Asia Bahrain 394.000 visitors have been registered in state-run heritage sites in January-August 2026, with the Bahrain Fort accounting for 246.409, nearly two thirds of the total, and foreign visitors prevailed with the presence of 187.567 people
Europe Finland Business Finland has granted circular economy investment aid for the construction of an end-of-life textile refining plant: the country will be the first in the world where post-consumer textiles are obtained nationwide for reuse and recycling
Asia Tajikistan The Tajik government will co-host, together with Netherlands, the UN Conference on the Water Action Decade that will be held in New York from 22 to 24 March 2023 as the midterm review of the “Water for Sustainable Development” program
Europe Romania The country's goal of adopting the euro has been postponed to 2029, due to the current situation of the main macro indicators that require substantial corrections and time to achieve them
Asia Pakistan The Judicial Commission of Pakistan has paved the way for Justice Ayesha Malik of the Lahore High Court to be elevated as the country's first woman Supreme Court judge
Africa Senegal The Office of the National Assembly has declared "inadmissible" the bill that aimed to tighten the criminalisation of homosexuality, already severely punished by the Senegalese penal code
Europe Latvia The president of the Latvian Association of Licensed Car Dealers, Andris Kulbergs, reported that the demand for a car is greater than the supply possibilities of dealers, for the first time in the country
Asia Philippines A new law, signed by President Duterte, states that child marriage is child abuse and therefore bans the practice, which "debases, degrades and demeans" child brides; one in six girls in the country marries before the age of 18
Asia Turkmenistan The flames burning for over 50 years in a remote crater of the Karakum desert, a destination for the few local tourists, will be put out by presidential order to save the natural gas that fuels them and to avoid pointless impact on the environment
Oceania Australia Sha Lang has set up a "stick library" on Mulambin Beach near Yeppoon in central Queensland, where there is a collection of sticks for dogs to play with and - hopefully - return or leave one of their own
Europe Czech Republic The Coop supermarket chain will open the "supermarket of the future" in Strakonice; built around the ideals of innovation and transparency, the shop adds to a traditional food market interactive displays and smart shelves for more personalised shopping
Oceania Palau President Whipps Jr. announced that, in consultation with US climate change envoy John Kerry, the country has decided to reschedule the Our Ocean conference for April, with the aim of attracting many people to attend
America Grenada Citizenship by Investment programme earned approximately EC$150 million for 2021 (US$55 million), representing an increase of almost 40% over 2020; between 2017 and 2021 over 3000 people approved for citizenship under the CBI programme
America Nicaragua China reopened its embassy in the country after 31 years of having interrupted their diplomatic relations