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
Asia Taiwan The country recorded its fourth consecutive month of year-on-year export growth in February, with foreign sales up 1,3% year-on-year to $31,43 billion, the second highest ever for the month
Asia Vietnam The country is facing the dual challenge of micronutrient deficiencies and malnutrition, which have a major impact on the productivity and health of the population, experts said
Asia Bahrain Around 14 cutting-edge technology companies from Bahrain took centre stage at LEAP 2024, held in Riyadh from 4 to 7 March
Europe Lithuania The country would risk violating international agreements by unilaterally imposing a ban on the import or transit of Russian wheat, said Agriculture Minister Kestutis Navickas
Asia Cyprus The Cyprus Shipping Chamber condemned the Houthi missile attack on the ship True Confidence, with three crew members dead and at least four others injured; the commercial vessel is managed by a Company registered to a Cyprus address in Limassol
Africa Tunisia Violence against women remains a very present phenomenon, since 84,75% of the women questioned in a national survey by the National Institute of Statistics said they had been victims of at least one act of violence since the age of 15
Africa South Sudan The elections to be held in South Sudan in December are not on the way to a credible process without urgent action, a senior US State Department official warned, and the government is behind in its preparations
Asia Syria Syrian women are still targeted for their political views, ethnic affiliations and the roles they hold, thus facing multi-faced violence, said Najat Rushdi, Deputy UN Special Envoy for Syria
Europe Albania After years of negotiations, Albania and Italy signed the long-awaited agreement on the recognition of reciprocal social security contributions, which will benefit over 500.000 Albanians living in Italy and all Italians who have worked in Albania
Oceania Papua New Guinea The International Monetary Fund re-established a resident mission in Papua New Guinea, ending an absence of more than two decades from a Pacific island country with which it has had stormy relations
Europe Belarus The film The Women President, broadcast on the Mir TV channel, showed the children with whom President Lukashenko posed for photos in the National Mother and Child Research Centre in December 2021, showing how they grew up
Asia Afghanistan 10 million doses of bivalent oral polio vaccine have been donated to Afghanistan by the Indonesian Agency for International Development
America Trinidad and Tobago US President Joe Biden nominated a Trinidadian woman to be a district judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia