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 Mauritius As part of a clean-up campaign in Plaine des Papayes, bins were handed out to 2.500 families in the regionm
Europe Greece The island of Sifnos will achieve energy autonomy with a combination of a wind farm and a pumped storage hydroelectric plant, becoming the first in the Cyclades to produce 100% of its energy from renewable sources
Africa Liberia The country's electoral commission is seeking assistance from Nigeria to learn more about how to integrate biometric technology into the voter registration process and address the potentially high cost of the technology
Europe Germany 12 white rhino embryos have been created by the BioRescue consortium funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research after 2 years of work to save the already technically extinct subspecies, of which only two females remain in Kenya
Africa Gabon The country - the first African to be paid to protect its forests - have now received a total of US$17 million out of US$150 million promised by Norway for results-based emissions reduction within the Central African Forest Initiative
Asia Kyrgyzstan About 40 km of the border with Tajikistan were demarcated at the last three meetings of the bilateral working group: at the moment 519 out of 970 km are specified, while the rest remains undescribed
Europe Vatican City The country unveiled the official image of the 10th World Meeting of Families, dedicated to the Wedding at Cana
Africa Madagascar Blackearth - a mining company - has completed the Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) stage of its Maniry project and has gained port access to export graphite concentrate; it still hasn’t disclosed its plans of community engagement or forms of social impact
Asia Syria For the first time, Syrian Scientific Olympiad’s students participated in the Iranian Combinatorics Olympiad, organized remotely with high participation of countries
Asia Myanmar Myanmar's military governor has again promised new multi-party elections and said his government is ready to work with any special envoy appointed by the ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Asia Mongolia Increased cooperation with Hungary on education, trade and medicine leads to having today 500 Mongolian students on a Hungarian scholarship, while the volume of trade between the two countries has increased by 19 percent despite the pandemic
America Dominican Republic After the first cases of African swine fever in the DR, the World Organisation for Animal Health called on countries to strengthen their efforts to keep the disease out by issuing a regional alert
Asia Laos Savannakhet businesses have openly expressed interest in providing jobs for over 50.000 Laotian migrant workers who have returned from Thailand