America Canada Canada has become a significant player in the illegal wildlife trade according to an investigation by the Globe and Mail and the Pulitzer Center that give evidence of black-market activity propped up by vast wilderness, patrol blind spots, weak penalties
Europe Latvia EU Competition for Young Scientists in 2025 will be organised in Latvia; director of National Centre for Education said that in the last 7 years new opportunities have been created for Latvian students to participate in scientific research
America United States A recent Human rights watch report indicates that Washington has never paid reparations to victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and other US prisons in Iraq, where thousands of men, women and children were reportedly incarcerated by US soldiers
Asia South Korea The government is working on a law that would allow women to give birth anonymously in hospitals, to reduce the number of unregistered births and promote maternal care
Europe Finland The "World of Statistics" page of social networking platform X ranked Finland first on the list of countries that consume the most coffee in the world with 9,6 kg per person per year
Africa Nigeria The country ranks sixth in the world and second in Africa for organised crime, as stated by the Global Organised Crime Index 2023, reflecting the challenges to security, corruption and other criminal activities that Nigeria continues to face
Asia Saudi Arabia Today marks the fifth anniversary of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on October 2, 2018 inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey
Europe France The exhibition entitled Renault 12 at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations in Marseille tells the little-known story of Maghrebi families in France
Africa Djibouti To expand schooling to all five-year-olds by 2030 new strategies are being promoted by the Ministry of National Education and Technical Training
Europe Hungary For the fourth consecutive time, Fatima Korok won the gold medal in freediving under the rules of the International Freediving Development Association at the World Championships in Limassol, Cyprus
Asia Kazakhstan As of 1 January next year, the National Fund will allocate 50% of its annual investment income to special savings accounts for children up to the age of 18
Asia Thailand Activist Arnon Nampa was sentenced to four years in prison for lese majesty after he publicly called for reform of the monarchy
Asia India This year's monsoon rainfall in India was the lowest since 2018, as the El Nino weather pattern made August the driest in more than a century, likely affecting agricultural production
Asia Georgia The UN World Tourism Organization has unanimously endorsed Georgia to host World Tourism Day in 2024