Asia Laos About $12 million in digital taxes from global technology companies have been collected under new law: foreign providers of online services must register with Lao tax authorities regardless of whether they have a physical presence in the country
America Uruguay Fishermen discovered a 20-ton, 15,5-meter-long dead whale on a beach in Colonia, Uruguay, marking the first sighting of such a species stranded in the country in a century; authorities have yet to determine the cause of its death
Oceania Tuvalu Tuvalu, together with Antigua and Barbuda, is pursuing a legal battle at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ITLOS in Hamburg, Germany
Africa Lesotho Lesotho's third Country Programme Framework, the framework for medium-term planning of technical cooperation between a Member State and the IAEA, has been signed for the period 2024-2029
Oceania Australia The Australian market value for leadership development programmes will exceed $3.635,63 million by 2033, fueled by the digital, according to data recently released by Future Market Insights
America Nicaragua Nicaragua has opened a Center for Open Education in Managua, offering free Russian language classes with the collaboration of Russia's Korolenko State Pedagogical University and the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua
Europe Romania Romanian dog-training enthusiast Adrian Stoica won the America's Got Talent show with a million-dollar prize
Asia Japan Outdoor study by Japanese researchers show that microplastics exist in clouds, affecting the climate in ways to be understood; nine different polymers were found on Mount Fuji and Oyama in the airborne microplastics, from 7,1 to 94,6 micrometers in size
Asia Israel The Erez crossing, the only Israeli pedestrian crossing with the Gaza Strip, will reopen after closing it a fortnight ago in response to border riots
Oceania Solomon Islands A team from the World Trade Organisation Secretariat visited Honiara last week to hold consultations ahead of Solomon Islands' next trade policy review, scheduled for 2024
America Paraguay Paraguay and the EU reached an agreement to prevent the repeal of an educational support convention dating back to 2020, securing US$40 million for the country's education system, with a shift in terminology to align with Paraguay's legal framework
Africa Algeria 73 local and international bids for 15 solar power projects with a total generation capacity of 2.000 megawatts have been opened by state-owned Sonelgaz, responsible for electricity and gas distribution in the country
Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina The office of the President Milorad Dodik has filed the first criminal complaint for defamation, which was recently criminalised in Republika Srpska
Europe Italy Almost 1,2 million people in the Naples metropolitan area are actually living inside the two 'red zones' identified by the latest plans for the volcanoes Vesuvius and the Campi Flegrei caldera; evacuation tests have not been carried out since 2006