Europe United Kingdom A wave of far-right anti-migrant sentiment is sweeping across the UK and a protest in Portsmouth was marked by violent incidents; around 500 hooded people besieged the port, disrupted ferry terminals after learning of the landing of 140 migrants
Europe Sweden The unemployment rate decreased in June and it's now over 1% lower than last year as the latest data from the Swedish Public Employment Service shows
Africa Sudan To coordinate emergency interventions during the rainy season, the governor of Kassala Al-Tayeb State discussed the necessary steps with the directors of UNICEF and the WHO
Europe Liechtenstein Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein opens its new course with Italian curator Letizia Ragaglia
Asia Afghanistan In exchange for 7,000 prisoners, the Taliban have offered a three-month truce, which could be crucial given the militia's advancement
Africa Benin The country sold Africa's first social bond on international markets, with which it will expand access to clean water; the move will encourage other issuers such as Ghana, which wants to issue social bonds to refinance debt to expand free secondary educat
Europe Luxembourg €50 million have been allocated by the Government to help people affected by the floods that followed the torrential rains, many forced to evacuate their homes
America Haiti A mass entry of hundreds of Haitian citizens has been registered in Dajabón, a Dominican Republic town on the border with Haiti, to buy food, medicine and essential products
Asia Pakistan Haroon Qureshi, a Pakistani businessman who reached Japan as a student about 30 years ago, is steadily helping those living on the margins of that society: the homeless, foreigners who have been refused refugee status and students in distress
Europe Denmark Greenland to halt all oil exploration despite retreating ice uncovering a potential fortune of oil and minerals; the nuit Ataqatigiit-led government announced it as a "natural step" for the semiautonomous territory that "takes the climate seriously"
Asia Iran The Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst has paved the way for student exchanges between the universities of Cologne, Tehran and Kurdistan as part of a project called "Multilingualism in Iran, a social look at grammatical diversity"
America Trinidad and Tobago Gabriella Wood, who was bullied as a young girl because of her size, will make history by becoming the first female judoka to represent the country at the Olympic Games
Africa Algeria The manufacture of a made-in-Algeria electric car is being taken into consideration by the National Economic, Social and Environmental Council
Asia East Timor According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the strong performance of the oil sector has raised the country's GDP growth forecast for 2021 from 2,5% to 4%