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
Oceania Vanuatu The Ministry of Education and Training has signed the Home School Package for which more than 26.000 school booklets will be printed and strategically pre-positioned in the two provinces, ready to be distributed in case of a new blockade
Asia United Arab Emirates Physical education classes, trips and extracurricular activities in schools will resume across Dubai from today, as well as canteens' activity in all public schools, childcare centers and universities
America United States IAVI, a nonprofit scientific research organization, and biotech company Moderna announced that a clinical trial of experimental HIV RNA-based vaccine has started at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C.
America Paraguay The Paraguayan Association of Meat Producers and Exporters (Appec) stated that the continuous heat waves and wildfires are affecting the livestock industry, and that 2022 already seems to be a ‘lost’ year for national meat production
Africa Burundi Human Rights Watch has called for a transparent investigation to establish the truth and ensure justice for the fire that broke out in a severely overcrowded prison in Gitega, the political capital, in December 2021
Africa Chad On Saturday the country commemorated the Day of Prayer for Peace and Coexistence, where religious leaders deplored a culture of violence, intercommunal conflicts and the profusion of weapons
Africa Cameroon Brewing company Guinness Cameroon has unveiled the winner of its Orijinal Challenge, a competition aimed at celebrating made-in-Cameroon products: the prize goes to Ernest Claude Ewoty Ndjie, who makes flour from cassava peels
Asia China A new green and low-carbon development for China's civil aviation has been announced as the country's efforts to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060
America Dominican Republic Drivers of public passenger transport in Santiago, whose fare has been increased from 30 to 35 pesos, said that "the salt has been worse than the goat" because fewer people now use their services
Africa Central African Republic Students living on the university campus in Bangui have denounced the hygienic conditions and the advanced degradation of the university pavilions built in the 1970s
Europe Russia Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he favours "mutually respectful" relations with the US and denied posing a threat to Ukraine
Africa Republic of the Congo The director general of the Société nouvelle des ciments du Congo announced that Sonocc will resume production from today, amid a progressive increase in the price of a bag of cement in recent months
Europe Austria The country is introducing a €1,7 billion package of measures to help households cope with rising energy costs, with one-off payments of €150 for unemployed people and households paying up to the maximum level of mandatory social security contributions