The fourth Global Tourism Resilience Day Conference and Expo opened on Monday in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, with a focus on promoting the resilience of the global tourism sector.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is facing mounting calls from within his own coalition to adopt a stronger position on Israel amid escalating violence in Gaza. Several senior members of the junior coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), have criticized Berlin for not joining a recent joint statement by 28 Western nations condemning Israel's actions and calling for an immediate end to the war.