Oceania Marshall Islands The fish aggregation devices FADs that fishing boats use to make catches easier, lately equipped with satellite communications gear to pinpoint location, are now being built by drug cartels that wrap packs of cocaine and radio transponders to trace troves
America United States Elon Musk has begun replacing Twitter’s iconic logo with the letter X; he made the surprise announcement tweeting “adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds” after disclosing earlier this month Twitter's negative cash flow and -50% in adv
Oceania Solomon Islands This year marks 20th anniversary of the inception of the Solomon Islands Regional Assistance Mission and the Government, in collaboration with Australia, commemorated the anniversary with a religious service at St Barnabas Cathedral in Honiara
Africa Chad Chadian Neurology Society held a press briefing in which neurologist Madjirabe Ngardiguina said that more and more young adults are victim to neurological diseases, so much that at CHU la Renaissance 15% of stroke admissions are young people under 45
Oceania New Zealand Kahuria has announced the highly anticipated schedule of fashion shows and program of events that will take place at the Viaduct Events Centre from Tuesday, August 29 to Saturday, September 2, 2023
Africa Ethiopia The last of the 17 historic venues known as Azmari Bets, the Ethiopian cabaret club Fendika, has been saved from demolition; Azmari, itinerant poet-musicians from rural Ethiopia, improvise to the sound of the masinqo, a single-string violin
Europe Hungary The government's goal is to double Hungary's GDP from HUF 80.000 to 160 million by 2030, PM Orbán said; Hungary's development level stood at 78% of the EU average in 2022, up from 66% in 2010, and the government aims to raise this ratio to 85-90% by 2030
Africa Guinea The statutory members of the Guinean Football Federation in an extraordinary general assembly, unanimously approved the new statutes proposed by the Standardisation Committee
Europe Netherlands The Smart Photonics chip plant in Eindhoven, which specialises in the production of photonic chips, will receive a €100m investment from a consortium consisting of the Dutch government, banks and several semiconductor companies
Asia Israel The Israeli government will protect archaeological sites in the West Bank, where there are over 3.000 ancient sites, about 80% of which are in Area C, a region under Israeli military and civilian control
Asia Singapore The Housing and Development Board (HDB) said some flat buyers who applied for a new eligibility letter fell victim to system problems that lengthened the processing time
Oceania Fiji A tractor equipped with a 3-disc plough was handed over to the Narewa Farmers' Cooperative by the The Minister of Agriculture and Waterways
Europe Luxembourg Amazon's employment grew by about 15% and has now become Luxembourg's second-largest corporate employer in 2022, before this year's job cuts
Europe Iceland A second house has been unearthed at the archaeological site of Stöng, one of the best-known farms of the colonisation era, which houses a heritage museum featuring a reconstruction of a farmhouse and church from the settlement period