Europe Malta The heating debate on overtourism must not become an argument against tourists or the tourism industry, Prime Minister Abela warned, or the sector would risk "a mortal blow"
Africa Botswana A national intervention improved same-day initiation of antiretroviral therapy for people newly diagnosed with HIV - 59%, Botswana-University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers reported in the journal AIDS
Europe Iceland According to data from the National Energy Authority, a large percentage of the electricity sold to data centres will be used for Bitcoin mining, a very demanding and expensive activity which requires very powerful computers
Africa Gabon For a better organisation of the country's pharmaceutical sector, the Director of the Medicines Agency, on instructions from the Minister of Health, held talks with various orders and workers' unions on the implementation of Articles 3 and 20
Asia Bhutan A group of 34 international tourists from the US, UK, New Zealand, Germany and France, who arrived in the country on April 2, will stay for 27 nights, the first major tour group to visit the country in nearly three years
Africa Liberia The World Food Program in Liberia has donated 10 laptops to the National Food Assistance Agency (NFAA) to strengthen the entity's capacity
America Guatemala Civil organisations, indigenous groups and farmers blocked the streets - causing traffic jams at a national level - to protest against government corruption and national resource theft
Asia Maldives The Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company Limited has decided to limit the purchase to 5 tonnes of fish in its southern centres due to freezing capacity issues
Africa Cameroon According to the press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the decision of Cameroon's National Communication Council to sanction the private channel Equinoxe TV is an unfounded and abusive attack on information
Africa Lesotho The Millennium Challenge Corporation, by the US government, approved a 5-year $300 million program for 3 projects, the Health Systems Strengthening, the Market-Driven Irrigated Horticulture and the Business Environment and Technical Assistance
America United States A SpaceX capsule with three paying customers and a former NASA astronaut has arrived at the International Space Station; launched at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, it’s a first-of-its-kind 100% private mission of about 10 days
Europe Greece Ministry of Energy and Environment is planning to double lignite production and revise its plan to retire plants, as the plan to ensure regular electricity supply involves its production as one of its main pillars in case of a disruption in gas flows
America Ecuador Contrary to the world’s several financial markets, Ecuador’s economy has seemingly seen its interest rates decrease instead of increasing, this is due to the low demand from national consumers