India has registered the sharpest rise among the Asian economies, with a six-place jump from 43rd to 37th rank on the index due to gains in economic performance.
Algeria has immediately suspended a two-decades-old friendship treaty with Spain after the nation reversed its decades of neutrality in the Western Sahara dispute.
The Austrian government said that it will scrap the country's controversial policy of mandatory vaccination against the coronavirus, just months after it became a law.