Asia Syria Germany's Ministry of Transport lifted the landing ban and normalized passenger traffic with Syria from 27 July 2026, thus opening to direct flights Düsseldorf-Damascus today 29 July, Berlin Brandenburg-Damascus and Cologne/Bonn-Aleppo on 1 August
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Congolese physician Denis Mukwege, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has published an open letter calling on the United Nations to postpone the withdrawal of the multinational Monusco force from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Africa Zambia The IMF said it will visit Zambia, presumably in mid-April, to assess the negative impact of the ongoing drought on the country's growth and budget
Africa Ghana The 13th African Games are underway in Accra, concluding next March 23 and serving as the official qualifier for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
Europe Czech Republic Plans have been unveiled to build a gigafactory for electric car battery production worth €7,9 billion by an undisclosed foreign investor in the Karviná region
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina The Council of Ministers sent to Parliament the draft law on the prevention of conflicts of interest in state institutions, a key reform law on which the EU is pressing for the European Council to decide on the opening of accession negotiations by March
Europe France Sophie Binet, general secretary of the General Confederation of Labor, said her union may organize strikes during the Olympics to be held in Paris between July and August
Africa Algeria A project on career development support for women magistrates was officially launched in Algiers, thank to a partnership between the Ministry of Justice and the United Nations Development Program
Oceania Kiribati Daniel Kritenbrink, the top U.S. diplomat for Asia-Pacific, said officials will engage with Kiribati and Vanuatu to open new embassies, following the opening in Tonga
Asia Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz officials are now calling for the 2019 uranium mining ban to be lifted, while populist President Sadyr Japarov continues to pursue state production in the extractive industries he first supported more than a decade ago as an opposition politician
Africa Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio hailed China's continued support for infrastructure development during his state visit to China, his second since assuming the presidency
Africa Libya Strengthening women's participation in the upcoming electoral processes was topic of discussion in a recent meeting of the High Electoral Commission, with the Head of Outreach Department and the Women's Advisor at the UN Electoral Support Mission in Libya
Europe Bulgaria Human Rights Watch urged the country not to deport Saudi activist Abdulrahman al-Khalid, as deportation would expose him to the risk of torture
Oceania Palau A bill tabled in the Palau House of Delegates requires foreign researchers to obtain a permit before conducting any research on land, at sea or involving the country's waters and minerals