URUGUAY: President Jose Mujica signed off on regulations for his country’s landmark legalisation of cannabis yesterday.

The country has become the first in the world to announce that it would regulate the market for cannabis and its derivatives.

Buyers must be 18 or older, residents of Uruguay, and must register with authorities.


LEBANON: Parliament again failed to elect a new president yesterday as MPs affiliated with a Hezbollah-led alliance boycotted the third round of voting.