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
Asia North Korea North Korea has agreed with Russia that 'teachers from Pyongyang who know Russian well' will participate in an initiative to teach the Korean language to local youths
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
Europe Poland According to a recent poll, most Poles want the army to shoot down potentially dangerous objects that enter the country's airspace, even if they are civilians, after an object that entered was not shot down because it could not be identified
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
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
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
Oceania Tuvalu Emphasising the existential threat that climate change poses to Pacific nations such as Tuvalu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paulson Panapa, called for urgent investment and action to launch the Pacific Resilience Facility
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
Asia Cyprus Netflix’s series Famagusta led to a spat between Turkey and Greece, with high-ranking government figures from both countries expressing their views; Cyprus President Christodoulides said those reacting negatively to it “have obviously not watched it”
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
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
Oceania Vanuatu The Ministry of Health is currently facing a serious shortage, with 1.360 vacant positions out of 2.525, according to the structure approved in 2017; of the total roles, 1.165 are filled, leaving a considerable number of unfilled positions