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
Asia Tajikistan A temporary ban on cement exports has been imposed to fully meet domestic needs for this construction material
Africa Mozambique The government has dismissed as mischievous an article in the privately owned NewsDay newspaper that Zanu-PF, Zimbabwe's party, had engaged a militia group from neighboring Mozambique to help it win the upcoming harmonized elections by force
Africa Republic of the Congo Out of 90.973 candidates who took the General Baccalaureate examinations, 40.479 managed to pass, a 44,5% success rate; according to statistics, the Cuvette-Ouest department topped the list with a 90,02% success rate
Africa Mozambique UK-based power company Globeleq has purchased Norwegian company Scatec's 52,5% stake in the 41 MW Central Solar de Mocuba photovoltaic plant in Mozambique
Africa Egypt President al-Sisi granted a pardon to university researcher Patrick Zaki, who was sentenced to three years in prison, almost two of which he has already served
Europe Norway Norwegian data protection authorities have temporarily banned Meta from tracking users for the purpose of serving ads, and threatened the U.S. company with fines of 1 million kroner a day if it fails to comply
Asia Israel Israeli protesters blocked highways and gathered in front of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and army headquarters in the latest demonstration across the country against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned overhaul of the judicial system
Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo There has been an increase in violence against women and girls in the east of the country, according to UNHCR notes, where violence between non-state armed groups and government forces has spilled over into provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri
Asia Kyrgyzstan The Capital Construction Department of the Bishkek mayor's office is building a kindergarten in the Archa-Beshik residential district and said construction is 90% complete
Europe Moldova PM held talks with members of Association of Former Political Prisoners and Deportees to discuss problems faced by the more than 6.000 former political prisoners and survivors of Soviet repressions, like improved financial situation
Oceania Micronesia Ten high school students from the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands traveled to the Northern Marianas to participate in the Junior State of America Civics Institute Micronesia earlier this month
Europe Montenegro More than a month after parliamentary elections, a government is still missing, and the head of the prominent watchdog organization MANS said a coalition administration may not take office until September, despite ongoing negotiations between parties