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
Africa Cape Verde The Agroecological Strategies for Resilient Agriculture in West Africa (CIRAWA) project, launched on the island of Santo Antão, foresees an investment of €6,9 million for the next 54 months
Europe Portugal The Government will extend VAT zero basket until the end of the year, an exceptional and temporary application of VAT exemption for 44 essential food products that aims at mitigating the impact of inflation
Asia Tajikistan The Summer Handicrafts Fair will be held at Hotel Serena Dushanbe July 22-23, with artisans from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan displaying their products
Europe Croatia Velebit Nature Park recently opened the Via Ferrata Bat, a protected climbing route on the 1.402-metre-high Crnopac massif, located in the southernmost part of the Velebit mountain range
Africa Burundi The First Lady of Burundi, Angeline Ndayishimiye, and the African Institute for Development Policy are this year's winners of the United Nations Population Prize
America Saint Lucia The winners of the St. Lucia Parade of Bands 2023, held last week, have been announced
Oceania Australia In the past 18 months TikTok has received more requests from Australia's e-safety commissioner to remove posts bullying children than any other social media platform
Europe Latvia Based on the recommendation of the State Security Service (VDD), Interior Minister Māris Kučinskis added three shareholders with Russian citizenship of the confectionery company Pobeda Confectionery to the list of foreigners banned from entering Latvia
Asia Thailand Parliament will hold another vote to elect a prime minister next week, which may not include the leader of the election-winning Move Forward party after his re-nomination was blocked
Africa Seychelles The Seychelles Prison Service has officially opened a dental clinic at the Montagne Posée Prison Center that will cater to both inmates and officers
Africa Mali Several West African leaders met in Nigeria to discuss how to manage security at the end of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali and to push for a return to democracy after a series of coups
America Suriname The Waste Management sub-directorate, in collaboration with the Up to You foundation and the homeless, began cleaning downtown Paramaribo by collecting bottles and beer cans for recycling, urging the public to dispose of waste responsibly
Africa Sao Tome and Principe Next Saturday, July 22, the first Organic Agriculture Fair of the Agricultural Export Support Project will be held at Parque Popular in the capital of São Tomé, with the motto "From the garden to your table"