Europe Italy Giorgia Meloni's government became the longest since Italy became a republic after WWII: the first led by a woman, it lasted 1.413 days as of 4 September, one more than Silvio Berlusconi's 2nd; premier said stability isn't a record, but a key for planning
Europe Montenegro At a time of deep polarisation, authorities have been urged to tackle online extremism in the country's new counter-terrorism strategy, which is to focus more on young people and the dangers of online extremist content, according to civil society groups
Africa Ethiopia The tallest building in East Africa, the new headquarters of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, was recently inaugurated, with construction beginning in 2015; the building has a total area of approximately 160.000 square metres and a height of 209,15 metres
America Guyana The country has 85% of its land covered by forests, being the second country with the most wildlife coverage; the president proposed to officially protect it at the International Energy Conference in Georgetown last week in exchange for carbon credit
Africa Sudan More than 100 Sudanese detainees, including high-profile politicians, are on hunger strike to protest on their unjustified and illegal detention and are considered part of the protest movement against the 25 October coup
Asia Georgia Only a few dozen women are still able to weave Borchalo carpets, an ancient art practised mainly by the Azerbaijani community; an average-sized carpet requires two women to work on it for one to two months
Africa Tunisia The secretary general of Tunisia's national order of doctors said that over 970 doctors left the country in 2021 to work abroad, a sharp increase from 570 in 2018
Europe Ukraine Defending champion Oleksandr Abramenko won Ukraine’s first medal of the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday and celebrated with a hug from Russian skier Ilia Burov at a time of rising tensions between the countries
Africa Morocco Yassine Aouich, representing Morocco at the Beijing 2022 Olympics and one of just 6 African athletes, is the only one who grew up sporting in his country
Africa Madagascar Mialitiana Clerc competed in Alpine skiing finishing 47th in women's slalom and 48th in giant slalom; it was the country’s second appearance at the Olympic Winter Games after Torino 2006
Europe Norway Norway wins the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics; among the golds won, the jumping team distinguished for declaring to have been 'unisex' since last year: female and male athletes train together for not only technical but also ideological reasons
America Jamaica Benjamin Alexander was Jamaica's first competitor in alpine skiing, finishing in a creditable 46th place in the men's giant slalom
Africa Eritrea Shannon Abeda, Eritrean-Canadian, born in 1966, represented the country for the second time at the Winter Olympics after Pyeongchang 2018
Africa Nigeria Thirty-year-old Samuel Ikpefan has been the first cross-country skier in the history of Nigeria to compete in the Winter Games