America Peru Lima’s restaurant Maido, led by chef Mitsuharu Tsumura, has been named the world’s best restaurant in 2025, highlighting the city’s rise as a global gastronomic destination through its fusion of Peruvian and Japanese flavor
Asia Oman To create 45.000 job opportunities - including 11.000 for training and qualification, 10.000 in government establishments and 24.000 in the private sector - is one of the goals of the operational plan for 2025
Africa Burundi Burundi introduced the life-saving malaria vaccine in the routine immunization program under the leadership of the Ministry of Health and with the support of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, the WHO and Dalberg
Africa Madagascar 50,51% of Tananarivians are ready to demonstrate to defend freedom and democracy, according to an opinion poll conducted in February 2025 by the Collective of Citizens and Citizen Organisations in the city of Antananarivo
Asia North Korea Kim Jong Un inspected Pyongyang's newest skyscraper and declared that the 10.000-home project is ready to open in about a month's time
America Saint Vincent and the Grenadines The Youth Agriculture Training Project was launched; the initiative, mostly funded by Taiwan government, aims to attract young people to participate in agriculture, addressing both the need for recovery and the aging farmer population in SVG
Africa Ethiopia The Ethiopian government has appealed to the international community to prevent a new escalation of the conflict in the Tigray region in the north of the country
Europe Hungary Hungarian Civic Alliance, the right-wing populist and national-conservative led by PM Orbán, has submitted a proposal to legally ban Pride, the set of events and demonstrations in favour of the rights of the LGBTQ+ community
Europe Netherlands The introduction of the 'lump sum' pension withdrawal option, initially planned for 1 July 2024, will be postponed until July 2026; the measure would allow pensioners to withdraw up to 10% of their pension savings in an una tantum lump sum
Asia Georgia Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was sentenced to a further four years and six months in prison for illegally crossing the Georgian border in 2021
Europe Portugal Abundant rainfall has brought dams throughout Portugal near full capacity; the warning that controlled, temporary discharges of water from Odeleite and Beliche dams will be carried out, was saluted with curiosity and surprise as it didn't happen for years
Asia Maldives The 'Hulhumale' Anex-2 power plant was inaugurated by the State Electricity Company, ahead of the peak electricity consumption season
Europe Belgium In response to the "alarming political interference" in academic research in the United States, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is opening 12 postdoc positions for international researchers, namely American scholars working in socially significant fields
America Saint Lucia Patrick Gilo Bernadin, musician, one of Saint Lucia’s cultural icons, was laid to rest; the Belle Vue community with La Rose groups, musicians, singers, government officials, and family members, gathered for a procession and paraded through the streets