Asia Thailand Rubella has been eliminated in Thailand as a public health threat, achieving the WHO criteria for interruption of endemic transmission; imported cases is now the key concern, especially for infections during pregnancy
Oceania Palau Starting today, travelers can enter the country by presenting required documentation to airline or airline representative, as the Quarantine Certification Application System has been discontinued
Asia Palestine More than 680 global leaders in science, academia, civil society, faith and more urged US President Joe Biden to honour his commitments to protect Palestinian human rights
Europe Belarus MILEX-2021 International Exhibition of Military Arms and Machinery (at its 10th edition) starts today in Minsk and ends on 26 June
Africa Burundi EU financial restrictions on the country - sanctioned from 2016 for human rights violations - will be removed and aid will resume its course, initially allowing the rehabilitation of the port of Bujumbura, in partnership with the African Development Bank
Asia Maldives Julie Chung to be appointed by US President Biden as ambassador to the country and to Sri Lanka
Asia Indonesia The international non-profit group Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has devised that the country's policy on the development of palm-based biofuel, B30 biodiesel, could actually further threaten forests
Oceania Marshall Islands Covid-19 vaccinations for commercial fishermen temporarily in Majuro port were launched last week - possibly the first Pacific island to vaccinate fishermen
Europe Netherlands Representatives of the cities of Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht, have asked the Tweede Kamer, the Second Chamber of the States General, that the abolition of slavery be celebrated as a national holiday on 1 July
Africa Kenya Family Group Foundation has started the selection process for the 2021 scholarship programme for needy students in eleven counties
Asia Myanmar Local bishops are calling for humanitarian corridors for thousands of fleeing people and for international conflict rules to be respected, so that churches, temples, monasteries, pagodas, schools and hospitals can be spared and used as refuge
Africa Guinea The country has been officially declared Ebola-free, having passed the mandatory 42-day period with no new confirmed or probable cases, goal described as an "impressive milestone" by the UN Children's Fund's regional director for West and Central Africa
Africa Ivory Coast The International Finance Corporation and the African Development Bank's Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa will work together to increase the skills, incomes and access to finance of thousands of smallholder women farmers