America Cuba International investors can now build and fully own tourism facilities: to reverse the dramatic fall in tourism, authorities have eliminated the requirement for foreign groups to form a joint venture with the Cuban state to manage their tourism activities
Europe Portugal The estimated cost of compensation to settle the damage to the 200 vehicles affected by the fire at a long-term parking of Lisbon Airport in Prior Velho is more than €2.85 million, said the Portuguese Insurance Association
Africa Sierra Leone A $50 million agreement with China supports the implementation of the SMART Sierra Leon Project, to expand internet connectivity, create national data centres to manage and protect sovereign data, and improve security measures in Freetown
America Honduras The Honduran Defense Minister, José Manuel Zelaya, and his father, Congressman Carlos Zelaya, who are relatives of President Xiomara Castro, resigned amid a scandal over alleged drug trafficking links
Asia Philippines Local sugar prices are expected to remain stable, as the Sugar Regulatory Administration has assured that domestic supply will be sufficient until the second quarter of 2025
Oceania Papua New Guinea The Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea is preparing for a candlelight vigil on 6 September to welcome Pope Francis and his delegation
Africa Ghana Ghana's cocoa regulator plans to increase the state-guaranteed price to cocoa farmers for the 2024/25 season by almost 45%, which would be the second consecutive increase
Europe Romania The Ministry of Agriculture is working on an emergency decree to limit the mark-up on Romanian food products to 20%, following the model of the existing ceiling for 17 commodities
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo The resumption of schooling in the armed crisis zones in the north-east of the country has not been guaranteed, given the difficulties of running classrooms with hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and a protest strike calling for a boycott
Africa Eritrea Ethiopian Airlines has discontinued flights to Eritrea, which had announced it would discontinue all Ethiopian Airlines flights by the end of the month; flights between the two nations had resumed in 2018, following a peace agreement
Asia Mongolia Russian President Putin was welcomed in the country, which ignored calls to arrest him on the basis of an international arrest warrant, despite Ukraine's urging; the European Union expressed concern that Mongolia would not execute the arrest warrant
Europe Albania A draft audit on the functioning of the Bank of Albania found that the central bank printed money to finance the purchase of an iconic Tirana hotel and other expenses
Asia Georgia If Georgian Dream party were to win the elections with a constitutional majority, constitution would be amended to reflect Orthodoxy as pillar of Georgian state’s identity, stated Bidzina Ivanishvili, head of the ruling Georgian Dream party
America Costa Rica Thousands of people marched in Costa Rica to defend public education, protesting government budget cuts under President Rodrigo Chaves, who has reduced funding below the constitutionally mandated 8% of GDP