for it; traditionally, a committee is convened to decide on the wage rate in the third quarter with government officials and business leaders
Asia Uzbekistan WB approved a US$ 142 million concessional credit that will support a project to increase the area under sustainable landscape management, restore degraded forest land and promote collaboration with neighbors to replant the transboundary landscape
Europe Latvia According to Linda Jakobsone, board member of the Lets Help Refugees association, the biggest problems for Ukrainian war refugees who have arrived in Latvia are their involvement in the labour market and the insufficient supply of housing
Europe Slovenia Democrats, Parliament's largest opposition party, have proposed that drug tests be mandatory for public office holders, arguing it is "in the public interest to know whether politicians are taking prohibited drugs"
Europe Switzerland The National Gotthard Museum at the top of the Gotthard Pass in a building dating from 1843 reopens today, totally renovated, after two years of work, with themed rooms and interactive stations
Europe Bulgaria The country will lift its veto on North Macedonia's EU accession talks if 3 criteria are met: compliance with the framework position adopted by Bulgarian Parliament, inclusion of Bulgarians in Constitution and implementation of Neighbourhood Agreement
Oceania Fiji Over 120 inmates of the Fiji Correctional Service will be engaged in sugarcane harvesting when crushing begins this season, as stated by Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Sugar Karan
Africa Benin The government recently announced the recruitment of 500 new qualified health workers to strengthen the presence of qualified human resources in Benin's hospitals
Africa Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea's Vice President, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, has threatened to expel the French ambassador over a corruption case in Paris
Europe Portugal Parliament has approved the first reading of four bills by the Socialist Party, Left Blocc, IL and PAN that regulate the decriminalisation of medically assisted death
Africa Ivory Coast A draft law on refugee status in accordance with the 1951 Convention has been adopted in the Council of Ministers, filling the gap that existed regarding the protection of persons threatened with persecution in their country of origin
Europe United Kingdom A group of asylum seekers, supported by refugee groups and a British border staff union, asked a British court to stop the government from taking them to Rwanda, arguing that the controversial plan is unsafe
America Grenada The Grenada Tourism Authority has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Government and the Royal Caribbean Group to create job opportunities for Grenadians through a recruitment campaign